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> I wonder how they can handle it, In Norway there is a list [1] run by the state registry service (Brønnøysundregitrene). Any individual can add their phone number to the list. An…

Good to hear they are catching up.

Not everywhere.

Even in fairly recent times viva voce was common. I had to defend my final year report on a long piece of practical work as part of the final for my BSc in Applied Physics in 1975.…

Osmand~ is better than Google Maps for walking and public transit where I am at the moment (Tyne and Wear, UK). Based on Open Street Map.

Come to Norway.

Most of us in electronics in the 1970s in the UK had physics degrees I think. And when I moved sideways into software much later the physics background was eminently useful when mo…

Why not?

I think you can drop the wannabe label. Of course you have a long way to go and much to learn but I think you are already an engineer, just one at the very start of what might be a…

In the UK 300 mm is, or at least used to be, referred to as a metric foot.

DNB killed the excellent SBanken website and the SBanken Android app. So now I have to use DNB's crap version of the SBanken app or DNB's really horrible website. We all protested …

In the side bar I can't vote on the comments.

I Linus Torvalds needs them. And that's a good enough reason for their existence as far as I'm concerned.

> email clients quote previous conversations. Surely only if you configure them that way. At least I can turn that off in my email client, Thunderbird. Nina xx

Reading the comments here makes me think that even US citizens might be better off not trying to enter the US.

Donate them to free libraries or charity shops. Oxfam has bookshops and they often have old books.

> many banks in the UK no longer offer a web portal Same in Norway.

Coding itself is not the problem and mostly never was. The problem is conflicting requirements, lack of resources, haste, the desire to be first with a feature, etc. And the lack o…

Are you not able to put limits on how much the site can spend?

Same in the UK.

How do they manage that? Do you have to visit a government office to get a passport? I only have a UK passport and it definitely does not include my finger prints as it was obtaine…

No. Unless you expect everyone to always have those things you will need the street lights anyway so why not make them smart and efficient. This especially applies in northern lati…

A backup that isn't offline is not really a backup as it far too easy to destroy it even by accident/carelessness/lack of understanding. When I was responsible for backups we kept …

Why does a monitor install anything at all? Why does it even have a mechanism to do so?

Perhaps I'm misreading you but giving up rights and losing rights are two different ideas. I'm 70 by the way. If I want to plan for this I can set up a power of attorney.