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zbrox

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About zbrox

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    Comment #20632706

    The state of auto-suggest and auto-correct for anything but English (or maybe French, German, not a speaker so I don't know) is appalling. Auto-suggest is either not even an option…

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    Comment #18882157

    You're probably thinking Switzerland, not Sweden. I've been living in Sweden for quite a while, never heard of fines based on income levels. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/rekord…

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    Comment #18597698

    Yeah, I know that in Sweden it's for sure ok to give out handwritten receipts but I also know of a couple of countries that have a bit of a higher rate of tax avoidance schemes to …

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    Comment #18510074

    I for once love Swedish cashless society and have rarely been inconvenienced by it. People close to me have had issues due to not having a personnummer (thanks Migrationsverket). B…

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    Comment #18448638

    I know about them only from the numerous podcast commercials. Here in the Nordics all supermarket chains have had that service for a while now and it's quite convenient. I can see …

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    Comment #18361859

    The new maps data is covering only Southern California now and according to Apple is gonna be covering all of the mainland US in the following year. So for the rest of us in the re…

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    Comment #18131163

    I've been using FastMail for several years now. The reason I switched was specifically to move away from Google's services and I'm glad I've made the switch. I have recommended Fas…

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    Comment #16280461

    From personal experience the deal they make with the host city is usually a win-win (for the municipality and for the citizens). The experience is great, JCDecaux gets to use some …

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    Comment #13055131

    The facial recognition runs only while connected to power.

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    Comment #13055108

    True. When it comes to parts that don't usually die on their own without visual problems (like a cracked screen) this is not such a big problem. Usually it comes down to convincing…

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    Comment #13054591

    Warranty is 2 years minimum in all of EU. If anybody says otherwise (plenty of sales and customer support people will try to convince you it's 1 year) show them this: http://europa…

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    Comment #13054580

    I'm experiencing something really similar to what your friend has described. The moment the outside temperature is below 20ºC and my battery is around 30-40% chances are it will di…

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    Comment #6760349

    I would disagree as well. Most Slavic languages are much less closely related than Roman languages for example. I'm a native Bulgarian speaker and while I can catch some words when…