The only way to do it tax and duty free would be to go to Akihabara yourself, buy the goodies in person (paying sales tax), and get a receipt. Then submit the receipt to the relevant tax authority to get your sales tax reimbursed (there are companies that will help you with this for a fee). Then you take the goodies back with you in checked baggage and hope you’re under the personal limit for importing goods, otherwise they’ll hit you with the import duty anyway.

The fines are the biggest problem because rental agencies charge you a fee for passing the fines on, which you can’t get back even if you get the fine dropped.

Car rental agencies are total scammers IMHO, even worse than used car dealers

Net Promoter Score is a garbage metric that exists to deny hard workers bonuses.

You can rank someone 6/10 (above average) and that counts against them?!

This is a false equivalence. The same company providing food for two different markets might be providing two different menus. Like a cake company which makes different cakes, and also some bread products, maybe some biscuits… you wouldn’t open a box of biscuits and find a cake inside. Except maybe Jaffa Cakes. What was I saying again?

Oh yeah, faulty logic, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some mix-and-matching going on. Capitalism gotta capitalise.

This post is like writing “2+2=6” in an elevator.

It’s wrong on many levels.

Verification can?

If I was cynical - which I absolutely am - I’d say maybe it’s a total nothingburger that’s being overplayed as a distraction from something else?

Don’t forget he shilled for MLMs too.

Neat recommendation, thanks!

I wish they’d release a version for Linux so I could experience the "pretty cool"ness for myself :)

One-dimensional is the easiest way to get a rough idea of the difference between a million and a billion.

Put a stack of a million bank notes on its side, and that’s roughly a walk across a parking lot.

Put a stack of a billion bank notes on its side, and that’s a road trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg

I understand Notepad++ is pretty cool?

Yes because no cloud service has ever utterly fallen over and taken half the internet with it /s

At least in this country, once they’ve verified your age, they aren’t allowed to keep your information.

I don’t believe for a microsecond that they actually obey that law (which is why I won’t verify my age anywhere) but it’d be an instant admission of guilt if they pulled that.

I said could. We’re comparing Lemmy to Reddit.

Nah, I won The Game years ago. You can too!

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I’d be disappointed to find I had one. I’d be a terrible mother and my wife would be even worse!

You could always switch instance though. That’s a thing you can do in the Fediverse. You can’t do that on Reddit.

Going to Linux is probably the more sustainable solution (I ended up on Ubuntu and my 4130 is happy enough) but you apparently might be able to convert-in-place to the IoT edition, if that’s the route you’d prefer to go down.