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Most middle class families who can afford a car in developing nations rarely buy used cars/motorcycles. Giving the scenario in India. Vehicles are treated as a luxury here which are bought much later in a person’s life. Most families don’t even buy a car in India. It’s takes a lot of money to maintain it and it is very costly to drive one. The vehicle which you’ll find in every household here is a motorcycle and that too in mostly between 150cc-200cc engine range. The reason for that too is because lesser the cc, cheaper the bike, more the mileage.

I am from India. There are plenty of bollywood movies doing the same.

I came to know about the Marvel movie military involvement from a youtube video essayist. I don't know whether it's good or bad. It's somewhere in the middle probably. Also every other country does the exact same thing afaik. The opposite of this would be potraying everything about the armed forces in a complete negative light. Now that won't be liked a lot I guess. The important thing here I believe is people should learn to detect if something is a propaganda or not. And the problem now is that its very subtle. Most people with whom I have discussed already detect the blatant propaganda movies instantly. The subtler ones like the marvel movies are the ones which they are very suprised about.

There are many such examples in the real world. That's not stuff from the movies. I don't think these things get reported in US but in India we see this in the news all the time. You can make a generic google search[1] and find tons of such people.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=poor+family+child+tops+exam+...

nope. just your vpa.

You need to have a bank account to use UPI. Banks require a phone number afaik.

imdb.com is down right now. But https://www.imdb.com/chart/top is reachable right now. Strange.

https://imgur.com/a/apBT86o

Is that so! Never realised that when I subscribed to Apple TV to watch it. Lol. Anyways, how does the show being paid by apple have to do anything with what I said? I am talking about advertisements. The number of time we see an apple product on the show kinda get's ridiculous. It was even reported.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ted-lasso-the-morni...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theodorecasey/2021/03/09/ted-la...

You can still pay for apps with touch id. That payment system is separate from Apple Pay.

I'm from India. I don't think Apple pay will be a success here anymore. People here mostly make UPI transactions.

I got my first iphone previous year coming from the android ecosystem. All the things the author mentioned are true. Luckily there was a simple solution to it. I deleted all of those apps altogether. Apple music, tv, wallet and even itunes, removed all of them. Also offloaded a bunch of apps. I’m not letting apple off the hook by saying this though, but at least I can delete the unnecessary apps so that’s alright.

Also, slightly off topic maybe but if you’ve seen the show Ted Lasso the advertisement of apple products is so aggressive that it becomes ridiculous after a point. Almost every other scene contains an apple product.

My first commit to a fairly big opensource project is still not merged. The project is very beginner friendly but the project maintainers wanted my commit in a certain way as per their standards. It was not even the actual code but the commenting and variable names that needed to be changed. I had to re-review it many times before it was ready for merge. It took almost 2 to 3 months with some long time gap before I made perfect submission. In this process it seemed crazy to me why anyone will be looking through all this code made by a beginner with so many mistakes and patiently guiding them through it for free of cost. It made me appreciate their work more. Even though it isn’t merged yet I still got to learn a lot in this process.

Btw the PR didn’t get merged yet because we need to fetch data using an api of another source which is poorly documented.

Damn this is costly. I am an outsider from a developing nation in the east looking into this. Here that treatment wouldn't have costed more than 10$ in a very good hospital maybe. I have two questions for US citizens: 1. How are the prices so high(ELI5)? 2. What happens if someone doesn't pay the entire amount of the their medical bills?

Edit: Another question I want to ask after reading some of the other comments. 3. Doesn't big companies in the US keep medical staff for basic medical emergencies like this? That would be free of cost for the employees if things are similar to how it is here.

Windows works on my new laptop(3 year old with TPM) perfectly. This doesn't mean Linux doesn't work too. I tried PopOs for a month. If in future I switch to linux completely this distro is going to be the one. But there are still bugs which aren't fixed yet on linux. Battery backup is also an issue on Linux (tried TLP too). There were many other problems too. To summarize it Windows was a way better experience for me with this specific hardware. And WSL is really a game changer for me as I can keep on using Linux without worrying about hardware issues.

They made it available for the stable build too.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Even if the e-reader supports pdf, I think it's a much worse experince than even reading on a big computer screen(which doesn't work for me either). Physical copy of techincal books are way superior than e-book version. It's way easier to study in a physical book from my personal experience.

Both the videos referenced above worked smoothly for me. I’m on a 30 mbps cable Internet connection.

Happened to me too. An easy workaround: just refresh the browser when shown the login page.

Of course English India will be preferred if offered. I checked this on Windows that there is an option within firefox language preferences to set it to system settings. Anyways the En-In will be welcomed but is not a necessary condition though. We do just fine without it for now.

In India when it comes to technology we(majority) use english almost everywhere, from TV menus to phone apps to the tiny cybercafes in a remote place, everywhere it is in english even with the option of choosing our own language. This is due to a couple of reasons: we have been accustomed to the use of English with any tech product you can think of since it was first launched in India, also no one wants to go through the settings and change the defaults. Also the english dialect here is English-India. Kannada is its own language. I also came to the same conclusion as the author here, EN-CA was the first on the list.

Probably a Thinkpad. But depends on completely the type of work you wanna do. With anything you end up buying it's a long term investment. So whichever gets your job done and whichever has a good build quality (also something which you can easily upgrade yourself and repair easily) is the one you should buy.

How funny it would be if Youtube starts shadow banning/censoring this video so people don't see this? What if they test their like/dislike removal on this?

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