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thirdsun··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
As mentioned in another comment Störtebeker Atlantik Ale is great and available in a alcohol free version.

I'd also like to add Weihenstephaner Hefeweißbier Alkoholfrei is fantastic: https://www.weihenstephaner.de/en/our-beers/non-alcoholic-wh...

From what I understand Weihenstephaner developed a unique brewing process which results in a great tasting 0% beer with only 15 calories per 100 ml.

I also like their Helles Alkoholfrei: https://www.weihenstephaner.de/en/our-beers/non-alcoholic-or...

thirdsun··on Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
Not OP but chances are they are renting (like a large part of germany's population are) and therefore don't have the option of installing a wallbox.
thirdsun··on Steam Machine
I think that filter is called Apple Arcade but of course it's not free.
thirdsun··on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
> Because I don’t want to give google any money.

Don't use Youtube then.

thirdsun··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Someone applying to a blockchain company is probably also more likely to own a valuable crypto wallet the attacker might be able to access.
thirdsun··on Apple M5 chip
Have you tried restarting your watch? I noticed heavily increased battery drain after the update too, until I restarted the watch and everything turned normal again.
thirdsun··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
I don't think you have to convince the parent poster or seniors developers in general. You have to convince their employers that this is a valuable use of time.
thirdsun··on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks
I strongly disagree. The main advantage of Paypal and the reason for its popularity in Germany was the fact that it provided instant payments at a time when credit cards were very uncommon.

Cash on delivery was a huge pain since you had to potentially large amounts of cash ready to hand over to your postman upon delivery. That's the opposite of convenient.

Alternatively you could pay by bank wire transfer, which of course led to an additional delay of a day or two until your transfer actually arrived at the sellers bank account. Nobody wants to deal with barriers like these in ecommerce. Paypal was a godsend back then. Remember, barely anyone had a credit card in those days in Germany.

thirdsun··on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks
> ? IBAN transactions are instant and free.

Instant transactions are a very recent development and are only starting to become common because banks are required by law to support them for free come October. Up until rather recently instant SEPA transfers were often either not supported or came with additional fees attached.

thirdsun··on Bending Spoons acquires komoot
> lack of premium features that where catered towards ambitious cyclists that use their phone instead of a GPS

I think that's a very small target group. Most ambitious cyclists will use a dedicated bike computer rather than a smartphone. And rightfully so, if you ask me.

thirdsun··on Garmin's –$40B Pivot
ANT+ is still very much present in the cycling world and likely won't go anywhere. While most sensors and devices will also support bluetooth it seems to be a much more fragile and problematic connection. From my own experience I'd always opt for ANT+.
thirdsun··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
I think the problem is that a large and growing part of the population is in a constant state of dissatisfaction, if not downright anger, often being fed or demanding simple solutions to complex problems. At that point it doesn't seem to matter if those solutions actually work as long as they promise change. And when it becomes clear they won't or require long term planning people will just demand new leadership and the cycle continues.

Let's face it. Most problems require patient approaches. Often changes that are made won't show their effects until years or decades later. Unfortunately that encourages short term thinking towards the next election in government and population alike.

thirdsun··on Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help
Also it's so complicated to have UPS leave your parcel at a place of your choice (carport, deck, porch, etc.) in case you aren't home.

They have their MyChoice service which you have to sign up for and wait for a confirmation that is sent to you by mail which might take several days. However even if you take these steps it turns out that they will only match your parcels if the sender uses exactly the same address as the one you provided them. One character off and you lose any ability to set how your parcel should be delivered.

Any other delivery service does that easily, without postal confirmation for a specific parcel or any upcoming shipments.

Since I'm at the office during the day I had situations were I simply couldn't receive a UPS parcel for several days because their MyChoice service is useless once the address matching fails.

thirdsun··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
It's up to the store owner to actually default to "agrees to marketing". I'm not sure if Shopify is to blame when it's the owner that used an illegitimate opt-out for that setting instead of an opt-in.

And of course, follow-up mails for abandoned carts are an optional setting too.

thirdsun··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
> All "fine" except that this is the third time in the last 12 months that the same line undergoes maintenance forcing you to move to Lubeck first and adding 1 hour to your trip.

And there are even longer interruptions scheduled for the RE1 between Rostock and Hamburg in 2025. As someone who strongly prefers bikes and trains it forces me to commute by car. It's a disaster.

thirdsun··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
> Think of how often dedicated walking and cycling routes need to be repaved—almost never.

The condition of many german cycling paths would beg to differ.

thirdsun··on Playstation 5 Pro
I doubt the non-Pro PS5 is anywhere close to the RTX3080's performance.
thirdsun··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I experience none of that.
thirdsun··on Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Cycling, particularly road cycling, also comes to mind.
thirdsun··on Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally
Civil War (2024)
thirdsun··on The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s
I remember this story being released by Epic Magazine and Chicago Magazine.

The Bicycle Thief: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2019/bi...

On a sidenote: Epic Magazine is a treasure trove of these strange, little, Coen-brothers-movie-like stories: https://epicmagazine.com/

thirdsun··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
> I’m finding most of the friction with 1Password I run into is actually Apple competing for autofill in Safari creating two completely different UIs above every form element.

You know that you can disable Safari's autofill, right? I recommend it if you're using another password manager.

thirdsun··on macOS Sequoia Preview
I think they mentioned it will be available on Windows via iCloud for Windows. But yes, seems like a second class platform for the app.
thirdsun··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
Some of the better media players and library management tools will allow a delimiter in the Genre field to allow multiple genre tags. Personally, I'm using Roon which lets you set such a delimiter to look for in the genre tag.
thirdsun··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
Dear god, no. I don't even want to think about someone else messing up my library. I think music enthusiasts are very particular about their media and library management.
thirdsun··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
I'd like to recommend Meta: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

Great piece of software, that has served me well for years.

thirdsun··on When do we stop finding new music?
So true. I remember those days very fondly. There was a real community of listeners back then. Within that circle you shared albums and playlists, commented on and discussed them.

Plus, it had a persistant queue that could handle single songs as well as albums and playlists as individual items which could be moved freely. Everything I was interested in was added to the queue and I could be certain it'd still be there tomorrow. Sort of like a musical backlog.

thirdsun··on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams
Did anyone really expect 10 dollars a month to be enough to be sustainable? That's the price we used to pay for a single album and it seems way too low for a sustainable flatrate music service.
thirdsun··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
> Users should be allowed to grant grant “always” permission, for that app version. The next time it gets updated, they get hit with the prompt again.

I think users would hate that since they don't understand why the app keeps asking again and again. Some apps are updated on a weekly basis.

thirdsun··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
> What a great story. I wonder at what stage of Idiocracy lore we’re at, to require locked down software to “protect” people from “smart nephews”.

Have you ever had to do tech support for non-technical users? People will make poor tech choices and fault the manufacturer for it.

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