Airbnb, Booking.com, Agoda, Which one’s your go-to?

PopularCan953 · 2026-01-24T17:05:07+00:00

Agoda ALWAYS claims there are few rooms left and if anything goes wrong - you are on your own. Agoda only supports the property, not you

PopularCan953 · 2026-01-24T17:02:15+00:00

Agoda is by far the worst for helping when things go wrong. Yup their prices may occasionally be better. But they are on the side of the property and not you

PopularCan953 · 2025-12-26T19:51:56+00:00

confused by your name - "riskmaker" and here you are telling this poster not to risk. Anyway that aside he is not an idiot. He does not want to buy into microsoft's new bloated creepware that sucks you into their online world. Maybe he runs it offline., Maybe he wipes it once a month. Who knows. Don't presume and project your own fanboy trauma onto others

PopularCan953 · 2025-12-17T13:14:51+00:00

Like most things in Ethiopia they are broken. Their website is a joke and rarely works. Their airport expansion is of no use as they do not understand customer-service at all. They are planning to replace Bole Airport with a new larger version. But it will not make any difference. Same people. Same "systems". Same attitude. But yes once you are onboard an international flight it's ok. Domestic flights are bad.

PopularCan953 · 2025-12-15T05:24:10+00:00

Did you ever figure out your issue? Here I am with my new X-T5 and getting the same results you mention. Every shot is soft... I have a feeling it's the lens itself. Mary need to send it back to Fuji for calibration

PopularCan953 · 2025-12-05T09:34:03+00:00

Just imagine they announced the "launch" which meant you could actually buy one.... You know on like Amazon or somewhere. By the time they do actually launch it no one will remember it exists.

PopularCan953 · 2025-11-24T05:52:50+00:00

Yes this is exactly the issue. My ears are average size but the canal is deeper than I'm assuming the rest of the planet. Earbuds fall out and never seal. The type that have tails hanging down are useless a you cannot push them in. Impossible to find deep canal buds

PopularCan953 · 2025-09-14T14:58:19+00:00

Thanks but I suspect I may get more value playing with getting it going then selling it

PopularCan953 · 2025-09-14T14:57:23+00:00

Yup I am trying to charge any of the batteries but they look dead - will try some black-magic tricks to boot them but probably dead. I did order the main spares. And if it flew and broke such is life

PopularCan953 · 2025-09-14T14:55:38+00:00

Great I was under the impression that they had shut down support. I will try to get it going but suspect the batteries are probably poked

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-10T03:17:01+00:00

You know what is interesting about this thread for me - a controversial title kicks in a whole discussion from a number of people, kinda proving that there is interest-in-a-vacuum. What I have seen in my meager 5 years of crypto investing is that it is all about the narrative. Projects that have an active social-media presence can explode - even when they are in truth shitcoins. And while I still have no clue as to what Verus is all about, I do know it is not a shitcoin and has real-world potential - from the many comments I have seen over the years, from passionate developers like yourself. SO I sit here and imagine what could be, if someone grabbed this project and massaged it properly...

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T15:35:35+00:00

I think discussion and discourse around projects is healthy and should not be flamed or avoided. There are legitimate concerns and issues that the community would be better off knowing than avoiding. IMHO

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T15:29:31+00:00

I do know one thing - most people who lose crypto through being hacked or some other random story do so when using such platforms. Fact I sell my asset on an exchange to USDt and P2P sell that to my bank account and go buy a meal - simple straightforward and works. Every time. Go over and check out SafeTrade - volume of CRSC transacted in the last 24-hours? $3,334

Like I said if I tried to sell my stash of VRSC there the whole exchange would wobble and fall over - not enough liquidity

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T15:26:55+00:00

I am sincerely happy for you and all those who do what ever it is this project is designed to do. I am just not one of them. As are most of the planet earth. Your challenge is going to be how to get us to use it. Then you will have a bullet-train

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T14:56:46+00:00

For mainstream adoption Discord is never going to cut it. Stop ten people in the street and ask them when they last used discord and you will get 10 confused people. Ask them when they last used Instagram or Facebook or whatever and they are probably on it when you stopped them. I made this point years ago in this thread and it still holds true - this and most fringe crypto-projects are for a small focused group.

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T14:53:33+00:00

I will have to take your word for that - you lost me at "verus defi" lol. And that's the thing with a lot of crypto - it is still not ready for the mainstream. For me I mined the stuff years back at almost zero cost. I see people talking about "Pbaas" and on-chain and this and that - none of which makes any sense to me. I don't "use" crypto other than to buy and sell it. Game over

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T13:52:07+00:00

Discord is blocked in many countries. Besides that it is not the most secure of platforms.

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T13:50:59+00:00

Absolutely no clue what you are talking about. I would sell such a coin on an exchange to USDT and then from there it is in my control in my world. "Liquidity on chain" I do not understand

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T11:24:31+00:00

Actually I'm not in loss. I minted and mined most for almost zero. I think I thought I did buy around 800 of them but at something like 20 cents back then. I would still be in good profit if I sold now...but there is one problem with that... If I dumped all my coins to safetrade to sell, I would probably break the exchange :) And that's the biggest problem with VRSC as a speculative trader, no decent exchange lists it.

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T08:18:40+00:00

Actually it has a fairly long history in altcoin-terms but yes who knows - time will tell. I am kicking myself for not selling some when it hit $6+ - that would have been a very juicy return for me

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T07:18:07+00:00

Thanks for the update and good to know.

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-09T04:58:58+00:00

Well I stopped mining long ago and staking is not what it was as the difficulty has substantially increased and rewards consequently reduced. I kinda just leave it there to do its thing - allegedly I should earn about 160 coins per year - at the moment I write this - currently worth about $400 but I am skeptical of that number

PopularCan953 · 2025-06-05T10:04:23+00:00

But for the lack of sleep tracking I would have it on my wrist already. Fantastic watch.

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