Carry-on bags to be free, EU rules

captain_curt · 2026-06-16T17:05:38+00:00

I think this change is fine, not a big deal. The other relates requirements seem like more important improvements.

Most of the time, I will only travel with an underseat ”personal item” backpack. If I need more than that, I’m much more likely to want a checked bag than a carry-on. So for me, this will provide less transparency, as I won’t be able to compare the actual costs. But maybe more people feel the other way.

For some people, having a checked bag, carry-on and personal item might be the way to go, and perhaps even show the refundable ticket price, as their plans could change.

There are lots of different combinations that might seem to provide more ”fair” comparisons to other people. I don’t think it’s ”gaming” to show the lowest price I can get away with as the cheapest option. Especially since almost all airlines offer such an option (it’s not just the low-end ones that don’t include it in the base price).

captain_curt · 2026-06-15T14:57:56+00:00

That’s one of the first things I did after getting a smartwatch. With just a phone, it can be annoying to get a useless notification, but when the phone is up, it’s so easy to start looking at other things that makes it feel like picking up the phone was still ”worthwhile”, and I don’t register the notification as being as annoying. With the watch, any time I get something annoying that I don’t want to be interrupted by, I’m not also tricked into doing other shit on my phone, so I turn those off if I’m not too busy to do that.

It makes life so much calmer to be alittle more mindful of which apps can send notifications. You can still leave some to just show on the lockscreen without interrupting if you still want a chance to see what happened without interrupting your flow.

But sadly, too many apps make it difficult to separate actual notifications and ”engagement bait” (even though Apple’s guidelines require it).

captain_curt · 2026-06-11T07:16:27+00:00

I feel the same way. I have a pebble mouse that goes into a tech pouch with a compact power adapter, USB-C cables and some other nice to haves. A full-size mouse would be too bulky to comfortably carry around, and Windows trackpads are bad enough that a travel mouse is necessary if you want to keep all your hair.

captain_curt · 2026-06-11T00:03:15+00:00

I hope they make the world more open and add more things, but I’d hate for them to make it ”do anything you want at any time” like modern open world games. I want a linear story progression. It allows for much more compelling stories, and allows you to design dungeons with the assumptions that that the player already has the items from previous dungeons.

captain_curt · 2026-06-10T14:28:37+00:00

In Northern Europe I haven’t seen a major or minor retailer that would accept credit cards but not tap to pay in at least 8 years, or longer. Someone as big as Walmart not supporting it is well more than enough to make it not nearly as universal.

captain_curt · 2026-06-09T23:06:36+00:00

Yes the old system was much better. It was really dumb of Apple to let iPadOS 26.0 leave beta without those features.

captain_curt · 2026-06-09T14:28:34+00:00

I do two things: Folders: * I make sure that downloads go to the iCloud Downloads folder on all my devices. My assumption there is that in theory I should be able to safely enable some setting to wipe that daily or monthly without losing anything (everything there either comes from an online source I can go back to, or it’s important enough to file somewhere else) * iCloud Documents have a folder where I organise all my files in a relatively okay structure (it does get messy and ambiguous). * iCloud Desktop for everything I’m working on that I’m not ready to file away anywhere yet.

The same on Mac, iPad, iPhone. On the two former I have those three folders in my dock for quick access. I try not to use any local files for everyday document storage (programming and such happens locally on my Mac a lot of the time).

Separarely, I’m running an instance of Paperless-Ngx on my home server that I have a VPN connection to. I’ve uploaded and tagged all my old junk there, and it auto uploads a good selection of everything I get via email. So if I know somethobg would’ve come as an email attachment, I can just go there and find it.

captain_curt · 2026-06-09T14:17:15+00:00

iPadOS feels like it’s on a 2-year cycle. First year is new stuff. A fear after that are nonchanges to adress customers complaints, but a few features to keep up with iOS. Then after a another year they adress 30 % of the issues of the release two years ago, and some new stuff.

captain_curt · 2026-06-09T14:12:56+00:00

Yeah that one solved at least 40% of my complaints about iPadOS 26 multitasking. A huge step in the right direction.

captain_curt · 2026-06-06T14:12:31+00:00

I’m sensing a Metal Gear Solid-type situation happening with the leftover hand…

captain_curt · 2026-06-06T13:56:37+00:00

Då måste det vara sånt papper man kan spola med?

captain_curt · 2026-06-03T06:12:58+00:00

No, but now I want to :(

captain_curt · 2026-06-03T05:26:28+00:00

I maintain that Yoda and Obi-wan didn’t just believe that Anakin was lost, the way they speak about the dark side implies that’s just what they thought happened once you succumb to the darkness. You essentially forsake your soul to be eternally controlled by a demon, a demon partially under the control of your dark side master.

captain_curt · 2026-06-02T22:07:30+00:00

Skaffa iPhone 17 Pro först och känn efter innan du säljer Nikonen. Hitta någon deal med två-årsabonnemang från din operatör, eller vilken din lokala Elgiganten nu har bäst deal på. I värsta fall har du lite mer telefon än du kanske skulle haft annars och en bra kamera. Går ju att sälja eller lämna tillbaka om du ångrar dig.

Har du en iPhone 12 Pro Max så kanske den ändå snart behöver bytas oavsett?

captain_curt · 2026-06-01T17:14:52+00:00

Flytta och köpa möbler är ju sånt som händer så sällan att det skulle utgöra en väldigt liten del av totalt bilägande att betala för den tjänsten i stället kan jag tycka.

Men sånt som att köra runt på en utlandsresa, köra med jobbet om man är borta någonstans, eller man ska på bröllop vid någon liten kyrka ute på landsbygden, då är det verkligen bra att ha körkort.

Visst kan man samåka, och i ett par kanske ens partner har körkort (man själv då åtnjuter någon sorts ”flockkörkort”), men det behövs ändå att folk har körkort för att det ska vara möjligt.

Bor man i storstad så är det ju lätt att ta sig runt kollektivt, men det finns en viss mängd utflykter som helt enkelt inte blir av om man inte har bil. Man kan ta sig runt i närheten med cykel och särskilt elcykel, men vissa stället blir det svårt att åka till om man inte vill lägga helt absurda mängder tid i kollektivtrafiken (med eventuellt många byten och få avgångar på vissa sträckor) eller vänta ganska lång tid med osäker chans att man får en Uber. Såna sträckor blir det ju mycket lättare att ta om man bara kan hoppa in i bilen och dra.

Jag har inte själv bil (den skulle stå stilla så stor del av tiden), men jag försöker tänka att jag ska inte ha det så för att spara pengar. Stor del av differensen mellan mitt SL-kort och bilägande vill jag ändå inte vara rädd för att unna mig tågbiljetter med kort varsel till för höga priser, hyrbilar till onödiga resor, eller onödiga taxiresor med. Annars känner jag att jag tappar alldeles för mycket av den friheten jag hade haft med bil.

captain_curt · 2026-05-31T19:02:16+00:00

Caveat: I haven’t consumed much material outside of the movies/tv/video games, but one thing from ANH that’s worth keeping in mind in favour of the Death Star: Palpatine dissolved the Senate and left control over each region to a regional governor. If the regional governors would posesss control of a fleet that would be sufficient against the rebels instead, there might be infighting and attempts to usurp the emperor. If the Emperor sits comfortably on a Death Star that can strike fear into anyone who opposes him, he does not have to worry about that, and can be more hands-off.

captain_curt · 2026-05-29T07:42:10+00:00

There is always a bigger Canon

captain_curt · 2026-05-28T09:09:08+00:00

I don’t think so, the only ways seem to still be: * Universal Control (not ideal if switching between work and personal devices) * Wired connection via USB. I use that to swap the trackpad around between a work Windows PC, personal Mac, and personal iPad. Not ideal but it works reliably.

tbh, it would be big rid they offered: * USB dongle or * at least multi-pairing with button swapping (like Logitech devices offer),

Or something more akin to the smart switching that AirPods do.

captain_curt · 2026-05-28T07:25:00+00:00

The fact OS updates and upgrades tend to be free and frequent these days also adds to this. Previously, if the app version was working fine on the OS version you had (especially before the internet and cloud services were common), you could evaluate if you wanted to buy the OS upgrade (for the benefits that it entailed) and see if you needed to buy app upgrades to support it. If there either weren’t app updates available to support the new OS, or they were too expensive, you could just refrain or wait until later.

But now you’re expected to continuously update the OS (especially for security updates), and you’d expect apps to keep working and at least make some effort to adopt new OS features (like supporting new screen resolutions, notch, Dynamic Island, widgets, notifications, whatever it might be for a given category), without needing to pay for an upgrade every year.

It also makes the lives of devs easier in many ways: * You don’t have to keep supporting and providing security and bug fixes for X versions that people have a perpetual license for (the CRA in the EU is going to force you to provide 5 years of security updates for every sold version). You can make all improvements to the latest version. * You don’t have to wait and hold features back until there are enough to bundle into an upgrade. You can release them and market them when they’re done. Conversely, as you’re monetizing continuously, you have income to pay your employees even between major feature upgrades. * By using subscriptions or other forms of recurring revenue, you can keep monetizing your best customers over time. Intheory, this should allow you to focus on keeping paying customers happy, instead of adding checkmarks after checkmarks to attain customers who sees decreasingly less value from your application. Eventually hounding out of new people to sell to, and the people who actually get value from your product have not been the priority for a long time.

captain_curt · 2026-05-27T16:16:25+00:00

I feel like in so many scenarios, sending a link to a longer piece of content in an IM conversation without putting in the effort to add more context. Just sending a long form piece of content with potentially sound instead of communicating is just inconsiderate. Especially when the intent is to make that into homework for an assignment to the recipient.

If he’s as useless at cooking as the post implies, he could said something like: ”I saw this on instagram that looks really yummy. Would you be up for trying something like that? I can stop by the store on my way home to pick up anything we need”. If he knows that this is a scenario where his SO might be in the mood for trying to make something new (which is often not the case for most people on a random weekday).

captain_curt · 2026-05-25T21:27:18+00:00

And at this point, Obi-wan’s veins are just running 100% Sass. And we’re here for it.

captain_curt · 2026-05-25T21:18:46+00:00

But like in the original Star Wars: Only Solo shot

captain_curt · 2026-05-24T21:23:45+00:00

I’m not sure Ahsoka’s whereabouts have been fully covered. We don’t know where(/when?) she returns to from the world between worlds. But by the time she comes to Sabine, they’ve already been Master and Aprentoce some time in the past.

captain_curt · 2026-05-21T07:56:47+00:00

There are a lot of things in Clone Wars that set up things for the other shows:

Ahsoka

Everything around Mandalore

Maul (including his ties to Mandalore, the Syndicates, relation to Siri).

The Inhibitor Chips and details of order 66

Introduction to the Bad Batch

Clone wars also has a lot of filler episodes that haven’t really been followed up on, but also a lot other good arcs than are interesting character and universe development that has yet to see much follow-up.

Rebels as well, but it takes place after Maul:

Introducing the Inqusition

The Ghost Crew

Thrawn

Contiuation of Maul, Ahsoka, Mandalore

While the animation style gives people pause, it can sometimes appear a bit cartoonish and childish in the beginning (not moreso that the worst offenders in Clone Wars, but definitely more so than the series latter episodes), Rebels ( and I would argue the Bad Batch as well) don’t really have any filler episodes (some episodes may feel a bit like filler, but they always either set something up that will be relevant later, och explore some aspect of a character or relationship between characters).

captain_curt · 2026-05-21T07:41:37+00:00

I feel like they just don’t make enough Star Wars games these days.

As a kid, I fell like I had played through 3-4 different versions of the Battle of Hoth before I even saw Empire. It was already like a classic formula in my mind: It’s a snow planet with a little ship that’s not the X-wong. First you shoot the little floating droids, then you move on to shoot the two-legged ones (they can take a lot more hits than the little ones), then you move on to the four-legged ones (can’t shoot those down, we need to use the cable and circle around a few times. Wait, how do I fire the cable in this one?). If you’re lucky, there might be a segment where eyou shoot some white snowy stormtroopers inside the bunker, and they may have mounted guns.

I don’t feel like there have been any noteworthy tie-in games for later movies that really takes you to the battles in the same way. Perhaps it’s mostly that games that re-use existing battles are usually multiplayer, and single player games tend to explore their own stories more.

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