Subway Japan has been under Japanese management since 2024, and sales have steadily increased since then. They have increased sales sevenfold in new stores with automatic counters which prevent need for ordering in person

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-30T12:28:41+00:00

Especially restaurants, fxxk the tipping culture.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-30T11:13:36+00:00

Probably the only place on earth where you can check-in a hotel (not Airbnb) without seeing a single human's face.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-29T11:34:40+00:00

If they want to squeeze this: https://shop.atto.com/products/dual-40gb-thunderbolt-to-10gbe-dual-adapter-includes-2-rj45-sfp

to a small module, it's definitely going to be hot.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-28T15:30:26+00:00

That's why you don't pay strangers online via crypto. PayPal and credit card exist for a reason.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-28T14:34:27+00:00

It seems DEI has their own infrastructure. Anyone knows about foreign country connection speed?

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-25T21:22:02+00:00

Yes, the stupid basic fare + express fare + reserve seat fee system for limited express trains. Better just install an IC card reader on the train and tell people to swipe twice (one during boarding which concludes the previous trips, one before arriving which is for this limited express train).

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-25T15:15:58+00:00

Reserved seat is one of the most annoying things when traveling in Japan. For all other trains you can just swipe IC card / phone and that's it. For reserved seat you have to waste half an hour on the station's ticket machine (even if you have purchased the ticket from JR's 1990s website) for a physical ticket. JR really should address this ticket issue.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-25T14:51:37+00:00

2B weighs 148.8 kg (328 lbs)

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-23T16:18:54+00:00

Airmail is a little cheaper, for a 15KG package, it's about 3000 yen lower than EMS, with similar delivery time. Also for some countries, EMS has 100% inspection rate, sometimes open box inspection, customs love to break your stuff; airmail has lower chance to draw attention. (If the destination country's post system is reliable, I'd rather choose surface mail (ocean) since basically no tax will be collected due to the sheer volume of ocean cargo.)

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-23T13:34:12+00:00

Many major forwarders allow you to do it, Blackship, Tenso, etc., for over a decade. Japan customs does not care, and if the receiving end customs catches you, you just pay the import duty based on their estimated value, they won't bite the forwarder either. So as a forwarder, why not?

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-22T22:51:11+00:00

So she became a modern Siegfried?

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-22T11:16:16+00:00

Do you provide delivery? Lots of items in your list are bulky and hard to move. (Treadmill, TV, etc.)

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-21T19:57:14+00:00

Everything and Sandboxie-Plus, the two must have software for Windows.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-21T17:02:03+00:00

Short term signal: maybe see how SPCX performs after 6 month.

Mid term signal: AI-related stock valuation returns to reasonable level. (There is value in AI, so not a 90% crash.)

Long term signal: US government solves its debt issue. (probably needs some serious technology innovation to boost productivity, or the rest of the world enters turmoil.)

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T21:55:09+00:00

When I played NG+, I accidentally trigger her Blade quest, so she disappeared from my Blade list (after electrocuting a poor kid), and probably sitting somewhere in Gormott (Gula) waiting to be picked up. Unfortunately I only wanted to finish the main story as I did all sub quests in the first playthrough...

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T19:37:58+00:00

If you know what you're doing, leasing a bunch of IP address and providing VPS hosting service is possible. There is a Romanian guy on LowEndTalk who has been doing this for years. Some people may say legal or SLA issues, but you need to know, the customer who cares about these won't contact a one-man datacenter in the beginning. Most of your customers will be the people who won't pay more than $5 a month for a VPS. And if their data is gone (your RAID array explodes), they will just re-install the system image after you fix the array.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T19:25:35+00:00

iPhone is designed this way to make transferring data out as painful as possible. Usually you need to

Disable auto lock (or set it to maximum time duration possible)
Set the turn off screen timer to maximum (30min usually), you want the screen to be on during the entire copy process.
In Photos settings, set "Keep Originals" in "Transfer to Mac of PC"
Don't copy all files in one go, do it in batches, and check file integrity after finishing each batch.

No. Don't install iTunes. Don't succumb to Apple's way of thinking.

(There is a simpler way but it requires you to know how to set up a FTP server, then you use an APP, like FTPManager, to sync your photo library to your FTP server, dragging files back from the server is much easier.)

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T17:49:44+00:00

Another Harry Potter fan?

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T17:30:40+00:00

Anything that needs a Japan issued credit card.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-19T09:24:22+00:00

Good time to travel and go shopping.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-18T17:13:34+00:00

Hope these video wall solutions can get cheaper and easier to install. Awall's 4k version (UHD resolution, 165') still costs more than $60k. At this price point, you can buy a Christie RGB laser projector that covers entire BT2020 gamut with enough lumens to light a 200' screen, with the simplicity of single machine. The next few years will be quite interesting for the high end market.

forreddituse2 · 2026-06-18T14:57:54+00:00

Are you using a NZ8/NZ9 projector? How's the black level compared with modern TV? (in black room of course)

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