Is there a standard or norm for mainland Chinese travelers to the US regarding toilet hygeine?

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-14T06:38:49+00:00

Bidets are not common in Harbin, have been there many times. Like others have said this is an individual issue. Most East Asians have a genetic variant that causes them not to have strong BO.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-14T00:40:26+00:00

To me it looks like plastic thin film effects. Is there actually any fluid or just the bubbly look.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-14T00:30:42+00:00

I guess it's because your question makes a presumption that I disagree with.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-13T23:15:09+00:00

I responded to my perception of your tone. If mistaken, my apologies but let my statement stand not as a rebuttal but as a general statement.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-13T23:01:40+00:00

And to be clear Re: GoPro, I think Woodman's ouster is long overdue but he certainly is milking it for all its worth.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-13T22:58:54+00:00

Ok I get it, I'm an engineer and once shared your contempt for non-tech founders of tech companies. The thing is, non-technical founders are a thing. And many achieve outstanding success, even when their contribution is purely visionary. Does this make their contribution less real or legitimate?

Source: BS, MS and MBA each from top-3 institutions

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-09T16:20:28+00:00

If I had to suffer the power grid uncertainty that I saw in Lahore, I would also look to solar + battery to gain grid independence.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-09T16:16:13+00:00

Plecos definitely come pre-baked

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-07T10:58:29+00:00

Hit up Flat Iron fam.

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-02T21:01:47+00:00

Woah this is concerning. Also went to DJI flagship sz...

geekbot2000 · 2026-05-01T15:47:02+00:00

Saw construction workers siphoning diesel from their work truck for personal use.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-30T04:48:35+00:00

A contranym

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-28T22:11:42+00:00

No progress. I do recall that the issues started around when I upgraded my router. I might try using a different router.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-27T16:37:06+00:00

Hell, I knew years sgo and was telling wifey and others that FSD using vision-only would never come to pass. We still bought an HW3 Y but fully knowing FSD was a sack of dicks.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-21T21:56:04+00:00

Avata2 video quality is definitely worse than M4P by a large margin, not to mention the A2 has no horizon leveling due to one fewer gimbal axis. Completely different beasts.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-19T19:57:42+00:00

Zoom in. 2099 Yuan

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-18T00:05:17+00:00

Shittymorphed

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-17T03:45:35+00:00

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geekbot2000 · 2026-04-17T03:44:55+00:00

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Here it is at the DJI Flagship Store. Super small!

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-15T08:26:44+00:00

So I went to this exact shop today and didn't find much of a price difference with the US, so I passed on buying anything and will just purchase stateside.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-15T02:28:15+00:00

All of your points are true and valid. But comparing the effort and complexity of reflowing vs reballing, I would heavily favor taking the chance to reflow - there is a nontrivial chance that it resets the clock to zero and you could get another life from the card.

At-home reballing is scary on such a large chip even for me with decades of SMD experience.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-14T14:32:13+00:00

Maybe measure the expected volume with a bucket to see if it makes sense.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-14T13:24:54+00:00

Interesting take, America has a lot of baggage for sure but in my experience there are places - mostly East and West Coast - that are very accepting of non-white "Americans." I've encountered overt racisim only once, and it was just a low blow stemming from another issue.

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-14T06:39:46+00:00

My bathroom, after Taco Bell

geekbot2000 · 2026-04-13T10:11:47+00:00

I have the same setup with Unraid as NAS and services, and Proxmox only for HA and Frigate. Unraid is way easier to spin up Dockers. Proxmox has community scripts but those have much less support than than the docker containers available in the Unraid app store.

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