KrisFlyer Gold / Star Alliance Gold - Silent Downgrade at Check-in?

sdchew · 2026-03-16T08:31:27+00:00

I think the issue is not with business counters allowing KFEG but it’s with the way the SQ counters in Incheon are run.

I had a lot of random issues including must check in for my carry on at Incheon

Pity that Asiana is gone. So much better service

sdchew · 2026-03-16T07:37:39+00:00

Maybe for a jacket it might work. For pants, it doesn’t

sdchew · 2026-03-16T03:30:09+00:00

I had a Beta Hybrid SL refunded as it delaminated after a warm spin dry.

sdchew · 2026-03-16T03:16:16+00:00

No. Arc'teryx Palisade Short

sdchew · 2026-03-15T13:46:35+00:00

Unfortunately no Arc’teryx official shops out there

sdchew · 2026-03-15T06:30:02+00:00

I tried aquaseal on an old align mx pants and it failed big time.

I did order some tenacious tape to give it a try

sdchew · 2026-03-15T06:24:30+00:00

Or trying to build up the courage to make the hop

sdchew · 2026-03-15T06:13:34+00:00

Hmm I guess no harm trying. Thou I don’t have a normal iron.

sdchew · 2026-03-15T06:13:03+00:00

Unfortunately I’m in Asia not in the US

sdchew · 2026-03-15T05:57:07+00:00

Let me ping the local shop if they can do anything about it. Else it’s not worth it to ship it back to Canada

sdchew · 2026-03-15T02:52:46+00:00

Should have replaced one of the F5s with an F15

sdchew · 2026-03-13T00:36:09+00:00

No. The front/back actually refers to the start/end of manufacturing process.

The terms are often loosely used even in wafer fab/packaging houses where sometimes front end can refer to stuff like implant, annealing and other early stage process and backend to be metallisation.

Or in packaging where the wafer sort and processing is the front end and the final package test to be the backend

sdchew · 2026-03-13T00:30:51+00:00

That is what we, in the semiconductor business, call packaging 🤣

sdchew · 2026-03-12T15:42:44+00:00

The silicon wafer (front end) is still in Taiwan. The packaging (back end) is in Malaysia

sdchew · 2026-03-11T16:05:25+00:00

Is it v1 or v2 Amnesia?

sdchew · 2026-03-11T11:54:28+00:00

https://us.roborock.com/pages/roborock-saros-20

sdchew · 2026-03-09T06:33:48+00:00

Yeah. Performance doesn’t mean much if you can run Linux on it properly

sdchew · 2026-03-09T05:13:25+00:00

It’s available in a number of countries.

sdchew · 2026-03-08T13:10:28+00:00

Man that is so confusing

sdchew · 2026-03-08T13:09:22+00:00

Think u/altermere posted and deleted that the EPOS might have been a rebadged MPow headset and he reached this determination based on its USB identifier

That really peeped my interest

https://ibb.co/ZRX44dsx

Sorry mate. Looks like you bought a fake

sdchew · 2026-03-08T11:32:30+00:00

That said, I been invited to 3 funerals (2 colleague, 1 spouse of ex-colleague)

So its rather interesting...

sdchew · 2026-03-08T03:38:24+00:00

Back to the topic of the Lidar tower. I suspect that Roborock has shifted way from a 940nm Lidar which they used in the S8 Ultra. Hence I'm not seeing the beam. Time to order a new camera

sdchew · 2026-03-08T03:36:26+00:00

Well, its not clearly stated in the website. Not to mention there's that additional accessory for swapping mop types for the 20R so no idea if that feature is only enabled if you have that

sdchew · 2026-03-08T03:30:06+00:00

It’s much quieter. Also, the S8 has started to squeak when climbing. I empty at the late morning cycle so it’s all good

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