In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let’s do a laundry !

The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).

I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.

Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>… Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. <pause>…

What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.

And Barbie. What a spin-off !

There are some of these pumps in France. It infuriates me. The sound is horrible.

You know what? It’s BECAUSE of the US that we, French, have this now.

If it’s time spent, you just have to be French.
(From a French spending the end of the year with familly and friends).

1 Tb of source code ?! Is this really this long or are there all the assets too (musics, textures, 3D models…) ?

In the news, 5.000 years later : “Scientists warned that our mass extraction of hydrogen may produce global salinization, but no one wants to reduce its energy consumption.”

And there was r/gadget . Funny thing, I went from r/technology to r/gadget for the same reason : r/technology was 90% business news

It would not be the first time that a second game from one successful developer will never come to life. I wish that I am wrong.

From my experience, it depends on the instance. Sometimes, one instance of Piped will not work, but another will be OKish.

My kids don’t have a phone number and I would be glad we could use Signal.

I live in France and there are lots of brands that are exactly like Nutella, or even more tasty. Nutella is cheaper yet.

Glues for ceramic are epoxy resin.

I loved Edge when it was a browser.

Now it’s a trojan to make you use Microsoft services that you don’t want to use.

And that sounds like a much lower quality car.

It’s way more practical than a Tesla. Whatever, the Berlingo model now starts at 39.000€ (EV only). That’s twice the price I bought mine. My salary has not doubled in 10 years.

That’s… expensive ? The last car I bought new was 17.000€ (12 years ago, a Citroën Berlingo).

The model 3 in Europe is 43.000€.

The price of these cars gets me depressed.

No, that’s not that clear for the moment.

Let me explain the French case :

• Webedia is a big company that owns most of the famous French websites (jeuxvideo.com , etc.). All these websites have cookie walls with an alternative : a paid subsription. What they say, is that the website is now accessible with subscription only. However, if you accept cookies, you’ll get a discount (free access).
• The CNIL (a big French governemental entity) tried to forbid this. If someone reports a website, it’s for this entity to take action. There is no need to report Webedia, the CNIL knows already :-)
• The Conseil d’Etat (juridical entity of the French gov) said that “non”, it’s OK for Webedia to use such paywalls. The CNIL can’t forbid Webedia to use them.
• The CNIL asked the jusrists at the European level… here we are. We still don’t know.

Here is a French website where the CNIL explains this :
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookie-walls-la-cnil-publie-des-premiers-criteres-devaluation

There are multiple French websites that do this. It is legal (otherwise these websites would not do this anymore, it’s been a while).
There is a popup asking you if you consent to get cookies (for advertisement). If you say “no”, it leads you to another popup with two choices :

• Change your decision and accept cookies
• Pay for a premium service without advertisements

For me it’s any Point and Click games. Nothing seems obvious.