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@Blurry Moon Well, for me it's the opposite. Ebay used to be useless, nobody on ebay were willing to ship to Norway, or if they were the shipping would be like $100+

Then all the chinese sellers started popping up and shipped free to Norway. Still not great though, at that point ebay was basically just a worse alternative to AliExpress.

But during the past few years, more non-chinese sellers have started shipping stuff to Norway, often with affordable or free shipping. So for me ebay has finally become a useful site after having been borderline useless for 15 years.
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Man, GaN power adapters are fantastic, especially now that they're getting cheap and more readily available. Especially if you can make do with a lower wattage.

Look how friggin' tiny my 20W travel adapter is, which I use to charge my Neo and my phone. It's as thin as the laptop itself and is essentially just an ungrounded schuko plug, except a bit longer.

We're reaching the point where you barely need to call it a USB-C power "brick" anymore, at this point it's bordering on being just a USB-C power "plug" instead.



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fuck. i found a fanta crimson cherry at the store. FINALLY a cherry soda available in Norway. I've asked for cherry sodas and vanilla sodas for ages.

But of course I google it once I get home and it's some limited edition thing.

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leaving listen.moe running in the living room is like a roulette, because one moment you're listening to a pretty good j-pop song, and when you return after a quick piss there's some vtuber screaming weird stuff instead

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I'm sad that Sony phones have disappeared from the Norwegian market, because their new phones look great.

Sony phones used to be my go-to recommendation for people who asked me. But they're not longer available here.

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I honestly love that Norway's postal service still just sends plaintext E-mails for tracking info.

It's just "Hi, there's a package on the way, tracking number is xxxxxxxxx".

We don't need pretty formatted HTML E-mails with a "CLICK TO TRACK" button in the middle. You're just training people to get phished and it means you're either bloating up people inboxes or requiring loading of external content. There's no CSS colliding with my dark theme either.

Dumping the tracking number in a plaintext E-mail and asking the user themselves to paste it into their app or website should be the norm.

I hope Posten never stops doing it this way.