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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Ah, yes it’s for personal use, true. But the meaning of personal item as it relates to customs means an item that you take with you on the travels for your own use, so the assumption is that it leaves and re-enters your country with you. So that there is no net export or import involved.
My claim, if asked, would have been, that I always use two phones and I just took both with me when I went to Germany and took both back to Switzerland.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
From Switzerland shopping in Germany is pretty worth it. Their VAT is 19% ours is 8.1% and on top of that their prices are generally cheaper. It’s a real thorn in the side of Swiss retailers. They lobbied to have the VAT free value lowered, since this year it’s 150 CHF instead of 300 CHF.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I did that once, when the Nexus phones weren’t available in Switzerland but they were in Germany. I ordered it to a location close to the border that specifically offers a postal address as a service and went to pick it up.
The correct thing to do would have been to go to the border agents, get a confirmation that I’m bringing the merchandise out of the country and pay the Swiss VAT. With the confirmation I could theoretically get the VAT back from the seller I paid it to. Except that was Google and they weren’t intending to sell it for export, so I doubt they would have helped with that.
What I did was unpack the phone, throw away the packaging, put my old phone in one jeans pocket and my new one in the other, and drive back over the boarder. Having two phones isn’t that weird, so I thought I could get away with claiming them as personal items if I was asked. But I wasn’t even stopped (they only do sampling at the crossing) so it was easy. But it was technically smuggling. Anything over 200 CHF needs to be declared and VAT paid.
My mom once went clothes shopping to Austria and didn’t declare them. The border guard asked what she bought. She claimed clothes, but not over the limit. He was like no way, I know that brand, they must be worth more, checked the stuff, and discovered it was worth too much. She had to pay VAT plus a pretty decent fine.
I only crossed the US Canadian border once in each direction, but to me it seemed like they were way more strict and thorough then here in Europe within Schengen. So I’d be scared I think. But overall I still think your plan could work if you’re careful with it. Maybe gaming laptop would be suspicious if you went for a one day trip, would be better if it was longer. But a phone not really.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 4 days ago:
Didn’t Krautchan die 5 years ago or so? To be replaced by Kohlchan?
- Comment on Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it 4 days ago:
Correct reaction, good on them.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
LibreOffice is also more compatible that Microsoft Word. It helped me and a friend to save his grandpa’s old writings that were stored in AppleWorks (.cwk) files.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 5 days ago:
Well I’m curious to find out what discovery will show.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
Yeah but the article links the steamdb calulator twice and the actual steam page not at all. Freaking weird.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
I recently went through that dongle buying experience. Having to get the correct DAC and amplifier chipset so the sound won’t be too low is annoying. For the record I ended up going with one that has the CX31993 DAC and the MAX97220 amplifier. It is a bit louder than my first impulsive buy, but I haven’t tested the microphone yet.
- Comment on My imaginary children aren’t using your streaming service – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 week ago:
This gives me the same vibes as the fucking New York Times annoying me with the popover prompt to use their app every day. The app to read websites on phones already exists, it’s called a browser, and I’m using it. Asking a hundred more times won’t change my mind.
I even opened a support case which only resulted in them “passing on the suggestion”.
- Comment on Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust) 1 week ago:
Looks okay to me. Not sure how important the last two are to be honest, but I included them for completeness
github.com/opencloud-eu/opencloud/blob/…/LICENSE
github.com/opencloud-eu/web/blob/main/LICENSE
github.com/opencloud-eu/web-extensions/…/LICENSE
github.com/opencloud-eu/desktop/blob/…/COPYING
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
He boast about his excellent relationship with Kim Jong-Un, it’s understandable that your friends and their approach to personal greatness would rub off on you after a while 😁
- Comment on Sesbian Lex 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hold on 2 weeks ago:
Well… Frieren had a simp to be more accurate.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 weeks ago:
Haha fair enough, I was thinking of multiple little ones not singular big ones. Think of bunny droppings or something.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 weeks ago:
Make everyone shit rounded rare earth metal cylinders. Suddenly we don’t need Cobalt and Lithium mines any more and the worst aspects of having to poop are solved too.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 3 weeks ago:
He just said there weren’t any in Dutch on his niche topic. Your suggestion to learn more Dutch doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see how this changes anything. Style isn’t copyrightable, so if anything it seems the least concern.
Characters or specific scenes, those are the really juicy bits.
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
And the old WCFAN (we couldn’t find a name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 3 weeks ago:
The way the write “best value” on the offer for 8.50 £/month is just brazen.
If you use Office Home 2024 for 120£ for just 15 months or more it’s already cheaper.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 3 weeks ago:
I used TexStudio for my Master’s thesis, it worked fine for me. I haven’t done a full survey of available LaTex distributions though :-)
- Comment on Blobfish 4 weeks ago:
Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 4 weeks ago:
2004
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti 4 weeks ago:
No worries, I just wanted to make sure. I could totally have missed stuff.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 4 weeks ago:
25 years so… Tarzan? Lilo and Stitch? The Emperor’s New Groove?
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti 4 weeks ago:
I’m aware of:
- Unbalanced power over 12VHPWR including some melting in some cases.
- Missing ROPs on 5080.
- 5070 not reaching 4090 performance levels because that was just a marketing lie.
None of those really seem to apply. Were there any more?
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
Countries that use Jus Soli usually also have Jus Sanguinis. The USA for example. My friend is a US citizen despite not being born there because his mother is a US citizen.
Not having Jus Sanguinis would be downright horrible. Imagine your mother moves back to her home country and if you want to follow her you have to clear immigration hurdles.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
The better term might be “abroad”, rather than “overseas”. Because Jus Soli is a concept that exists mostly in the Americas. So you’d better not cross over the Atlantic or Pacific sea.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 month ago:
just like they don’t turn off analog radio
Got bad news for you. They are starting in some places.
The Swiss public broadcaster shut down it’s FM channels at the turn of 2024 to 2025, at the end of next year all of the others have to shut down as well. It’s moving to DAB+ only, it’s a big pain for older cars.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 1 month ago:
If you divide an inequality by a negative number you have to flip the sign.
If you want to divide out the g before knowing if it’s positive or negative you need to make the case distinction.
If you make the case distinction and one branch results in a false statement (5 < 2 in this case), you have disproven the original inequality, or at least discovered a constraint on the original inequality. Then you arrive back at FooBarrington’s statement :-)