Was wondering if anyone was going to chime in about still having this old Kindle. I still have mine and use it daily. Battery lasts 3 weeks as long as the wifi is off and the free 3G still works too. Purchased it in July 2011. I also want a new e-reader but I also want to see how long I can keep this thing going.
Just listened to the first couple tracks of the Complete Spanish course and it reminds me a lot of the Michel Thomas Method audio course [1], which I couldn't recommend highly enough.
No, it's not!
When you surf, you get used to punching through the surface and then holding your breath and dealing with the water movement.
You have to consciously remind yourself to not do the equivalent of going head first through the face of the wave or stretching out your toes when bailing of the board.
Another low-tech thing I have done to protect myself is I have physically cut the numbers off my cards with scissors. My name and expiration date are still there. This way when I pay at a restaurant in the US and the card is out of my sight I don't worry about someone writing down the card details. So far not a single business has refused me when I hand them my modified card with the numbers cut off.
Although you will be out of luck in the very rare situations where the merchant has to fall all the way back to a completely offline transaction on paper. Usually they use a little plastic roller device that impresses the number onto carbon paper to reduce errors, which is why they were embossed rather than printed in the first place.
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Flutter/Dart, C, C#, Python, JS
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w3JjRIcIO6mDV5pIgc8ASJj3jXNGLkIo/view?usp=sharing
Email: timo.555@icloud.com
Hey everyone. I want to say upfront that I'm looking for a place that would be open to a 3 days/week schedule.
I'm a software engineer based in Santa Rosa, CA. I have 10 years of experience using a variety of technologies across the development stack. I love learning new things so if you have something in mind that doesn't exactly fit my experience and there is a little room for some ramp-up time I would especially be interested (would love to work with Rust or Go). The most interesting thing I've worked on lately is I developed from the ground up a UI system for an electric car using OpenGL with bindings to Swift which runs on an embedded Linux device.
I'm looking to bring my experience and skills to a new project. Please reach out if you would like to chat.
I would venture that many owners are willing to rent direct and save the airBnB fees if they can meet you in person.
I've been living in Spain for the last couple of years with normal 1 year leases. This year however I didn't know if I would be able to commit to another year so I started looking for multi-month AirBnB rentals. My current 1 year lease is 920€/month (with utilities about 1000€) for a furnished 2 bedroom apartment with a great view of the beach. All of the AirBnB's I was looking at even with the ~50% monthly discount were showing around 1700€/month. I picked 3 I liked and messaged them through AirBnB that I was living in the area and I would like to check out the apartment in person but I can only afford 900€/month. All 3 replied to me with counter offers between 1100€ and 1300€. I picked the one I liked best, met it person, and we agreed on 1000€/month for a 3.5 month lease including all utilities. We signed a lease contract on the side and both avoided the fees.
AirBnB is great for booking a place when you are not in the city but I think you can get much better deals if you know the local market and are able to meet the landlords face to face.
TLDR: If I was going to look for a place for 3-4 months I would book the first month through AirBnB then apartment hunt in person in the target city for the remaining months at a steep discount.
