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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Some surely know, they just don’t care.

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

Rules for thee…

The condition of being a billionaire is pathological, and should be dealt with in an appropriate way to pathology.

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

TIL

The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism.

This isn’t such a bad thing, by itself. For one, Japan’s entirely beholden to the American tech giants for its tech sector and really should start its own buildout.

I have had the same idea. Photovoltaic cells are sadly all quite stiff and/or fragile …

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

Corporations are run like autocracies, too, so there’s some irony in that.

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Sleep is my go to when I’m tired!

Speaking grammatically without using any slang or jargon will get you most of the way there, I think!

Code reviews take up a lot of time, and if I know a lot of code in a review is AI generated I feel like I’m obliged to go through it with greater rigour, making it take up more time. LLM code is unaware of fundamental things such as quirks due to tech debt and existing conventions. It’s not great.

My four year old low-end test device running Android had its assistant switched out from Google Assistant to Gemini. I was very surprised since I’d assumed that the vendor had stopped supporting it since it was so cheap, but it updated anyway.

Why are you being downvoted for this? In stock devices the user has no way to even start looking at what is being run. All you can do is trust the manufacturer.