Luc

You mention 150€/day in the comment thread. I’m struggling to think where in the world you couldn’t stay on that budget if you spend some time looking for cheaper accommodation (hostel or something like airbnb) and mind a bit where you eat. Australia seems (per Wikipedia) to have the highest minimum wage at 18$/hour, ×8h to € comes to 127€/day. Sure, temporary accommodation costs like five times more than more permanent places, but in terms of food and transport you can pretty much do whatever the locals do so that, on the whole, you should be able to meet that budget pretty much anywhere

In Europe, Iceland might be the only place where you’d really have to plan ahead to get to an average of 150€/day as tourist. It’s Europe’s most sparsely populated country and lots of things need to be imported, making essentials like food expensive and accommodation options few and far between. If you don’t want to drive a long distance every day (outside of the wider Reykjavík area at least) you’ll easily spend three quarters of that daily budget on accommodation, and with food being expensive even in supermarkets and needing a rental car to get anywhere, you’ll exceed the budget on a lot of the days

So that’s challenge mode! I’m curious what values people who tried to cheapskate Iceland get to. We were at 290€/day for 2 persons. That’s including the rental car, eating out most days (not at expensive places necessarily, but sometimes simply the only place), and we booked reasonably priced but not always the cheapest option for accommodation. This price excludes costs of attractions like the lava show, boat tour, swimming pool, etc.—the country is plenty beautiful to travel to without needing those necessarily, though I’d recommend all of the above. This amount is for 2 persons, but the car and rooms don’t scale much when you’re alone so a per-person cost price wouldn’t be fair

Before you buy the other plug standard for your place, please check legislation and insurance terms. It may affect liability if you install a nonstandard plug

Most devices I have are compatible with both, perhaps because Netherlands and Belgium are similar markets (because Flanders) and Belgium uses French plugs, so loads of products made for the Dutch-Belgian market will be compatible with both plug types. The only product I own that isn’t French-compatible is from Germany, not sure if that’s an exception or the norm there, but I guess what I’m trying to say is that it might also simply not matter which one you install since it’s easy and common to make universal plugs for these two socket types

The cross-section between high volume and easy to make

• Vegan replacement products? Easier to make than animals, but low volume so it’s more expensive than it needs to be (and often in a higher tax bracket, classified as candy or whatever)
• Eggs? Needs healthy animals
• Bananas are clones of each other. Might become an issue at some point, might not. Apples, too, but there’s many more variants
• Maize, tomatoes, potatoes? Grown by the bazillion, cheap, afaik needn’t be clones of each other to get (something close enough to) the desired product
• Rice? The pre-boiled stuff is afaik around the same price as the raw product, that’s how large the volumes are

Just as a small note just in case, since this data is quite irreplaceable: raid isn’t backup. Especially if the drives are of the same model, they’re fairly likely to fail at the same time. Speaking from experience sadly

I use restic for off-site backups, hosted with a friend

Eyeing the replies, does not one other person here get results constantly flooded with content farms? They’ve gotten significantly worse

But then, I don’t use Google so maybe this is still better than Google Search?

It started maybe three years ago, around the same time as LLMs became usable for this, but I’m pretty sure >50% are human-written still. Probably the LLM generates the structure (saves any time they’d have to spend coming up with plausible-sounding texts) and someone from a low-income country is contracted to make it look more legit

Of course, queries for topics that have a Wikipedia page get Wikipedia first, recipes get tons of big-name recipe sites, products get stores. But when there’s no obvious market around a topic, 3~4 out of 5 results are content farms pretending to have useful information to show unwary visitors ads

(As an alternative, I still have to try Kagi properly. It seemed on par with DDG when I did a few searches last year, but then their payment processor refused me trying to load my account, support was unhelpful, and I’ve gotten sidetracked since)

OpenStreetMap contributor here. What address format isn’t supported? Maybe I can help

Tried OpenStreetMap? Quality varies by country though

The fictional version of it is apparently named after soy and lent (the religious fasting thing, I guess), TIL. But the real-world version literally has meal replacement in the Wikipedia page title. Was looking for a reference from the creator stating their goal but Wikipedia said unreferenced (at the time that I wrote the Dutch translation in 2014) that it’s supposed to be nutritionally complete. The English page was shortened considerably since then, dunno why but this part is gone. That’s how it started and was marketed though, so that’s what makes it that by definition in my mind. If they’ve strayed from their raison d’être, idk what they are anymore

The definition of soylent is that it contains all nutrients you need. What’s the multivitamin pill for?

Well don’t leave us hanging