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The author isn't Swedish. I've known him for 18 years. Not sure where this comes from.

His name is Swedish or it could be Norwegian.

Anyway, did he contact Apple to see if they could help him out? Because sometimes Apple fixes these things for free.

I've had very good and very bad experiences with Apple support for hardware failures. It's worth trying to contact them, instead of calling for more government regulation.


He went through the Apple Icon -> "About This Mac" -> "More Info" -> Coverage Expired Details Button -> Clicked the Get Support button and ended up in an infinite loop of questions on the Apple website if I recall correctly.

Not great support on Apples side there.


That's not the point where you give up. That's the point where you call or e-mail the company to talk to a human.

Hence my comment about defeatism. Sometimes you have to push a little bit before giving up and crying for the government to come help you. Big companies aren't unbending stone statues.


Which ever you can get from Dexcom or Abbott. They're pretty good all of them.

Dexcom Stelo is probably the easiest to get a hold of, and the one talked about in the article too.


Some people do have a lot of issues with the adhesive and skin reactions. I am lucky and don't have that.

I use an Anubis, a modified Dexcom G6, (https://www.loopandlearn.org/anubis/), which allows up to 60 days of wear. Although realistically I've never gone over 25 days. This is with adding over patches as the adhesive starts to fail though. The one I'm wearing right now is on day 18 and still doing great.

After day 10-12 I also start to do daily checks with a blood glucose meter to verify that the readings from the CGM are still correct.


Living in northern Sweden I see the northern lights multiple times a year. I have never seen them pale or otherwise not colorful. Green and reds always. That is to my naked eye. Photographs do look more saturated, but the difference isn't as large as this comment thread make it out to be.


Even in Northern Scotland (further south than northern Sweden) this is the case. The latest aurora showing was vividly colourful to the naked eye.


That mirrors my experience from when I used to live in northern Canada


Even in Upper Michigan near Lake Superior we sometimes had stunn, colorful Northern Lights. Sometimes it seemed like they were flying overhead within your grasp


Most definitely, it's quite common to find people hanging around outside up towards Calumet whenever there's a night with a high KP Index.

I highly recommend checking them out if you're nearby, the recent auoras have been quite astonishing


I'm in Australia where the southern lights are known to be not as intense as northern lights. That's where my remark comes from. Those who have never seen the aurora with their own eyes may like to see an accurate photo. A rare find among the collective celebration of saturation.


In the upper peninsula of michigan I have only seen grey.


That is the same latitude as Paris though, not very north at all.


Couldn't that be fixed by having contributors creating a specifically named repo with the address in a file? Still opt in. It could be opt in for the maintainer too, following jchrisa's suggestion, meaning the maintainer could veto payments.


Nope, the author explains that in a blog post here: http://mts.io/2014/05/07/spotify-pricing-index/


Actually I'm danish, but the exact same problem applies. My bad :)


No worries, I was actually referring to the automagically translated article. :)

Google can't really know which is which, so the article seems to use a mix of both english words in different places, which ends up being a little confusing/inconsistent.

Security is one of my interests and I work with people who have been in the safety industry, so sometimes we have our little linguistic bouts. :)


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