Genelec is a Finnish company that manufactures high quality loudspeakers that are used by music studios, radio stations, orchestras, etc. around the world. Their home speakers are active (no need for a separate amplifier), quite compact and the subwoofers support 5.1 audio. Genelec's speakers aren't exactly cheap, but they're definitely a good alternative.
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In that case you might be interested of his book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
He also writes non-fiction. You might be familiar with the term "enshittification". He is the author who coined that term.
Cory Doctorow sells his books DRM-free (e-book and audiobook) on his webpage. Some of them are even pay-what-you-want.
It certainly helps a lot, but webpages often have content from more than one domain. And some ISP provided DNS servers can be slow. Using an ad blocker probably helps more than changing your DNS, but you might still want to make sure your DNS is speedy enough.
One other thing what DNS service affects is how quickly webpages loads, especially nowadays when every webpage is full of advertisements. For example, if you try to load a webpage that consists of files on 10 different servers, your computer needs to send 10 DNS queries. If these queries happen sequentially (one query has to resolve, before the next is sent), and if each query takes 1 second, it would take at least 10 seconds for that page to load. If those queries instead resolve in 0.1 second each, that same page would load in about 1 second. GRC Domain Name Speed Benchmark is popular benchmarking tool for testing how fast your DNS service is.
Tuolta voi myös ettiä sovelluksia eri alustoille: https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Huomasin oudon bugin tuossa sivustossa. Jos siinä valikoi iOS-sovellukset, niin se näyttää kyllä useamman sovelluksen, mutta Mlem puuttuu listasta. Mlem kuitenkin näkyy, jos tutkii kaikkien alustojen sovelluksia. Eli ne filtterit ei välttämättä toimi täysin luotettavasti.
Ja tästä yhteisöstä saattaa olla apua: !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
E: Tällainenkin sivusto on olemassa: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
In Nordic countries there is MobilePay. I think in Norway they already have NFC payment. NFC payment should be coming to Finland later this year. It's already possible to pay in stores with MobilePay over Bluetooth, but it's a bit of a hassle compared to Google Pay/Apple Pay. MobilePay can be used to pay in online stores that support it, and you can also send and receive money from other people.
Also available in Finland in some grocery stores.
Loops are great. I use the Quiet 2 Plus for sleeping. They are easy to insert and take out, and because they are made of only soft materials they don’t press your ears. Seems they now have Loop Dream for that purpose. I guess I just found out which earplugs I should buy when I need to replace my current ones. Previously I used Happy Ears Earplugs (Swedish company), but they have a short stick made out of plastic which makes them somewhat uncomfortable.
Oxygenol is Finnish brand of oral care products.