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How annoying are mouse clicks on an air plane
It is annoying, I recently annoyed the hell out of a fellow passenger, he was kind enough to request to change his seat in a polite way and that's when I noticed. I was totally unaware of the fact ...
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Traveling with medical equipment in checked baggage
First, if it fits in or as a carry-on and you can manage it, I highly recommend you keep it with you. Many airlines will offer a carry-on limit exemption for medical devices though you may have to ...
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What are these holes for on this European travel adaptor?
Those circled holes will be for various plug style's grounds, however --
That is not a standard socket.
That is entirely an invention of the Chinese junk sellers.
It has not been approved by any ...
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What are these holes for on this European travel adaptor?
All the middle holes are there for accepting various types of ground (earth) pins.
Specifically, the top two holes are there for British plugs (BS 546, BS 1363), while the bottom two are there for ...
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Is LifeStraw a silver bullet water purification solution for travelling in India?
No.
Physical filters using pores with 0.2 µm (microfiltration) cannot
remove heavy metal contamination (lead, mercury). This is possible with
ion exchangers, distillation and nanofilters (see below)....
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What happens if you bring a pocket knife to Europa Park?
Posted from comments as asked.
I made a similar mistake at tourist attractions in the past when I forgot mine was in my bag, I had it confiscated from me and it was apparently disposed of. I asked ...
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Is LifeStraw a silver bullet water purification solution for travelling in India?
To add to Thorsten's excellent and quite accurate answer:
No, it takes quite a lot more than that to create perfectly safe water. For example, here's my Indian water purification system. I know it's ...
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How do I reset the TSA-unlocked indicator on my lock?
The Swissgear TSA lock instruction manual has some guidance on how to reset the red indicator:
To reset & hide the red indicator:
To return the red color indicator back to its original ...
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What happens if you bring a pocket knife to Europa Park?
It looks like you won't be allowed in to the park with a knife, and if you try to do so then it may be confiscated by park security and / or you'll be ejected from the park.
The list of prohibited ...
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How annoying are mouse clicks on an air plane
While as others have rightly pointed out it may depend on your hardware and your neighbors, I think it's also worth noting it will depend on the game.
If you're playing a high-intensity first-person ...
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Traveling with medical equipment in checked baggage
I quite often fly with a CPAP machine in my checked luggage (and less often as carry-on), and I've never had a problem with it. I will be doing so later today, and don't anticipate any problems (...
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How much electronics and other valuables can I bring duty-free when going to India?
It seems the rules were revised amended and corrected to come into effect from 1st April 2016 and the following combines these changes (but may have been changed since):
Baggage Rules, 2016 [...
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Are there advantages to a dedicated GPS?
Disadvantages of cell phone GPS services:
They rely heavily on cell phone and wifi access points for the initial fix.
They are only as good as the maps on them; see for instance google maps vs. apple ...
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Are there bags for shower stuff?
Yes, bags are sold specifically for this purpose. Features may include:
being waterproof
having lots of compartments to hold many small bottles (or one compartment with various elastics and such to ...
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Is there a bag I can use to safely carry my passport and ID whilst travelling?
There are wallet-like holders specifically designed to keep your passport and some other cards (credit card, healthcare card etc)
They look like this and can be bought in just about any airport shop ...
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Are there advantages to a dedicated GPS?
My GPS works fine when I'm off the cell net. Around here that means highways other than the interstates. Every national park I have visited has at best been marginal for cell service, generally no ...
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What are these holes for on this European travel adaptor?
Your adapter is designed to acept a wide range of plug types, unfortunately this also tends to mean it accepts none of them well. The "for export only" label doesn't inspire confidence either. That ...
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Traveling with medical equipment in checked baggage
You need to be aware that you have a risk of about 2 to 3 in 1000 of a bag being lost or delayed. If not having the medical equipment for a few days would be a serious problem, that may be an ...
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Is LifeStraw a silver bullet water purification solution for travelling in India?
Thorsten has an excellent response re: the filtration failings of the lifestraw itself.
I would find sucking on the lifestraw for all drinking water tiring. When I visited rural China, I used a tiny,...
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Is there a power adapter that works for all plug type pairs (A to O)?
Electrical sockets and plugs have more attributes than just the arrangement of pins, the distances between them, pin length and pin form. The different types of sockets and plugs are not only commonly ...
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How annoying are mouse clicks on an air plane
That depends on the plane, the neighbors and the mouse. Some ideas:
https://thepointsguy.com/news/quietest-aircraft-in-the-sky/ gives some measurements of airplane cabine noise level, which you ...
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How to keep track of all things you are carrying in the luggage and where they are?
I use a combination of packing cubes, amenity kits I get for free from airlines, and cheap little zippered bags that get sold as pencil cases, makeup kits etc (the dollar store has lots of sizes.) I ...
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Tent in hand luggage?
I don't have any official source, but a rather extensive experience because I've done this many times to many destinations, mainly in Europe. I've never encountered a single issue.
Before doing it ...
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Utili-key "knife" and airport inspection?
I've had my UtiliKey for over 10 years. I keep in my carry-on bag with my keys. It has been all over Asia, parts of Africa and the USA. Today, Narita Security found it and declared it illegal. ...
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Is there a powerstrip that accomodates most if not all AC power plugs?
Any multi standard socket is unlikely to properly comply with the standards for most of the plug types it accepts. In particular it's unlikely to comply with the standards of the country it's sold in ...
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How can I travel with a double bass?
This is obviously too late for the OP, but it may be useful to others:
On Acela, there is room in the café car for a double bass to stand upright since the Acela café car has no overhead storage and ...
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Does night-driving-friendly, polarized eye-wear exist?
As Flimzy explains in the comments, polarised lenses won't currently help. They reduce glare specifically from sunlight that has been polarised by atmospheric conditions and (typically) by reflecting ...
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Is there a power adapter that works for all plug type pairs (A to O)?
I am aware of one such adapter, called Adapter 1, by an American company called MOGICS. Unfortunately it only accepts US plugs:
Otherwise there are plenty of plug adapter kits on Amazon:
It's quite ...
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