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I'll be going to Jamaica for the first time, and I'll stay in Negril, the West End, around 10 minutes by car to the beach. The owner of the place I'll be staying said he can recommend me a reliable driver to drive me around to the beach, etc.

But let's say something happens and he can't pick us up. Since there is no Uber, is it easy to find a taxi at any time, say, at 7am to drive us to the beach, or at 1am to drive us from the beach to the west end? Is it safe? Should we get a SIM card so that we can call a reputable taxi company, for example? (I was planning to only use data, no voice, while there).

Thanks!

Now that Scotiabank cancelled property taxes' 4% reward, what is the best way to pay for property taxes?

Is it really using Wealthsimple 2% card and getting a paltry 0.25% on it?

Please, let's not be political. We all have opinions, but I'm just trying to get practical, helpful advice from people familiar with US immigration procedures.

Background: I am South American with a South American passport. I am a permanent resident of Canada, and I have a valid US tourism visa. I've successfully travelled to the US several times for tourism in the past 7 years. I have no criminal record or legal issues, not even a speeding ticket, in either country.

Recently, I haven't travelled to the US and I haven't done any travelling that would have a layover through the US, and I'm considering a Caribbean vacation where the only reasonable flight options involve a US layover.

My questions are:
A. What is the practical risk for me to travel to the Caribbean with a layover in the US? Meaning, is there any chance I could be randomly detained even without any obvious reasons?

B. When travelling out of Canada, for some airports, US customs is done while in Canada. Is the same true for certain Caribbean countries when returning to Canada through the US? And if so, which countries? For example, if I go to the Bahamas, I'll go through US customs checks while still in Canada, then go to the US, get off the plane, board the other plane, go to Bahamas. Then on the way back, will I go through US customs while still on the Bahamas, or in the US?

I'm asking this last question because I think (but I could be wrong) that being in another country reduces the chance of being randomly detained. Would that actually help?

PS - I know airport security screening is done in the US regardless
PPS - From where I'm departing, no direct flights to some Caribbean countries exist - all flights seem to go through the US.

Meu filho enviou um pacote pequeno pra mim (um carregador de notebook) do exterior, mas ele não sabia que era preciso colocar o meu CPF na encomenda. E ele enviou sem rastreamento.

Isso foi no final de março, e até agora não recebi a encomenda. Acredito que seja porque não esteja vinnculado ao meu CPF.

No portal "Minhas Importações" dos correios, eu não consigo vincular o objeto porque não há rastreamento.

Existe alguma forma de tentar reaver a encomenda, talvez pedindo à receita ou aos correios para buscarem pelo meu endereço, algo assim, ou posso dar como perdida?

Obrigado!

Hey everyone, I have a house in Canada that was built in 1998, and it has one of those central vacuum systems.

Took me a while to even understand what it was, coming from a country where that is very uncommon. So now I wonder if that's a sort of outdated relic, and I'm better off with a budget regular vacuum, or if those are still useful and better (more powerful) than normal vacuums?

Hey everyone. Currently I have a 2.1 system:

• Wiim Ultra Amp
• 2x passive kanto 5.25 speakers
• Kanto sub 8

I wanted to expand to 5.1 with minimal hassle, so would it be possible to add:

• Wiim soundbar
• 2x Wiim sound lites

And have the passive speakers as L+R channels, soundbar as Center, and Sound Lites as Rear channels, all controlled by the Wiim Ultra Amp?

Thanks!

Hey everyone, I know that the JBL Authentics 500 couldn't be paired in stereo at launch - is this still true, or has JBL updated the app to allow this? Seems such a missed oportunity!

Hey everyone, I switched from Spotify to Tidal this week, and like I said in anothe post, I'm enjoying the experience overall. I just have one other minor gripe - volume control in iOS.

iOS is pretty terrible in this regard, in the sense that there is no way for the user to fine tune which volume is being controlled - it's context dependent. So when I'm on Spotify and I press volume up, most of the time a volume slider from the Spotify App itself shows up, and then with it I can control the volume of my device that's using spotify connect.

With Tidal, that doesn't happen, and sometimes I raise the volume of the device, but sometimes I raise the volume of the iPhone itself. I have to keep moving around the app, clicking the volume button, until somehow it starts working.

Is there a better way to do that? It would be great to have a dedicated app or widget to control Tidal Connect volume.

Hey everyone, I switched from Spotify to Tidal this week. I'm enjoying the app for the most part, except one annoyance I'm having: on my iPhone in iOS 26, when using Tidal Connect with my devices, the "Now Playing" widget ramdonly appears or disappears. So when I want to quickly skip a track, I have to tap the iphone, unlock it, find and open the Tidal app, and then tap on the "Next" button.

Whereas with Spotify I tap the iPhone, which displays the Now Playing widget in the lock screen, and then I just tap "next".

Is there something I can do to fix that? Or this is something within the app itself that needs to be fixed?

Hey everyone! So I've recently subscribed to Tidal just out of curiosity, to test the Dolby Atmos feature on my JBL Authentics 500. I was sure that I wouldn't notice anything with such a standard equipment, but even my girlfriend, when listening blindly (I didn't tell her it was two different streaming services), noticed the difference in audio between Tidal and Spotify.

So now I want to test if I can notice a difference between listening Spotify with my Airpods Pro 2, and listening Tidal with a wired headphone + simple DAC on my iPhone 17 pro.

For the headphone, what would you suggest? I was thinking of something along the lines of $200, maybe up to $300.

And for the DAC, at least at first, I was thinking of nothing fancy, maybe even the standard Apple headphone dongle. Would that be good enought? If not, what would you suggest, as a cheap DAC?

Hi there! I'm looking for two, maybe up to three bluetooth or wifi speakers that I want to use in my patio for outdoor listening. I want to pair them in mono, so that each speaker will output the exact same music.

I'd rather buy wifi speakers, but they can be quite a bit more expensive than regular bluetooth speakers, so bluetooth is fine too.

For comparison, I have an old Bose Revolve Plus that I find quite good. I would buy another one, but I can't find them for sale in my area.

I was thinking of something like the Anker Soundcore speakers, which models are comparable (or better) than the Bose Revolve Plus?

Or any recommendations around the same price of a comparable Anker Soundcore speakers.

Thanks!!