App alternatives for Europe AND South-East Asia - Lemmy.World

Given the recent news [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/] about Google’s hardening of sideloaded apps, I need to speed up my efforts to get rid of Google services. However, there are a few apps/infrastructures that I’m really struggling to find a replacement for, because I happen to be in a long distance relationship with my girlfriend and I often travel to South-East Asia. Banking Maybe the easier part is the banking: currently I use ING, Revolut and Wise. - ING is my main account that I trust. Employers in Germany sometimes require a German bank account, it’s not enough to simply have a German IBAN. For this, I’ve been thinking of N26. It seems like they have a full-featured web interface, so the app is probably not mandatory. Does anyone have any experience with them? - Revolut’s web interface is not complete, so I cannot use it in the future. - Wise does have a full-featured web interface, but I still need to experiment whether I can actually transfer many to Asian bank accounts. “Asian infrastructure” Now this is the real headache. In South-East Asian countries, people only know WhatsApp. It’s considered as a must-have. If anyone wants to contact you, it’s either WhatsApp or it’s not happening. And the other thing is Grab for an Uber-like service plus for food delivery, as well as groceries. Since in many of these countries it’s simply not an option to walk, this is an important app. I’d be interested in some insights from locals, how do they manage to live there without Grab and WhatsApp. Thanks in advance!

Help with regaining ability to focus and fight procrastination - Lemmy.World

I’m looking for book recommendations in the topics mentioned in title. I often find myself feeling down and not being able to accomplish anything, and the tendency has been increasing. I cannot even work on my hobby projects, because I’m just staring at the screen and my brain is not functioning, which leads to launching a game or watching YouTube videos and waste time. I cannot find the way out of this madness, and my last resort is to find some books that might help with my issue. I don’t wanna rely on search results on the internet, because I don’t trust random compilations of “read these 10 books to be productive”. Well, this is optional, but in case the book you recommend indeed helped you, I’d be curious how permanent the impact was for you, if that makes sense. I know mostly it depends on the person; it’s me who has to make the effort, not the book. But I’d be curious how easy it is for you to consistently maintain what you learned from the book. Regarding the format, it has to be in epub. And I’d very much prefer DRM-free books, price doesn’t matter. If the only good books are all DRM-enshittified, that sucks, but I’ll consider that too if I have no other choice. Thanks in advance if anyone can help with recommendations!

Where have you witnessed Scrum being used outside of the IT industry? - Lemmy.World

Scrum is an agile framework that, if applied properly, can boost the efficiency of teamwork. It is known to be versatile enough, so it could be applied in basically any sort of productive teamwork, even beyond IT (e.g. bakeries, government organizations, etc.) However, I’ve never ever seen it being used anywhere else other than in software development, therefore I’ve always been curious if Scrum is actually being used outside of IT somewhere.

The opposite of "product" must be "conduct". - Lemmy.world