[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

A USB DVD Reader/Writer costs 15 bucks. (I'm too used feel like that meme, and then at some point I needed to find a way to get a Mini-PC to read CDs, and as it turns out it's quite simple - I reckon it was more a case of "can't be arsed to do it" than a case of "can't do it").

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, since I will also browse Lemmy quite literally "at Work" it makes sense to check the Profile option that blurs the Not Suitable For Work stuff even if having the Show NSFW content also ticked.

Explicitly going back and forth changing the option depending on where you're accessing Lemmy from is a recipe for mistakes, at best embarassing but, depending on where one works, which can go all the way up to being fired for cause.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It also depends on the sorting used under All.

In my instance you generally need to scroll a lot before finding NSFW stuff when sorting by Top for anything longer than Day.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ticking the option in user settings to "Show NSFW content" because of scientific curiosity...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You were supposed to have an antenna.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Real Life^TM^ is a Role-Playing Multiplayer Game with the best graphics resolution in the Industry.

Sadly, it suffers from severe game play balance problems, most notably that most of game play time is spent in boring tasks which should've been simplified into just the core gameplay element for a better gaming experience, plus it's heavy reliance on grinding, to the point that most players literally have to spend at least 8h per day in the game grinding merelly to not lose the game.

And don't get me started on it's Pay To Play elements.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To add to both your posts, a pretty good general rule is: don't confuse famous with knowledgeable.

The only knowledge they've proven is of "how to become known in a specific domain", which at least in social media is mainly about self-promotion (and more generally it's about grifter skills) rather than specific domain knowledge.

So yeah, the likes of Andrew Tate will do it by looking confident whilst telling tons of bullshit and plenty of female influencers will do it by looking good and showing some skin - they're good at self-promotion online but that doesn't mean they know shit about anything else.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It would be especially appropriate for a horse funeral were the animal was used to bring contraband over the Sierra Morena or was called Cielito Lindo

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not really in a bolt tightenning domain, but I have done technical interviews for a lot of devs including junior ones, and them asking all those questions about the task is something I would consider a very good thing.

At least in my domain the first step of doing a good job is figuring out exactly what needs to be done and in what conditions, so somebody who claims to have some experience who when faced with a somewhat open ended question like this just jumps into the How without first trying to figure out the details of the What is actually a bad sign (or they might just be nervous, so this by itself is not an absolute pass or fail thing).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well, the language is generally different, which is a big barrier to moving (though you can get away with just English in a most countries, but some stuff - often public services - is only in the local language). There is also a cultural element in that people behave and expect slightly different things in different countries, which can be a bit of an adjustment.

Even bigger than that is that most people aren't comfortable with big changes and tend to stick to their own country - at the very least the first big move takes a significant amount of courage.

Then if you have your own house with lots of stuff you have to arrange for the move, which will probably cost you maybe €1500 - €3000 depending on the distance and how much stuff you have.

And finally, in my experience no country is all good or all shit - they generally have some good things and some bad things. Also, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence until you move there, were after a while it's the grass on the other side of the fence that starts looking greener.

That said, some people - mainly the so-called Digital Nomads - do spend their life moving from country to country whilst working remotelly, which works especially well if you spend different Seasons in different places in Europe (some places are much better in the Summer and others in Winter). This is not new: I've met people whose life was working as Scuba Diver instructors in Summer in a country and as Ski Instructors in Winter in a different country.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

EU countries are allowed to, by Treaty, expel EU citizens who moved there without the means to live there or a job.

However it's incredibly rare and there really isn't any general procedure to do it: each country does it (or not) it's own way. This tends to be used for people caught sleeping or begging on the streets.

Further, for countries in the Schengen Area, they don't even know you're there unless you register, since you haven't passed any border controls and thus aren't in any database as having arrived but not departed.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've literally done that inside the EU, though to the UK (back before Brexit) rather than Germany - I flew to London and stayed about a month in a hotel whilst looking for a contract there (I'm a freelancer) and more permanent accommodation.

Years later I did the same to Germany, though I only stayed 3 months.

The only requirement is that you either have a job or have the money to pay for the costs of living there (so you can still go without a job, as long as you have the money to pay for a place to stay, food and so on). The reason for the requirement that you can pay your way (either from a job or savings) is because people can't just move to another EU country to do things like living on the street and begging or living of the local Social Security.

Some countries also have a requirement that you register after 3 months there (for example, Germany), though it's not any kind of applying to stay, it's simply registering as living there. This is usually because there are associated obligations for residents in that country, not just in terms were do you pay tax, but in some countries (for example, Germany and The Netherlands) there are things like mandatory health insurance.

In practice as an EU citizen, if you have the savings or the kind of job which you can do in 3 month stints or remotely, you absolutely can hop from country to country every 3 months without having to register with anybody (though I'm not sure how taxes would work - I suppose you would pay them in the last country you registered as a Resident).

If you know the language, if it weren't for taxes being per country and the rights and duties of Residents being different in different countries (such as the Mandatory Health Insurance for Residents in some countries but not others) hence the requirement to register after 3 months in some countries, the whole thing would be as easy as moving within your own country.

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