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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's a shame it failed and there are no real cheap netbooks anymore (aside from Chromebooks). I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a student (to research jobs and conferences) - and it was amazing being able to
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's well known that the CIA has spied on European industry to benefit their own (e.g. Boeing over Airbus) - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32542140 And on European leaders - https://www.reuters.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Also there a _lot_ of different cities and municipalities in Europe. And when it succeeds you don't usually hear about it. Like when I worked at an MPI in Germany, all the machines used Ubuntu. In Catalonia, most of the universities al
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by nivenkos 5y ago
That's less of an issue though as it's a bit easier to migrate. If everything were already on Linux, then switching cloud providers is much simpler than switching the desktop systems themselves. Also from my own enterprise experie
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I'd recommend Arch Linux for developers. It takes a little bit of set-up / learning at the start. But you can easily try it out with a tool like ALMA - https://github.com/r-darwish/alma See my preset files he
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Especially in contrast to the current digital colonialism. US Big Tech companies pay almost no corporation taxes in the EU (and if they do, only in Ireland / Luxembourg), and compete and buy out European companies, shipping the high-pa
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I've used Linux full-time at home for 10 years, and now at work (in an enterprise). For the most part, it works well and doesn't require a whole lot more support. The LTT video hit one specific packaging bug in PopOS that was pres
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Now switch to Linux too. The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I see this sentiment a lot, but it's always worked perfectly for me. The device connection is very impressive, and it even supports MPRIS on Linux. I find it even easier to use than Netflix (and there's no DRM limitations like Net
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's monochrome though right? I can't imagine using a monochrome computer screen nowadays.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
They've always been a fraudulent company. They lied when they licensed QDOS to use as the foundation of Windows, hiding the fact that they were working with IBM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS#Creation_of_PC_
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by nivenkos 5y ago
EU should really just start prohibiting Microsoft from public procurement and education.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
In Spanish at least, Christian usually refers to evangelical.
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This was the whole issue though. I closed my bank account and moved country, and they delayed cancelling it and then chased me up on one month's payments for years - when I had no easy way of making payments in Germany. In the end I pa
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I've always had it included in the BRF or rental agreement. Only 28 Mb/s mind...
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by nivenkos 5y ago
This was 10 years ago, it definitely wasn't possible by phone call back then. Hopefully it'll get better. I also had a terrible experience with Vodafone in the UK, charging the higher rates for data usage with no warning.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, I live in Sweden now too. I think Sweden is the exception here really though (and the other Scandinavian countries, and possibly the UK).
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by nivenkos 5y ago
From nuclear power, to card payments, to online shopping - Germany is extremely conservative with regards to modern technology.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's not, because there's no real receipt confirmation. They ended up chasing me for 3 years over 20 euros when I moved to the UK. At least here in Sweden, credit checks aren't really a thing thankfully.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's just as bad in Europe! Signed up to O2 Deutschland - had to send a fax or send a physical letter to cancel.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
> such as European-style mixed-use. Property prices in Europe are even higher than the US though (per m2).
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by nivenkos 5y ago
What does this have to do with ethnicity?
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, but the neoliberal governments have opted for mass immigration to suppress wages and maintain property prices. Here in Sweden the population has increased by almost 30% in the last 15 years. Similar story in the UK (but a smaller prop
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by nivenkos 5y ago
In my experience, it's bullshit. The author must be conflating staff positions with "senior". I was paid 75k as an L5 engineer at Amazon, that's like intermediate senior (two levels down from Staff). So maybe one level u
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Even FAANG pays shit in Europe. I was paid 75k at Amazon. Europe is designed for the landed aristocracy, not working people.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I support universal healthcare, free life-long education and universal paid leave. I don't support inviting 3 million refugees (to a nation of only 11 million people at the time) when we have no spare housing, or being forced to fund o
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, but even considering that, the gross salaries are still much lower. Taxes are too high (on income), and wages are too low.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, the first-hand contracts system is a disaster atm. But note that waiting time only applies to first-hand contracts. You can still rent second-hand. The idea would be to build much more, and buy up the former second-hand places.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I agree it's a hassle, but at least it does help provide some exercise. It's no wonder the US has such a high obesity and diabetes rate, with a sedentary society like that.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, but the salaries are much, much lower. SF: ~$167k USD p.a. - https://www.builtinsf.com/salaries/dev-engineer/software-eng... Stockholm: 45k SEK per month = ~$63k USD p.a. - https://www.glassdoor.c

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