And everyone is trying to muddle through, including your heroes. I think it's good to keep this in mind; both to avoid feeling inferior for not having your shit figured out (because nobody has) and to be tolerant of people making mistakes – nobody's perfect and everyone has issues besides getting your order exactly right.
Be chill with yourself and with other people.
No, I misread ("do" instead of "make").
I went from something like 25k to something like 50k, which still wasn't impressive but okay for a junior-level dev. And vastly better than what I made before.
These days I'm somewhere north of 80k but monthly bonuses tied to company performance make it hard to give an accurate number off the top of my head. Depending on who you ask that's either above or below average for someone of my experience level.
Germany.
The minimum notice time scales with employment duration (if the company terminates the contact) or is four weeks (if the employee quits). However, the contact can state a longer period; this is often done to make the notice time symmetrical. The notice period for the employee can never exceed that for the company. Usually, contacts can only be terminated effective at the end of a month so that can extend things a bit further.
At-will employment is not a thing in Germany except for informal arrangement like paying the neighbor's kid to mow the lawn. Even during the trial period (a period of typically six months at the start of an employment where firing the employee is much easier) two weeks are the absolute minimum.
I've changed jobs since then; these days I still do software but in the financial sector (which is a highly annoying sector since the problem domain is complex and unintuitive).
Back then I did almost triple my salary (more like x 2.5 but it routine taken triple pay to get me to stay) but that's more reflective of how terribly the old job paid.
I used to work as a cheapo part-time-on-paper software developer to pay for university. All devs in the company were student workers and the quality of the work reflected that. That clown show of a job actually took so much of my energy and attention that it delayed my thesis by two years. Yikes.
My boss was straight up delusional. Among his many bizarre ideas was the assumption that I'd stay on for about nine months after my graduation, obviously for the absurdly low pay I was making as a student. That arrangement would've worked out very well for him so he assumed I'd be all for it.
Unfortunately for him, I was already working out the terms of my employment with another company. On the other side of the country. Who actually employed real full-time devs for real market-rate pay. There was no chance I'd stay on for longer than necessary.
So I hand-delivered my written resignation, effective in two months – that being the legal minimum notice period based on my employment duration at the time. Boy, was he upset. He thought we had an agreement (that I never agreed to) and that I'd take as much time as needed to finish up that major project we'd recently started (because clearly that's a reason to work for pennies).
Hell no. I did tell him I'd reconsider... if he beat the other company's offer. That would've meant a 200% pay rise. Suddenly he was much more amenable to my leaving.
That's probably where I'd plan for a later twist where the GMPC was actually the BBEG at one point but got replaced by the current, more ruthless BBEG. There'd be a whole succession of people of varying evilness sharing the same name and title. Kind of like a Dread Pirate Roberts situation.
I remember a one-shot that had a twist like that - followed by the twist of the recently disarmed fighter removing his armored gauntlets, pointing at the traitor, and casting the system's equivalent of Magic Missile. As he pulled his magic sheet out of his pocket he explained that he'd just been a misleadingly strong and well-armored wizard all along but hadn't told anyone but the GM.
That was a fun little moment.
Assuming they have the skill and physical ability to build a house and you have enough empty lots, permits, EOD surveys where necessary...
Some of these people could help build houses but they certainly can't replace people who know what they're doing. I'm not going to put someone in a house where the foundation or wiring were done by someone whose expertise amounts to watching a YouTube video.
And yeah, availability of lots is a major issue, as is funding. Not something you can fix by making homeless people help out.
We need to fix the housing market and provide more cheap options for low income tenants. Public housing is one such option. Still, we need to address the root problem. When square meter prices keep rising faster than wages do, people will keep getting priced out of their homes.
And that's it: There's simply no competition at the same level of quality. Sure, there's other chat services but none that also offer effortless voice with good noise rejection, screen sharing, media sharing, all at no extra effort and available for free. (I am aware that the latter is dependent on Discord being relatively early in a lifecycle that will invariably end in massive enshittification.)
Features like threads aren't super important to the users but being able to just conjure up a highly scalable chat community with built-in streaming support is. And yes, the network effect plays a major role as well.
I'm am member of a server that is currently evaluating jumping ship because the looming IPO promises swift enshittification like with all other social media companies. But we're also aware that moving to any other service means that new users are less likely to show up – many people already have Discord but few are willing to install a client for something they've never heard of like Matrix.
How about some weird ancient ones?
They're as much not to everyone's taste as the shows themselves but I love all of the HaréGuu openings. The original's a bop, Deluxe continues this while adding a spoken-word section the singer can barely keep up with, and Final is the best of the bunch. HaréGuu Deluxe also has a neat showtune-y ending.
I also think that Nerima Daikon Brothers has a great opening; it very much fits with the main characters being dollar store Blues Brothers.
If you want something that oozes cool, I can recommend the original Hellsing. A World Without Logos is an extremely stylish song as long as you don't mind completely incomprehensible lyrics. (The song sounds as if it's in English but is really just onomatopoeia. Basically Prisencolinensinainciusol in menacing.)
GUI disk space analyzers are absolutely amazing.
For those who prefer KDE and/or donut graphs, Filelight has you covered.
Well, that heavily depends upon factors like what kind of lifestyle you're living. For example, I save a shitload of money by not needing a car.
In general I'd say that someone who lives in my town and makes roughly what I do could save 1k to 2k per month depending on how much discretionary spending they want to be able to do. Possibly more if they're very frugal.
In case we're comparing to the USA here, Germany has lower wages and higher taxes but a lot of stuff is way cheaper, especially education and healthcare. My health insurance premium can't exceed 14.6% of my income, deductibles don't exist, and most procedures are fully covered – for instance, when I went to a hospital for surgery and stayed for four days, my total bill was 40 €.