there's always armikrog
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there haven't been card fees for end users in Sweden for many years. handling cash is a lot more expensive since you need somewhere secure to keep change, you loose time at the till handling the money, and you need to pay for someone to come pick it up. the time gained from just having the customers pay with card means businesses gladly swallow the fees.
and yes, i'm always surprised when going abroad how much more analog everything is. the nordics and Baltic's are generally at about the same level (with Estonia way ahead), but the rest of the continent feels like it's 10 years behind. I was once asked if I really wanted to pay with card in a corner shop in Leipzig, since the card fee was €10.
not that i'm a fan of the digitalisation, it makes marginalised groups even more marginalised. i see my elderly relatives struggling with it often.
i got an interview as an embedded software engineer for a company that makes wireless camera flashes. high-precision real-time programming. i wanted to dive further into that area.
the first task was... reading comprehension, basic arithmetic, and pattern matching. i was flabbergasted. i wrote a really negative passage in their feedback form about how they apparently don't trust their engineering candidates to be able to read, and how those pattern matching iq tests are bullshit since you can up your score by like 20% if you practice.
they called me back and explained that the reason they have everyone from cleaning staff to C-level take the standardized test is to create a workplace of "objective equality". also they were really confused about my stance on the test because apparently i had scored in the top 5%. that's the fastest i've ever noped out of an interview process.
originally? a paid product. now? crypto!
on the internet everything is true. therefore if you don't preface your thoughts with "CW: opinion" your writing permanently alters reality and people will be angry at you for inconveniencing them.
imho.
jellyfin is a streaming server. get yourself a domain name and you can connect your apps to it from anywhere.
it's less about the details and more about the entirety of the experience for me.
one thing i know it does from GitHub issues is it changes the names of files you download to make them "clearer", which breaks some tools for flashing firmware and lead to a spike of reports.
onion soup is real fuckin good though
Elite 2: Frontier.
elite dangerous is very close but it doesn't really capture the seamlessness you get from not having a landing mode or frame shifting. pioneer spaceship sim is a remake in the truest sense of the word, but a remaster would fix the ui issues the original had rather than just rolling with them.