Aus gutem gewissen musst du das auch nicht. Wenn du denkst, dass da in der Wohnung des Nachbars was brennt, du die Feuerwehr rufst, und es doch nur der Nachbar war der sein Essen verbrennt hat, musst du nicht zahlen. Wenn du aber extra den Nachbarn nerven willst und einfach mal sagst dass sein ganzes Haus lichterloh am brennen sei, wirst du dafür belangt.

By at some point saying ‘OK, enough side quests, let’s move on with the story’. I plan to replay this game multiple times, so I do not mind missing some side quests in my first playthrough.

See Heise for example, they have their own instance for their news posts. It’s great.

Australia is part of Oceania ;)

Yup. The only time I pirate a game nowadays is when I can’t get it on steam for the 2 hour refund as a demo.

Well yeah, that was my point.

Americans for some reason love this 'low low price of x$ (+tax +tip +service charge +fuck you charge) thing. Here in Switzerland, it’s all in the price. Menu says 40 bucks, you pay 40 bucks. Tips are very voluntary and usually just a “round up” -> total is 57 - let’s make it 60.

My wife works in a restaurant and gets around 3.7k a month - the tips she gets add up to around 300-700, depending on the month. In the store she works, tips get handled as a pool where everyone gets their monthly share depending on hours worked (serving staff and kitchen) - so total tips x person hours / total hours by everyone.

It’s still a low wage (I make around than double her wage, but then again I’m an electrical engineer), but it is very livable - I lived on a lower wage alone comfortably when I was studying and only working 50%

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What i meant is that, in a theoretical mathematically sound world, to support higher wages, you need higher prices. The service charge shouldn’t be put as a ‘bonus salary’ - basically the ‘service charge’ in most countries is included in the price of the food, and is paid out as the hourly wage to staff.

I mean, that’s basically the way it works. Here it’s just ‘transparent’.

Want to pay workers more - food gets more expensive. It’s the same thing with America not adding sales tax to the sticker price. When I get something for 2 bucks in Europe, it’s 2 bucks including the vat. In America, it’s 2 bucks before vat.

But yeah, it’s probably not properly implemented and just a scheme to get more money out of people.

I mean the whole point that xboxers were making when the ps5 was released was ‘but gamepass!’. Now that ps also has their ‘game subscription’, I do not really see the appeal of an xbox, especially if you also own a pc. PS has exclusives, xbox does not - at least not ones I’d be interested in and couldn’t play on PC.

Yeah, same here. My 1080ti still performs more than adequately enough.

That’s also a thing about all this gpu pricing - things are starting just to become ‘enough’, without the need to upgrade like you did before.

Same thing happened to phones, and then high end phones got expensive as fuck. I mean I had a Galaxy note 2 I bought for 400 bucks back in the day and that was already expensive.

You can’t really compare an 8800gt to a 1070 to a 4080.

8800gt was just another era, the 1070 is the 70 series from a time where they had the ti and the titan, and the 4080 is the top gpu other than the 4090.

If you wanted to compare to the 10 series, a better match for the 4080 would be the 1080ti, which I own, and paid like 750 for back in 2017.

Sure, they’re on the money grabbing train now, and the 4080 should realistically be around 20% cheaper - around 800 bucks, to be fair.

Thing is though, if you just want gaming, a 4070 or 4060 is enough. They did gimp the VRAM though, which is not too great. If those cards came standard with 16gb of VRAM, they’d be all good.

Exactly. American workplace monitoring is crazy.

They aren’t, and our private phones are also connected to the network ;)

But then again, it’s a fairly large organization vpn’d up over multiple locations, with server farms in different VLANs and so on, so the network we usually access when working are in a different subnet.

I do know what you mean though - it really depends on what the company does. Prior, I worked at a company that developed and manufactured hardware cryptography devices - I learned proper security procedures there :) our ‘actual work computers’ weren’t even connected to the Internet, and the unmanaged laptops accessed the same WiFi guests would access that, well, only went to the Internet. Just wpa2.

IT specifically has an option for unmanaged devices, exactly for developers like me :)

Of course they can. That’s why I usually use my phone as a hot spot when I’m browsing private stuff ;)

Depends on your work. I agree with you, but for example my work is different.

Yes, we have managed devices as well, but my department specifically went for unmanaged devices. Just plain old laptops. Install whatever OS you want, do whatever you want. I only have the base windows install on there for some compatibility reasons, I mostly just use PopOS.

And we’re also explicitly allowed to browse private content - as long as the work gets done and we stay in budget, do whatever.

As someone not in those circles that just stumbled upon this post in all:

You look ‘different’ obviously, as you yourself know. That’s going to get some reactions from some people - you can’t really help that. That’s fine, be yourself.

Other than that, don’t make your whole identity that you are who you are. What I mean by that is - don’t base your daily actions, what you do, what you always talk about, the friends you make solely on the fact that you are a transman. Just be a normal, decent human being - and I think you’ll find a lot more ‘general acceptance’.

Then again, just my 2 cents as an outsider, this is just my opinion and as I’ve obviously never had to go through this myself I have no idea if this works or not.

At that point, it’s not FOSS, just OSS. Free means that it also uses a license that is ‘Free’ - as RMS would put it ‘libre’. So -, you can - under stipulations, do whatever you want with the Source code.

Im fairly sure they manage because they have so many subscriptions from people that barely use it.

They basically pay out per song played - and server costs are also largely dependent on active users. So they balance out a very active person that might incur 15$ in cost with 5 inactive people that incur not even a dollar.