So you are saying we should reject consumerism? Agreed.

Wtf is the point of that? Its the same plane, isn’t leaving any time sooner if I board earlier.

Its not like a cruise ship where boarding an hour earlier means I can jump in pool while others are still getting on board.

Sure and some of those are coo. But if you can’t even get people moving to firefox, good luck with the more obscure ones.

Forks are also fine. But the phrasing often can come across in a way that supports chrome

Yeah but if you need to use a browser are you seriously going to support Google over Mozilla?

There might not be a long run if google can dictate web development enough in the short term to essentially kill off all competition.

Fair point but are you seriously saying you prefer the direction Google is heading?

Not saying it doesn’t exist. But its easy to go through live without ever giving a shit about it. Been working for me so far even when deeply below poverty wages. Now I am between UK minimum and median wage so shits easy.

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Interesting, not rented in Scotland but in England I just had to sign on some toilet paper and hand over a deposit in cash.

Well more competition is good and we really need more alternative platforms. Can they make a browser as an alternative to chrome… Or push Firefox?

Europe exists with neither of these problems. You can get a credit card if you want but loads of people don’t. From a low effort search it actually looks like most people in almost all European countries don’t have one. Few exceptions like Norway but even there you have a very significant minority without one.

UK here and I bought a house without ever having a credit card or worrying or knowing what a credit rating is.

Worked in a computer shop before, seen some warranties like first year take to the place you bought it, 2-5 years contact manufacturer. That being the manufacturers stance on the warranty, we would still look it up and help/advise customers if possible. Like if they needed proof of purchase we would print off a receipt for them even 4 years later.

Doesn’t Germany still use coal though, and gas is actually better than coal. We made that change over a decade ago in the UK and are now reducing gas usage with wind and solar.

In the UK I have seen the media talk about energy prices going up. But its only gas that is going up, electricity barely chanced and if you factor in inflation it is getting cheaper.

Stop burning gas.

A lot of it is vaguely described. I could probably apply and argue I meet all of these as it depends on what level of experience they really want.

Communication skills - whatever, many jobs asks for this.

Data migration and APIs - HR don’t know what an API is but I have setup software that uses them and I can copy data from a server easily with rsync.

SQL - I passed a SQL test in an interview despite having never used or seen it. Only had some HTML, CSS and bash from a few home projects. Now used SQL a fair bit.

Cloud - yep, used GCP to run a factorio server when I didn’t have Ethernet for a stable connection to run a server

Train staff - generic, sure.

Deploy security solutions - yeah I can probably install an antivirus.

Software/hardware/user issues - I worked in a computer repair shop, got that coveted.

But 100k USD isn’t enough of an improvement over 29k GBP. I’ll stay here thanks.

If no one wants it, harder to replace.

If its a small company you are going to have people split between multiple things as it doesn’t make financial sense to have 3 specialists.

Where I work is under 30 people, we don’t have a HR department or even a HR role. HR is done by someone who also has other roles to fill.

Most of my managers have been the second type, although how effective they are at it has varied a lot. Some are very passive and that has been good and bad, being left alone is great when things are going well. But when you need help they are useless.

The best have been the ones that know a decent amount about the job, they can either help you directly or know exactly where to point you for it. That or they understand the pain and you can both cry together for 4 days with a SQL database and increasingly vague error messages.

Quit my last job over being asked in once a week. It was the commute rather than the office that I really wanted to avoid but it was also an awful open plan hotdesk office for a company of hundreds of people I didn’t know or care about.

New role is office based but I don’t need to drive or take public transport and teams have their own rooms to work in. Much smaller company too, under 30 people. Banter is far better here and that helps quite a bit.