I can’t even get two mains in Geneva for 35€ (well, CHF) most of the time 😅

Are you ok? Are you talking about just the whole process of waking up, or that waking up means facing the world once more?

I’ve gone days after an interaction with a cashier or similar (i.e. someone who will have forgotten our interaction two minutes later) thinking about how the phrase I used was dumb or weird.

With people I know it’s even worse. I get “remember that time you said that weird thing” a year later… it sucks.

I empathise and understand! I’m pretty awkward with people I don’t know, so meeting new ones is a challenge to be honest.

I spent a year and a half living with my closest buddy in an amazing apartment, and it was quite honestly spectacular. Will be moving cities again after summer, and will put in effort to get a good flatmate situation going.

Well, yeah. As with all other people interactions, if the people you interact with suck it’s going to have a negative impact 😅

But in a decade and a half of living with other people like this, not once has rent been an issue.

Yeah, exactly. If I could end up in a situation like this longterm, I’d be happy.

For a while in my early 20s, I was staying with a friend of my parents because I just moved to a new city and she offered. She has a small house, as part of an enclave of about 20 houses built around a big common area, including workspaces, a massive kitchen and other amenities. They had a cooking schedule, so everyone in the 20 houses cooks at some point for the entire little community, and you just show up at dinner time for a meal if you’re not cooking that day. It’s super well organized and everyone seemed pretty happy with the setup.

I LOVED it. If I could achieve or find that one day I’d never leave…

Oh, I’m an introvert too, but I also suck at being the one to ask friends to do things or go places, so its easier to just have them hanging around at home essentially. But I also have plenty of options for getting away from home, so I don’t feel trapped that way

Also, the idea that buying property is a key driver of wealth relies on a bunch of assumptions regarding buying in an area where the cost WILL go up, where there isn’t some massive, hidden maintenance cost (oh, the roof contained asbestos and we didn’t know) and that the housing market in general will remain insane.
I’m moving back to Geneva, and recently read an article stating the Swiss housing market has gone up by 94% for apartments , 80% for houses between 2000 and 2021.
That’s not sustainable…

I don’t personally want to live with my parents, but I’ve spent the majority of my life living with flatmates or similar situations, by choice. I’ve always preferred it over having a place entirely to myself, makes coming home feel more like visiting friends than just returning to silence. Requires people you get along well with though…

Why wouldn’t it be able to? That’s just a matter of which laws are enacted. And considering government is responsible for proposing and enacting laws, well…

If this bubble bursts the hardware market will be… interesting to say the least

You generally can’t pursue someone for debt after a bankruptcy declaration, depending on the country. So if you’re 25M in debt, you go bankrupt and they can’t chase you for any more. You lose all your current assets, but at least you can rebuild a life. Still, rough path to choose.

Yeah, it’s so tiring. Search for something, entire first page is useless aggregator sites, containing nothing about the actual topic other than keywords. Waste of time

… Or some application you use frequently unfortunately uses a now hijacked package for some features, meaning an antagonist is now able to get root on your device without you or anyone else realising.

Are you telling me they ever knew how to build Windows?

There are a handful of EU cloud providers. In addition, at least some EU countries have what amounts to a governmental cloud provider, providing services to government agencies and ministries.

Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅

Well, at least it gives us a common language… I’m not sure the discussion would go so well if I was speaking one of my other languages to you. Enjoy your evening, or morning, or whatever it’ll be on your end

Fair enough, there’s nuance here as with a lot of these things. I used to work in banking IT, I’ve seen some parts of it. It was just the blanket “regulations = bad” sentiment I reacted to, though I see now that wasn’t the intent from your side

They left the union