@kaia My phone lost it's power button 0.9 fentoseconds after warranty, but thanks to accessibility controls and the indomitable human spirit, it's still my daily driver.
@mangeurdenuage@kaia@zonk Guessing Kaia means Nicole Coenen (forgot the name and found her by searching "Lumberjack Lesbian") :gura_laugh: Also guessing this is Thoren Bradley? Proper credit is important.
@kaia To combat people calling them out, Xmas sweets have been re-labeled "Herbstgebäck" (autumn sweets) in Germany. A marketing term that by definition, allows them to start selling at the start of September. Like any limited products, seasonal goods obviously make more profit.
I did a double-take when I saw Baumkuchen on the shelves the other day. It's hard to complain about it though. :kagerouYum:
@kaia It used to be, that direct banks offer free accounts in exchange for not having physical locations. Meanwhile, Sparkasse is slowly closing physical locations, leaving old people with learning online banking, switching to a whole new bank, or in most cases being stuck with a longer drive or no access. All while still charging them the same rate, since they could go to a different location. Gotta love cherry-picking.
@kaia For being such patriots, the US actually imported tipping from Europe. Late-stage capitalism has driven it to ridiculous extremes such that there are places with 50% compulsory tips. Tipping is out of control in many sectors of the US and the concept of a tip being a necessary part of the price to that extend is frankly sad. But these are the people that let customers add taxes themselves, to find out what they actually owe at the till.
@kaia I don't remember which it was, but this reminds me of a dating app, where girls could filter out guys by height, only so it could then turn around and prompt the guys to pay a premium to skip past said filter. :gura_laugh: If there is a height requirement that should be a negative, the cheese is always a great idea though.
@kaia sorry to hear that. Some doctors really haven't lost their "Mightier than thou"-attitude yet. My mom is a midwife and had to deal with some of them. Fortunately in that case, midwifes are actually higher in command than doctors when working in their field and would humble them with annoying work until they gain respect. This one is clearly still missing that experience.
Diplomacy has failed, escalation follows. Let their superior give them the needed vibe-check.
@kaia Maybe holding the button should bring up the menu (skipping the confirmation) and tapping it should show confirmation to repeat. Just would have to add some text to the confirmation, telling users how to get to the menu, so that the quote feature isn't lost. Quotes are a recent addition and I guess they just needed a place to put the button.
@kaia@sun e-waste is an issue and sometimes it's frightening how recent some tech became obsolete. Win 11s TPM/Virt requirements are of course the textbook-meme. I'm trying to revive a Win 8 UEFI tablet currently (released 2014), it's one of the last 32-bit tablets and no modern software can be found outside of webapps. Yet the hardware is solid for light work, has a connectable keyboard dock and is super portable.
@kaia@xarvos I personally did an Ausbildung before going to Uni. Most Abitur(high-school)-schools don't advertise trade-jobs, mine was one of the few that did. I'm now struggling with my bachelor's thesis since academic writing never came up in 3 years of Uni and now feels like an arbitrary requirement of a capstone.
In general I feel that trade-school is better for industry work ten-fold, since fresh uni graduates tend to not have any practical experience and need to be taught by the employer. Unfortunately Uni is still seen as categorically higher in social status and is slowly becoming the default path for anyone who can reach Abitur.
With people struggling in academics and tradecraft having less and less new people picking up jobs, this will backfire at some point. I liked the diploma-path as a non-academic equal status alternative with practical focus. Sad that got axed.
Politically speaking, turning more jobs into academic degrees was meant to increase their social value and standardize them internationally. Some countries have now moved on to a sort of "Fachbachelor", that gets to skip the paper-writing academic parts in favour of practical works and exams similar to diplomas. As always Germany tries to copy the good things from other places, yet moves so slowly that they lag behind, ending up in the beta-state while the kinks already got ironed-out everywhere else.
Sorry for the rant, I just can't help having strong opinions on the topic.
@kaia i know that "this list will never be complete" is there to prevent arguments. I however like the reality where there is an eldritchly, uncountably infinite number of unique German soups. I guess you can always make new ones the same way you can stitch words together in German.
@kaia@StaleDonut dropshipping is definitely a problem. Considering the platform was made to promote small artists and independent artists. People also lie a lot in product descriptions (Got burned by that before). small fandom stuff like pins or plushies seem fine, though.
@vee@kaia it’s worth trying, a lot of people won’t question it and pay. But it’s just Javascript in a zip-file, so without obfuscation or a serverside-challenge, some version of “checkActivation: return True” will work.