Hey I’m fine and you?

Les Grottes is a bad neighbourhood??? lol that’s the first time I hear that, for most I know it’s a nice little alternative place, but never bad. Maybe the shooting place next to it but they are not bad people, just sad and sick.

I could try to come to the office yeah, never been there in my life even if I passed it so many times while living in the PDG. But nowadays it will be with Léman Express to the train station and then I’m fucked^^

I’m a con de citadin, I have no car :)

PS: Last time I went next to your office was to go flying at the airfield, there is a 100% french bakery next to it and I was having orgasms on just a baguette + beurre + saucisson sandwich. Almost stayed there eating instead of going to fly (priorities y’a know…). It’s amazing how close France is but we cannot have good bread and stuff without crossing the border…

I cannot say about moving from Germany to Swiss German Switzerland as I am a born and raised in the French speaking part.

I’ve lived a little in Zurich but I was more of a tourist there rather than totally knowing “how it is”, and I don’t speak German nor have any clue about their culture. I am friendly with my coworkers “from the other side” and they are friendly with us but we are different and I don’t know enough to judge them.

So just a few generalities:

• Living in Switzerland is like being privileged. Everything works nicely, the country is based on respect and balance between ideals.
• The country if always in some top 5 for stuff like security, quality of life, happiness or whatever.
• When the world around us is getting more and more selfish and crazy, not being hidden in Switzerland is a bad move.
• Switzerland is kinda the Japan of Europe, and a fucking postal card.
• Our flag is a big plus.

Is it perfect? Of course not, we have dumb racists as well, we have some violence and people are getting more and more selfish like everywhere else in the world (it’s almost like there is some common influence, like internet and social medias?) Life is expensive, but good if you are not at the low income level, and it’s getting on par with our neighbors because prices went up for them but not for us.

It can be festive or quiet, depending on what you’re looking for and/or your age you’ll have a totally different experience (city center versus outskirts village versus country side).

Do I recommend it? Of course I do, this is my country and it’s wonderful. But I cannot say for your precise situation as I don’t know you nor your life.

Salut voisin 👋

As a Swiss I disagree. It can be the case in some places lost in the German part, they are after all “our Texans”.

But Switzerland is also French and Italian, cities are mostly leftists.

This is a country where a dude from Appenzel have nothing in common with a dude from La Chaux de Fond, not even the language nor the food. And yet it works greatly.

You can’t have an opinion on an entire country because you had shit neighbors in Wädenswill.

Oh lol he’ll get reelected then (I don’t know the guy at all, just a few jokes about him I’ve seen on Lemmy)

I know that, but some might pressure you to work the night shift “or…”

People living around bars also want to be able to sleep sometimes.

Closed bar also means less drunk people in the streets. In my city you cannot buy alcohol “to go” in shops after 9pm and bars close at 2.

After that if you want to continue partying you go to night clubs.

Anyway, a wise drunk dude once said “nothing good happens after 2”, and from experience he was right.

The same reason half of Europe has closed shops on Sunday, worker protection.

You need strong laws to not have businesses abusing and pressuring peoples to work the shity 14h shift till morning for earning a peanut.

And workers protection law + North America are not often put in the same sentence.

Also it’s generally not worth it business wise. Paying salaries and more from 2 to 4 (or 6am or whatever) to sell two beers means losing money. You might have a few festive nights here and there, but most of the weeks/months you’ll have an empty bar so even the owners are not pushing for it.

Yup, and actual Friday will be Monday for me :(

When you work shifts (7/7 24h) weekends are whenever you are off duty and Friday can be on Tuesday.

So yeah, it is Friday somewhere for someone.

I think the prices are more or less the same today.

But we don’t go to Starbucks or fast food often, the coffee culture is the same as France and Italy so not Starbucks. And fast food is often the hangover food so not something you do every week.

Since Covid and inflation worldwide, some prices are actually cheaper in Switzerland. With a Swiss income it is a very perfect country to live in (not with a basic low 4000 chf/month tho, at least not in cities)

From the git above, it downloads an official MS iso and debloat it to create a lighter one. It’s the same as installing a normal iso and then removing stuff like one note etc, except that those are not installed by default so no need to remove them.

Specialized software from laptop brands (asus or whatever) are useless shits. You only need the drivers and an OS.

You can install Tiny11 as your base Windows OS https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder then use a debloat like the ones linked in this thread or this one https://winutil.christitus.com/

I made that on my gaming PC (I use tons of non Linux compatible stuff for flight simming) and zero problems. It’s even riced to not look like Windows DE and act like i3wm.

I work in ATC and we have several desks with around 12 to 18 screens. Not in that layout tho, but on a much larger banana form.

They are used at different support positions so not ATC radars. Mostly for monitoring but also used with keyboard and mouse.

The applications goes from technical surveillance of ops systems, to flow capacity (airspace capacity), meteo broadcast for all airports (ATIS) or ground-ground telecommunications of aeronautical data.

You’ll have to look a decade in the past.

Under former presidents (Hollande, Sarko and Chirac) protests did work.

Now it’s only since Macron that they are less effective as he does not care unless everything is literally burning.

I don’t have examples in mind, I participated in some of them but I was younger and do not really remember the details.

Normal wheels would be much heavier to push. Steel wheel on steel rail is basically zero effort, you just have to plan your protest accordingly^^

We luv you too m8

Yeah same I’m curious now.

I found those on a 💩website https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/climate-paris-2015-polar-bear.html?sortBy=relevant

We (French speaking peoples) have several instances, the one I’m writing from is probably the most active on lemmy, the others are on piefed.

I’d say if you see a lot of them it’s probably because of your language settings or because of those German instance settings.

I had to block several of their communities as I don’t have German selected in my languages but they still show on all (and in German, not English posts hosted on a German instance), so they were just badly setup. Maybe it changed tho, I haven’t updated my blacklist in a while.

MacGyver.

Yeah yeah, that one episode with the fire ants (S01E05) and the other one with the fast aging scientist (S03E11) gave me nightmares as a kid.

I should try to watch them today just to see how cool was the young O’Neill with two L.

Switzerland, meh.

I have a better job with low hours for more money but still have to be cautious about costs. They have several houses with a garden that I can only dream about.

They have a retirement plan that I can only dream about and an happy life while I’m ok-ish but depressive.

But I have 10Gbs fiber optic internet and a NAS+Seedbox so there’s that.