This.

Plus the crazy magastan prices for everything, and plenty of hotels and tourism industries in the host cities are crying that reservations are low, that World Cup is a “non event” for them when we are just weeks away of the event.

I believe we will see rather empty stadium with zero ambiance and most spectators will probably be locals that call football soccer.

Then ICE will molest a Euro football star because he’s black so teams will boycott the US and only play in Mexico and Canada.

This is going to be the greatest fuckup of history, nobody is fucking shit up like that. I can’t wait.

Oh don’t worry about efficiency. ReallyZen is talking about the efficiency in the official administrations.

Like getting your driving licence converted to a Swiss one, renewing your passport and stuff like that.

The baseline is that you pay for it but it is done in a minute (driving licence you get it the same day you go to the automobile office, you just wait 30 minutes max and they give it to you. Passport is something like during the week. Not 2 month, one week.)

This kind of efficiency. And don’t worry the workers in those administrations are not overworked at all^^

In the private sector it is somewhat the same, nobody is being pressured for efficiency, you just do you work professionally and that’s enough. Some companies might pressure their staff (because the boss is dumb?) but then they will have a high turnover and might fail in the long run.

Honestly I wouldn’t think too much about fitting at work. It is somewhat the same as the rest of Europe. I cannot compare to Germany but as a comparison with France the job market is a bit more sane in Switzerland as the country does not push for long university studies and a shit ton of the work force comes from “apprentissage” (alternate between school and work). Whereas in France doing this type of school it is frowned upon and seen as “dumb people not capable of going to university” so you end up with stupid requirement like having a BAC+5 to work as a receptionist in an empty warehouse. Switzerland will put more emphasis on experience and capabilities (but as always, not everywhere, not all companies are the same).

Work is just work, work culture is probably similar to Germany so everything is squared out, mostly. As everywhere, you can find a job where the boss is lame and the management is a shit show. I’ve seen bosses that use company money for drugs and forgot to pay employees but I’ve also seen the opposite. Generally speaking in bigger companies everything is written and respected.

“fitting” and “job culture” is different between Zurich, Geneva or Lugano and I’d say it is more about fitting in life rather than at work.

If you go to Swiss-German, as you (probably) speak hochdeutsch you will have to quickly learn the local switzerdütsch. At first people will adapt to you and speak hochdeutsch, but after a while they will switch to switzerdütsch and assume it is your job to learn it (and yeah, it is). Whereas if you live in Romandie or Ticino, as you don’t speak French or Italian everything will be in English until you are able to speak the local native language (but in the end, yeah you have to do the job of learning the local language same as with switzerdütsch)

Fitting in Switzerland is quite easy according to me, just do the same as the others. If they are quiet in the train, do the same. If they are laughing around a beer, do the same. But the general rules are quite easy; Don’t put your feet on the seat in front of you in public transports, don’t litter, don’t be a dick. After all it’s only about being respectful to people and stuff.

Now for the clichés. Sometimes you can hear about the Röstigraben which don’t really exist but still exist in some ways. If you look at videos from Emily-National or Camille Federale you might often see us, Romands (french-speaking) describe the german-speaking with the word “square” and the hand movements that describe that (and honestly, it’s not always a bad thing to be “squared”, specially in a professional environment). The opposite is they say that we drink too much and like to party.

For example, there is a joke that a former federal counselor (aka, president) said about the French part while in fact he never said that, not publicly tho.

(to read with a strong German accent):

“Les Romands toujours rigoler, jamais travailler.” Meaning: “The Romands always laughing, never working”

All of that are clichés and jokes, in reality we are different but friends. And same goes with foreigners, approx 40% of the total population is not Swiss, that is a huge number for any European country. If they were treated like shit and not accepted by others would they still live here? (and again, you will find some dumb racist fucks, like everywhere with human being. But this is not the norm).

PS: I cannot vouch for the Camille and Emily videos on Watson as I’ve only seen a few in French but the links I gave you are in German and I don’t understand.

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.

Eh, once my wife had a Sunday 4pm fondue craving (the Swiss melted cheese yeah) so we went to the local “auberge valaisanne”

It was packed with old farts from retirement homes going on an organized Sunday trip to the restaurant.

Also none of them ate cheese (fondue or raclette), they all went for a non Swiss meal, at a Swiss auberge…

I tried Dennys once when I was visiting the US, I don’t remember it so it probably wasn’t anything special.

May 83 here, I was in the comments to say the same^^

If you still want to see news sometime, just subscribe to everything silly you want to see and only scroll on your home (subscribed) feed.

Don’t go on all unless you want to doom.

Or use piefed with the same strategy but use the dedicated feeds to sometimes explore news or other subjects.

The fediverse community is !tipiak@anarchist.nexus

Tipiak is a kinda slang way of saying pirate. It comes from an old tv ad from a food company named Tipiak. 3 old grandma screamed “pirate !” after discovering that the food tastes the same as their own secret family recipe (supposedly). It became sort of a meme and is used to say pirate. As the French language is not difficult enough for our English neighbours, we started to conjugate the word: Ce soir je vais tipiaker ce film (tonight I’m going to pirate (download) that film).

The same word is used in the answer from @obercail@jlai.lu with even a new variant: Tipiakeries (pirate thingy)

The two main French torrents tracker (private tracker) are:

• https://www.yggtorrent.org/ (domain tld change regularly)
• https://la-cale.space/ (recently created after bad decision by ygg, and growing)

What do you mean?

To me the problem would be modifying the lifetime pass or simply removing it (for new customers) in favor of a fucking subscription only.

Strange, we have 4 peoples for whom it’s happening way too often, meanwhile I barely even see the communities sidebar and I really have to look for it.

I’m also unable to open this sidebar when I’m on a post.

I’m on iPhone, if that helps. Are you all 4 on android and this could be some sort of different gesture between the two OS?

Or, kinda dumb hypothesis, are you all left handed? The communities button is on the top left so maybe scrolling with your left hand makes it more prone to touch that button?

It’s hyperactive turn base. It’s even LSD turn base if you are quick enough on your choices (and the personna style UI permits that).

Forgetting about everything else that makes it a goty, the gameplay can be hella gratifying if you play fast and manage all the timings correctly.

Parry it!

Yeah, but Xplane 12 does work natively and perfectly on Linux and MacOS. So there’s that.

But I guess if you start adding several joysticks (minimum of 3 for an aircraft, joystick or yoke, rudder, throttle quadrant) with assorted softwares it becomes a bit of a headache and most probably it won’t be 3 joysticks from the same vendor.

And today we have the Chinese winwings that makes full glareshield and mcdu at acceptable prices https://eu.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=925 so that’s another software to configure.

And all of that is only for one aircraft type (Airbus in my example) 😅

I am so yes it’s probably why.

The iso from massgrave was made with Rufus that can disable the unnecessary requirements and force creation of a local account instead of windows live 🖕

Then activated and lightly debloated with powershell. That makes windows usable for what I need it to, just launching games.

Everything else is done on a minisforum Linux or framework Linux (even sometimes gaming on it when I’m not at home).

I am 99% Tumbleweed except my gaming PC which is still on Win11 (but I haven’t seen any bloat on it, no ads in winkey menu etc).

I am a huge flight simmer and, besides Xplane, MSFS has Microsoft in its name but the problem is more about the tons of tools around the simulator rather than the sim (aircraft, peripherals, maps&nav, ATC, job manager etc). MSFS do run on proton, but plenty of background tools don’t 😔

Everything is baguette, join us.

Half of those are Norman Reedus in Death Stranding 2.