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Best Recruitment Agency for Dev Work w/ Chronic Pain?
  • I had a very good experience with Honeypot (https://www.honeypot.io/en/). It's Europe only, so not sure about the legal aspects of working from the US, but Germany have recently did some changes to laws related to work visas specifically to attract tech workers, so it shouldn't be that hard. You speak German, so that's a big plus.

    It's a "reverse" job search, in the sense that you create your profile/CV and companies apply to you. After creating your profile, you do a short call with a recruiter, that helps you adjust it to the type of job you are looking for.

  • Help me formulate the dullest response to colleagues when they goad me into telling them why I quit
  • Exactly. There's a minimum 4 weeks that can be increased in the employment contract. Going up to 3 months is not rare, depending on the industry/type of job.

    And it works both ways, so if the employer wants to fire you, the same notice period applies.

  • What Router can you recommend?
  • I'm very happy with my FritzBox (7590), it handles de ADSL connection to the ISP, supports various DDNS providers, Wireguard VPN, 4 port gigabit switch (5 of you don't need the WAN port), guest WiFi with client isolation.

    It also has basic media server and NAS functionality (with USB3 external hard drives).

    Of course you can change the DNS server and other network controls like QOS, wake on LAN, port forwarding, different profiles with parental controls, filters, connection times, etc.

    They also seem to take security seriously.

  • Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc?
  • For a YouTube replacement, maybe look into Nebula, it's a subscription streaming service, but owned by the content creators, no ads. It also has some podcasts.

    Regarding music, I listen mostly to somaFM. It's an Internet radio with lots of different stations. Mostly independent artists. It's free, no subscription, no ads, listener supported (you can donate/buy merch to support them).

  • About 300 Arrested in Berlin on New Year's Eve Incidents
  • I don't think it's related. It's been a new years tradition in Berlin for years.

    I have friends and family in Berlin and I spent new year's Eve there five years ago. It was totally crazy. People shooting fireworks at each other in the streets and from/to the balconies.

    I ended up with a jacket full of burn holes, and we were in a kind of quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of the city.

  • Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  • It's not only salaries:

    about half of Signal’s overall operating budget goes towards recruiting, compensating, and retaining the people who build and care for Signal. When benefits, HR services, taxes, recruiting, and salaries are included, this translates to around $19 million dollars per year.

  • [Help] Aquiring a Steam Deck in Norway
  • I created a new steam account with a different email address just to order mine on a different country than my main account. You might need a local payment method for the country you are shipping to. Not sure if that's the case for Europe, but it's required for some countries.

  • GNOME 45 Release Notes
  • The option was there, but it wasn't ready for every day use. The performance impact was significant. The couple times I tried it, it was practically unusable. The UI also showed a warning about performance when you enabled it

  • Is “harvesting” small amounts of electricity a fools errand?
  • Maybe take a look at BEAM robotics. Specially Pummer circuits.

    The idea of Pummer circuits is to store energy from a small solar panel during the day and flash an LED at night. Energy is normally stored in super capacitors or NiCd batteries.

    Might not be exactly what you are looking for, but it can give you some ideas to experiment with.

  • Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here’s how communities can fight back
    theconversation.com Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here's how communities can fight back

    Cars are getting bigger on US roads, and that’s increasing pedestrian and cyclist deaths. A transport scholar identifies community-level strategies for making streets safer.

    Ever-larger cars and trucks are causing a safety crisis on US streets – here's how communities can fight back

    Bigger vehicles can be safer in crashes, but far more dangerous for pedestrians.

    And the average size of cars and trucks in the U.S. continues to grow. Some current models – like that of the Toyota Rav4 – are a third larger than they were only 15 years ago.

    That’s led to a 77% increase in pedestrian fatalities since 2010.

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