Android has an old person setting with larger text and icons and explicit home/back buttons.
I might set up my parents with it, but I currently have it on my phone in my attempt to make my phone less addictive.
The combination of a black and white screen, old person setting squeezing out information, and turning off animations makes my phone feel shitty to use without having to actually block Instagram (which is commonly used for messaging in my circles) or any other app.
What's the drift like on a G Shock with no time signal available? There isn't a time signal in my region.
I've been considering getting a second watch (on top of my Coros running watch) because my phone has bad time drift when in battery saver + airplane mode, and my watch has a habit of dying at the wrong moment because of GPS and sleep tracking power drain.
That doesn't sound like it would be a problem, but I am in the habit of 5+ day hikes with no cell service and the occasional 40 hour flight with 3 layovers each in a different time zone.
It's great for a couple years, but compensation is so much lower here I wouldn't do it long term, except if you marry a local or are independently wealthy.
I make a third of what I did in the US, and my job in the US was in a medium cost of living area and wasn't a startup or big tech. Housing costs about the same amount.
Thinking about it. I'm pretty attracted to the idea of a career with some kind of protectionist licensing system, like doctor or actuary, but that may just be staving off the inevitable. Might teach high school.
After I got laid off in the US, I moved to a mountain town in New Zealand planning on being a ski lift operator while I think about the future, but got a software developer job by accident instead.
I have a friend who got an English and Creative Writing degree from a liberal arts college, and then immediately went back to trade school for band instrument repair. It's not particularly lucrative, as trades go, but it does seem a lot more future proof than most careers.
Not Germany, but I live in a rural part of New Zealand. I noticed that several places in my town, including the chippy, had signs posted out front saying they were open til "late." Coming from the eastern US I assumed that late was at the earliest 11 or 12. Watch my surprise when I try to go get fish and chips at 8:45 and the chippy is already closed.
There has always been some concept of a process by which people can become American and join in that culture through assimilation and integration.
I've had ancestors in North America since 1650, including a vice president and a union admiral, but I also have friends whose parents arrived from Somalia or Vietnam in the eighties and nineties who grew up in largely the same cultural soup I did, speak with the same accent, have the same humor, drink the same beer and eat the same food. Some have served in the US military. In my eyes, they're just as American as I am.
There's also supposed to be a distinction about intent to leave in a relatively short predetermined time period.
I consider myself an expat in New Zealand, because I'm on a ~2 year visa that cannot be extended, and I have no particular intent to try to transfer to a different visa.
If I'd been here the same amount of time, in the same job, but on a straight to residency visa I intended to convert to PR/Citizenship, I would be an immigrant.
I love to run, and even in winter, in the dark, in the rain, I will get home from work at 6pm, eat a small dinner, and head out for a 40-60 minute jog or interval session a few days a week. I do a aerial circus class once a week, too.
I am single and have no children or care giving obligations yet. I bet that when I (hopefully) have small children one day, it will be much harder for me to fit in 3-4 hours a week of running, especially when sleeping enough to feel rested. It would be nice to know what I can do to keep up my health during that phase of life.
Calling women females and men men in the same sentence is really something. Same with the smiley face in a comment about suicide.
Intentionally overdosing on Tylenol gives you a day or so afterwards to panic and seek medical attention and probably live instead of dying a horrible death. More violent means do not give you any time to retroactively back out of it.
And, yes, in America at least, some lucky people do get liver transplants after acetaminophen overdoses, occasionally even intentional ones.
I'm not sure what it is in the Dayquil - the DXM or the "decongestant," but there is a stimulant effect that is half of what I buy it for. It is the most effective medication I have found for getting me off the couch and able to power through a workday with a moderate cold, and definitely does something that Acetaminophen alone doesn't do.
That shampoo opinion is a sure tell that you're not a woman with long hair (men with long hair tend to be less picky). My hair behaves noticeably differently with different shampoos/conditioners even within the same brand, and depending on your specific porosity, oiliness, texture, and humidity of the local climate, different hair care products and routines make a big difference if you have hair past chin length and want it to look healthy.
The text file looks great, but reading this just makes me think of the XKCD standards comic. Markdown has very few issues, and the remaining ones are so nitpicky that the downsides of having an additional standard are larger than the benefits.
On the other hand, I am always happy to see progress in the LaTeX alternatives world. That typesetting language has become comically overgrown and I think it's turing complete at this point.
Provider salaries are often neglected in discussions of the causes of American healthcare expenditures.
Not only do our orthopedic surgeons make obscene amounts, our nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and even nurses are by far the highest paid among peer countries (ignoring tax havens and petrostates, I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of Qatari and Luxembourgian healthcare spending).
If you like math, this is the best advice. I did math with a CS minor, had a great time in college, and I seem to go in the same pool as people with a CS degree for hiring on any team I would actually want to work with. It also opens up a different set of backup plans or potential career switches if you don't want to or can't stay in software long term.
I got a math degree with mostly pure math courses, and did a few CS and data analytics courses on the side. I used to feel a little behind that I didn't do a proper CS degree, but I found math to be a lot more fun and less time consuming.
After a few years in the workplace I don't feel behind at all, and I'm grateful that I have more potential back up plans and won't be just another unemployed CS major if there's a real contraction in the job market. I've been considering pivoting to being an actuary, or possibly teaching high school.
I might set up my parents with it, but I currently have it on my phone in my attempt to make my phone less addictive.
The combination of a black and white screen, old person setting squeezing out information, and turning off animations makes my phone feel shitty to use without having to actually block Instagram (which is commonly used for messaging in my circles) or any other app.