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  • Nalivai@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJesus H. Christ
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    1 day ago

    “picture of wojak face”: how dare you use my purported believes against me. Everyone knows that I can pick and chose what parts of infallible word of a literal god I believe in at any point in time, it’s actually you who’s hypocritical because you don’t share my believes therefore can’t talk about mine.





  • That’s probably the direct opposite of my experience and an experience of everyone I know.
    With Windows problems you do get a lot of very, very long youtube videos that says a lot of things, but unless your problem is trivial, the shit wouldn’t work, and random bat files aren’t working for unexpected problems, or are just viruses. More often then not though, you get a question on Microsoft forum, with one answer asking you to run that windows repair bullshit that never actually solves anything. And then you just accept that it’s not something you can do and move on with your life, thinking that ignoring the problem is actually solving it. Alternatively there is for some reason very expensive program that does what you wanted badly, while using 20% of your machine’s resources, but you’re so exhausted at this point, that you pretend it’s normal.
    With Linux you will get snarky answers telling you that you’re an idiot for not reading the error message on your screan (which is, yeah, you are), or that you’re an idiot for not reading the first page of man (which is, yeah, see above), or the most detailed explanation of inner workings of this specific thing that is giving you troubles, and you pretend to understand all of it while just copying and pasting all the random commands from the answer like an idiot that you are. But if you actually want to learn, you just do that, and then your problem is solved and you’re a bit more knowledgeable in the end.
    Every time people talk about how Linux community is unhelpful, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How can I always find help and support no matter how weird and obscure or banal and trivial my problem is, am I special or do people don’t know how to google? I mean, snarky and condescending? Yeah, that happens. But unhelpful? Never in my experience.


  • Being a traveling whatever and having to pay out of pocket for your transportation not only isn’t common, a lot of the time it’s illegal. And if your company setup that you pay first and get reimbursements later, you just ask your boss to issue you a company card since yours was taken away for trying to whistleblow, it’s entirely not a big deal.
    You’re comming up with more and more contrived scenarios that are based on more and more improbable sets of circumstances that only work if you saw Europe on TV and imagined that it’s like America but people talk in funny way.


  • Let’s say I’m poor, my car breaks down, I need to go to work otherwise I’ll lose it, not everywhere has public transport options, I guess if I don’t have an extra 1k€ on my account to pay for the deposit, I can get fucked, right? Shouldn’t have been poor.

    Shit americans say, I swear.
    My man, if you rely on a car for work but your company doesn’t provide you transportation, you’re being exploited. If you live in the middle of the forest so there is no public transport around because squirrels keep chewing tram rails or whatever, but whatever your employer is paying you isn’t covering your anti-squirrel measures, then again, you’re being exploited. Contact your union rep, quit your job, find something normal. If you can’t find anything, apply for one of a many government programs that will pay you stipend to learn skills that will allow you to start working for something other than whatever shady shit you did before.
    But we’re glaring over the most fun part of this all, the fact that I don’t think there are places in Europe where you can rent a car from a renter that requires you to pay only with MasterVisa, but there is no public transportation around.

    Add to this the fact that you talk about credit card as if it’s normal to have one in Europe, and I am beginning to suspect that you don’t actually know what you’re talking about













  • Being traveling tech is absolutely not usual occupancy, so it doesn’t change what I said. But if you work in Europe and traveling around, and moving around instruments is part of your job, you should have a company card anyway for it, so again, it doesn’t really matter for the rest of Europeans.
    What I’m trying to convey, that even though you will have some incompetence without American run banking systems, unless you’re in a very specific operation, like needing to rent a car at an airport for example, you wouldn’t be severely inconvenient.
    I’m saying it as a refugee from a country that (for justifiable reasons) is getting some negativity around, and being born there I’m deemed not actually a good person in advance, and it took me a lot of time to convince various governments that I’m not a dangerous exemplar of my race. The time I spent without access to international banking systems like Visa weren’t debilitating, even though inconvenient at times.