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- Comment on The Prime Minister of Canada having his usual $45,000 morning breakfast 1 day ago:
The wine seems to be a BDN Bordeaux, which I suspect is AI for BON Bordeaux (Good Bordeaux).
Next time do Better Bordeaux, I hear it’s the best.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Honestly I wouldn’t think too much about fitting at work.
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.
Salaries? Here is a table with salary classes. Yearly compensation? Here are the HR rules to give them. (etc. etc.)
“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.
I’d say you might have a harder time fitting in Swiss-German because you (probably) speak hochdeutsch. If your German is too good you will have to 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 is 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.
- Comment on Stress reliever 1 week ago:
A year ago (or 40, hard to say as time flies effin’ fast) someone made that:
Bluetooth connected mustache pacifier with choice of taste.
It is a joke, based on discussions on a French twitch stream but the website is nice with some ironic bullshit function you would find on a real e-shop today.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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 some 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 as how close France is but we cannot have good bread and stuff without crossing the border…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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 thanthan 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.
- You can live without a car
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.
Also, our flag is a big plus.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Salut voisin
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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. And yet it works greatly.
You can’t have an opinion on an entire country because you had shit neighbors in Wädenswill.
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
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)
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How fucking dense can you be to disclose vulnerabilities in public and not the proper dev channels you cum soaked useless sock?
- Comment on NASA's quiet X-59 supersonic jet hit 0.98 Mach during a recent test flight, marking a major milestone in the race to bring supersonic travel back over populated areas 2 weeks ago:
It tries to lessen the supersonic boom so that, unlike Concorde, you can fly Mach 1+ over populated areas.
For civil aviation use, or most likely for a multi billionaire private jet rather than an airliner.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
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 work positions, 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.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 3 months ago:
Indeed, communities like the ones from Star Trek or Star Wars are sometimes very vocal and some people starts insulting actors behind the cover of anonymity. That’s the fracking twitter effect.
What i mean is just if you don’t like it just move on with your life and don’t insult or attack people on internet. Maybe the next serie/film will be better (we went from DIS and Picard to SNW. SNW would not have existed without DIS so I’m glad for that overpowered Crossfield-class and its captains)
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 3 months ago:
No, you can dislike some, like recently I did not like the Section 31 film.
But was I bitching about it on the internet ? No Was I happy to have another piece of the Trek universe to watch even if it was a bad one ? Yes
You give me Trek I happy to be able to consume Trek, end of story.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 3 months ago:
She’s the captain and chairman, she does whatever the fuck she wants. Those losers probably won’t even make it to Starfleet pre-selection.
Also, when you love Trek, you love all of them and are happy to have something new in the IP.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 3 months ago:
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. I loved everything in that tactical spaceship battle game and I play it at least once a year (modded to work on 2026 hardware).
It’s so sad they never made the second one and the other games that somewhat look alike are, meh…
Then it was KSP, Cyberpunk 2077 and recently Clair Obscur.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 3 months ago:
I also think “normal non working” people on earth are closer to The Expanse depiction rather than perfect utopia.
Nothing is perfect, I like calling that a “normaltopia”. The federation might not always succeed at being an utopia but at fucking least they are trying.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 3 months ago:
Tbh Starfleet Academy makes a U turn on that decision the minute after, explaining that because of the war/burn they were jerks but they regret it and try to make amends bla bla bla.
Academy gave me this utopia feeling, but in 2026 it made me more depressed than hopeful as I finally realized that I will never find a Starfleet Academy on our world, aka a bunch of peoples working together to make humanity a better whatever if their skin is pink or they believe in the giant flying spaghetti monster.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 3 months ago:
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 when the same strategy but use the dedicated feeds to sometimes explore news or other subjects.
- Comment on Another one! Take a guess! This one is pretty easy. 5 months ago:
Alligator on a predator.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 5 months ago:
- Comment on 7 months ago:
I don’t see any problem, say the guy who ate one (400g) alone 3 days ago 🙄
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Sad panda noise 😔
But if you can find the cheese it is really easy to do and homemade one as there’s 2 ingredients; cheese and cheese. Just use a machine to shred it because doing it by hand is not fun.
Since I don’t drink and don’t want to go to another shop to buy shit white wine, I replaced it with cheap blond alcohol free beer, it’s perfect.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
So the term “Swiss cheese” for those industrial blocks is legitimate, it’s our fault 😔
- Comment on 7 months ago:
but nobody seems to claim fondue is fake cheese
Fondue is literally just shredded cheese. The typical Swiss fondue, la moitié-moitié (half half) is 50% Gruyère and 50% Vacherin + a little bit of cornflour if it’s an industrial one (otherwise it’s only cheese and you add cornflour if you want).
Other types are just different cheeses, from a single one up to a mixe of 3, varying from regional preferences.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 8 months ago:
Oh nice, now I want the same drawers chest and big mirror for my bedroom (dogo as well if that’s an option).
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 8 months ago:
Discovery is fine and at the time it was the only modern Trek we had so there’s that, it’s enough for me to like it.
The only problem I had with it is that every season is “OMG we have to save the all fucking universe!”, other than that it’s cool.
Then we had Strange New Worlds so my thirst for “let’s just explore that funny planet and have a drink at the mess” Trek was satisfied.
I still watch discovery because ‘spaceships goes piou piou piou eat my phaser’ and that’s what I want it to be.
- Comment on Borderlands 4's latest update aims to deliver more performance fixes, ends up causing more stuttering for some 8 months ago:
I haven’t notice anything but I play on an expensive 4k setup, and I am no visual nor sound professional, meaning I won’t see a difference between 60 FPS and 90, not even 30 maybe. I’m also a big simulation fan so I went through the hell of stupid and unrealistic bugs you can find in MSFS24 or Star Citizen, maybe that made me more resilient (Star citizen in alpha 2.xx was a real patience tester, even today on 4.3 you need to be really zen about some stuff ><’ )
I enjoy things for what they are without analyzing them, kinda “just live in the present” guy. For my Clair Obscur play through I had a beautiful game with perfect gameplay/music/story and encountered literally zero bugs or frame drops, I’m not saying the game as none, but I personally haven’t seen any.
From what I have seen the devs told in an interview how they used the last months they had to go bug hunting and assets optimizing in the UE engine. How they discovered old texture files not used in the final release still lurking in those gigabytes of data, how they could cheat things to make them lighter (like using low poly for hidden stuff or modifying a texture for a rock so they all use the same instead of several), found old assets that were supposed to be trashed, things like that.
That’s what I was talking about optimizing UE5 games, and maybe (probably?) Bordelands and other AAA studios just don’t do it because “time is money”.
