Might be that they ordered online and the food is done before they get there?

I don’t. Because there are dozens if not hundreds that match the description.

Nice day for fishin‘, ain‘t it?

Or you accidentally took one from a colleague. Easy mistake when IT gives the same model to everyone.

Auch da: wenn jemand die wirklich unbedingt haben will (nein, ich weiß auch nicht, warum), dann zieht man halt Windows auf die Kiste, dann laufen die auch.

As someone living outside the US, your whole comment and the surrounding ones are absolutely wild.

Here in Germany, work without a contract is absolutely unthinkable. If anyone offered me a job without a contract, I would have to immediately report them to the authorities on the suspicion of tax fraud.

Also, even without a single word about it in my contract, they would have needed to notify me way in advance if they wanted to let me go. The exact duration varies by how long you’ve been there but the minimum is four weeks. For me it would have been four months because I had been there for over ten years. Also, the requirement for an employee to quit can never be stricter than for them to be fired. If you’re interested in the details, I recommend you find a translation of § 622 BGB.

And yes, these rules do get enforced reliably. The mere mention of the word “lawyer” usually gets even the most stubborn boss to comply in these cases because they know that every judge would rule against them within minutes.

Doch, natürlich kannst du das. Das ist ja das Schöne an Proton. Und wenn du irgendwas brauchst, was nur über die Läden von Winzigweich ode ElektronikKunst zu beziehen ist, dann kannst du dir immer noch Fenster auf die Dampfmaschine ziehen, weil sie eben einfach nur ein ganz normaler Rechner ist und keine Konsole, die dich nur das machen lässt, was der Hersteller will.

I once did an even more extreme version of this. I showed up with a contract for a new job that would give me a 30% raise and an opportunity to work from home as much as I want. I told my boss to match that offer or I would sign it.

He took a few days to decide and made me an offer that was significantly worse, so now I have a new job, more money and haven’t seen the inside of a corporate office in months. My old team has been completely dissolved because the old crew left faster than they could train replacements.

Deutschland, wenn wir uns einigen, ob wir es Dürüm, Yufka oder ganz anders nennen.

A lot more specific though. I don’t know (or remember) one of the kanji but it seems to be along the lines of “Thanks for using the toilet cleanly”

Gibt es auch nicht. Im “Jeder gegen Jeden” Modus hat das Spiel wohl gar keine Narren. Und nachdem ich den gespielt hab, hatte ich irgendwie wenig Motivation, die anderen auszuprobieren.

Gab es zumindest in dem Modus, den wir gespielt haben, nicht

Yes, it’s a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire game. Way worse than the old ones…

Weiß man ja

I was a fan of Miranda IM because that’s what I used for everything else (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, AIM, occasionally Skype though that plugin didn’t work that well). If I remember correctly, joining multiple servers was a bit more cumbersome than with other clients but having everything in one application was amazing.

Bah, the young ones joining IRC through a web interface. Back in my day, we used telnet, typed the IRC commands by hand and hoped we were quick enough to reply to PING to not get kicked from the server.

Well, not really but I did it occasionally to better understand how the protocol works.

The best chat platform is the one where the people you want to chat with are.

If you don’t have anyone specific you want to talk to and just want to join a community that shares your interests, maybe look into Matrix, which is an open and distributed protocol with many servers.

10 is average for an adventuring hero. Not necessarily for most “civilians” if you want to call them that.

Edit: I stand corrected. Must have confused it with some other system or an older edition.

Well, not necessarily. I’ve had my phone for almost five years now. The battery is at 78% of it’s original capacity and still gets me through the day without problems, even on heavy use. The only times I need to charge during the day is when I’m on a long distance train and listen to podcasts or audio books for hours.

Chances are that something else will fail long before the battery. And even if not, the local phone repair shop offers a battery replacement for about 50€ which is more than reasonable for something that will get me another couple of years.

Then you don’t need to worry. Battery degradation isn’t much of a problem for those.