Oh Italian is going to be a bit easier with your Portuguese knowledge

Hello Derek you fucking idiot

I agree tech bro wise completely. But there’s all sorts of Engineering strides to come still. Plenty we don’t yet know about.

But computing has been a solved problem for many years on all but the most intense levels. Since then silicon valley has been desperately trying to hang on to their former glory days like a has-been football player in his 50s

What book? The passage above seems great. Kind of Terry Pratchett–esque

Okay, I’ll ask the obvious. Why?

Our US one when we lived there: 1960s

Our Danish one now: 17… 50s? 60s? It’s hard to know

Lighter, smaller, better battery life than the 5. Very happy about those features.

A tiny bit sad you need a screwdriver to swap the battery, and a tiny bit sad you don’t get a headphone jack.

Seems like they keep moving in generally the right direction

I agree, if the US also used their tax dollars as intelligently as the Danish government does as well.

Seems like a pipe dream, but I hope at least parts of the US become more modern in those ways in my lifetime

I pay quite a bit in Denmark, but used to live in the US.

I pay more taxes now (not THAT much more but definitely more). However I see what I get for my taxes here: healthcare, bicycle lanes, cheap and very good trains/metro/ferries/buses everywhere, etc., and sooo much support for people. It makes me proud to pay taxes here, even though of course I always want more in my pocket and I want more for my money.

In the US I hated the taxes because I paid more than rich people (as they pay nearly none) and I didn’t feel like i got a lot from them.

No problem with taxes as a concept, but I hate how the US uses tax money

US ex pat (during Biden’s term) in the EU, also engineer

There’s lots of jobs in English in lots of countries. A larger company has a much better chance of bringing you over. I would try applying for stuff as you see fit and go in with an open mind. It’s been tough but very very rewarding for us so far.

Yeah, certainly depends exactly where you go. A capital city and a rural town will feel extremely different on English speaking (and cultural/political views at that).

I think it’s quite possible to do though. Happy to chat or answer any specific questions you have, especially if they’re Scandinavia based.

It’s a tough choice to do something like you’re talking about but extremely fulfilling. I wouldn’t trade the decision for the world at this point. I wish you the best of luck!

US ex pat here:

I think you will find more success in this if you find a place or two you want to live in and run TO something instead of AWAY from something. It’ll always be a bit of both, but this post reads more like (very understandably) “get me out of here” than “I want to be somewhere new”.

Being an ex pat has plenty of hard aspects of course. I think some of them are made quite a bit easier when you passionately dive into the culture and life in a new place. At least to me it would be impossible if my head was still in the US.

Of course you’re doing nothing wrong! Just some advice if it gets a bit more serious.

Like many in the thread: Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Scandinavia, Germany, UK (not that they’re doing fantastic right now), Netherlands would be my top choices with your criteria. Most large companies will be more likely to have English speaking as the working language and you’ll learn the local language (s) while living there. Best of luck!

They have the most solar power per area as far as I understand it. So good utilization!

10 is optimistic imo

Based choices, exactly what I’d have chosen

I couldn’t find any properly dumb tvs in a recent search and got a Google TV. You can set it up in “dumb mode” at startup and it never does a thing online. Can even do firmware vis USB if you felt like it for some reason.

Happy with it so far! 4k and OLED, a decent price imo as well. I’d rather it be fully dumb but this is close enough.

FREETHEN?

I have a FP5, and love it. Yes, of course I wish it had a headphone jack.

Dual sim for my two countries I use it for, plus no sim tool needed to change hardware sim is a nice little plus.

Replaceable battery is dank. It’s small and light enough to toss in a small bag if I’m going somewhere and I honestly basically never think about my battery life now.

All the rest of the hardware is pretty good. Not amazing, you can get more for the money, but also it feels good to have some morality in it. And I don’t want to break it bir the peace of mind that if I do it’s an easy repair, fantastic.

I hated the Fairphone case though. Terrible POS. I got a random internet one and it’s much better.

My partner has a pair. They’re fantastic. Definitely will be my next casual trainer too.

Dave not coming back

I have a bit of an ocean/diving fear and some mild claustrophobia, so this is the perfect doc to scare the crap out of me