kayazere

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[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I (originally from the US) moved to Germany with a Swiss girlfriend, so we visit Switzerland frequently and know the cultural/politics.

I find Germany to have much better social policies than Switzerland, such as better worker rights/conditions, public health insurance. The Swiss people voted against having minimum 5 weeks vacation and also just rejected caps on the private insurance minimum costs. The politics are much more conservative/individualistic compared to Germany. On a positive side, Switzerland probably has the best public transport system in Europe.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are openly racist. This was an ad of theirs depicting foreigners as black sheep and kicking them out of Switzerland.

https://qz.com/617050/switzerlands-largest-political-party-insists-on-depicting-foreigners-as-black-sheep

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The fact that it is a open linux device and I can launch in to KDE is the reason I got it. If it was some proprietary OS like other games consoles or Windows, I wouldn’t have bought it. The Steam Deck is such a breath of fresh air compared to how hostile other consumer electronics have become.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago

Apple is the one holding back the user experience on their operating systems, not third party developers.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 58 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Funny how we are moving back to bicycles, as cars aren’t scalable solution.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now, the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM), a market-liberal lobbying organization, has created a pop-up museum designed to turn up the heat on the German government

While funny, the group behind it certainly sounds scary. We don’t need more neo-liberal policies.

[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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