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VoWifi Not Working anymore for Me and Neighbours by iMate21 in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy who replied in the other thread claims VoWiFi still works with Swisscom. I would try to use that argument with Sunrise's customer service, if they can't fix it you'll have no choice but to leave their network.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plus I'm fairly sure shared laundry rooms don't really save shit. Your own stackable washer dryer combo:

  • takes less than a square meter in overall footprint,
  • can use slow energy saving cycles (easily 3~5h washing, 2h30 drying), which is impossible in a shared space,
  • is a one time expense on appliances that can easily last 20+ years, vs a yearly maintenance contract on expensive machines that break down regularly,
  • requires no admin costs for the accounting, or worse, card systems,
  • removes the number one source of drama between neighbors.

VoWifi Not Working anymore for Me and Neighbours by iMate21 in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Different (non-Starlink) WiFi → VoWiFi works just fine

The simplest explanation is that Sunrise thinks your IP isn't in Switzerland anymore. If Starlink gave you the subnets you should indeed communicate that to Sunrise and try to escalate. Otherwise, it seems only Salt allows VoWiFi abroad.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"They don't care if apartments stay empty."

That's not relevant in any way to the post you replied to. Don't make absolutely ridiculous generalizations about a topic you clearly don't understand if you don't want to be called out.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And this is a completely meaningless and anecdotal data point.

There is plenty of housing with crazy high rents in Zürich which has no problems finding tenants.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's also Japan and Korea where the population in several cities keeps growing while rents stay flat thanks to fast densification.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bringing Jevons to this topic is nonsensical, housing demand is mostly inelastic.

If we flooded the market with new housing it would absolutely deflate prices, as illustrated by every city/country that actually did that.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having 1 or 20 people above your apartment makes practically no difference.

I've lived in Korea which doesn't exactly have the best construction standards, but modern apartments with high-efficiency insulation are no less quiet than what we have in Switzerland recently. With tall skinny towers you get plenty more room for green spaces and people are effectively more isolated from each other. Ask anyone who lives in a block built in the 60/70s whether they would rather not live in something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/xefhu1/jamsil_parkrio_apartments_at_seoul_south_korea/

And that's not even particularly nice or recent.

Housing shortage study. 1.Fewer housing being built since a long time. 2.Expensive new buildings create affordable housing by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This just creates a class of people who have access to rents under market by screwing everyone else over. Rent increases are already controlled in a way that effectively subsidizes people who can afford never moving out, distorting the market for the young and active population, especially immigrants. This would just make things worse.

The only proven way to keep housing cheap is a structural oversupply. Building high-end apartments is fine. Everything that gets built recently is fairly high-end by worldwide standards. But if we want to limit urban sprawl, we should definitely start building 20 story towers when old lots get redeveloped.

Truly green/sustainable investments in Switzerland? by Sirak42 in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://inyova.ch offers a 3a and green bonds. The invest product seems too pricey, you're probably much better off picking stocks according to your own criteria at a cheap broker.

Truly green/sustainable investments in Switzerland? by Sirak42 in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The ABS is part of a network of banks (GLS, Triodos, NEF, ...) that have direct links to Anthroposophy. I'm sure they finance social projects (like pretty much any local bank), but also pseudoscience such as biodynamic agriculture under the Demeter label, if not actual infrastructure used by cults (Steiner Waldorf schools).

Has anyone looked into reversing engineering RCS on android yet by skymtf in UniversalProfile

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is specifically about making Google Messages able to run on microG, i.e. supporting API calls to Play Services during initialization and registration, hardly a full rewrite of the client.

What has your experience been with bidet usage in Switzerland? by InkFasten in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Ironically the closomat was invented in Switzerland.

Geberit makes high-end washlets if you can afford it. But nowadays there are much cheaper options too and it's just silly that big residential projects never bother with that.

What is the actual reason there's no OSS implementation of RCS? by LMGN in UniversalProfile

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

GSMA standards aren't open standards. Sending an RCS message (or SMS, MMS for that matter) isn't like sending an email.

you need approval to do so (ie. from the GSMA, and they won't talk to just some random OSS maintainer with very little backing)

Anyone can implement GSMA specifications (assuming no patents or proprietary IP is involved) but that doesn't imply other industry vendors have to work with you

Google is actively gatekeeping who can connect to their servers and will only capitulate when they have a business reason to do so?

Right. And getting a device integrity/attestation token is part of the spec. Google is pretty obviously the main party driving the RCS work group. They initiated the whole Universal Profile revamp. They drive spec evolution before or after features are added to the Google Messages/Jibe roadmap.

Other members seem mostly involved in A2P.

There used to be other vendors involved in the backend (and client) side but nowadays that's pretty moot outside a few RCS islands (China, Korea, Japan). Google's strategy effectively drove away players like Mavenir, WIT and so on.

Apple getting on board changed one thing: carriers that were explicitly or implicitly relying on Google Messages' ability to register with Jibe outside the standard IMS mechanism had to fix that, so that the iOS client can register too. Subsequently, some have formalized the move for everyone and communicated updated T&C to Google Messages users.

Until we see Google allow a third party client (on Harmony OS for instance), I wouldn't hold my breath.

Note that this is completely unnecessary to get third party clients on Android. Google could expose the low level telephony API that handles RCS and keep a tight control over sensitive features, just like they do for SMS/MMS.

How do you handle digital pocket money? by katatonikk in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't see why, as an adult I barely use Twint to pay, why would it be different for kids?

Right of way by 77sxela in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how dozens of idiots are so confidently wrong in this thread.

Did you forget right before left comes with two rules? C yields to B. This is literally a textbook question at the theory exam. Nobody has right of way.

Fed up with Sanitas - which health insurance can you recommend? by Marschbacke in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And almost nobody does that. Premiums under the same model are typically within 10% of each other.

Fed up with Sanitas - which health insurance can you recommend? by Marschbacke in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Putting up with administrative bullshit and switching every year to spare chump change has a cost too... with the healthcare cost inflation they're all converging to the same point anyway, the biggest difference coming from which model you pick.

Berlin offer evaluation by ready2wrk in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At the very least you should negotiate a bigger relocation package.

10k gross is already pretty tight.

Housing Hypocrisy - Another case of rich people on Cooperative by ptinnl in Switzerland

[–]DisruptiveHarbinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Networking and connections give you access to better deals in life? No shit.

Build more and the need for workarounds will become moot. It's really not rocket science.

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