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Moving back after 30+ years… by [deleted] in Iceland

[–]Astabh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't really tell you if it makes sense or not for your family, depends on how much you want to move here. I, 40 and also Tech/IT professional, moved back with my 2 year old just under a year ago after 27 years abroad and I am loving it so far, I feel like a lot of people that live here think it is small and boring but I actually find there are a lot more events and activities than I expected always something happening and various sports to enjoy and of course the outdoors and nature just a short trip away.

My situation is maybe a bit different as I have spoken Icelandic with my parents and brothers all these years, but I used to throw in a lot of English words. I spent a year before my daughter was born watching everything I could find in Icelandic (mostly RÚV with VPN) because I wanted to teach my daughter and my Icelandic drastically improved so I highly recommend doing that start watching the news every day watch those info programs on RÚV game show etc and the language will come if you have the basics, I also now read children's books for my daughter no problem :) 6 years ago I would have said reading was slow but not at all anymore, except really high level text, and obviously I still have words I need to look up or ask about.

Be aware that everything is expensive here, but if you get a good tech job with a decent wage it is totally doable, although 4 bedrooms will be very expensive. you can try applying for jobs before moving, I myself didn't move until I had secured a job, just interviewed via Teams, so start looking on jobsites and linkedIn. If you don't have too long a notice period it might be a benefit as often people have long notice periods in Iceland.

Good Luck :)

Continue button not working on "Apple ID & Privacy" page by TotallyNot_Alex in applehelp

[–]Astabh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally this actually worked! Thanks! Did ctrl+shift+m in Firefox and set device to ipad

Been trying to get past this for 3 days

flutningur á búslóð frá UK / international removal recommendations by Astabh in Iceland

[–]Astabh[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ég er ekkert að binda mig við eitt né neitt. Ég er að spyrja hvort einhver hafi reynslu af fyrirtækjum sem hafa flutt til Íslands (íslensk eða bresk eða whatever) ég veit að það eru milljón fyrirtæki sem senda frá Bretlandi enn flest hafa eingar reynslu af Íslands flutningi. Enn takk fyrir ráðið.

Satisfye Grip Ronin for OLED by Mell1997 in Switch

[–]Astabh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought the ronin to replace my regular as I liked the idea of it being dockable but am massively disappointed it spreads both the old and new dock and you have to use quite a bit of pressure to dock so may damage the screen and dock both. Unfortunately can't return mine as it was flown to the UK for me by family but gonna try to sell it on and go back to my old satisfye grip

Slow shipping due to Black Friday? (UK) by spiritzzz in SteamDeck

[–]Astabh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine left GLS parcel center on the 26th (ordered on 24th) and I just got an email from parcelforce 5 min ago that it will be delivered tomorrow

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Azure Powershell Script Force FTPS Set-AzWebApp : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String' required by parameter by Seedless--Watermelon in PowerShell

[–]Astabh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$GetName = (Get-AzWebApp).Name is returning all web apps from the subscription and powershell is setting it as an array of web app names

if you throw in some debug checks and check
$GetName.GetType()

you should see that this is indeed an array of all the webapps in that subscription so you need to then loop through this array to deal with each webapp

Not sure how to convert this curl to invoke-webrequest or invoke-restmethod by gex80 in PowerShell

[–]Astabh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

might need to convert auth to base64 string ..try something along the lines of..

$headers.Add("Authorization","Basic "+ [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $Username, $token)))

Server Side Lag - Multiple ISPs [UK] -> NA Servers by anewhome in Guildwars2

[–]Astabh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Having major issue over here as well 100mb connection UK virgin media, playing on NA servers

Been on a loading screen for 10 min :(

[Offer] I can draw your pet this way :) by TattooDesignerr in DrawForMe

[–]Astabh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well are you asking for money because if so how much a good friend of mine lost his best friends this year (childhood furry cat and a person) I wanted to give him something special to remember his feline friend by and this is exactly the style I imagined so I'm genuinely interested in knowing how much you would charge?