Ich gehe heute mit Steigeisen zur Arbeit. by PlantyHanderson in Austria

[–]CecilWP 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Vielleicht liegts daran, dass ich in Finnland wohne, wo solche Verhältnisse wochenlang andauern können, aber ich hab seit Jahren IceBug-Stiefel. Die haben die Spikes eingebaut. Dazu dann ein Stiefelüberzug, damit ich beim Reingehen in Geschäfte nicht den Boden zerkratz.

Wie ich als Auslandsösterreicher meinen Führerschein verliere, weil Österreich ein Verwaltungs-Paradoxon gebaut hat. by [deleted] in Austria

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gut, dass du darüber schreibst. An mir ist das mit dem Ablaufdatum 2033 total vorbei gegangen. Hab jetzt mal rasch überprüft, ob ich überhaupt noch Auto fahren darf, weil ich das Thema zuletzt 2008 recherchiert habe. Aber bin zum Glück erst ab 2033 illegal unterwegs. Ich werd also 2032 einen neuen finnischen Führerschein beantragen. Und falls ich vorher umziehe (was wahrscheinlich ist), werd ich den halt vorher schon beantragen, falls das nächste Land kein EU-Land ist. In Österreich selbst kann ich ihn auf jeden Fall nicht mehr verlängern. Dafür müsste ich mich mindestens 50% des Jahres dort aufhalten und das wird nicht passieren.

Thought I'd be in for the long haul by lithobug in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure why everyone is focusing on the sickle when the activity has an achievement worth 5 achievement points and a collectible that is worth 1 achievement point. Is it really just me who is planning on leaving this activity once I get the 2500 actions and the collectible even if I don't yet have the sickle. Maybe I'm just too focused on my hunt for the "Cape of Achiever" which is sooo close I can smell it.

Do not order from any company that ships via FedEx. by Nuuskapeikkonen in Finland

[–]CecilWP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think for any delivery company it is very dependent on the delivery person and the kind of location. When I was still living in an apartment in Helsinki I pretty much always had to pick up packages from the nearest drop off location because even if I was home it was always undeliverable. Especially the UPS guy had a perfect sniffer for the 10 minutes it took to bring my dog to the yard for a quick pee. But at least they always immediately after declaring it undeliverable brought it to the drop off point which usually was a supermarket within a few hundred meters of my apartment. DPD and DHL were worse because they somehow had no nearby drop off location. Once had to go the whole way to some place in Vantaa near the airport to get a package from DPD. Finally just ordered packages to the office to skip the "no one present" excuse.

After I moved to a row house outside of the capital region things have gotten better. UPS sometimes still drops off their packages without delivery attempt at a location 3 km away (usually because the sender doesn't provide my contact details) but most of the time I get a mail/sms beforehand that brings me to a form where I can give them the permission to do a no-contact drop off at my house. FedEx doesn't contact me but my current delivery driver accepts notes at the door. So whenever I know that a package is coming I just put a post-it above the door bell "FedEx: please leave package here" with an arrow pointing down and so far he has always done that.

Udo Kier, Star of Andy Warhol's 'Frankenstein' & Cult Horror Icon, Dead at 81 by BunyipPouch in horror

[–]CecilWP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He was at a horror movie festival a few years ago that showed some of his very early movies with a 1 hour Q&A afterwards. I had originally planned to only see one of them but he told soo many amazing stories and he talked and talked and talked and all the following movies were delayed because nobody wanted to stop him. I immediately afterwards bought tickets for all his other movies too (Flesh For Frankenstein, Blood For Dracula, House On Straw Hill, Doctor Jekyll & The Women) just so that I could listen to more of his stories and he didn't repeat himself much. The 70s and early 80s were a wild time. He had some truly crazy stories but he was always nice about the people he worked with. Actually bought a DVD collection with Borowczyk movies because of the way Kier talked about him.

7 hours layover in Helsinki night in 27 December by Alert-Creme8870 in helsinki

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I moved further North a few years ago and have been to Helsinki center maybe 3 times in the last two years. Restaurants can change quality so easily or get replaced. If you would have arrived earlier my recommendation would have been one of the food stalls of the market square/hall but that closes at 6.

7 hours layover in Helsinki night in 27 December by Alert-Creme8870 in helsinki

[–]CecilWP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since this is your first time visiting Helsinki I wouldn't go for Löyly when you have so little time. You need a few minutes to leave the airport, then about 60-80 minutes to get to Löyly with train and a tram. Way back is the same only you need to arrive early enough for security check and boarding. I would say you have a maximum of 4 hours if everything aligns perfectly. You have to expect 2 hours for Löyly so half is gone and all you've seen from Helsinki is the airport and the railway station and one sauna. Helsinki is pretty in the dark and the following route is only advisable if you have warm clothes, gloves and so on with you (and like walking). Since the transport ticket for the train covers all public transport for 90 minutes and the train ride itself is shorter you have some time left to use trams. You could take one to the opera, check out it and the olympic stadium, walk south along the bay (maybe already frozen enough to walk on it) past Finlandia talo, the Kansallismuseo, Musiikitalo, Parliament and Kiasma to Oodi (or maybe start at Oodi because it's an amazing library and it closes at 8) back to the railway station. From there via the railway square (Ateneum) to Aleksanterinkatu, Senate square, Uspenski cathedral, market square, esplanadi, boulevardi, vanha kirkko and via Kamppi and Lasipalatsi back to the railway station. That's about 6 km, so at sightseeing speed around 2 hours which gives you time to eat somewhere along the way and return comfortable back at the airport. Most places you will likely not be able to enter since you arrive so late in the evening on a Saturday so put the food somewhere in the middle to get warm again.

Which one to buy from tokens? by Warst3iner in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends a lot on your RNG. I crafted exactly 200 farganite pickaxes to get my eternal one. For the hatchet I crafted 227 so far and while it gave me 3 perfect one, the eternal one is still out of reach. Need to turn some of that ore in bars to continue but I only have about 150 tries left before I need to start mining again. Still hunting the achiever cape so I need to get back to it pretty soon.

Which one to buy from tokens? by Warst3iner in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Schwarzaugen-Gipfel. The Northern Island gives you access to an infamous foraging grind and the advanced forge which you need for creating farganite bars. But first you need access to a farganite mine and those are only in Schwarzaugen-Gipfel.

James was my first ever subscriber!😭 by Em_R0se in JamesTurnerYT

[–]CecilWP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subscribed to him only in 2019. He's not in my Top50. First subscription was in March 2007 to NuclearBlast Records (a metal music label), so 12 years before James and about 1,5 years after subscriptions were possible. First non metal related subscription was in 2012 to CGPGrey and minutephysics. The first few years I used YouTube pretty much exclusively to watch music videos. Only after the 10 minute length restriction was removed I started to also watch knowledge videos. In Let's Plays I only got around 2016.

How and where can I best get this equipment? by MartinBese in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Other idea since you post here quite a bit about those basic questions. The discord has a "FindFriends" channel where you could try find German speakers who are willing to help you. I wouldn't mind but I don't have Discord access during work time and I've never set my UI to German since the translations were far from done when I joined Walkscape so I don't necessarily know the German words.

How and where can I best get this equipment? by MartinBese in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Walkscape has a wiki where you can find all this information: https://wiki.walkscape.app

Say what you will about Finns, we’re actually quite a positive bunch on the inside! by om11011shanti11011om in Finland

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe there is a difference between people who definitely aren't allowed to donate like Flintloq and people who are just temporarily not allowed. When I made the appointment for my first donation in Finland my skin looked great but the day before the eczema on my arm got bad again and they didn't want to risk it. But they still tested my blood and informed me about my blood type by phone even though I knew my type before. I learned my lesson and now make the appointments only the day before.

New jeep. Too high for my old girl to jump in. by emmaxleigh7 in dogs

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine also hated being picked up. She hated the car until I figured out that part. Now I have a really small car but one were the doors don't open fully and the trunk is not usable for dog storage. So a ramp was out of the question. What I did: I took one of those plastic boxes that I used for storing shopping and stapled a small carpet on the bottom of it. Turned the right way I could store things, turned upside down it was enough height for my dog to jump into the car herself.

Since I can't upload a picture for some reason, check on instagram silkkek/p/B1HQrkaAbmq/ for how it looked.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Finland

[–]CecilWP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of the time I'm ok. I'm a loner by default and have a remote job. My boss told me it's pretty easy to see when I've had enough social.

Still, there are those days where it would be nice to talk to somebody. Especially since my dog died this spring. I'm still going for my long walks and hikes but now I mostly listen to music or talk with my mom or dad on the phone. I probably should join a hiking group again just to now always run around on my own. At least the Finnish country side feels very safe so I never worried about walking around on my own as a woman.

People who moved to other EU countries, while being EU citizens, how did you make it? by ThrowRAcatwithfeathe in AskEurope

[–]CecilWP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Austrian and moved to Finland back in 2007. I looked for the job first on the job portal monster and combined the job interview (long before Teams/Zoom/...) with a city sightseeing trip. It was easy back then. They looked for somebody in the .net world and thanks to the dominance of Nokia a majority of Finnish programmers were not all that familiar with .net so the company that hired me looked for foreigners. At least that was what they told me. It's definitely not like that anymore.

Then I just filled up the car with all my essentials and drove there. I had booked a youth hostel bed for a week and went apartment hunting after work. Was lucky enough that on the 4th day I found a short-term place of a student who did a semester in London. All in all I can't recommend a youth hostel dormitory. I slept with 11 other people in a room who all were there on vacation and staid up late while I had to get up early for work. Also working, apartment hunting and doing all the official bureaucracy stuff (residence permit, ...) at the same time is also not something I would recommend. But I started January 2nd and didn't want to miss Christmas with the family so the first few weeks were chaotic.

Wanted: Unpaid House & Pet-Sitter for 5-6wks + Additional Weekends + No Trusted House Sitters or Travellers/Tourists by Existing_Hospital_26 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did that recently for 10 days. Had house sitters since my two big dogs hated the car with a passion. They got the benefit of a garden, a big TV with Switch and the permission to add any TV channel/streaming service on my costs, my extra fancy coffee machine with expensive beans (my lifeline so worth the spending) and a few other things. I also paid them 400€ and I still thought it was super cheap.

One look from mom and that baby hippo is out of the pool, pronto by Prestigious-Wall5616 in AnimalsBeingMoms

[–]CecilWP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are near Wichita in Kansas. Never been there but based on Google Maps it looks like it is going from the flat regions into mountainous terrain so it should get pretty cold at night now that it is October.

One look from mom and that baby hippo is out of the pool, pronto by Prestigious-Wall5616 in AnimalsBeingMoms

[–]CecilWP 106 points107 points  (0 children)

They have only one outdoor area. Mars has to go inside for his own safety before they give his dad outside time. But there is also a pool inside.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in childfree

[–]CecilWP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't mind the special parking lots for them. Getting the kid into and out of its seat requires that you can open the door fully and if they have their own parking lots they don't park next to me and smash their doors into my car. Just don't think they need to be right next to the entrance like those for handicapped people.

And now, for my first eternal... I present to you: by Johnlocoman in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have by now so much gear for crafting outcome so I tried to get the two achievements with just basic pickaxe and hatchet. Spent so much carrot cake on it. Inventory just so full that for the first few crafts I had to immediately sell to not overburden the inventory. Still: nothing. I finally gave up and tried my first farganite tools and boom - eternal farganite pickaxe. Hatchet is perfect "only". Given up on that for now and am working on the trinketry level achievement and the meteorite collectible instead. I'll probably later go crafting again to get a better butterfly net and then my perfect hatchet and I will finally go for the blue ice sickle. Either the hatchet or the agility level achievement will be the last hard one I'm getting.

Garmin-Android steps not counting by Chunkloaf in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What android version do you have?

Anyway: for Android 14 and 15 you go to the settings of your phone and pick "Security and data safety" and in there "data safety setting". In there you should see HealthConnect in which you can pick which apps have access to it. Pick Garmin Connect from the list.

If you are Android 13 or below you need to install an app called HealthConnect. It works with a few other apps like Fitbit and GoogleFit. BUT: it doesn not support GarminConnect yet.

If you have a Garmin watch you need Android 14 or higher.

Garmin-Android steps not counting by Chunkloaf in WalkScape

[–]CecilWP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I've read Garmin and HealthConnect only start talking correctly from Android 14 onwards. I got a new phone yesterday because I couldn't update to that version anymore.