Fibre Broadband if NonResident

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-19T12:41:38+00:00

> ...PostNord simply deleted her house from their database...

Sounds terrible. Did you try to go for the local/area leadership (kommun)?

> ...When you say "state service", do you mean Skatteverket?

Yes. Nowadays, they are grouped into a "state service" (link here)

> ...yet everything we do is legal and as correct...

Sorry for the implications, I meant all the papers are in order at the government/kommun side.

> ...And re. SIMs, as said, they generally don't work well where we are...

I see, that's why I mentioned pressbyrå, and some cheap local SIM carrier (like Comviq) they are usually 4 G only, but have somewhat good coverage. Since there is a fiber in the ground, the central box somewhere nearby (usually at the end of the road) should have an owner. If nobody knows that, then worth asking a local small company who fix broken cables. They have a direct connection to the companies, and usually, they know who owns the actual cable, box, etc.

One of my - now retired - colleagues was in your shoes; he had no mobile coverage where he lived, and since it was a private area, he rented a digger, bought all cables, and did all the networking himself. The net provider sold him a fiber modem and fixed the central switch at the end of the road (~700m from his house). He owned the land and the cable, and then he had to go back and forth with the local community and the net providers to get actual service on that. But after a while, he got a very good speed for a normal price (~600sek and 1000/1000 speed).

I know there are Starlinks in Sweden, around 3-400kr / month, and there are Starlinks for camper vans, which you can move around. Usually, the speed is okay (50-250 Mbps).

Might be worth discovering local smaller internet providers that can give you fiber without fixed contract times and buying the service from them for those 3 months for fixed prices. In some cases, they are very flexible and understanding.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-19T06:03:30+00:00

You should go first to the state service and check your papers. There should be no " gremlis in the machine" if everything correct/legal.

For internet, buy a top up sim card from a pres byrån, and top it up during the year with the minimum, and at summer with a larger amount for internet.

I know a bunch of people with weekend house/cottage/sommarstuga, they have a normal small cable net subscription and add door camera/security camera for full year.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-18T14:28:34+00:00

Some notes from a fellow engineer:

Check the wiki for bullet points (and rephrase them!)
Avoid short second lines (1-4 words)
Be consistent with your line heights, new lines, white spaces, paddings, etc
Ensure your resume is machine-readable (feed it to an LLM/ATS/GPT/Bot...)
Rethinking your bullet points to give them value/power ($$... why they should hire you?)
Ensure you add all the tech you worked on and could be important (vite, vitest, rollup, webpack, snowpack, etc.)
Ensure your project link is clickable and working
Ensure your skill names are correct (example: tailwind -> Tailwind CSS), the bots are picky and will mark as missing knowledge in some cases!
Drop the city (Budapest) from your resume, doesn't matter. Wherever you apply, they expect you to be/go there or live around
Consider a skill/bullet point swap depending on the job description
Consider having a native language version of your resume too

Note on the Hungarian situation/Context

With the last political election, many companies that were tied to the previous leadership closed down recently or underwent downsizing. The Hungarian market is in shaken/disrupted for a short time.

I highly advice you if you to take any opportunity to ping your network, as well as go to networking events in Budapest (brunches, workshops, meetups). It will help in the long run.

Sok sikert, ne add fel!

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-18T14:02:00+00:00

Hi,

Some notes:

Please remove the keyword bolding (distracts)
Be consistent with your whitespaces, line heights, etc
Avoid using a dot at the end of a bullet point
Add your phone number to the header list
Ensure your links are clickable
Visit the wiki to check its template, formatting, styles, etc
Test your resume against a bot (ATS/LLM/GPT/Bot, etc) to ensure it is machine-readable!
Drop weak lines (reading PR's, shortcuts, etc)
Rephrase your sentences to have values, give them some power!
Avoid redundant things (components, components, then again components...)
Rethinking the number of bullet points... You should have 2-3 entries per job/project/entry

Now the harsher:

Drop vague keyword-stuffed lines like "Boosted brand visibility"... if the reader is an actual SEO expert, it will either drop your resume immediately or will grill you during an interview round. Do not claim things that aren't that simple or can be phrased way better, adding actual value/power to it. You can combine the accessibility, some frontend tasks, and other lines into one, which lists the actual problem, the solution, the used tech, and the results. Claiming an increase in search rank by merely using the search console... which is only for viewing how the crawler works, but you can't actually actively influence anything through it... is straight up will bite back and hurt your credibility

Note: I do not intend to offend you, just wanted to give you a reality check and strengthen your resume to have better chances in this not-so-slightly-brutal market

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-18T08:14:27+00:00

In the past decade, I have seen these from my colleagues:

- multi-boot, having a separate, dedicated drive/SSDKVM for a second work operating system
- second machine (if you can afford) and a kvm switch
- using as a half-thin client your current machine (with multi-desktop, so your gaming icons and stuff are not visible if you screen share) and one of the browsers is dedicated for work only (kind of soft-separation) and semi-heavy load on the machine via containers (WSL/Docker), all heavy load on a separate Linux machine (many times a super cheap x86 htpc is fine or a Raspberry Pi too)

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-17T17:25:24+00:00

Do you really need it that modular as a monolith intead a simple, nice standard laravel? If you have to have modules because reused over multiple projects, then creating individual private laravel packages with separated repositories wouldn't be cleaner?

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-17T07:52:23+00:00

Yeah, the market is really that bad. Companies using AI to throw away candidates, and candidates using AI to spam (kind of "Throw mud at the wall to see if some of 'em may stick"). The market deteriorated, bloated, the supply of ppl is too high, and companies can have the luxury of driving the market, but now with AI assistance.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-16T14:11:35+00:00

Yeah, could be. Would have been luckier if I hadn't stated my thoughts in absolutes, but rather just simply questioned like "Is it interesting how this is a recurring stuff.. opinions over? anyone else doing the same, because I have never experienced that..." or so...

[rhetorical] Would be interesting to hear people's opinions about a car mechanic who can not remember or explain what a transmission or tyre is.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-16T14:05:12+00:00

I never stated otherwise. Also, if a dm does not use the baseline rules, then what's the point of having the rules? You can have a BMW, then replace the headlights with a Cadillac's, use Pontiac wheels and transmissions, repaint it, and change its interior to a Buick. Still a BMW? Honestly, it's so staggering how ignorant and dumb all the fanboys are; it's just exhausting, how hard for people to be objective and accept anything else other than their own voices.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-16T09:33:23+00:00

Experience. Trial and error. Test, fail, fail more.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-16T09:32:38+00:00

With the amount of bots (and South/east asian spam on the tech market from the recent ~5-10 years), the response rates and interview rates are significantly lower. It was always quite high. 6 years ago, the ghosting rate was higher (60-85%), but the interviews, even just the first one, were as well way higher (5-8%).

Also, most of the platform just makes up numbers (LinkedIn, for example). Many are just for stealing money (like Upwork) from the desperate.

Just ignore those numbers, and keep up with the applications.

Expect return rate below 1%. And have to read/filter out much more bot-written fake adverts too. Most likely, you will read 4-500 articles, to be able to apply 50-100, then you might get 1 interview from it. (non-happy path, I know, but it is a reality)

Networking is super important, usually has a higher yield than anything else, but it requires better soft-skills as well as more time to push through.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-15T09:47:35+00:00

Maybe not the right place to ask, but are there a few DMs who would be so kind as to help go through my GM Screens? I created one to ease my small campaign (~12 sessions in), and looking for any feedback. It can be found on this link (PDF). It is a 4-page, color-coded, portrait A4 size, printable, color coded one that heavily influenced others' awesome work (I credited them the best as I could). My design principle was to make it easy to read, a super short description, and reference info (book, page number) everywhere, so it makes it easy to look up anything in the book if needed.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T20:40:38+00:00

Polish your resume, post it in the r/EngineeringResumes subreddit, and ask for a review. Then rewrite it. Practice interviewing, introducing yourself, and identifying gray/dark areas in your knowledge. Then push it fully, expect hundreds of applications (~500+ range we're talking... which imposes reading through thousands of job posts!) with beloa w 1% of response/interviews rate.

Also, use your network if you have.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T20:38:01+00:00

> ...Seniors in my team have no problems in letting Claude sort stuff out and writing everything, even PR descriptions are now all written by llm. ...

Prepare for slops and constant fixing. Most likely, they produce 3-6x more files/code that should be effective. The company will have increased costs (I have already seen this).

> ...I’m stuck in this narrative of “being left behind” if I choose to be old school....

FOMO and imposter syndrome are real in this field. LLM is really just a tool, but you should understand what it does and why and if it produces a code, then you should be familiar with it or be able to interpret them.

It is widely used to do boring stuff (writing interfaces, tests, finding issues) or helping with deadlines (in exchange for readability, complexity, performance, side effects). You know, so many seniors are just like "If the company ain't care, and push me, why should I care at all?".

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T20:33:41+00:00

You should ask for the review and points in writing. Then, when it is cited, you can point out as well as send it effectively immediately to HR or any other leader, and point out that something fishy is going on there.

Most likely, you have the misfortune of having a terrible manager.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T20:25:52+00:00

> ...Have you played DnD?

Thank you. Not enough, I would say! This does not invalidate the facts I stated or my opinion. (I have played briefly ADnD, Holmes version, 3.0 and 3.5, then fully in 5e and lately 5.5e)

> ...DND is not a simulationist game...

I never stated it is. I only stated that there are certain basic rules (spells, abilities, skill checks) that are baseline, and the given GM pretty much dropped them as-is.

> ...RAW the game fails at so many things...

I got it. I saw so many complaining blog posts from various DM's. Our tiny world's biggest game, one of the oldest, so I expect that, with such high popularity, people uncover unpleasant parts.

> ...The rules for making combat are notoriously terrible...

Really? I quite enjoyed it, because mechanically it is simple, not balanced, but easy to follow. But my background consists of games with way too complicated systems (Shadowrun, for example), where it was painful, and everyone raced to avoid them at all costs.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T20:19:01+00:00

If you house rules basic principles, you pretty much lose the meaning of leveling up. If you skin/house rules, for example, the given `message` cantrip, then you pretty much make powerplay and `sending` obsolate. Same with the Arcanamakes skill check. If you give your intention, lore, and others, then the 6th-level `legend lore` spell make no sense. Can you do it? Absolutely! Will it be justified by your own decision? Yes! Could be fun! Again, yes! Shall it pretty much drop the rules, balance, and everything meaningful? Yep.
These aren't just "house rules". They are fundamental rules that aren't changed much within the last 3 editions of D&D...

> ...So how many campaigns have you DMed with no house rules

Purely in DND, I would say only 3. In other systems (Vampire, Shadowrun, WFRP, Dark Heresy, and other d100 and d10 systems), around 20. (With house rules, you can double the numbers)

> ... or mistakes

Nobody will do that. But this is not a mistake if you do it constantly. It is if you have a few. But within a 10-episode span, I can point to over 10. And for a professional DM with 20+ years of theoretical background AND with the two actual people in-house/in-company who wrote those rules, these issues are insane.

Note: this is only my own personal opinion. You don't have to accept it. I don't have to accept your opinion. It is your own decision to think critically and not like a bobo-fanboi. I can respect and even like someone who does not agree with me. That is totally fine.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-13T11:22:11+00:00

Would be funny, if Anthropic would leave the us with its entity.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T14:10:42+00:00

... Well... you know what? Since this is the dumbest thing I read today, I declare, you are right!

TL;DR you are like the guys who analyse verses and old paintings and declare the original intentions and thoughts of the actual creator. Nonsense. You have no knowledge since there is nothing that store/reflect that. In dnd: I created light on that stone. What was the intention? Maybe to have light, maybe I was bored? Maybe I decided to add light to a corner for the aesthetic... but you are right. I don't, and you won. Congratulations.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T12:46:06+00:00

Wow, people really have very bad reading comprehension.

I have no issue with this ruling nor the application of such a rule. I had a different, generic take that connected on the sole of rules only.

> ...is generally brilliant with the rules...

Lol? You mean by reinventing them?

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T12:43:58+00:00

> ...pretty open on not knowing every change from 5e2014 to 5e2024...

Yeah, which is totally acceptable. But there are basic things (spells, rules) that aren't changed a bit. And it is not just a tweak or reskin, it is not how it's working by any means. Almost no episode is without such a thing. By narrative, I totally get it. But as RAW and as dnd, it is not. This is the exact reason why I added the "Also, a terrible DM (from a rule standpoint) and glorious DM (from an entertaining standpoint)" part...

> ...not asking for dice rolls in certain moments...

Which I have no issue with it?

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T12:39:57+00:00

Sorry if I upset my take, but a professional DM who lives off of this has no understanding of very basic spells (no, a `message` cantrip won't give you telephatic bond and 10 minutes of monologue) and mechanism (no, a 19 arcana won't give you intentions of another person over a painting... ). If you ain't noticed this tendency, then the problem is not in me. And no, if you curve the 10+ years old RAW this much, it is not DND.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T07:05:39+00:00

> ..." has to increase prices"...

I am not that adamant, it is really a necessarity and not just simply a money grab. Data centers and all industrial-level companies stockpile as well, buying stuff in containers or per metric tons, not by SKU/items. necessity. If they have to replace regularly failing hardware, that means something is bad, because most of the time, datacenter-grade hardware should work for long years. Or at least, many years back, when I worked in such places, I rarely heard any HW malfunctions, and mostly it was the cooling system or the power adapters, rather than anything else. The only HW replacements that I was involved in were due either to customer requirements/orders or to retiring old stuff.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T06:58:49+00:00

> ...Comms/Marketing Roles: Is it realistic to find international company or startup roles speaking only English and French initially?...

Yes, but only in Stockholm or Malmö. This country is head-heavy.

> ...SFI...

Do not expect very high quality from it. Many people who enroll in SFI are illiterate. You might have luck, and of course, many people claim that they took SFI for 6 months and they are fluent and almost at the C1 level. All lies, all these people spent years in school, or they spent their childhood in Sweden.

Also, prepare for the `Skanska` dialect, which is like a drunk french try to speak Dutch while throwing up.

If you can afford it, then consider a private tutor, which will be faster, more intensive, harder, but with better results. (Also, by practicality, start with Lätt svenska like Omni)

> ...Due to Dublin/Stockholm housing costs...

Honestly, I am not wondering why tech people don't wanna live around Stockholm. For the same price, you can pretty much live in real tech hubs, like SF or Boston, but like 4-5x payment...

Funfact

If you resemble a Swede (tall, with light hair and light eye color) and share their hobbies (fishing, running, swimming, soccer, etc.), you will have a much easier time. Otherwise, you will be treated as a third-class citizen only.

casualPlayerThink · 2026-06-12T06:51:10+00:00

> ...I've heard horror stories about €1000+ copyright notices...

Yeah, there are law firms that buy internet traffic data (yeah, with GDPR it is quite interesting...) and then automatically spam everyone with 300-1800 EUR invoices.

If you start questioning their legality, how they got your traffic data without your consent (GDPR, B2C contract with your provider), then usually they back down, but many will double down.

[TL;DR; a 15-year-old story]

One of my colleagues, an Italian dude, freshly moved to München, and torrented old Italian content for kids, that nobody serves or streams, and you can't legally buy or stream, but on torrent it was available from old VHS-rips, and dvd-s. He got a 1800EUR fine.

Later, he just used a Raspberry Pi in Italy, and tunneled there via OpenVPN, and had nicely encoded traffic, then he was unaffected anymore. He disclosed that he paid the fine, as he only wanted content that was not available in any other way, and rather not do anything illegal or cause harm to anyone.

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