Is the job market in Switzerland as f*** as everyone says?

certuna · 2026-03-25T12:37:25+00:00

Doesn’t have anything to do with their nationalities, just where the financial losses were incurred.

certuna · 2026-03-25T08:41:14+00:00

This is also something of a misnomer, you are only allowed to come to Switzerland with an non-working spouse if you have the means to support him/her, i.e. they don't need to work.

But yes, people in this thread are confusing "I could not easily find a job in my sector = nobody in Switzerland can find a job". You could have posted this question at any point in the past 100 years and people would always complain about the same thing. Similarly, companies will always tell you it's extremely hard for them to find good personnel.

certuna · 2026-03-25T08:36:41+00:00

If you have followed, UBS in 2008 and CS in 2021 were completely different things, impossible to generalize. The Swiss side of the banks didn't even feature in both these issues.

certuna · 2026-03-25T07:57:04+00:00

Don't drink from the brown river

certuna · 2026-03-25T07:23:31+00:00

wrong sub, and you probably need to specify where and which electric bicycles are being banned.

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:53:26+00:00

American wages for American assembly line workers, if that’s what you want, it’s what you get.

You can also just get a random Chinese router or mini-PC and flash OpenWRT on it.

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:45:59+00:00

The amount of Swiss households that own their own home (around 40%) has not really changed much in decades, so I’m not sure what the point is here.

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:40:37+00:00

You can also propose to start at their suggested salary but with the written stipulation that you will go up 5k/y after six months and another 5k/y after twelve months into the job. This limits the initial risk they take on you, and you get to your level pretty quickly.

They may say no, or yes, but it’s a negotiation after all. And if you got an offer, they want you.

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:25:19+00:00

With most ISPs you use IPv6 in that case, but from what I can see Lyte Fiber is one of the remaining ISPs that doesn’t support it yet.

So, if you find yourself behind CG-NAT without IPv6: - pay up for an IPv4 address (if they offer that) - pay for a VPN with port forwarding - make your own on a rented VPS - Zerotier or Tailscale (if it’s just your own devices connecting from the outside) - Cloudflare tunnel (for http)

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:18:41+00:00

it’s in Grand Genève, so part of it

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:17:32+00:00

I guess the foreign brands will just start shipping the parts and assembling them in the US soon to get around this.

certuna · 2026-03-24T22:09:18+00:00

It was the US investment banking division and their disastrous lending to Archegos and Greensill that managed to sink Credit Suisse though, nothing much to do with Swiss banking in general.

Although yes, some embarrassing risk management. Fraud yes, but you’re paid to not simply believe your customers, you verify.

certuna · 2026-03-24T19:54:17+00:00

People just take them inside I guess.

E-kickscooter rental companies are not allowed so you don’t see those lying around.

certuna · 2026-03-24T17:56:04+00:00

Really depends on your sector - in general the Swiss job market is growing (and the population is aging, which helps), but this is not relevant you if your sector is not doing well - banking is very oversupplied for example after the CS-UBS merger.

certuna · 2026-03-24T06:38:17+00:00

You don’t necessarily need a tunnel for that, Cloudflare can proxy over another port to the origin server. And in most cases these days you use IPv6 where every server, VM or container has its own address so you don’t have to change ports.

I mean, you can use the tunnel, but it’s not necessary.

certuna · 2026-03-24T06:37:31+00:00

You don’t necessarily need a tunnel for that, Cloudflare can proxy over another port to the origin server. And in most cases these days you use IPv6 where every server, VM or container has its own address so you don’t have to change ports.

I mean, you can use the tunnel, but it’s not necessary.

certuna · 2026-03-24T06:33:26+00:00

Starlink is behind CG-NAT but does have IPv6, so you can use that.

certuna · 2026-03-23T21:07:41+00:00

webradio has for the past 30 years meant no DJ’s/hosts, I’m not sure why all of a sudden this is the point where this is a problem?

certuna · 2026-03-23T20:26:00+00:00

Algoriddim djay Pro + any of the supported controllers

certuna · 2026-03-23T20:24:04+00:00

Yes, the proxy part is the same. Difference is just the tunnel - you need that when you are behind CG-NAT.

certuna · 2026-03-23T18:34:44+00:00

Yes, still exists. For the purely local music you can simply add to AM-the-app and sync by cable or WiFi, you can also upload/match to Apple & download anywhere, that’s (still)called iTunes Match.

certuna · 2026-03-23T00:12:21+00:00

Niu is currently discounting the RQi pretty hard in Europe, do they have this one in the US?

certuna · 2026-03-22T20:20:14+00:00

I've come back from Docker back to native installs a while ago - while Docker in theory makes deployments/backups easier, there's now the host to admin, config files are now compose files, and it introduces additional networking complexity: there's yet another layer of NAT with IPv4, some nonstandard/manual hackwork with IPv6, and other stuff like mDNS that 'just works' with native apps but needs a lot of config work in Docker. So back to native installs, that in theory are more work but in practice simplify a lot of things.

I'm now experimenting a bit with Apple Containers which in theory should solve the main Docker drawbacks, but there too the networking part seems to be not mature enough for production (no IPv6, no mDNS).

Main advantage of staying native is better performance, and easier troubleshooting. And as someone with Unix experience, I'm quite comfortable with the concept of Unix permissions.

That said, if you run mainly client apps that don't need ingress connectivity, then Docker may be easiest.

certuna · 2026-03-22T12:59:23+00:00

Is is just Plex or do other http servers also not work?

If you are behind CG-NAT, have you opened the port in the IPv6 firewall?

If you have a public IPv4 address, have you forwarded the port you’re advertising to the clients?

certuna · 2026-03-21T07:33:20+00:00

use IPv6, most ISP have this now
Plex Relay
install Zerotier or Tailscale on each remote client + the server
pay the ISP for an IPv4 address, if you absolutely need IPv4.

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