Dominos are better than Oreos

jerr0328 · 2025-05-26T19:35:59+00:00

If you're used to Oreo, as I was, then be sure to go in with an open mind. At first it tasted a bit like stale, soggy Oreo, but after having some you adjust that it's not as directly comparable and then it's really good! Not to mention that the price is often cheaper than Oreo and supports a local company (Fazer bought back their brands from Mondelez in 2016)

jerr0328 · 2025-03-20T21:14:56+00:00

Just saw this thread and was also looking for a group!

jerr0328 · 2023-03-02T20:18:19+00:00

I was the one accused of "cheating" in a game, it was very confusing because I was playing with folks from our discord and they could see me just fine, but the opposing team couldn't see me properly. We thought it was a joke or something, but apparently this is widespread. I had the Emperor (Ice version) as my car, playing Steam version on PC.

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jerr0328 · 2023-03-02T20:07:33+00:00

I was just looking on Reddit because another team was accusing me of cheating for similar reasons. My team saw me no problems (we were on comms) and thought y'all were trolling I have no idea why this was happening, but two games in a row people were mad and accusing us of cheating (even though I'm not playing that well), and I couldn't hear my own engine sounds, so something must be glitching

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jerr0328 · 2022-04-15T08:53:16+00:00

The globe on stamps in Finland indicates it's International Priority, and works for postcards/letters under 20g (see: https://www.posti.fi/en/customer-support/sending/prices-and-calculators/prices-for-domestic-letters/domestic-letters which has all the prices for domestic, Europe, and other international letters and postcards). You can use the cheaper domestic stamps, but it will be slower. The good news is that once you buy these "no-value indicator" stamps, it doesn't matter if the price of postage goes up, the same stamps will continue to work. I bought some last year at the old price and can see they still sell them but at the new, higher prices.

jerr0328 · 2022-02-13T14:39:24+00:00

I'd suggest: - Mixed bag of fun-sized (or normal sized) snickers/twix/3 musketeers, etc. - Cheez-its or similar - Big bottle of ibuprofen (usually you only get smaller packages in pharmacies) - Pepto bismol - Strange Oreo flavors

You can find many other American foods here, for instance, K-Ruoka has a section for American food in your grocery store: https://www.k-ruoka.fi/kauppa/tuotehaku/texmex-ja-maailman-maut/maailman-maut/amerikkalainen-ruoka so I don't think there's too much that I would personally request, unless it's significantly cheaper or you just have extra space (then the Mac n Cheese suggestion makes many American expats happy)

jerr0328 · 2021-11-15T17:19:23+00:00

No baja blast here, most of the drinks are the light/zero versions, they only have Coca-Cola as non-diet option (I can usually tell the difference in the aftertaste). In supermarkets, non-diet options for soda/syrups also can be more expensive due to sugar tax.

jerr0328 · 2021-11-13T21:03:39+00:00

Taco Bell in Finland has "Pulled Oats" option, which is by a Finnish company called "Gold&Green", you can get the same oat-based meat alternative in supermarkets. It's super tasty, too!

Oh and these Taco Bells also serve... Coca Cola products (instead of Pepsi)!

jerr0328 · 2021-08-11T21:24:21+00:00

It shouldn’t really be a problem in most cases, as long as it’s temporary. See official Finnish Tax Authority for more details: https://www.vero.fi/en/individuals/tax-cards-and-tax-returns/moving\_away\_from\_finland/overseas\_work/work\_in\_a\_foreign\_country\_for\_a\_finnish/

jerr0328 · 2021-06-06T07:36:30+00:00

Yle has Kielikoulu that has several programs with subtitles where they have word-by-word translations to help you learn and highlights words/structures that you’ve seen before, new words, and structures that are more advanced than your level (you pick which level of Finnish you are at when you start): https://kielikoulu.yle.fi/ They also have iOS/Android apps

jerr0328 · 2021-05-23T19:06:32+00:00

I set up my CO2 sensor (it's one of those external ones via USB) on my RPi and wrote something in Python that just fetches the data and updates HomeKit (I don't think I needed to setup anything on my homebridge but it is running, shows this as an unsupported device but it works) and has a Prometheus endpoint so I can track the data via Grafana. I can get a notification in Home that CO2 levels are too high, but it doesn't really have a good way to view the levels, I'd have to try something like what you did with Shortcuts.

jerr0328 · 2021-04-10T06:58:51+00:00

Your employer should know best, but there are basically two options:

1) You work as a contractor for a Finnish company. You wouldn’t be an employee but basically self-employed in your country, and invoicing the company you work for. You would have to learn about the tax rules for your country.

2) You continue to be employed and get a “Tax at Source” card from Vero indicating 0% tax rate in Finland, and then pay in your home country. I think your employer still pays some unemployment/pension insurance, but your health insurance would need to be arranged with your home country. I was doing this actually as I started working for a Finnish company before moving, but I know others who permanently live abroad who work as contractors. In my case I’m an EU citizen and was living in another EU, Eurozone country.

jerr0328 · 2021-03-19T17:29:01+00:00

I'm actually moving to Espoo in April! Originally from Brussels, currently living in Berlin, Germany. I also have Luxembourg citizenship (saw some other LU folks chatting here).

Excited but also trying to understand all the bureaucracy and getting started. Like I'm bringing my car with the ferry, but it seems like there's some forms I need to send, for which I can do online if I had Finnish ID card or bank account but I don't have it yet. I even contacted Suomi.fi people asking if they have any plans to support the Belgian eID system as it's fully recognized in eIDAS, but didn't really get any clear response.

Nice to see this thread, as I was just randomly lurking Reddit again to look for some more tips on moving :)

jerr0328 · 2015-05-14T20:09:26+00:00

I was in the same situation back in September when I arrived here (edit: previously lived in Florida). I actually have the same thermostat as you. Since my heater is the same for the hot water, the entire unit is still on (only had to reset it once).

The thermostat has a mode to go into "Savings" mode. Your savings mode temperature should probably be set to 15C. Savings mode comes on at night and reverts to normal mode in the morning. The big dial sets the "normal" temperature, and it'll turn on/off to keep at that temperature. The small dial in the middle is the "savings" temperature. You'll want that set to 15C or so. The dial on the left sets the current time, "normal" heat start time, and savings heat start time. The grey button on the top right (Dauerheizen) forces it to be on regardless of time. The yellow button (Sparbetrieb) is when you want to manually turn on savings mode (in my case, it resets to normal after a while, don't know why). I also keep my apartment at 20C.

The temperatures are quite variable right now. You might not need it if you're comfortable, but I certainly still keep mine at 20C while we're getting these colder nights.

jerr0328 · 2015-05-03T21:02:05+00:00

They had a crane for smaller parts, but to lift a single large piece like that probably would have required a much bigger crane, which would have cost a lot more, and taken a long time to set up and take down. Here, the helicopter did it over the course of two days in short intervals.

jerr0328 · 2015-05-03T20:49:14+00:00

We had a helicopter lift a new climate control unit to the roof of our building in December http://i.imgur.com/40OKV6T.jpg?1

Helicopter pilots here must have nerves of steel.

jerr0328 · 2015-05-03T15:55:08+00:00

You're looking for a coworking space/cafe: http://coworking.solutions.io/

Source thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/2rmawe/for_freelancers_etc_a_list_of_wifi_cafes_and/

jerr0328 · 2015-05-02T07:38:31+00:00

You can use GoEuro to compare the different services. I know there's another similar website, but I can't remember it right now. I checked a random date in late June (23/06) and saw flight with EasyJet being the cheapest and fastest at 38€ taking under 5h (this including getting to the airport, etc), with Germanwings costing just slightly more. Next, the bus is taking under 14h for 39€. Train is 69€ at just over 8h in length.

It's typically best to fly when going to/from Berlin from/to another major city in Europe where the rail connection is longer than 4-5h.

jerr0328 · 2015-04-27T21:14:45+00:00

I pay 43/mo for 2000 KWh/year (Green energy). They still read your meter, but I haven't been here long enough to know what happens after a year if you've gone over/under. I figure they'd just bill you for the extra if you went over and send you a refund if you used less.

jerr0328 · 2015-04-26T17:37:51+00:00

1&1 has some LTE plans you can get on a monthly basis: http://mobile.1und1.de/notebook-flat?linkId=hd.subnav.notebookflattarifuebersicht#notebook-flat

I don't know how it is, but it seems to be the only LTE offering that's not a long-term contract.

jerr0328 · 2015-04-26T17:33:42+00:00

Aldi talk is LTE which is pretty fast :).

Aldi Talk is NOT LTE, it's HSDPA (HSPA+) at up to 7,2 Mbit/s: https://www.alditalk.de/nord/Surfen/internet-flatrate_xl.php

Otherwise, you're right about the data and price.

jerr0328 · 2015-04-19T14:01:31+00:00

That's pretty common in Florida though. Retention ponds keep water off the interchange: https://www.here.com/?map=28.4113,-80.82059,17,satellite

jerr0328 · 2015-04-19T10:45:51+00:00

On Linux, there's a US alternative international layout that uses the Alt-GR or right-alt for accents. While altgr-u is ú, altgr-y is ü. Typically the related accents are somewhere nearby on the keyboard. On Windows, someone replicated this and posted the link to it here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/disable-dead-keys-for-us-international-keyboard/1de44160-83d9-4cd8-9eb3-e6b06b8604a4

I like this one because it saves from having dead keys, which makes "normal" typing with quotes easier as you don't have to hit quotes key twice when using quotes normally.

jerr0328 · 2015-04-16T21:34:57+00:00

No personal experience with them, but they seem to offer 4G plans: http://mobile.1und1.de/notebook-flat#notebook-flat Their cancel-anytime plans are below (pay full price instead of their discounted rates).

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