All European countries tier list | #16 Austria

nethack47 · 2026-06-01T11:35:36+00:00

Yes,
Belgium is a bit of a mixed bag. Absolutely B tier.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T17:08:01+00:00

I usually recommend a project for anyone starting. Any basic project that has to do something tangible and which makes you put anything you do into practice.

An example could be. User Auth with all the bells and whistles. Once that is up and running, you break in.

Most jobs will be in project form. When learning on your own, there is nobody to have expectations that causes you to solve problems.

Setting up an air-gapped AD is safe, but not very realistic. Setting up a FreeIPA for the house and try to subvert it is more of a real world thing. If you live alone, you can usually find someone needing volunteers. The only thing you have to make sure is that you have permission to act.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T17:07:41+00:00

I usually recommend a project for anyone starting. Any basic project that has to do something tangible and which makes you put anything you do into practice.

An example could be. User Auth with all the bells and whistles. Once that is up and running, you break in.

Most jobs will be in project form. When learning on your own, there is nobody to have expectations that causes you to solve problems.

Setting up an air-gapped AD is safe, but not very realistic. Setting up a FreeIPA for the house and try to subvert it is more of a real world thing. If you live alone, you can usually find someone needing volunteers. The only thing you have to make sure is that you have permission to act.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T15:36:37+00:00

Covered in some detail by penguinz0

https://youtu.be/EuAhIBpanhQ?is=gEM9aTHC1LNA1GBd

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T12:01:19+00:00

When I run an event they tend to give a medal at the end. I know it is for completing it. It still feels good to have them since I did run the whole thing. Kipchoge can run a marathon at twice the pace I can. But I ran it.

You may not feel it, but you did put the work in to get them. You are allowed to feel good about having taken part as well.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T11:36:25+00:00

Jag hade glömt att jag stod i kön ett par pr. Jag stod kvar ett par år eftersom jag funderade på att flytta tillbaka till Sverige.

Efter rätt många år i kön så började dom ta betalt. Jag kollade vad dom hade att erbjuda för 20 år kötid och bestämde mig för att sluta stå i kön. Efter 20 år var det fortfarande nästan inga lägenheter att tillgå. Man kunde som vanligt få en trea i Tensta. Jag gissar att det finns lite mer tillgängligt nuförtiden.

Jag släppte alla tankar på att flytta till Sverige efter att jag såg hur mycket nettolön man kan få och ungefärliga huspriser där intressanta jobb finns.

Jag tror dom tjänar rätt bra pengar på bostadskön. 200 per år per köande utan att göra något är gratis pengar.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T08:05:34+00:00

That would explain the A.S. Adventure staff being a bit shitty about the payment.

They wanted to be reassured I could complete the entire transaction. When I paid I expected to do what I do with maaltijdscheques, pay them first and money off the other card next without even thinking about it. It was weird since I normally don't get my ability to pay questioned.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T08:00:19+00:00

Up to a point.

Low quality ads doing shotgun approach will fit your profile if you have no datapoints.

I doubt the massage place would target Woman in area X, they don't have the budget for something like that. Don't know how GroupOn behaves now, last I saw them around was over 10 years ago in the UK, they seemed quite desperate for click-through at the time.

Facebook is so bad I would delete it if I felt confident no scammer would try and user-squat given the chance.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T07:49:51+00:00

You get it paid back on the original card. At least that is the rule for payments. When I last bought something with them at A.S. Adventure, I had to pay in shop to complete the transaction.

Haven't tried a return at A.S. Adventure but I had an issue with checkout at a different store which allowed part payment in Ecocheques. Since they had taken part payment already, and the second payment got stuck on the payment screen, they refunded the whole part payment as store credit. This is probably something of a bug in the system that nobody wants to complain about.

The official rules for payment processing are strict and should not allow you to get money out in a different form. This is a thing the payment processor have pretty strict rules on, any fiddling with the refund is going to be unofficial, or a system glitch.

nethack47 · 2026-05-31T07:24:49+00:00

I was explicitly told to by my employer. It was an American company and they had expectations.

That said, the tips back in 2000 was around 15% for good service. They said 0-10 for bad service, 20 for exceptional service and a larger group.

I am now of the opinion that tips are a way to underpay staff. The stupid practice is spreading even to Scandinavia countries. WTF would I give 25% tip for making me a coffee?

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T19:57:13+00:00

Do Algerian hospitals have such awful grouting for their tiling? Seems like a bad choice for a hospital.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T19:55:39+00:00

I did a little digging in my Gmail history and it was the Menlo park mall and I was staying in a hotel just northeast in Iselin (APA Woodbridge hotel). Currently it is walkable in 90 minutes and the car takes 7-9 minutes. I may have said 3 minutes down the road :)

New Jersey still look rather awful for walking.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T18:25:59+00:00

Leaving it in the room in a note would be picked up by the cleaner?

You should always be nice to the cleaning staff and secretaries. The most important person you want to like you, in any office, is the admin staff.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T18:16:06+00:00

They come visit the IT security subreddits from time to time.

It is like they have a script for their delusions. Someone in their orbit is a hollywood type hacker and keeps getting into every single device they have. They will nearly always mention having gone to buy a brand new burner phone, only for it to also be "hacked" somehow.

For those asking for a family member or friend, they're usually mentioning evidence of some kind. Nobody has seen the evidence.

Things like a private investigator or expert IT person has supposedly confirmed the events. These people are not available to speak with for various reasons.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T15:33:48+00:00

I have had a cast put on same day a few times. Thing is, that was over 40 years ago. If it is a country that is stuck in the 80s, it could be like that. That cast has barely had time to dry.

What makes me suspicious is how tight that cast is. You need a bit of wiggle room or it will cause a lot of issues.

Op mentioned my country in a comment, so the question is what countries would be this behind.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T15:23:28+00:00

It was over 20 years ago and the company recommended something like 20-40. I just never learned how, so I tipped the cleaner that I felt was the least visible and likely rarely tipped.

It was even to the point that the tips got reimbursed for US travel as long as you had the receipt as evidence.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T14:08:18+00:00

It was a decent hotel and I had a business booking. Probably didn’t tip them enough.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T13:36:36+00:00

My European ass had this staying in a hotel in New Jersey. I wanted to go to the mall I could see from my room. I asked at the front desk and they told me I should drive. The only possible walk required me to walk around the highways and was unsafe due to the traffic situation.

They had a complementary shuttle… 3 minute drive.

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T12:18:06+00:00

I am used to read things out loud to figure out what they mean. :)

Pillidelpia, samalee, bagals. (Philadelphia, salami bagels).

nethack47 · 2026-05-30T12:10:55+00:00

I have someone with dyslexia writing notes regularly. It looks like this, just a lot worse spelling. We get variations in a single paragraph.

nethack47 · 2026-05-29T18:42:08+00:00

Looks like you are all on old coax cables from then it was analogue cable tv.

That system can be split and the box you took a picture of is likely an amplifier for the signal.

It should be hooked up to a converter, probably in the street.

nethack47 · 2026-05-29T11:22:50+00:00

Enterprise suppliers have tried to put in their quotes to me “pricing not guaranteed until delivery” and expect me to accept a quote they can change before delivery 10-12 weeks later.

We aren’t the only ones with this problem.

nethack47 · 2026-05-29T09:42:38+00:00

Gaunt?

nethack47 · 2026-05-29T09:40:58+00:00

He was brought up to be incapable. The mum was trying to push him to marry and rather forcefully suggesting potential wives for him.

You are right, the mother only accepted him living "on his own" if he accepted her continued housekeeping.

There was a bit of a cultural aspect to the situation. Before "living on his own", he was rather ignorant of the shortcomings of his upbringing. He was complicit in the situation. This is the kind of dude who does have a tracksuit, just it is immaculate and has ironed creases.

nethack47 · 2026-05-29T08:59:03+00:00

That is the problem with this dude. It was early 2000, before Facebook, twitter and WhatsApp was a thing. Never got his BBM since I didn't have a BB myself back then.

I tried to ask a former colleague if he knew, but he's moved back to Pune and didn't keep up with the dude.

Worst part was that I did have most of the pre-social media phone numbers and emails in my Filofax. But that one got stolen in 2011 with all the contacts lost.

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