I’ve even living in Japan for almost a decade (probably closer if you count times I visited for months before living here). If you have specific questions, I’m happy to answer them.
Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into gardening, DIY, permaculture, etc.
I’ve even living in Japan for almost a decade (probably closer if you count times I visited for months before living here). If you have specific questions, I’m happy to answer them.
I can’t find anything corroborating this (most sources I checked stated ~ski just meant ‘comes from ~’ in the name kinda, so you may want to be careful about what you “learn”.
Examples: https://theskilesson.com/why-do-polish-names-end-in-ski-discover-the-fascinating-reason-behind-it/ states it may have helped popularize it a bit (presumably by having the place whence they came in the name?) but I don’t think the above poster’s statement is actually true here considering the link and several others I checked.
I know several websites consider firefox’s built-in privacy settings an adblocker in certain configurations. I get notices on many sites and use no adblocker. Not sure if it’s the case here.
About time. My wife was floored by all the weird-colored shit in the US. It’s also why some of my childhood guilty pleasure snacks are banned for sale as-is here
that’s why I put the “choose” into air quotes.
Air quotes? heh.
Yeah, that’s not going to be getting my money anytime soon. I’m still annoyed that my 6 pro overheats if I try to shoot more than around 3 picoseconds of video (with the video quality being one of the main reasons I bought it). Removing the case I have it in barely helps at all and neither has switching various encoding, etc.
I didn’t notice that was a thing, but it defaulted to Japan so we’re safe there.
I’ve been using duckduckgo for the last month and change and I’m not really a fan. Especially for things here in Japan, it can give really wonky results (today I was looking for the closest post office and searched ‘\ post office’. It gave me a website to get directions, but no indication of where it might be nor, y’know, even the post office’s website). Google has gotten continually worse for me, but this was, in most cases, just barely as good or worse.
And the other pushy, life-ruining cults around here, I hope. I mostly get on with my neighbors, but I apparently pissed off the local Fuji-revearing people putting shit in my mailbox.
Foreigners living in other countries, especially with really difficult languages such as japanese, have many support communities as well. They help with living, visa issues, etc.
Yeah, I’m generally anti-car in urban areas, but the bus system where I used to live forced me to get a car to go to work (it would have taken like 2 hours 40 minutes and involve walking for a fair amount of that. each way.)
If you’re in a country where most people don’t drive, don’t expect this to work well. Japan seemingly has no system (though people in most of the country will probably move left most of the time). It definitely takes some adjusting to the chaos of everyone walking wherever the hell they want.
Back in my day, we used shell scripts and Perl AND WE LIKED IT!
Seriously though, learning anything to automate the boring bits can be good. Just test well before relying on anything.
As I get older, the smaller screens are more difficult for me. As for others, I don’t know.
First this, then refills are no longer free (which is how it works in most of the world already). I imagine automation will also come in there as well.
Margin on drinks is huge as they cost next to nothing.
Yeah, I get tons of random messages from people I don’t know. A couple are recruiters who are finding my number on my CV, but most are just “hi sweety, do you have time to talk?” from random numbers all over the world.
Really? I’ve gotten almost no spam in the last decade or so I’ve been using it. The one time I did, I think the account had been hacked.
I have a whatsapp because my dad wanted to be able to call me without international long distance fees. He’s called once and I get endless amounts of spam. I’ll be seeing him in a couple of weeks, and I can hopefully switch him to LINE (what everyone uses here) and get rid of this app for all and get the last cancer of Meta out of my personal life.
That’s fantastic if the quality is good. I only use chrome now for pages purely in Japanese that I need to deal with and can’t properly read in full yet (which, living in Japan, is a fair few, heh). EDIT: Bah, no Japanese support. Oh well; some day.
Almost every shower I’ve seen in Japan has it on a movable hose rather than fixed, so at least there’s that. I forgot when I went back to the US for a visit for the first time in ~6 years and was super annoyed, heh.