As a parent, EVERY kid feels like your kid. This made me cry.
technopagan
joined 1 year ago
I'm glad to hear it's not an issue in your experience / industry.
German here: I have yet to witness these "European-style" vacations mentioned in the post title.
Most workplaces seem to frown at people taking >2 consecutive weeks of vacation, esp. if they don't have kids and do it in main travel season / during school holidays. Handing in ~3 weeks of holidays often at least needs some kind of explanation to the team-lead, e.g. "I have school kids who have their summer holidays and we need to keep them busy until school starts again."
I have yet to see a single company going easy on someone saying "I'll be off all of August KTHXBYE".
"Because you'll be together".
- Inception, Mal, with her head on railroad track
The Banshees Of Inisherin.
It was like finding razorblades if you are in a really razorblade-y kinda mood.
Shorter is not necessarily better: "THE Fall" from the early 2000s was a much better value-per-minute movie. :P
Poco X3 NFC with LineageOS.
200,-€ price, excellent photo quality if paired with fitting GCAM mod (AGC) plus config. Powerful enough as daily driver, privacy-frieendly enough after some simple changes, runs everything I need & if it drops & breaks (2 kids at home...) it's an affordable loss (I'm diligent about backups).
Long-term custom ROM user here.
Regarding security: as always, it depends on your threat model. If you fear a government actor getting access to your phone, a locked bootloader won't slow them down.
Regarding privacy: I've had both VPN logs and external Wireshark running against traffic going in&out of my custom ROM phones & sometimes I still do it for fun. If you know what you're getting into (e.g. LoS still using some Google services) then a Custom ROM usually holds far fewer surprises than some questionable OEM ROM (and which is terrifyingly scarce regarding changelogs while still having OTA update power).
tl;dr: stick with well-known ROMs & you get ... not the best of both worlds ... but a "good enough" of both worlds.