My brother referred me to a summer internship. After that, 1 or 2 years later I joined a "students work" company who placed me at a web development agency, and I worked there part time during my studies for more than a year. Tried to do some of my own projects after that for 2 years, continuing my studies (I was a bad student, it took a long time for me to fail out of university).
Moved to the UK and submitted a lot of CVs, did the take home test, and one hired me as a web developer. This is what I'd consider my first real job. It was a nice job with nice people.
There is already a company which is doing similar thing in the UK for Wind Farms. I can't find the name right now though, they were featured on the Fully Charged youtube channel.
I am not in the UK, and I'd gladly invest in a solar farm as a "community member" to cover my own usage but in my country noone is doing it - and probably I would not trust them either (eastern EU). I was actually looking for this a few weeks ago, and the only thing I found is that I can sponsor some African farms through some EU scheme.
In any case, if someone knows some good solar farms which have this community ownership model, I'd be happy to check it out.
I just got my first iPhone, without a charger.
Now I have a MacBook as well, which has my only charger having USB-C out (and the ports on the machine). I find it pretty funny that I have to use an older Apple device with only USB-C ports to charge a newer Apple Device with a port I only have one cable for and have no charger to plug that cable except the MacBook. By Apple's thinking only has these ports because that's the future but somehow they missed to put these on the iPhone.
For anyone who is suffering from this, or on some days finds it hard to sleep I recommend Science and Futurism With Isaac Arthur podcast.
It has "Narration Only" versions of all episodes and it is very interesting, so if you can't sleep you can listen to it but it will not have harsh noises.
Also Philosophize This has the same properties (very old episodes have some loud music).
+1 to Isaac Arthur videos as lullabies. The only thing I regret is that then I also need to rewind each episode multiple times because I'm genuinely interested in what's said.
Recently I've also started to listen to luetin09's Warhammer 40k lore videos. They are in similar vein that they could also be podcasts. Skeptoid is another one I've used.
Teamspeak is still the best when it comes to chatting when gaming, it is usable with voice activation, push to talk and it has so good echo cancellation that it works when both of us are on speakers.
Though the current version uses almost a full core on my machine, it's still worth it in my opinion and you can find many free servers you can connect to.
I tried Mumble but it was lacking in something, maybe the push to talk did not work properly or the echo cancellation was not working? I can't really remember now.
Teamspeak used to be the best. I used it for a decade. It's only within the last couple years as they've tried to become Discord that it's started going downhill. Teamspeak 3 was solid enough but soon they implemented the artificial lifetime, you had to re-authenticate your server every year (and sometimes more often). Then they got rid of the old forums and wiped everything clean. It hasn't been the same. I stopped using TS recently.
I do use matrix, but only because of the pandemic. And matrix itself only does 1-to-1 voice. For multiple it has a system to shunt you over to jitsi and autoconfigure the room. So I don't see how TS5 is going to use matrix.
I am making a self hosted or maybe hosted website where you can just import youtube/your videos and you get a link to a podcast feed. None of the existing ones worked for me and I like to listen podcasts before sleeping, and there are a lot of channels which don't need the video part.
It's not public yet, but let me know your thoughts about the idea.
I definitely could use something like this! Or more specifically, something that will take a channel's RSS feed and convert it to the podcast format for my podcatcher.
I like to think about scifi stuff when I can't sleep and someone recommended audio books in one of the comments. There is a podcast by Isaac Arthur about science and futurism, and he provides narration only versions. Honestly this is a miracle for my sleep.
It's very interesting and because it doesn't have music and loud sounds it will not wake you up if you fell asleep.
Actually, I am happy they are sending these. I hope it is really working and they will delete my data as there was not one I approved again.
Job recruiter sites were asking me if I allow sending more emails and as it is practically impossible to unsubscribe from them I will be glad if GDPR makes them stop.
It doesn't seem to be working that way. I only receive informational emails that do not require any action and will not result in deletion of any data.
Moved to the UK and submitted a lot of CVs, did the take home test, and one hired me as a web developer. This is what I'd consider my first real job. It was a nice job with nice people.