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• In some countries, the biggest appliance makers got into tech or bought by them, so there’s not a huge amount of choice there. I’m not sure about SK in particular. Thankfully, dumb fridges are still a thing here in Japan, but I don’t know how long that will last given how many of the major brands are also high-tech companies (Panasonic, Sharp, etc.)

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• If a company wants to get rid of a permanent employee, they have very limited tools when it’s non-consential. If they claim it’s financial, they have to (in theory at least) prove that to unilaterally dismiss and that can come with the burden of freezing hiring and other things.

  To unilaterally dismiss otherwise, they need to prove gross/malicious bad conduct, performance problems (this still requires a long PIP process), or reassign the employee somewhere and have the employee refuse. For the last one, it can’t legally be too onerous to on the employee, but case precedent is hit or miss if it makes it to court. As I understand, most prefer to settle out of court and pay the employee to go away.

  In my mind, layoffs are for downsizing head count rather than firing which is targeted to that employee.

  As I understand it, certain numbers of actions to reduce headcount can also trigger things like hiring freezes, but I don’t know much about that.

  on Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 2d ago

• Microsoft != gaming.

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Japanese companies can’t lay off permanent employees without triggering things like hiring freezes and other consequences. They’re usually put in shit jobs to force them to quit (though this can be illegal) or are offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.

  on Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami are healthier because they have smaller teams, don't have frequent layoffs, and don't pay executives $30 million, says expert in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 6d ago

• The rules clearly state that countries must physically be in Europe.

  Cite your source. AFAIK, there’s a vague requirement that they must be “European” which is not defined.

  on Finally. Europe Has a Vision - And Canada’s Invited in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 17 Sep 2026

• Having lived in Japan for over a decade, I think the west generally over-elevates/-mystifies Japan. Capitalists gonna capitalist. They can do more work with fewer people and make more money. Most Japanese consumers also do not care at all about generative AI. It’s in the train stations, city offices, and everywhere else as a part of the normal.

  on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• when the original dev leaves and nobody understands the code

  In my experience at work, no one cares about this. They assume the AI will be able to get there with enough tokens/time with the help of the human at the other end. They have done this and decided it was good enough.

  Meanwhile, people like me who don’t use AI coding agents and are PRing and modifying the code are having a hell of a time.

  on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• A recent report on Japanese online game developers claims that 100% of those surveyed use generative AI tools.

  Yeah, Japan is generally not nearly as anti-AI as some other places. AI-generated stuff is all over the place at train stations, signs, restaurants, etc.

  on Level 5 boss admits using AI for Professor Layton, Yo-Kai Watch reveals in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Fantastic; those things are terrible. Also, if one of your companies could hire me so I can move there, that would be great. Takk!

  on Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable 'pervert glasses' | TechCrunch in c/europe@feddit.org · 3 Sep 2026

• The one guy says he didn’t know an application was needed to stay post-brexit. How does that happen? Maybe because I am a chronic worrier, I would be checking on shit every day until I was sure it was sorted.

  on Swedish minister defends strict post-Brexit removals of Britons in c/europe@feddit.org · 3 Sep 2026

• I would love to see Canada being a part of the EEA and schengen. I don’t know that it will happen, but more integration with Europe and less with the US would be good.

  on The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trump in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026

• Hello cyberware!

  on How awesome or f*cked are you in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I don’t do any self-hosting anymore, but when I started I only had a couple uni classes that were related (I quit after about 9 months as uni wasn’t for me when I was 17). I somehow got recommended Gentoo linux back in the early 2000s and stood up my first server not long after (and got a lot of lessons in dealing with email servers). Now, I just don’t have the time to do it as a hobby and certainly not the money for any hardware in this economy. I thankfully never had any real security/hacking issues thanks in part to good guides even back then. It actually taught me a lot about both linux and many other things. I’m now a software engineer for a living, but mostly just doing backend work with little exposure to the infra side.

  on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Especially as someone paid in a currency weaker than the dollar with a lower salary than I’d have in the US, I can’t even afford to do this if I wanted to. I do still subscribe to Nebula which has many creators I like

  on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• Commandline? Nano (or Pico or whatever) if it exists. Else vim/vi. I originally used emacs back in the day. However, for anything else, I’m using the closest thing to notepad++ I can find at the time.

  on intimidating in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026