Or quit/find new jobs. I suspect that’s by design by Business Idiots.

*Get rid of the most expensive engineers and the cheaper ones can just use AI to make up the difference in output. And we can make the lower engineers the fall guy when convenient and replace them at our leisure *

The disdain bosses have for average people is astonishing.

According to wiki

CTLC 509 km (316 mi)

EPA 390 km (242 mi)

So yeah take a solid 25%+ off

I know a fair few people here with just good experience in their fields who have gainful employment. I don’t know what the OP’s “in tech” job means exactly but fine chance they could find work imo. I thought it was a LOT more gate kept than it is. My partner is a scientist and found a job, only with an irrelevant BS and good experience. I know others with the same kind of situation.

Not to say that it’s easy, but it’s not as impossible as I once thought

Hi! I’m an engineer and have done it. It’s of course not easy but it’s totally doable. I guess my really high level advice would be:

Figure out what country(ies) you’d consider moving to (think about language stuff and your willingness to learn a new one if needed, prevalence of English, cost, climate, culture, etc)

Look for the visa requirements (very often in tech just “have a job” is enough for you and your family visa wise).

Look for jobs. Lots of places at least here in Denmark are very aware of the fact that they can get good talent leaving the US right now. My boss literally talks about it weekly. Employers will be glad to help with visas and with help moving. My employer that I moved with found us a place to live (furnished) for 3 months and paid for it, got plane tickets, got someone to help with taxes, of course did visa things, and had someone help with all the “other stuff” like drivers license transfer, understanding healthcare, etc etc

If you actually want to consider it, it’s really doable. It’s been such a rewarding and amazing experience for us.

BS in engineering here

I left the US for the EU in 2024 and a lot of people in my field have done the same. Not uncommon in engineering even without a masters degree

It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though

The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.

In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).

This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.

Snake oil indeed.

Marketing

Not sure where you’re located, but if you’re in the EU you can consider Fairphone for an extremely repairable phone instead. The 6 doesn’t have the specs of proper flagships, but it’s quite a step in the ethical direction in my opinion.

Yeah, I actually frequented a sim center when I lived in the US. They ran Rfactor2 but it got me doing some iRacing too. It was great fun! I can’t believe how real a lot of it felt. Honestly except for elevation not translating well it was an insane practice tool

Yeah, only IRL for a bike. If they made a really legit sim rig I’d probably have to seriously consider it!

Ah cool! After i raced irl for like a decade I sim raced for a while. It was super fun! I’d like to get back into it someday. It’s a lot better on the wallet and body than IRL stuff (especially motorcycles).

I think it helps, but it probably is more of a selling point and aesthetic than an actual help on the (agreed) biggest selling point number.

It’s one of those decisions that someone up top probably made and has these kinds of stupid consequences of moving fast and breaking shit. I wouldn’t be upset if it had to go to a normal one

Source on that? Hobbiest aerodynamics nerd and big into F1 (and did a lot of liquid system design engineering in a previous job). Genuinely curious!

My gut feel is that a half kilo of unsprung weight (those ridiculous wheels), tighter fenders, or a bit of tail teardropping would go so much further than anything door-handle-wise. It’s certainly helping promote flow attachment, but you’ve got poor flow rates there because of the wing mirrors anyway

Oh I’m sure there’s some super talented people there. They’re just not working very hard to get their stuff done because it’s easy.

Now we’re testing if they’re willing to do the same but also sit in an office probably an hour away, for fun.

It’s just a layoff workout laying people off, except you keep your worst workers for sure

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Still, repairability is right up there with privacy for me, so I’m quite happy with the hardware right now

At night?

We use less power at night. We generate a LOT less power at night. Because the sun is off for the most part.

Your mentality is old school. We have often more need at night than during the day for non renewable electricity right now

This is a very old school and outdated mentality.

In my part of the EU this year, we had very very many days of negative sale prices and having to curtail wind parks because just solar and wind were making up more than demand during the day. Afaik we only curtailed at night one time.

Source: wrote curtailment algorithms for wind turbines

TIL this exists. Super cool.

Hvad koster det?

A good bit harder since I’m not a native Dane. In some more years when I’m a full fledged citizen I can start in earnest, but I’ll ask now at least