I'm a dual citizen of US and EU and now that my 16-year job in the US in the IT sector had ended I am entertaining the idea and looking at relocation to the EU now that my wife's US citizenship paperwork had been filed and all presence criteria requirements have been met.

My wife would love to leave the US and work in the EU and my US friends who are progressive are supportive among with my family in the EU. A few of the same friends are a bit jealous of the opportunity also since they can't easily get legal sponsorship to leave without a job willing to sponsor them, a bit of a reverse of the US H1-B STEM things but in reverse to go to the EU. While I can just go work there right now without even relocation since I have everything ready and up to date.

My conservative friends are eyeing me with a bit of confusion and suspicion for entertaining the idea the leave the American Dream since they didn't travel nor vacation internationally and their world view is myopic and small. They hear the idea but look at me bewildered for even suggesting to leave the #1 Best Country in the World (j/k) for somewhere else.

Citizenship & IDs

I've ensured to keep my EU citizenship status updated and passports always renewed and valid by jumping through hoops over the years by traveling to ambassies and consulates to renew them at some cost. I made sure to also obtain and keep my EU personal citizen identification card valid and updated also since those are more widely used and accepted for legal and other common usage purposes there since the EU uses them for personal and citizenship identification purposes like the US uses their Driver's Licenses.

Banking

I've also made sure to open and keep bank accounts active and debit cards valid to have easy access to finances and verified the ability to withdraw my own money from the EU in the US with those debit cards and also wire transfer money between the US and EU accounts through the SWIFT network which is similar to the US ACH (Automated Clearing House) financial network using the account number and denomination prefix manipulation for foreign funds deposit and currency conversations.

I've keep up with to the US FATCA FBAR reporting requirements also to keep Uncle Sam off my financial back and avoided any FPIC (Foreign Passive Investment Company) mutual funds that are domeciled outside the US to avoid that US unfair taxation money grab morass for US persons.

Telephone

I also have a valid SIM card and phone number from the EU using their T-mobile network provider which is common and popular there a bit but have to recharge the card once in a while.

Family Connections

I've kept touch and renewed lost family relationships in the EU on both of my parents side and got the lost contact information for the lost side of the family and started to rebuild those relationships. Turns out they are some great people and also work in technology!

Job Competition for Skills

Let's see what EU has to offer for IT jobs and my future!

Now the US job market will have to compete against the EU job market for me and my wife since they might lose me.

The new data center building projects and upkeep sounds interesting and IT skills in scripting and automation of hardware maintenance and operations will be needed now and in the future keeping all of the disparate systems taking to each other.

I love scripting and operations and DevOps work across all OS kind of like I do across the US and EU and like Windows and Linux!

Yeah I've had a Google Pixel 6 device and before I Google Nexus 6 device and anytime I had the Google Assistant I would notice it that it would randomly turn on even in a quiet room because I would see the screen to that whole circle thing as it's listening to you and recording everything that's being said.

I ended up turning off the assistant feature because it kept doing it and every so often it would even turn itself on even when the assistant was completely turned off and disabled in every single setting in every single account in every single application. It would still happen randomly even though there was no action. Word said or it wasn't even possible for it to turn on. I even had to freeze the application.

Of course they are listening to you. Just like the Facebook app is listening to everything you're saying because it has microphone access. Same thing as TikTok ck and all the other applications.

Smartphones are spyware devices just like Richard stallman has said just a few days ago on his speech. The KGB and FSB and Stassi could not have done a better job than the big Silicon Valley big tech companies creating smartphones and everyone carrying this thing with them all the time.

I've been a heavy PowerShell scripter since version 2.0 and managed thousands of Windows servers of every version all the way from 2000 up to the latest and greatest and doing a lot of C# direct access to the framework and usage of all the objects in the framework along with win32 direct DLL access for certain system level calls.

Prior to that I was a very heavy Batch/Command developer with natively compiled GNU/Linux Utils from GnuWin32 and then native GNU Utils commands. While at the same time writing some bash scripts for all kinds of Red Hat and Debian based Linux distributions that I was administering also for many servers in the large Enterprise environments.

Inconsistent Cmdlet Implementations

I agree with you that there is some weirdnesses with Powershell but most of the problems I found is like you said the inconsistency of how certain cmdlets work and who developed since some of the standard features such as -ErrorAction Stop do not work on some command that's from different modules and developers who ignored parts of the core development ideologies of PowerShell or they didn't implement enough functionality to be able to nest those commandlets inside catch/throw/finally error catching logic to stop scripts that end up with a failure result in a throne error exception.

Many of the commandlets by Microsoft that were originally developed had a very high standard of compliance to the Powershell, advanced functions, implementation of all the core and comment switches and they worked great. But as time moved on many of the third party modules and snap-ins didn't follow those practices. So you end up with a very strange behavior or lack of functionality for trying to catch errors. And I've had to work around a few problematic ones over the years.

PS Snap-Ins to Modules

There was a big migration right around version 3 up to version 5 of Powershell of third party functionality moving from snap-ins to modules and that broke a lot of stuff and a lot of scripts and a lot of remoting functionality broke especially for trying to administer old Exchange servers going into the new Exchange servers. Which required a lot of rewrites and a lot of new authentication logic and command remoting functionality was completely changed and how it functioned.

Some of those created breaking changes and caused pain and environments that didn't have the latest and greatest things. So you kind of got stuck in this world of trying to execute old 32-bit. PS snap-ins and DLL libraries into a 64-bit world that is now running on modules and version 5 PowerShell.

PowerShell v5.1 Schism to v7+

The very large change and schism of the entire language between 5.1 that comes natively with Windows server all the way up to 2019 if I remember correctly and now the separately installed Powershell 7 with a whole new executable to call and enough little changes to the language has caused a massive schism of scripts. Powershell scripts written for version 2 all the way through version 5. Work pretty much seamlessly with very little adjustment. But trying to get anything working from version 2 through 5. On version 7 ends up with the roadblocks and showstopper errors and requires almost complete rewrites.

There are many limitations and bugs left in Powershell version 5.1 that was native to a lot of the servers and it was installed by default as part of Windows remote Management framework WRM and it became the de facto version to write Powershell up to because you could install WRM on any server of 2003 all the way to 2019 and later. So a lot of scripts and plugins and modules were written exactly for version 5.1.

None of the bugs that exist with Invokeâ"RestMethod of not being able to access the headers in order to make sure some weird REST API authentication that is header based is actually correctly functionable or when APIs give you the pagination information inside the header become a problem and you end up having to Invoke-WebRequest and then manually access the headers and the body and parse the body as a JSON object which is at least possible.

Under Powershell version 7, now you have the ability to access the headers from the REST API commandlets but now you have to change your whole script to run under version 7.

Power shell My Favorite Scripting Language

I have to say that Powershell is still by far my favorite scripting language to administer large Enterprise systems and I have done some amazing scripts in the thousands of lines with a lot of care and capture of errors and unusual situations and have gotten some amazing results. Even multi-threaded and multi-process like remote execution and then collapsed to a single result set object structure into single output and have been using that for over a decade now to manage thousands of servers.

Powershell is by far my favorite scripting language because it is object oriented and when I need to get little pieces of things it works great. If I need to deal with rest API or direct win32 dll access or access databases or other type of Enterprise storage systems or interface with large Enterprise or third party networking systems or storage systems or virtualization systems or any type of other systems, Powershell makes writing scripts that are robust very easy .

If you understand Powershell and you understand the C# framework and you understand how pipelining works from Linux and how you can incorporate it into your Powershell for fall through functionality with filtering and object molding you can do some amazing things.

Leaving Job to Script in PowerShell Again!

One of the reasons that I am leaving my organization at which I have been 16 years is that I have been moved to a team to do high-level analysis and away from hands-on scripting and PowerShell work. So now I'm looking for any other organization that is a very high PowerShell user in a large Enterprise environment so I can go back to hands-on keyboard writing some amazing scripts because frankly writing PowerShell script is like creating and solving your own puzzles and once you understand the environment and the universe you're working in then it is very pleasurable to do the work because you understand the boundaries and the limitations within the systems and the entire environment.

Does anybody need up high level PowerShell developer in a very large Enterprise environment of thousands of servers that need automation, scripting and integration with all the other third-party systems?

Because I'm actively looking now for something now and I want to offer my skills and help to any other large organizations that need automators and scripters and integrators.

ServiceNow will nickel-and-dime you to death with their SaaS Artificial Ignorance AI agents and charge you per each guess of the agent, not per answer or correct prediction. That's their business strategy from their chat agents and predictors.

Maybe they'll finally be able to analyze to real useful data and not the crap in their Task inherited tables shor_description (aka subject) fields and descriptions.

The same thing happens in my car but once a month when the radio automatically switches to the XM input mode and the advertising XM1 channel after I've canceled my subscription over 12 years ago. Even though the car is always on Bluetooth mode playing audio from my phone that I have saved as actual MP3 and AAC files.

I can guarantee that this is being pushed by XM radio and they give a kickback for any subscriptions back to the car manufacturer and it is not done by Subaru. They just go along with this advertising practice. Same thing happens on my old-fashioned XM Toyota radio but every month.

I think somebody needs to curb stomp advertising into the ground because it steals your time and your peace of mind. It is a theft of your consciousness.

You are definitely not a native English speaker but posing as one on this forum website. You have English language failures all over your posts. So all of the conspiracy theories about your account and your post on every single story appear to be more true the more you post and expose yourself for astroturfing a Socialist or Communist agendas.

Native English speakers do not write sentences like that or make those mistakes in writing. It is also not an error of voice to text transcription since those get the grammar and spelling correct when spoken by true native English speakers or by secondary English speakers who speak a Western hemisphere language from a romantic language root or from a proto-Indo Slavic language tree.

Your text has very small nuance of mistakes that is noticed by a native or seconday English speakers in your grammatical structure and in subtle spelling errors of common homonym words.

Since this website is owned by foreign entities that do nothing about your astroturfing account and they must be in bed with you or at least cooperating with your goals.

Yet another standard to add to the confusion. Maybe the new features to control framerate per scene won't create yet more problems with computers, TVs, Receivers, and media players because right now it's all a horrible mess.

DolbyVision has a number of profiles all of which are crap like Profile 5 which is DV only and no backwards compatiblity so even my compliant and licensed TV setup fails to decode it and I get crappy green and purple look since the TV won't switch to DV mode most of the time. That Profile 5 (dvhe.05) should be sunset in the future I hope.

Who cares about 2,000 nit lighting levels if everyone else has green/purple display problems and TVs only doing 400 with some newer units doing 1,000 nits while most people watch their TVs with contrast left to the default 80% and brightness at 50% and leave the default settings on that creates blooming and judder with jitter effects when watching fast motion with motion compensation enabled and are happy to watch Euro TV 25fps * 2 / 50fps soap-opera effect that makes me feel ill and unsettled when watching it.

Maybe this new standard will help but I'm not certain it will. Since it allows per-scene framerate changes and most normal equipment such as receivers and TVs don't so instant mode-changes without resetting the entire TV to blackscreen to reset everything. At least that's what my LG OLED C9 (2017) TV does.

Only DV Profile 8 is of any use since it allows DV + HDR to work together since they are both encoded and has a fall-back mode due to the layers of encodings available in it.

dvhe.08.06 to .09 - Dolby Vision + HDR with 10-bit color in HEVC (H.265) codec at Main10 level is the best right now in common usage for streaming. It's often released at level 06 (4K@24) through 09 (4K@60) with maximum level 13 (8K@120) so that's really good for almost all usage cases.

AV1 codec support is coming along slowly as always and the DV dav1 profiles exist and are specified for usage.

https://professionalsupport.do...

I think it even had tactical nukes perhaps also. This been three decades.

Automated factory Drone warfare with Terminator clones.

Screamers (1995)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt011...

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.
- Nicolas LeBlanc

This almost happened to our organization where one Indian worker interviewed fantastically for a position of a developer and then in further interviews we noticed that the person has changed and couldn't quite answer more questions after the initial technical interview and the worker kept on saying that he had a connection and camera problems in the later interviews and there was not a good clarity of picture in those interviews supposedly. The strong accent did not help either with the difficulty in understanding him.

However, the manager kept going with the process since he's not the brightest tool in the shed in our Peter Principal sociopathic promotive organization tree.

However, when he asked that new worker to come have lunch with us in person to meet the team and then pick up his badge and his laptop. Suddenly that worker couldn't make it and asked for the laptop to be shipped to Chicago even though he understood that we were across the country in a different location.

Penny Arcade - Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (GIFT)
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

I've had my run-in with Internet assholes about 25-years ago while writing a Quake Console documentation website on PlanetQuake, and started getting hate emails for no apparent reason from assholes. Shut down that comment section and email link because of the abusive emails that wouldn't stop that weren't even on-topic to the site and documentation.

Then when social (misinformation) media showed up on the horizon, this made me stay the hell away from people on the Internet, and also unrelatadly because it was all about your data being harvested and sold.

This article describes what a nightmare workplace looks like that everybody should avoid. If you work in one of these companies, start looking for other work before you are no longer able to mentally function and the amount of prescription and non-prescription drugs overwhelms your system.

If you work in IT or do On-Call work then you will be asked to do something after hours and it's normal if there is an outage or some kind of a serious issue or a project is about to go live and you need extra preparation due to an unusual event, but if this is your constant workflow then you are screwed and also inefficient.

At the end of the article it throws the idea of being an agent boss where you use the Microsoft AI to do more useless AI slot production to help you work and produce more useless bullshit

I've used IRS Direct File for a few years now and successfully navigated it's weird interface and browser incompatibility (Firefox No, Chromium OK) problems to file moderetley complex taxes a few times.

It was a pretty good product that let me skip forms by mail submissions and I was able to do some daily complex filings with logs of ancillary forms well outside of the standard filings. Some years I'd be up to a dozen different forms also if I had to report additional IT consulting income and complex retirement account changes and distributions or conversions and NIIT taxes and excess SS credits.

It's sad to see this go away but with the current administration this is the least of my concerns as things are going to break at the cracks in the government services.

I'm not sure if breaking the government open is going to reveal the hidden puss of corruption and mismanagement within or instead create new avenues for the infection or corruption to take hold now that the rich, special interests, and corporations are at the operating table with their dirty hands inside the corpus.

http://freefilefillableforms.c...

That website doesn't work anymore and when trying to there before US Tax Day, April 15, 2025 this year it was stuck on a maintenance error. Now the website doesn't respond since the servers are likely shutdown.

Taskbar on the left of the screen please you idiots. When I have a dozen development apps opened I want to see the title bar names, not just fucking icons because sometimes I have multiple of the same app open doing different things.

Morons at Microsoft now.

Deprecating PowerShell in favor of retarded Python where white spaces matter. Everything is going GraphQL now also requiring non-defined json or yaml textual object structures.

Dumbassery of the highest degree.

Forcing new computers to use UEFI and TPM 2.0 for more DRM lockin.

CEO is a dumbass if he said that and is just blowing hot-air out of his ass.

We go for Dinner & Drinks on Movie Night at movie theaters in my area and we always shop around for the best dinner and drink experience. We eat good salads, pizzas, burgers, wings, and other semi-bar like foods and there with pretty decent drink and alcohol choices with plenty of specials and good variety.

Studio Movie Grill which was popular for a decade but then went down-hill fast in quality got replaced by a few of the other companies and they bought out their locations.

Star Cinema Grill is now in multiple locations with good drinks and food and replaced Studio Movie Grill in some locations completely along with building newer places with better screens and equipment. For middle-class normie families wanting a nicer experience then a MegaPlex like AMC or CineMark.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas are still around are have their own unique experiences and showings and cater to a younger audience with their non-blockbuster movie releases along with cartoon, anime, horror, sci-fi, and other old movie genre night series. More for Geeks than anyone else.

iPic Theaters is a luxury experience and price but in a very nice and comfortable setting and for really good and important releases we go there once in a while if the movie demands that level of expense to elevate the experience. For the Well-to-Do families since a night there is easly USD $100+ for a full movie, dinner, and drinks experience.

We don't go to AMC or CineMark since their food selection is atrocious and made of regular movie theather poped-fart-corn and crapchos or dried out single-serving greaseiazz. However, due to the competition from the other better chains they have had to up their game and get liquor licenses to open up full-service bars now for alcoholinc drinks, but their food selection is still reheated or microwaved crap.