It's been a great while. It was a wonderful poor man's coding agent especially for devs in third world countries who are unable to pay for subscriptions online.
But I get it, cloud bills aren't cheap and opencode's hands are tied.
Thank you for everything opencode.
As the title suggests, don't you all feel somewhat humiliated for what the government shoves into our culture and day to day interactions?
I mean look at this and tell me Tunisia is not being petty at this point:
All that and you may still be required to pass a TCF/DELF language exam to work or study in a country such as France, Belgium or Canada and to top it off, locals and government officials there no longer want or need immigrants as before (illegaly or legally), even educated Tunisians aren't that much welcomed in 2026 unless they are rich or they have western citizenship.
Bel falle9i, t7essouch inna nodhhrou r5as ki nghasbou 3la rwe7na bech ntab3ou bled ma3adch 7ajetha bina as people. w walla 3anna dependency lel francais fi presque kol chay.
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While not all seem to have this, a remarkable number of reddit users tend to use advanced English in casual discussions. While it's great for me to enrich my vocabulary, It annoys me a little to see some user write a comment which looks like it has been taken from a Thesis or a research paper.
Maybe I think like that because English isn't my first language (although I have studied and communicated with others in English for a decade). But I don't think I'm the only one who reads comments about a casual topic (pets for example) and thinks "why the f### does this person use words like ubiquitous, ephemeral and albeit in a post about pets?"
I don't see this on local forums or social media(MENA): people in MENA discussions either write in their spoken dialect or use simplified modern standard arabic to bridge the gap of dialect differences. But if someone were to speak like an ancient poet or like a lawyer there it would definitely make them look weird to the rest.
So what makes them do that?
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As the title suggests, I need a feature to inspect unpaid (and paid) electricity and water bills. The problem is that the two companies do not share public API documentation for bills. However, almost every single finance app has its feature. How do they get the info?
You know what grinds my gears? It's when someone posts about a bad experience they had with a product (or a service), provides proof of the issue and focuses on saving others from wasting their time and money if it's terrible, ONLY for a brainlet to comment that they never had that problem.
For example:
OP: "Yesterday, I bought an Acme TV from x and it suddenly turns off after an hour of use. x does not offer refunds."
Brainlet: "I bought the same Acme TV, never had that issue tho."
It contributes nothing to the conversation. what is the point of that comment? Are they accusing OP of lying given evidence? Are they reassuring the reader that because a unit works, all units are not defective? (edit: modified the previous sentence because I wrote the opposite of it unintentionally) Are they shifting the blame to the buyer instead of the seller?
If one considers applying to visa-sponsored jobs, they might want to know what makes several companies desire hiring talents abroad. This is the purpose of this post/thread that I made because I kept wondering: Why do countries, especially Global North countries, go through the process of hiring someone thousands of miles away (sometimes from developing countries) for white collar jobs (e.g: Business, IT, Healthcare, Engineering etc...).
First, let us agree on the obvious reasons such as localization (if the job is related to the employee's home country), and potentially lower salaries than locals.
I want to learn about what other reasons make an foreigner employee worth the paperwork hassle for recruiters. Because I always thought that most wealthy countries already have plenty of STEM and Business local talents.
So, are there any other reasons I did not pay attention to to?
Been using discord all the way back in 2016, I was around 15 back then. But I was always the youngest member on random gaming/anime servers I joined, people I talk to there are either at uni or working. and I rarely stumble upon a person my age.
Now, I'm 24 yo. But every server I join is dominated by teens below 18 then users around 20-22, but older users are almost nonexistent, unless it is related to programming.
Where did people my age go? I don't think work is the reason cuz most employed ppl (including me) nowadays browse social media at work even for a brief time.
Does anyone experience this? Record a 10 minute video, go to editor then jump to a part tt the middle/ end of the video and just press play. Video suddenly freezes while audio plays (even if no overlays effects are applied). This keeps happening on my Samsung A56 (a premium mid-range smartphone) which is annoying because it did not happen on a cheap budget phone I owned before it.
Living in a country where online restriction is heavily restricted and your only option is to either trust a peer to buy you nitro or using crypto debit cards this is annoying.
I have a foreign virtual card that I use to pay for everything online, however it is recently unavailable when I wanted to buy nitro subscription and this is the message that shows up when I hover the info icon. (image below).
And before anyone says "well just get a card that can be used in your current Country / Region". Not everyone in the world can obtain a card that lets you pay for anything online.
I live in a country where obtaining a credit/debit card for online transactions requires undergoing an annoying administrative process and its spending limit is quite low (unless you own an LLC or a startup, you're allowed to spend no higher than $340). It is mainly for professionals who need paying for digital services like running ads, hosting websites etc... even that and I still can't use it to pay for everything (even if it's for professional work).
Instead, I use a virtual credit card that can be topped up with cryptocurrency (with any amount via P2P exchange) and use it to pay for anything, instead of being restricted by the geographical limits of my country.
One could use a VPN, but whether that is against ToS or not is up to discord. Even then, why should they change an IP address just to pay for nitro.
Discord is an app that unites everyone from all over the world. Thus them unrestricting payments would be much appreciated.
TL;DR: Why is tiktok monetization still not universally available to all (or most countries) after 3 years? YouTube did it decently with Adsense, what's the hold up with ByteDance?
TikTok launched its creativity program in February 2023 and for that they experimented with select creators in a few countries like USA, Brazil and France. That is understandable.
What's not understandable is why it's 2026 and the eligible countries for creator program are still only 8 (United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and Mexico)?
It is not hard to reach universal monetization, I can get paid from YouTube monetization via Google AdSense even though I live in a country infamous for online payment restrictions.
Surely it is not a lack of monetization either. ByteDance is a multi-billion dollar company and the incentive program has paid several users well.
Lack of advertisers in a specific country should be an issue only if I want to make content for audience in my region. But what if I make content for English-speaking target audiences in wealthy countries. In that case, I should get paid since they should see ads in their regions.
I genuinely think it's unfair to incentivize one person but dismiss another just from the country they were born in especially if both can provide similar added value.
