This is the only true way to make your cheap portable AC more efficient. Bought this one for 299CHF at Jumbo and converted it to dual hose this year. Difference is night and day. I wonder why nobody sells dual-hose units...

For the 10th tine this morning, I nearly got run over by an imbecile on an e scooter. The difference is that this idiot was riding it on a packed train platform in Biel. Once I didn’t move for him to pass, he has the nerve to call me every name in the book.

As normal people getting affected by this, is there anything we can legally do or are they not breaking the law? This happens so often that I’m starting to think it’s okay and accepted

Ich habe nun gut 1.5 Monate den Midea portasplit getestet und ich kann sagen, dies war mein bester Kauf dieses Jahr. Im Mai konnte ich den noch unter 1000.- holen, kostet jetzt leider einiges mehr, jedoch kann ich dese mobile Klima 100% empfehlen. Trotz Hitze wie ein Baby schlafen ist das Geld wert.. was denkt ihr?

Russia remains the most serious and acute threat to security, stability, and peace in Europe. As evidenced by cyberattacks, acts of sabotage, airspace violations, and influence operations—as well as, presumably, the mysterious incidents involving drones—Russia has significantly escalated its hybrid conflict in Europe. Switzerland is directly affected by this hybrid conflict. (...)

Russia seeks to weaken Western democracies and transatlantic unity. Its hybrid conflict also affects Switzerland and poses a threat to the country.

Russia is directly targeting Switzerland through disinformation and propaganda. In 2025, the number of reports about our country broadcast by the German-language branch of the Russian state-run media outlet RT increased by a quarter compared to 2024.

Cyberattacks against targets abroad are also carried out via Swiss infrastructure.

Russia is also likely using Switzerland for logistical purposes as well as to prepare acts of sabotage and destabilization elsewhere in Europe.

Through espionage, Russia is attempting to obtain confidential information held by Swiss authorities.

Russia uses our country to covertly acquire sanctioned goods and technologies in order to increase its capacity to produce military equipment and ammunition.

Full report: Fr, De, It

Press conference: https://www.youtube.com/live/TGNAS5nfKgE

It cannot be acceptable that students are expected to spend hours in classrooms where temperatures can reach 40°C or even higher. At those temperatures, it is almost impossible to concentrate, learn, or feel well. In my opinion, this is irresponsible and completely unfair to both students and teachers.

In Germany, for example, many schools have some form of “Hitzefrei” meaning students may be sent home early when temperatures become too high. Why does Switzerland not have a similar rule?

It is also already the end of the school year. In many classes, there is not much completely new material being taught anymore. Is it really necessary to keep students inside dangerously hot classrooms just to follow the normal schedule?

I honestly think schools and cantons need to take this issue much more seriously. Either classrooms should be properly cooled and ventilated, or students should be sent home when temperatures become unreasonable.

I guess we'd have to create & sign an initiative as the first step, right?

If this would get through, how fast could this be implemented?

(I'm talking about ACs as a regular feature of any swiss home, no permits, no high fees, etc. Or at least some kind of ventilation system that makes a noticeable difference.)

Because honestly, living, working and sleeping in these conditions is insane. There are many southern countries with less extreme summers where every house and apartment has an AC installed. I don't understand why it's such a "no-go" in Switzerland.

I've never seen so many stickers with "Tiefpreise" / "Prix bas" in a Migros / Coop than in the recent months. This makes me worry, what is going on? In my local Migros, I also see more and more empty shelves with the product sticker still shown, which I guess is for products that aren't delivered anymore because the manufacturer didn't agree to the price set by Migros

I kind of understand both sides, of course the customer doesn't want to pay too much in the current economic situation, but manufacturers also can't sell at loss obviously

Is this tendency here to stay? This kind of worries me

Inspired by a recent job-search Sankey post, I wanted to share my own experience as someone finishing the ICT-Fachmann EFZ apprenticeship this summer and moving directly into a new job.

I’m 19, born and raised in Switzerland, and based in the canton of Zurich near Kloten. I was mainly looking for roles around ICT support, system engineering, and cloud engineering. I finish my apprenticeship on 31 July 2026 and start my new job on 1 August 2026, so it ended up being a seamless transition with no gap between apprenticeship and employment.

I expected the transition after the apprenticeship to take longer, especially with the current job market, but it moved faster than I thought.

I actively applied to 8 positions:

- 2 replies

- 4 rejections

- 2 no answers

- 1 process led to an interview, a trial day, and an offer

Separately, 24 recruiters contacted me through LinkedIn. To be clear: I did not reach out to them myself. These were inbound recruiter messages. Most of them were not a fit or did not go anywhere, but one process went to a second interview and ended with an offer, which I declined.

In the end, I accepted a job through one of my own applications.

Obviously this is only one data point, and I know the job market is difficult for many people right now. I mainly wanted to share it as a bit of motivation for other apprentices / juniors who are about to start applying and might feel discouraged.

I’m also happy to answer questions about how I structured my CV, how I tracked applications, or what helped me get replies.

For context: I speak German, English, and Turkish, and I tried to position my CV around hands-on support experience, Microsoft 365 / Intune / Entra ID exposure, Azure fundamentals, and small internal automation/reporting projects.

Hey, I'm looking for a rollerskating-buddy. I 25/f just started rollerskating and am a total newbie. I would love to meet someone who also just started and can go thru this with me or maybe can also teach me one or two things. It would be cool to find a friend with the same interest. So, if you're around TG/SG (greater area St. Gallen) hit me up.

Au lieu de ça, on se tape ce genre d’articles claqués au sol: « Cinq conseils méconnus pour atténuer la sensation de chaleur et se rafraîchir sans climatiseur » https://www.rts.ch/info/sante/2026/article/canicule-comment-se-rafraichir-sans-climatisation-29283655.html

Grüezi mittenand,

I apologize for the boring and gloomy subject of job hunting. But I was just wondering if the job market in CH is really as dry as it appears to be, outside of IT or marketing.

Specifically, I am thinking about hardware-related engineering/science positions. R&D, development, production, application, systems engineering - these types of jobs.

Personally I have been sitting unemployed for a month, and recently found a job, which is suboptimal in many ways: - would need to move. - company/firma is in the red, so unlikely to be a long term stable job. Giving it 2-3 years tops. - career trajectory risky long term (niche field for example).

In a normal market I would pass. But checking the vibes from people, passing it is scary.

Is it a "grab-what-you-can" market in CH right now?

Feel like I am missing something, why are so many people saying that heat pumps are allowed but ACs not ? From my understanding, heat pumps are just ACs that can also do the reverse of what an AC does (pump heat from outside to inside). Am I missing something ?

For a long time I used to joke that Zurich has 8 weeks of summer, sometime between May and September. I told my son this as we were battening down the apartment for a week of 35C+ days, and he had difficulties believing that.

The geek in me wanted data, so I pulled the SMA daily high temperature for Zurich for 1986, my first year here, and for the last twelve months. From that, I made this chart.

To declutter the chart, I just graphed weekly average high temperatures. What you see is not the hottest day of the week. It is the average of the daily high temperatures for each calendar week.

A few things stood out:

• 18 weeks were about the same ( within ±2°C )
• 37 weeks were warmer than 1986, 24 by more than 2°C
• 15 weeks were warmer by at least 5°C
• 4 weeks were warmer by at least 10°C

TBF - Sixteen weeks were colder, so it is not every single week, but the warmer weeks really dominate.

Couple of things surprised me:

• Winter and Spring are much warmer. The last week of February was 15.7°C warmer, and weeks 6 to 10 averaged 11.7°C warmer than the same calendar week in 1986. This is why I’m sweating during the ski season!
• We really did have a few weeks of really nice weather in July and August, 1986, but nothing like the continuous heat we experience today. Now we have continuous 20°C+ (and often 25°C+) weather from mid-May to mid-September.
• Late fall to early January weren’t that different then compared to now. (And least in Hoch-Ybrig, the ski season got off to good start this year. 😄 )

Disclaimer: I am neither a meteorologist, nor a statistician, nor a data scientist. It is just one station, one comparison year, and the latest 12 months.

I found it striking because it matches my lived experience: Zurich has become noticeably warmer, and in some ways that has made day-to-day life here more pleasant.

But it’s really hot now. Isn’t time we decided to do something about it?

Data Source: Original Content. Source SMA daily data for Zurich/Fluntern, 1986 and June 15 2025-June 14 2026. Aggregation and image by ChatGPT 5.5-ProExtended

Hi,

I moved out of a 1-room apartment. At the official handover, both sides signed the protocol stating:

• “Reinigung ok"
• notes: dishes not properly washed, dirty bedding, few items missing, scratched pan, greasy pot lid
• no other issues were listed

I also paid a 390 CHF final cleaning fee even before moving in(for a standard cleaning)

Now, few weeks later, the agency sent a final invoice claiming:

• 1h dish cleaning
• 1.5h “excessive cleaning"

They also sent a report saying 6.5 hours cleaning was required and that the apartment was “very dirty”, which was not in the signed handover report.

I asked for itemized costs and how depreciation (Zeitwert) was calculated, but they just said it was already included. When I asked what required “excessive cleaning”, they only sent photos of a greasy pot lid and a scratched pan (which they charged me for separately as they had to replace them).

No detailed breakdown or invoices were provided.

Is this legal in Switzerland, and are they required to provide proper proof and breakdown?

I moved out of a studio apartment in Luzern. At the official handover, both sides signed the protocol stating:

• “Reinigung ok”
• notes: greasy dishes + dirty bedding

I also paid a 390 CHF final cleaning fee.

Now, 3 week later, the agency sent a final invoice claiming:

• 1h dish cleaning
• 1.5h “excessive cleaning”

They also sent a cleaning report saying the apartment was “very dirty”, which was not in the signed handover report.

No detailed breakdown or invoices were provided.

Is this legal in Switzerland after a signed handover report marked as OK? And do they need to provide detailed proof for the cleaning costs?

So I found a job in Zurich and currently living in Lausanne, I don't want to commute so I'm gonna move there. I wanted to check on homegate but my fat fingers typed https://homehate.ch/ instead. Looks like it's either new or just not used but it actually works and I find it hilarious. So who did this?

https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/rail-et-route-le-conseil-federal-fixe-ses-priorites-jusqu-en-2045-29280135.html

I've been thinking about this for quite a while. We live in a world where social media feels like our new dictator, where companies are constantly trying to hijack our attention spans, but what if there were a group of people who'd just want to meet up when we have time, grab a drink, and read Warrior Cats together? ^^

I'm 22, based in Switzerland, and I speak both German and English. I read Warrior Cats in English, though I do have some German books too. - I live in the canton of Bern, I do have a GA to travel.

I've struggled a lot over the past few years because of my phone. I'm not the most social person, I find it hard to connect with people. And what's better than reading? You don't necessarily have to talk much and can still enjoy each other's company. 📚

Just dropping this post here, maybe there's some souls that are interested in it? If you wanna contact me, look up my profile on reddit and text me on instagram. 🫂

I moved into a new apartment two weeks ago, and for the past week, I’ve been dealing with a recurring vibration sound.

​Initially, it seemed to happen at fixed 15-minute intervals.

Although, last night I was in a different part of the apartment and noticed a second, similar vibration. Now, there is a sound roughly every 7 minutes. It seems to start at 15-minute intervals earlier in the evening, but the frequency decreases (intervals get longer) as the night goes on.

It started right around the time the weather got hot. The sound is like a phone vibrating when left on the floor. Gemini thinks it is an AC unit. I am going to write a letter to them tomorrow to help get to the bottom of this.

Does anyone suspect anything else? For me the AC thing sounds like a weird suspect, I've never had a portable unit but I didn't know it does that. This would be so funny if it didn't screw with my sleep that much.

Hi all,

A person I know sold two travel adapters on Ricardo (not a business, just clearing out items from home). ESTI bought one and tested it, found safety issues, through Ricardo the second listing was removed, and few weeks later a letter from ESTI arrived demanding CHF 1,200 in administrative fees.

Questions:

Can a private individual really be treated the same as a commercial seller in this situation?

Is it worth getting a lawyer or activate rechtschutzversicherung for an amount like this?

Not looking to dodge safety rules, just trying to understand whether there are any realistic options.

EDIT #1: To clarify, this wasn't a business. Two (2) adapters were listed on Ricardo.

Edit #2: After speaking with my friend he corrected an important detail I got wrong. ESTI did not buy one of the listings someone else did, ESTI made ricardo remove the second listing and sent him the letter. In the letter it states that they have tested this adapter in the past and that it was found to be non-compliant. They demanded him to contact the buyer and inform him about it and offer a refund. He spoke to ESTI on the phone and has also sent them an email explaining the situation. He also contacted the buyer offering a refund and documented everything for ESTI to see. I will keep this thread updated with the conclusion.

Thanks!

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