In the Netherlands, they stick English on packaging for prestige rather than French. Makes me laugh fairly often to see.
I'll thank you to stop insinuating that I'm American, and it's so bleedingly obvious that I'm not talking about non-native speakers.
He's a big sandwich person insofar as he's stuffed.
I've just looked it up, and it seems to just come from a Reddit post where they explain how they've worked it out, but in their working out they've triple-counted the N-shaped faces.
The sources are anyone who's paying any fucking attention.
That solves that, then, I suppose?
The Alan Partridge autobiography's voiced by Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge but I suppose you'd only like it if you'd seen enough Alan Partridge.
I mix peanut butter with oatmilk and appel syrup and I eat it all up like a dog with two dicks.
Yeah after writing it I sort of realised I was pointing out the joke, but we're here now.
We know for certain that Gboard accesses the internet at least so it's not out of the question. I've settled on Openboard, and my only problem with it is that the UK English keyboard suggests American spellings, but I've read that that's a problem with all open source keyboards because of the .dict file, so I'm currently settling on the latter side of the dilemma between sacrificing privacy for Gboard and putting up with being recommended American spellings.
I went to visit my mum and dad last year and I found a globe in my sister's old bedroom from our childhood. It was interesting seeing the handful of countries on there that have since changed.
Youtube and Android 5.1.1.
I've almost completely removed Google products from my life now, having recently decided to change the OS on my phone, delete Gmail, etc. etc. but only two things remain:
I've looked at Invidious and at Piped and I just can't seem to get the same experience as on Youtube. It's fine if Google knows nothing about me except what I watch on Youtube and what dates I'd put the bins out in 2013, no? (Can't seem to delete that from the calendar) Or if anyone's managed to emulate the same kind of experience Youtube gives on one of the two, please share. I quite like the recommendations but I think it's only possible on the abovementioned by watching a video then looking at the side of the page?
I've got a tablet (Samsung SM-T335) from ten years ago running on Android 5.1.1. I've decided to root it to delete all the bollocks that came installed with it (I've recently factory reset it and only use it for ebooks and Firefox Focus), including the Google stuff. I have to wait a week or something apparently before it'll let me check the OEM-unlocking box but I was wondering if anyone's had any success with this (I've seen people saying you can change the date, you can fiddle with it in xyz manner, but I'm looking to hear people's experiences).
The plan then is to root it, delete the shovelware, and sideload the two apps I want to use. Also curious to hear people's experiences with sideloading, because most of the articles I find on the internet were written by a robot or in the year dot. I've also read that it's impossible to install a custom OS on such an old tablet but I'd like to hear whether it's worth trying at the risk of bricking the thing.
I'm mildly proud of how I categorise my games on Steam and interested to see others' methods
They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.
Vegan Horeca & Food NL
We hebben een groepsappje aangemaakt voor mensen die in plantaardige keukens, bars, bakkerijen, productiekeukens enz. in Nederland werken. Stuur ff een privébericht als je wil meedoen!
We've set up a Whatsapp group for people who work in plant-based kitchens, bakeries, production kitchens, etc. in the Netherlands. DM if you want to join!
Two amateurish questions
- Is it possible to use a hosting service I'm already paying for (strato.nl) and a domain I've already bought to host a Mastodon/Pixelfed instance? All the websites that encourage me to selfhost advertise a new hosting service to me with the price in dollars.
- Furthermore, is it possible to start an account on this instance that can be followed via either Mastodon or Pixelfed and vice versa, or are they just unrelated? I can see accounts from pixey.org on my Mastodon Android app and I know you can post to Lemmy via Mastodon but I'm unsure on how it goes the other way.
Sorry if I've made your eyes roll but we all shat green once.
Edit: very happy with the responses, thanks all.
To those with English as a second language: are people actively being taught that a short A should be pronounced as a short E?
Just wondering because I hear a lot of non-native speakers say things like "bend" instead of "band" and I find it a bit puzzling since native speakers don't say it that way (except in New Zealand and maybe London I suppose? Not sure) and many languages have the usual A-sound that I and many others use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel) so it's not like it's difficult to pronounce. I've also seen it mentioned on onzetaal.nl that a particular word with an A is pronounced with an E "like in English" ("Bovendien spreek je app in het Nederlands nog enigszins op z’n Engels uit: als ‘ep’.": https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/appen-whatsappen-vervoeging). Actually I find myself quite often not understanding Dutch people speaking English if they do it.
The other explanations would be that people can't get their mouths around the short A in standard American and learnèd English Englishes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel) or that people have just sort of collectively, subconsciously decided to start saying it that way, or something else I haven't thought of. Maybe because the name of the letter A in English is more or less the same as the letter E in others?
Ruben Bolling's comic strip from 12th Sept 2001
Attached: 1 image Here is that first comic I did after the attacks. I had a job in the World Financial Center and had to escape the financial district on that day. It's hard to convey my emotions as I reluctantly and resentfully cast about for comic ideas and came up with this.
It sort of reads like a surrealist antijoke through modern eyes.
What to do if you don't feel listened to at work?
I'm a man myself, but I'm a foreigner where I live and work, so I sometimes get the impression that my intelligence is a bit underestimated by employers and coworkers. I'm a sous chef, so in a management position, and I often get this feeling like the chef de cuisine, the owner, and sometimes some of the cooks aren't listening to me. Like I'll have to reiterate my point two or even three times at a meeting before I get a relevant answer, or I'll send a memo out and the changes I've instated aren't being adopted after the fact, or someone I'm talking to might vacantly say "yes" as if they're occupied with something else.
Yesterday I asked the chef a question about a recipe that only he could answer and he said I could google it. I'd already googled it just to be sure, wouldn't you know. The day before, the owner told a cook, who then told me, that we all together were planning to put all delivery receipts in a neat little box and adopt a system to check they're correct, but I'd already done it alone a week earlier, and told them all about it, with photos and everything. I feel like I'm going mad.
I hear that this is a (more) common experience for women, so I wonder if any of you have any tips or tricks or whatever to make yourself heard, or to at least cope with not being heard, or even just a bit of commiseration is fine. Cheers!