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Fleppensteyn

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Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn

  • What are some alternatives to Google Maps?

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  • None of them seem up to date on public transport when I tried, which makes it kind of useless

  • "Travel" by TheSquareComic

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  • For me Indonesia was the worst, I had constant stomach problems. Vietnam just some light issues, other countries were mostly fine actually.

  • What is your preferred way of downloading youtube videos?

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  • It shouldn't be needed but if you want extra privacy, you can try torsocks.

  • "Travel" by TheSquareComic

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  • I got food poisoning at least 4 times in the couple of months I was in Asia. I even found a place where they stored their "fresh" ingredients next to the toilet. I still have stomach issues >10 years later and I think my Asia trip may be related to that.

  • "Travel" by TheSquareComic

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  • It depends on the location. I admit I've been to McDonald's in Asia, just because my stomach couldn't take the pain anymore. The price of a small menu was the same as a full meal elsewhere, but they treat you like you're in a fancy place.

  • "Travel" by TheSquareComic

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  • As much as I want to avoid McDonald's, they are (were?) often the only fair-priced food place when you're in a large, touristic area.

  • Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

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  • Travel, nothing tech related

  • Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

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  • Fwiw, my blog's statistics say Linux is around 10% and I know a lot of browsers identify themselves as running on Windows when they're not, so I wonder how it's measured.

  • In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?

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  • Not to mention storage space. Like most people their generation, my parents have a garage and an attic. All this extra space to hoard stuff

  • Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee

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  • I vaguely remember (but can't find it right now) that the PDF format became open source at some point and free alternatives came out for PDF editing. And that was already back in the 2000s when people still printed documents (which is what PDF was originally meant for).

    In modern times, every browser/OS can read PDF, every text editor can export to PDF, nobody prints physical documents and there are free alternatives – so why do they still exist and who is paying?

  • Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee

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  • Wow, I had no idea Acrobat Reader still exists. They charge €15,72 per month now apparently.

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    What's the keyboard app for android with the most accurate swipe to type?

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  • Yes, I use it, but I feel like I have to be slower and more precise than before. Still it works better than e.g. Google's keyboard.

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    What's the keyboard app for android with the most accurate swipe to type?

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  • Yep. SwiftKey sometimes has strange predictions etc but (unfortunately) that one's the best out of the many different ones I tried.

  • South Park (TV Show)

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  • I know a bunch of people who lost interest over time around the same time as me, it's when they had this season-long storyline. Not sure which season it was.

    The kids act too adult now, Chef disappeared, other common characters are rarely there anymore or changed completely (Garrison turned into Trump?), then the weed stuff / Tegrity, Warcraft – all not that great IMO.

  • South Park (TV Show)

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  • The first seasons were great, good to re-watch. But it's like they kind of gave up since season 10 or so. The characters, topics and the humor are all different now.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

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  • Usually, yes. But not where I stayed. It was all locked down. Maybe I just had bad luck. It was in Triest and Milan by the way.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

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  • Several hostels I stayed at closed at 10 pm and wouldn't allow people to go in or out

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

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  • Avoid French cities: people constantly harass you for money and drugs and it looks shady and feels uncomfortable everywhere. Smaller towns can be nice.

    And Italy: it's expensive, people are rude and arrogant and nearly every place I stayed at gave me a curfew so you can't even go out at night (but there's nothing to see there anyway).

  • Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl

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  • The languages I'm most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don't think that's really the case.

    Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce