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  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yes, I had typing lessons for that when I was a kid. Learned on QWERTY and still use it to this day.My form might not be completely proper (sometimes I use the "wrong" finger for a certain key), but it's pretty close to proper.

  • European Alternatives for Music Streaming

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  • Your client might have glitched out. It seems like you posted the same comment four times.

  • US electrical q:my 240v reads only 190v

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  • Here in the Netherlands you can get 380V power using the same technique. Very useful for powering an induction stove, or if you want faster charging for your EV

    Edit: Referring to three phase power, not two phase power. That is why we get 380V and not 460V

  • European Alternatives for Music Streaming

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  • I hate to say it, because I know people are not a huge fan of the company, but Spotify is also European. They're Swedish.

  • Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem

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  • That security camera does not need to be a Ring camera though. There are solutions that store footage locally and don't report back to our coorporate overlords

  • Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s travellers walking on the wrong side, boss says

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  • It's not an explicit law. But if the majority of people follow the rule implicitely it still works quite well.

    Here in the Netherlands walking flows in long corridors also usually tend to sort themselves to right-hand walking. It's more efficient than walking against the flow of traffic.

  • Should there be a city in every country where everything was legal without limits and people could do whatever they wanted all the time, but once someone enters, they can never leave?

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  • This sounds like a plot from a dystopic sci-fi movie from the 80s. Starring Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken

  • Milei’s regime legalizes 12 hour workdays in Argentina

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  • If they want a truly free market, they should legalize 24 hour days

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  • As if Trump actually cares about Melania

  • Have any cities made dedicated bike roads?

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  • As a Dutchman, Amsterdam is fine but it is not the prime example of how to build cycling infrastructure. It's quite busy and hectic, and there are many places around the country that simply do it better.

    Groningen is usually the main example used for a great city to cycle in, and Houten is a good example of suburbia that prioritizes cycling.

    I live in Eindhoven, and I'd even argue that cycling here is less hectic and stressful than cycling in Amsterdam (though Eindhoven is historically one of the more car-brained cities in the Netherlands)

    Edit: Worth noting that Amsterdam isn't bad. It's probably still better than most cities around the world in terms of cycling infrastructure.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • Stellantis does make affordable vehicles though... in Europe...They own Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, Opel, etc and they have been making great affordable EVs for a few years now.

    Stellantis in the US and Stellantis in Europe seem like two entirely different entities that don't talk to one another.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • That must have changed recently then, because last I checked they only really had the Mustang left over.Ever since they discontinued the Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta

    Edit: Looks like they introduced the Ford Puma since then, and a handfull of SUVs

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • Doesn't Ford mostly focuss on the American market these days? They don't make reasonably sized or affordable cars anymore, only oversized pickups and SUVs, which don't sell well outside of North America.

    Meanwhile BYD has the Chinese market already, and is expanding globally, selling relatively affordable EVs.I'm not exactly surprised that they are outselling Ford

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month to anyone who hasn't provided them with a copy of their ID

    Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked

    Edit: I'm not completely against the idea of age checks for adult content, but it needs to be implemented in a transpatent manner, and the verification should be non-traceable.

    The EU appears to be working on a pretty solid solution as part of their digital wallet.But that is not what Discord is using.

    Edit 2: Added some relevant links

  • DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE

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  • Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.

    These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.

  • What are things you did during the early days of the COVID pandemic to try to keep from contracting the virus?

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  • There was a severe mask shortage where I lived (Netherlands), so any masks, gloves, etc went to the hospitals.

    The government also did not advise masking up for that reason, they only recommended staying at home, distancing and sneezing in your elbow. So that is what I did for the first wave of the virus. Stay at home, and when I needed to go out for food I distanced myself as much as possible.

    I mostly managed fine. People were pretty good at keeping distance, and I didn't catch the virus till a year orso into the pandemic.

    Though, there is one interaction I recall at the cash register at the Lidl. I am keeping 1.5m distance to the guy in front of me, so I put my items at the end of the conveyor belt. The guy behind me clearly does not appreciate that and stands as close to me as possible. After about a minute orso of him breathing down my neck, I try to politely ask the guy to please keep some distance, after which he threatens to beat my up in the parking lot for even daring to ask that.

    I never went back to that supermarket for the rest of the pandemic.

    Edit: There is also an interaction I recall where I was the asshole. During the early days of the pandemic I occasionally went cycling (since outdoors exercise was one of the few activities that was advised)

    Two ladies are stopped at a traffic light, with some distance between them. I was just cycling on autopilot, so I stop slightly back from them between them, the way I always would. In hindsight it was obviously too close, but I didn't register that immediately at the time.

    They obviously call me out on that and ask me to please stay back, after which I had to awkwardly reverse and apologize.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • Clearly OP didn't do enough homeworks

  • Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor

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  • I think that is incorrect. They discontinued the model X and model S, meaning they are only going to focus on the model 3 and model Y (which are their better selling models)

  • For those who's country's national language is NOT English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language?

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  • Just a regular Dutchman from the Netherlands, actually. I got all four languages in school, and got quite a bit of exercise in French as a kid, so some of it stuck with me.

    German is similar enough to Dutch that you can mostly bluff your way through it after highschool.

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    Dutch Payment service iDeal becomes Wero: "Do not fall for scams, nothing is changing"

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  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Why London’s tax on driving works—and NYC’s might fail

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    New Patch with Smaller Service Buildings (amongst others) Released

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Communist Netherlands vs Freedom-Loving USA

  • Gay: News, Memes and Discussion @lemmy.world
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