Luc

You mean registrar. The registry is the place that administers the register of domains within a TLD (like .se or .mobi) and for some reason doesn’t let you order domains unless you want to become a registrar first

I don’t know which registry is the best but I can tell you about the worst. My registrar was also not amused by the mess that is AFNIC (twice now, concerning different domain names, and I don’t have many domains so if I already had multiple problems…). They sit in Paris and operate the TLDs of former colonies

For registrars, I picked OVH because they’re among the cheapest and their servers have been very reliable and fast across the months where I tested them before switching over. Their software is ass though, the forms frequently display three languages due to broken translations (their source language is French, my contract language is Dutch so a lot of elements are in Dutch, and then English trickles through where I guess they have a translation available but not to Dutch), multi-year ordering broke at some point and hasn’t gotten fixed, automatic renewal is wonky to set up… but once it runs, it simply works well so I still recommend it for people who want good service on a budget. You can also set records by editing the zone file which I appreciate. I’ve had registrars before that wouldn’t let you use certain record types; don’t have such problems here

I always have trouble with this perspective. Wouldn’t you put your private life before yet another job? It would have to be a very unique dream job before I would put it before a potential life partner

It has to go so badly wrong for this to become an issue

1. Firstly, nothing serious might come of it. Stopping to date isn’t an issue then
2. I’d not get serious with someone who’s not mentally acting like an adult. Working with an ex partner should be fine on a professional level. I don’t need to like every one of my coworkers on a personal level
3. If we did get serious and then break up and my judgement is off about their ability to act rationally at work, I can find another job. After all, there’s nothing tying me to this place if I don’t live here with a partner

Especially (as it is here) when you don’t work with each other daily, I’d take the low odds of losing my job for the chance to find a life partner

Not saying you should as well. I just don’t understand it

Why do lucky days come from replies with vowels in them?

Not technically an answer but perhaps the absence is surprising / of interest to someone:

We don’t typically do this in the Netherlands. I find it very strange to call someone something that isn’t their name (or at least a part thereof if the parents chose something unwieldy), especially to the point where a culture develops a set of default secondary names based on their real first name. Mostly obvious ones but sometimes also entirely unguessable. I learned this is a thing in other countries from my German partner

We do have birth names (some biblical crap, like the holy Johannes for someone called Jo) but it’s not like they’d ever introduce themselves to anyone as such (not even when meeting the king). It’s not their name, their parent doesn’t say it when they’ve done something wrong, and I doubt they’d respond to it if it’s not super obvious from other clues that you mean them. It’s just there for ceremonies at church altars and airport terminals

German also has Mustermann (“Muster” meaning template)

We don’t have that in the Netherlands or in English afaik and would use something like Smith, that is Janssen in our case. Of course you could also see something like “Last_name” or “Example” in the place of a last name field, but it doesn’t look like a name the way that yours does

Janssen or Jansen (without that final s) is also the default last name in the Netherlands

In the north you find a lot of de Vries (the… frosty? There’s an origin story involving Napoleon that I don’t know whether it’s correct)

Regarding Peeters, a crush of mine was called Peters, in Dutch Limburg. Besides that I don’t know the name so I’d guess it’s uncommon here

Pronounced “win” with a slight N sound before, for anyone else wondering

I migrated to Germany eight years ago. I’m curious if your grandpa would take issue with me as well or if it’s only those with a different skin color…

Haven’t had any issues with migrants here myself, it’s just politics. Same as where I’m from (Netherlands), politicians only talk and some parties need someone to blame. Economic analyses of migration I see are generally positive because it grows the economy and we need the extra hands at current birth rates. Many do (care/construction/ag) jobs that locals don’t want to do at that pay level, keeping things more affordable, bringing in tax money; in the skilled sector also bringing international relations and often expertise… the main challenge currently is building enough housing but that would have been problematic regardless due to demographic shifts and the government selling the houses they financed and then discovering that the new shareholders mostly go for short-term profits and not large forward-thinking investments

Wait there’s profile pictures? I just see usernames in the comment threads in Lemmy and that seems fine to me

Sorry, also at @MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world, I was mistaken indeed. The option I was thinking of is called “manual download” but, when opening that dialog, the only buttons are cancel and install.

I’m pretty sure I’ve done this though, but probably by pressing install (either there or in the main UI) and looking for the apk in Aurora’s cache folder

Relatief duur, veilig, modern (veel digitalisering; gaat voor privacy), en individualistisch

Nog altijd veel autocultuur en OV wordt afgebouwd; desondanks is het OV betrouwbaar en kun je op de meeste plekken de auto achterwege laten, zeker als je de laatste minuten fietst of loopt

Toen ik tijdelijk naar het kustgebied verhuisde, is een van de dingen die me opviel dat het vrijwel altijd vervelend hard waait. In het binnenland is dat niet. De meeste mensen wonen in de grote steden in het westelijke kustgebied en dat weerspiegelt soms in de media. In het zuiden en westen (en wellicht elders) kun je niet meer dan enkele minuten lopen van veelbegane paden verwijderd zijn; er is vrijwel altijd iemand in je buurt

Supermarkten hebben over het algemeen een goed aanbod aan moderne producten zoals vleesvervangers of kant-en-klaarproducten. Nog meer dan in Duitsland denk ik en al zeker globaal gezien. Fastfood komt uit de frituur (behalve internationale burger-/broodjesketens)

Mensen bedoelen vaak “bericht” als ze “app” zeggen, maar sometimes also app. WiFi rijmt op bifi. Engels zul je vaak terughoren als je niet vloeiend Nederlands spreekt, ook al spreekt de persoon zelf slecht Engels. Ouderen kennen eerder Duits als tweede taal vanwege de TV, en wat Frans van school

De taal heeft geen ingeburgerde manier van geslachtsneutraal schrijven. Waar Engels dat van nature doet en Duits verschillende breedgebruikte aanpakken kent, hebben wij enkel het male-default-model als enige algemeen gebruikte systeem

Gelijkheid en directheid worden wel algemeen als groot goed gezien

Ik wist heel lang niet dat coffeeshops in andere landen wél koffie verkopen. In Nederland heb ik geen idee of ze óók koffie verkopen. Drugscultuur is niet iets waar je per se mee in aanraking komt als je het niet opzoekt. Dat iedereen z’n eigen weg kan kiezen vind ik wel fijn aan Nederland

“Vertalen is interpreteren”. Menselijke vertaling:

Relatively expensive, safe, modern (high degree of digitisation; prioritised over privacy), and individualistic

Still a strong car culture and public transport keeps being cut back; despite that, it is reliable and in most places you could do away with having a car if you walk or cycle the last couple minutes

When temporarily moving to the coastal area, one of things I noticed is that it’s almost always annoyingly windy. Inland areas don’t have that. Most people live in big cities in the coastal area in the west, and this is sometimes reflected in the media. In the zuiden and west (and perhaps elsewhere), you can’t be more than a few minutes’ walk away from well-trodden paths; there is almost always someone near to you

Supermarkts generally have a good offering of modern products such as meat replacements and convenience products. I think more than in Germany and definitely globally. Fast food is prepared in a frying pan (besides international burger/sandwich chains)

People often mean “message” when they say “app”, except for sometimes. WiFi sounds like whiff-eww [pardon my terrible attempt at that :D]. You’ll often be replied to in English if your Dutch isn’t fluent, even if the person doesn’t speak English that well. Older people would more often know German as second language due to TV, and some French from school

The language has no established way of writing gender neutrally. Whereas English has it naturally and German has several widely used approaches, we have the male default model as only commonly used system

Equality and directness are nevertheless generally seen as virtuous

I didn’t know for a long time that coffee shops in other countries do sell coffee. In the Netherlands, I have no idea if they also sell coffee. Addictive substance culture is not something you necessarily interact with if you don’t seek it out. That everyone can go his [their] own way, I like about the Netherlands

“Aurora store” is a client for the Google Play servers that lets you download the apk to a directory

Edit: I seem to be wrong, it gets into a cache directory for installation but you can’t seem to choose where that is

Do you mean like a bass sound? Any idea what frequency?

As someone who can’t hear high pitches at all, I do recognise this funky bouncing of frequencies at the edge of my hearing range (probably around 15 kHz, I haven’t precisely measured it). It’s surprisingly hard to locate sound sources when you only hear them when you’re facing a certain angle in a certain spot in the room! These are always too quiet for my phone to pick up, so that’s no help sadly

I wonder if there’d be a market for a variant of a phone model that is just all-round decent, but has a better microphone and other sensor upgrades. I run into the sensor limits a lot (probably weekly) but also don’t want to permanently run around with a bulky sensor board in my pocket :<

Probably related: apparently (some?) people can learn to use echolocation. Particularly useful for blind people of course, but I’ve read it’s too much effort and too limited compared to the alternative solutions so that it’s generally not considered worth pursuing. Naturally I had to try it myself: distinguishing the distance to one wall isn’t hard at all, at least coarsely; the difficulty seems to be in rapidly (while walking) finding smaller objects (especially ones that dampen sound), figuring out angles if you’re not facing or precisely perpendicular to a wall, and dealing with background noise

With your superhuman hearing, maybe you’d enjoy casually learning to do this at some level and getting some use out of the hearing sensitivity :)

All lights? Also battery-fed DC lights somehow?! I’m no expert but that seems strange

I’ve caught a lot of lights and light-emitting displays flickering with the 980fps camera that’s built into my phone (best thing since sliced bread for a nerd like me), but also quite many lights appear solid. I’d imagine few have such high-frequency electronics that it pulses well beyond 1 kHz. Otherwise the sensor should sometimes capture a frame during a low or a peak

As an example, I was recently looking at car lights in Germany, expecting to see duty cycling in most modern ones, but the majority (2/3rds or so) were actually solid so far as I could tell. A few cars had a mixture of flickering and solid lights in seemingly the same fixture. All flickering ones were high frequency though, not like 50 Hz as grid-fed lights do but much more. I didn’t bother with ffmpeg and counting frames but I estimated on the order of 250 Hz for one of them

You’re saying I can learn to see with my buttocks if one puts the right kind of lens in front of it and the light is sufficiently intense?

I definitely can’t hear high frequencies (I’m assuming due to ear infections as a child, feels mildly unfair that other people my age get to hear and understand conversations better but oh well) but coil whine is a thing for me as well.

Had a router once that would whine depending on the network packet rate. My computer screen makes a noise when displaying large grids like a screen full of terminal text or a mostly blank spreadsheet. The led lights in my bathroom make a noise and I often turn them off while transacting my business. My Bluetooth headphones make similar noises depending on the connection state but that one is probably interference and not coil whine

It happens at all frequencies. Although you don’t need to be able to hear special frequencies for it, of course you’ll hear it in more places if you have superlucg hearing ^^

Do you have an example of something you can make out that an average person probably can’t?

Thanks!