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SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is you regional settings set to a European country?

  (by the way, life pro tip, setting your region to a European country solves a ton of issues people have with Windows, most complaints I see I never had a problem with even though I live in Canada, my settings are set to UK)

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting that setting your location to the UK gets you EU protections. Do the EU protections apply in the UK? They Brexited didn’t they?

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    • kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IIUC when they separated they basically ended up with a snapshot of EU regulations. So most of GDPR applies. But IDK if the DMA will apply as it was created after they split.

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      • viking@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah you better set it to Ireland or Malta to get full EU conformity.

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      • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On iOS in the UK you’re not able to sideload on the new update so probably not

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  • MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are there any downsides to setting your region to some place other than where you actually are?

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    • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it just uses that to know which signs and types of spelling to use.

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Useful fact: Both Ireland and Malta have English as official languages so you’re basically guaranteed availability of those locales (unlike say en-DE, which exists, (at least according to the ICU), while en-FR doesn’t).

        Fun fact: Both don’t have it as sole official language, though, and each EU member only gets to nominate one of their official languages as an official language of the EU, which means that with Brexit English ceased to be an official EU language. The commission manoeuvred around that though and still kept it as working language. With the Brits out of the picture though they’re not writing passive-aggressive memos regarding language use any more and the Irish certainly will not stoop down to that level, Euro-English can finally evolve freely and within ten years we’ll start telling Anglophones that it’s incorrect to say “there were five people at the party” (you attended), it’s “we were five people at the party”. Deal with it.

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    • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Timezone stuff might act a little weird, same with fuzzy location

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No issues with that for me as it’s separate settings 🤷

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux solves the rest.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wrong conversation

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re right. I either fumbled it or found a bug in my client.

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  • Kalysta@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the life hack I never knew i needed. Thanks!!

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• Vendul@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could always uninstall with the Revo Uninstaller

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  • lunachocken@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check out Chris titisi’s script. Can do quite a bit and uninstall edge.

    It can be ran as a single command without any manual download.

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