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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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      • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Genuinely curious: Does that actually work? Don’t you have to have your credit card registered to an Irish bank to make payments in that PC’s Windows Store?

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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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      • sourov@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think that would be possible in an Apple phone. In an Apple phone, Apple can check where you are by checking your GPS coordinates.

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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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      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve read about Euro-English and discussed it back on reddit quite some time ago, and I have to say I’m very skeptical whether such a thing exists or ever could exist. Fundamentally it’s a mis-learned standard English, and the mis-learning is to a large degree determined by the speaker’s native language - which varies extremely across Europe. Slavic speakers will have issues with articles, Germans much less so, etc. Consequently there’s hardly any definite characteristic of Euro-English (the examples in the article are too vaguely described, and I’m sure many European ESLs would find them grammatically unacceptable too). Perhaps one could speak of a variety of English used by EU politicians and institutions, but those people are hardly a linguistic model for the vast majority of other speakers.

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      • HotBeef@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is most definitely not a fun fact. It’s bad enough having the Yanks telling us how to speak our own language!

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      • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you telling me to deal with it, or something else?

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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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