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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In NL Geert Wilders let the coalition fall but it was one of the worst coalitions we have had

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here he just let the coalition fall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh no … the US is behind on this and payment platforms and invoice creation and a ton of other shir

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You call sandwiches unhealthy while here they are considered healthy. I might look into some other dishes, but I am not the biggest cooking fan.

  I rather fix the issue of why parents can’t feed their children cause they probably can’t properly feed themselves than working on fixing an consequence. Which might not even fully fix the issue due to picky eather etc.

  Also the waste is a lot more than if you just bring school lunch in a reusable container.

  But as long as poverty isn’t fixed it is better for offer school lunches than let the kids get hungry of course, but it will not help push people to end poverty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup for important files/pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have ResillioSync setup witch syncs between different family members. Both me and my uncle make offline backups of the dataset.

  My pictures on my phone are backupped by iCloud, OneDrive, Resilliosync and Immich … The exports are all posted in the Resilliosync dataset and in Immich.

  My most important files are on Protondrive and I used to make backups using Perfectbackup to my NAS, but since I ditched WIndows I need something else/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair I understand it, I run into the same issue, but tying The Netherlands is pretty annoying especially with the amount I talk about it haha and a lot of people do understand what I am talking about.

  Good day to you as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Blame the US for that, they are generally the country that goes most against international countries, things like ISO codes for dates, accounting standards, but also things like the way they make invoices etc.

  The ISO standards are generally made to make it easier to communicate with each other and here in Europe we also have some really good things going with the VAT rulings and later on with the invoice exchange protocol that is mandatory in Belgium from 2026 onwards.

  I also think that beliving that “laws where made by incompetent and malicious people” is a glass half empty way of looking against it and as somebody who has a decent amount of hours learning national and international laws (mostly about taxes) I understand that a lot of them where just made in a different time and people abusing the system cause “quick” fixes to be applied instead of rewriting the enitre relevant law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to get the volkoren (whole grain) bread which is actually nutritious and most Dutch people actually don’t eat it enough. And it is generally considered to be better for you than most lunches people have. Like having Spaghetti for lunch like the stereotype for Italians.

  I find it to be really impractical and expensive to eat hot lunches at work. I would skip my daily walk where I eat my sandwiches and I doubt ill be able to warm it up, clean the microwave or whatever I use to heat it and eat it in the span of half an hour. Especially if everybody needs to heat their food.

  Every time when I have had good hot lunches (of going outside to a restaurant etc) it would have costed me 15-25 euro excluding drinks, but yeah that is somewhere else I understand that. Another issue is that I generally do not have enough appetite to eat food in the evening.

  My sandwiches aren’t the healtiest to start with because I don’t eat margarine which we tradionally put on bread (it’s not even actual butter anymore) and I generally put the same thing on it because well I am not even that much of a fan of sandwiches let alone creating them. I put deli ham on it and sandwichspread.

  Maybe I should just bring some leftovers and eat them cold, could do that as well I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  NL is the ISO standard abbreviation for The Netherlands and considering our history in the world (both good and bad) I assume most people understand where it is from…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is that something like sandwiches aren’t cheaper to produce in bulk and a lot of the cafeteria’s will have either a fair amount of food left over or they barely make enough for everybody to combat that.

  I don’t think the food in US school is really that fresh.

  No person should go hungry period, but I rather fix the reason why most go hungry than fix the solution. And I have had mandatory lunches in school and generally there is just a choice between meat, fish or vegaterian and I often find myself picking the least bad option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said in the original comment you didn’t read the kids who haven’t had food would generally been given food at school

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In NL most people don’t even eat hot lunches on a regular basis. Even at work people just bring sandwiches in most Dutch companies unless they are internationally focussed.

  Nobody should go hungry, but I don’t see the appeal or need for a centralised food system. Pretty sure there is less food waste if you just give your childeren food from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with that kids should be fed, but what’s wrong with homemade sandwiches? That’s what is the norm in NL and if kids don’t have them theaters notice it and will work on fixing it while given them food.

  The shit we had at most schools I went to was well kinda unhealthy crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most American headline⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting school lunches is so foreign to me, but then again people here in NL just bring home made sandwiches, which are generally cheaper to make than food like in the picture.

  At least in the schools I went to when the teature noticed somebody didn’t have lunch with them on a consistent basis they would ask what was wrong and give them food.

  Some other kids just kept eating unhealthy food every day because the school was still selling that. Heck in my first highscool they sold candy every thursday or so. It was an interesting time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we know this is a thing in the EU?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe introducing driving lessons on the read and done by professionals all over the world would already change a lot. That and the introduction of better road systems like roundabouts, reducing road traffic by adding public transport and walkable/bikeable area’s etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Was the US so behind that they didn’t have a way to file taxes online for free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Move to somewhere with privacy laws

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they have, my uncle had a cheaper Samsung and in the sound settings there was a button for samsung sound settings, which had the exact same settings, but they acted differently. Some acted the same and would also change say a slider on the normal menu and some wouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is lemmy so political?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling people an ignorant, selfish asshole is really going to help see the light and day of why politics are important and/or make them see why your opinions are good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not considering I live in a generally low risk country (NL) and they can’t have something that doesn’t exist. International intelligence in GDPR countries generally goes through the own countries government unless there are signs that they cannot be trusted.

  And they will be really wary of using illegally obtained data on somebody in NL since that will cause for a lot of attention on them and probably issues. So even if they have relevant data they should be hesitant of using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck the name of the brand doesn’t have to be the same as the name of the company.

  It is also standard practise to do in basically every country. It helps with liability, but it also helps when you want to sell parts of the company and can help for tax reasons as well.

  I have seen companies with similar structures who only have a couple of hundred thousand euro of revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had 1 cent every time I read that… and I pulled those cents together… and then paid software developers to build that missing software for other OSes like Linux… then we’d gradually see less of those comments.

  There is a version of the software that works in the browser, but it’s not really that great. That’s what you get when you legally need to use specific software (even the Dutch tax office still use the same old version we use). There are other alternatives, but it’s a massive investment of time to test and switch to that. Something we are forced to do in the near future, but it’s gonna take a lot of time inclusing a lot of time of people with hourly rates of over the 200 EUR excluding VAT. I estimate it will cost us maybe 50% of our yearly revenue to fully switch an organisation to Linux and we will loose a lot of people working here where there are a lot of issues with finding new people for accounting firms.

  I have been trying to install Microsoft Office in Linux mint on my personal PC cause I have more issues with LibreOffice when using MSOffice files (and the people receiving the files will be using MSOffice as well) than I have with games. I tried it using Bottles (Wine) with multiple different installers, but no luck so far.

  Not sure what NLNet is going to do about software lol, I believe you mean something different. NLNet is an instance that is there for people living with lymphedema and/or lipedema and their loved ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to, but we stiill use Windows specific software (and sometimes even Dos specific software!) but we already do that through a VM. The other issue is the extensions we have for Microsoft Office just won’t work on the Linux alternatives and even then Libreoffice isn’t good enough for half the staff in my accounting firm because it lacks certain features for now.

  Most companies who work in browser based software + email can easily switch to Linux and they would barely notice it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least where I am from we do get fractions in school.

  Most people here will say “een derde” aka a 3rd, but it is mostly not used as a precise measurement or anything. Something like 3/7th is rarely used andd we would say 42,9%. In cases where the differences that create are relevant we would communicate it on paper or digitally where iirc we would still use percentages or decimals. Then again I am an accountant and not a technical analysist or anything. For me the difference between 42,9% and 42,85714 will mean a couple thousand at most.

  Doesn’t imperial metrics also use frations from time to time? Metric doesn’t do that, but we have things like nanometers etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a link to what foreign intelligence agencies you mean cause than I am going to use my right to be forgotten. Cause yea that will work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about accuracy especially not when TALKING to somebody. I work with numbers for a living and nobody is as obsessed with fractions than people on Reddit and Lemmy, it’s crazy and I have clients where the difference between 33,33% and 33% can be thousdands of euro’s.