I believe a major factor in this was a ruling by the Hoge Raad that a “free” phone with a contract is unlawful and is actually a loan. Carriers now have to list the price for the phone and for the service separately, so it’s a lot more clear what the costs of the phone are.
Also, a “free” phone is now registered as a loan with monthly recurring costs, which impacts for example the maximum mortgage you can get on a home.
My washing machine has this repeating beep too. If you haven’t done so, check the manual: on mine there’s a setting to disable it.
If you lay in the bed, depending on if you are lying on your back or stomach, left and right still change.
Ususally a bed is positioned with the head against a wall, so if you are facing the bed from the foot end, left and right are always the same. So I vote left/right is as seen from the foot end of the bed.
So wird es in die Niederlanden auch gemacht.
Immerhin gibt es auch hier genug Leute die aus dem Kreisverkehr raus fahren ohne zu blinken…
No, it’s just “can’t find it in the app store” and “want to have it on my home screen”…
This is definitely part of it. The company I work for sells a service to companies, that their employees need to use. We built a web app, it works perfectly fine. However, people ask for ‘an app’ because they want to install it from their phone’s app store instead of opening the website once through a link in their email and creating a bookmark.
So we added a PWA manifest and clear instructions on how to ‘install’ our web app (it’s literally the same thing otherwise, no added functionality). Yet the users still complain that they want an app…
That is not what GDPR is about.
I hope leap days are handled a bit more sophisticated!
For me it often covers important elements of the site that way. Especially these annoying “use our app” overlays, and then the “continue using website” button is hidden behind the address bar with jo way to scroll it into view. So no way to use the website :(
Worst case Ontario
Not sure if typo or BonneAppleTea material
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that wanted to work on a garbage truck, for the exact same reason!
In the Netherlands, they solved this by adding a randomly generated transaction reference to the payment. This will appear on your bank / credit card statement. To view details for the transaction (time and location of entry/exit), you have to enter the paid amount and reference.
However, this will only give you info for a single transaction. If you want to see an overview of all your transactions, you need to create an account in their app. After linking your card to your account, again using the reference and amount for a transaction, you can view your travel history.
Genuine question: is this a new concept in Germany? Because in the Netherlands we have had such cars driving around for years already, even in smaller towns.
Het zal wel aan mijn bubbel liggen, maar ik heb het idee dat mensen om mij heen (zowel op mijn werk als privé) toch vooral bezig zijn met wat ze leuk en intrinsiek belangrijk vinden, en echt totaal niet met een carrièrepad of prestaties. En dat iedereen dat ook prima vindt.
Ik denk dat dat helemaal niet zo ongangbaar is. Dat beweert het artikel ook niet overigens. Het beweert hooguit dat er een taboe op rust om geen prestatiedrang te hebben. Maar zelfs dat vraag ik me af.
Maar goed, zoals gezegd ligt dat misschien aan mijn bubbel. Zijn er mensen die dit anders ervaren?
Sounds pretty similar to me and my grandparents, especially the part about not being vulnerable with each other. Mostly it’s surface-level talks. For example, my grandpa is into plants and gardening, so we might talk about the garden or his most recent visit to the garden center or something.
And I’m pretty sure behavior like this is passed down through generations.