khannie
@khannie@lemmy.world
- Comment on $1 per play 4 days ago:
Perfect summary. Absolutely nailed it.
- Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 6 days ago:
The ice cream truck stopped coming to our estate about 5 years ago though there are plenty of kids about.
I do see them parked near playgrounds etc. quite a bit but not doing the rounds like they used to.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 1 week ago:
Yeah if you’re happy to post I’m happy to see posts.
- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 2 weeks ago:
What you’re missing is that after Brexit the EU is desperate to appear to citizens that they’re listening and this would be such an easy win that yeah, I really expected them to not only listen but actually get their fingers out of their collective arseholes and do something about it.
Blah blah funding. Sure, start by targeting games that sell over X units or Y euros in revenue.
If the article is correct then it’s a massive missed opportunity.
- Comment on we are creators 2 weeks ago:
They’re gonna be working hard to justify that budget. Things are going to get a whole lot worse for our American friends. :(
- Comment on prediction 2 weeks ago:
Everyone looking at the date counting down going “before what exactly?”
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
My wife had a favourite song when she was pregnant and it was very useful for calming after the birth. It was quite a chill tune.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
I saw it in a documentary but it was a good while ago so to be honest I can’t remember what the exact mechanism was or if it was just a contributing factor over longer distances. I just remember storing it away as little nugget that made sense when presented.
It’s very late here and now you have me curious so I’ll probably have a dig around in the morning.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
Neigh.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
Oh I am most definitely not speaking for myself. Neigh. Not one bit.
I think that’s mostly down to our comparatively sedentary lifestyle though. Skinny AF, fit because I’ve had to run down a horse once a week and mid-20’s me could hopefully out-distance a horse. A small cow anyway.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
The other advantage we have while running is that we’re not constantly slamming our intestines into our other vital organs and lungs because we’re upright.
Humans can out-distance a horse. A fucking HORSE. Incredible animal the oul’ human.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on These are my four champage bottles dedicated to the "great" minds of our days: 3 weeks ago:
Howled laughing at this. Amazing.
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
Mmmm. I’m not sure tbh but I don’t think so. If your grandmother had an Irish passport though that might work. Worth checking if you’re considering it.
My sister lives in the UK a long time now and all her kids have an Irish passport. It’s actually a great passport to have for travel. EU is obviously wide open but most places accept it without much (or zero) effort.
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
Yeah he knew about ten words of Danish after over three years there before he moved to Germany. Even his lectures were in English which I was surprised at.
He has had to learn a little German but not that much and he’s there about 18 months now. The office he works in has folks from all over so they just use English.
Netherlands also in my experience basically everyone can speak perfect English.
I prefer to try to use a bit of the local language when I’m travelling myself as I find folks react well to the effort.
I’m terms of offence, it’s unlikely. I’d imagine tourists are common enough everywhere. I have reasonable French myself so I do try to use it when there so I can’t say for France specifically.
If you’ve any other questions I can pass them on to the young lad.
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
Almost anywhere in Europe is the answer. My son did his masters in Denmark and never learned Danish. He lives in Germany now and speaks fuck all German.
Once in the Netherlands, after losing my glasses I asked an optician if he could speak English and he was thoroughly insulted.
Britain and Ireland are both native English.
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
If you have an Irish grandparent you can get a passport. Lots of work here and Americans are welcome.
Otherwise work visas that turn into residency aren’t difficult to come by with sponsorship and it’s not the kind of sponsorship that makes you a slave.
- Comment on RIP America 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to Europe, researchers!
Lots of great choices and don’t worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Ah I eventually discovered that it was a scheduled signal message. Cheers though.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
This was going to be my next port of call but another comment caused me to figure out that if was a scheduled signal message.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I was about to do this but another comment caused me to check scheduled messages. It was signal.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Just updated the comment above yours. It was a scheduled message in signal. Thanks!
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
OK now we’re getting somewhere. I don’t have that chronological order thing but I do have an icons section and in there is alarm. When I disable that it disappears. It must be an alarm of some sort that’s not in the clock app.
There is no upcoming alarm in my drop down either.
I’ll dig further.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
That’s my experience from seeing it before. It eventually just went away and I couldn’t figure out why it was there or what would have caused it to go.
At least I’m not alone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
No, nothing like that. I don’t generally use my phone in complex ways. Like I’m a geek but the phone is mostly texting, calls, movies and Lemmy.
I’ll update the thread if some reminder does come up later but I’ve had this icon before and no “oh that’s what it is” moment after I notice it’s gone.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
No. Double checked. No timers either. Rebooted the phone to see if it’s still there and it is.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm. I don’t have any automation apps installed. Can’t think of anything else I might have scheduled. No backups or anything like that. I thought maybe WhatsApp scheduled backup because I know that’s a thing but it’s off.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Network time all the way. Good idea though.
I used to have a clock app from f-droid installed but got rid of it ages ago as it wasn’t working properly for alarms. Double checked and I did uninstall it back then.
Scrolled through all my other apps (I run a relatively tidy ship so it didn’t take too long) and I can’t see anything that I think would be setting an alarm.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
Great idea. Off to do that and hard kill the app. Will report back.
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 4 weeks ago:
💀
