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Thanks for testing it out! It's quite a relief to know those apps work. I don't purchase anything through the Play Store either, so that won't be a problem.

Good to know you enjoy the phone so far. I'll keep an eye out for your review.

I'm thinking of buying the same phone, but I can't decide between Android and e/os. Apps that I'm most worried about not working:

• Triodos banking app
• DigiD
• NPO Start

I also use my phone to stream to a Chromecast, don't know if that's supported. Also, how do you like the phone so far?

From the article: "Even after completing the tasks with AI, the developers believed that they had decreased task times by 20%. But the study found that using AI did the opposite: it increased task completion time by 19%."

I'm not saying you didn't save time, but it's remarkable that the research shows that this perception can be false.

Oh boy, there is political drama here in the Netherlands right now.

The most right wing party in the coalition stepped out of the government because the other parties refused to sign its "strictest immigration policy ever", so we're heading towards elections again. Meanwhile parliament approved a law making being an illegal resident or helping one a crime. It needs to pass through the senate yet, but still. The minister of agriculture was found by a judge to abuse her power to obstruct freedom of information. There's still no plan to solve the nitrogen pollution crisis, leading to building projects being on hold throughout the country. Against their promise of not drilling for gas in the northern province of Groningen anymore they've allowed it again, leading to more earthquakes. A singer was accused of antisemitism by politicians because he refused to play at a gig that had posters promoting Zionism, which led to him having to flee the country with his family because of death threats. Don't speak out against Israel here either. There were border patrols done by a group of "activists" looking for illegals ("we found no brown people or anyone looking like that" they said), which were small and luckily stopped, but still. Then there are the government cuts in all social sectors, killing all services slowly over the years. Public transport, education, healthcare, municipal services, welfare, it's all going downhill. And while the government still has to pay back thousands of parents it had wrongly accused of daycare fraud, the next screw-up was discovered a few months ago and they now also have to pay thousands of people on welfare for being sick because they had underpaid them for years.

The election campaign is probably gonna be a bunch of screaming matches about immigrants and refugees and name calling again even though there are far more pressing issues going on. It's not as fascist here as it is in the US yet, but that's only because we have a more reasonable electoral system.

I started learning Swedish yesterday. My native language is Dutch. I started by reading a pronunciation guide, but (and this is so childish) I had to put the book away for laughing so hard after reading the Swedish word for meatballs: köttbullar.

::: spoiler Profanity In Dutch, the word "kut" means "cunt". It isn't as profane as the English word and is also often used for the well-known genitals. The guide explained that Swedish "ö" is pronounced like Dutch short "u". After this I opened my Swedish story book and the first picture had the word köttbullar in it. I then heard myself very carefully enunciate what in Dutch sounds like "cunt balls". Couldn't stop laughing. :::

Today I will make a second attempt. I hope I can keep it contained to a short chuckle.

I just wrote a few lines of PHP and put my posts in a SQLITE database. Simple, built to last and no dependance on others.