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.

He’s a cop now

So wird es in die Niederlanden auch gemacht.

Immerhin gibt es auch hier genug Leute die aus dem Kreisverkehr raus fahren ohne zu blinken…

Zou dit echt veel geld opleveren? Kan me voorstellen dat het ook geld kost om dit in allerlei systemen door te voeren. Beetje een drogreden verder misschien, maar ik zou zeggen dat de betrokken instanties hun tijd ook wel beter kunnen besteden…

Daar had ik nog niks van meegekregen, dank voor het delen. Hopelijk weten ze het snel op te lossen.

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.