Luc

Well that escalated quickly

• stroopwafels
• kibbeling
• kroketten
• frikandellen
• bitterballen
• peperkoek
• gevulde koek
• mergpijpjes
• brinta
• tarvo
• unox erwtensoep
• shelf-stable spinach

Sorry, most of these food items probably don’t have English names or transliterations at best

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• ZOAB (asphalt type)
• sensored traffic lights
• non-car infrastructure
• not needing to book a train 4 months ahead to get a fair price. I didn’t even know it was abnormal that I could show up to any station, tap my card, and board any train that goes to my destination

Besides the ones already mentioned: Threema

The laptop was plugged in right? As in, not induced currents

My partner and I often collaborate on Lexica (basically Boggle but you can choose some game modes) while waiting for food in a restaurant. Sometimes also Lichess of late

Simon Tatham’s puzzle game collection is already mentioned in the thread. I can only recommend it again

“Slay” is a paid little puzzle game that’s a lot of fun (iirc like 5€ one time up front via Google Play). Very intuitive but I’ve not seen the concept before. The author made a bunch of small fun Windows games and ported this particular one to Android (maybe also available on the dark side, who knows). With a honorable mention of Antiyoy (expanding upon the concept) that you can also find there, the open source implementation is called Feudal Tactics

• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.serwylo.lexica
• https://f-droid.org/packages/org.lichess.mobileapp.free
• https://f-droid.org/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles
• https://f-droid.org/packages/de.sesu8642.feudaltactics

Missing the latest addition to the OSI model: AI!

Layer 8 (sender): turning a few keywords into a well-formed text

Layer 8 (receiver): summarising text back into its short form

Saying this gift is awesome sounds like a straight-up lie, given what OP wrote about their true feeling

Weasel wording around it, like acknowledging their thoughtfulness (as you say with “appreciate that you noticed how much I use it” without mentioning the gift’s downsides) seems like a really good option and I’d leave it at that, leaving options open to later discuss what to do with the instance of this object that has sentimental value attached. Hearing that question/thought (later, when not in the middle of a gift-giving ritual), the partner presumably realises the error without needing to be told and can warm up to the idea that this new one might not be what OP would prefer to keep

Aah nice, yeah we’re sadly not at a point where you can get by in many social situations with English only just yet. And perhaps not for a long while if this nationalism trend continues :|

I assume this means you’ve got enough people around to practice writing with or direct questions to, but if not just shoot me a message (I speak it natively)

Ik versta jou niet! 😇

What’s your motivation? The goal of most people that speak Dutch is to learn something else so we can also be understood by the rest of the world 😄

And here I was thinking the most reliable and comfortable way to fail is to not show up!

I see lots of links here but no reasons why each is underused or anything.

Look, I’m a simple person, what I ask of a font is:

• differentiate your symbols — I’m talking 1, l, I, and i with more than a single pixel difference at 11pt 90DPI, and the 0 should be clearly less round than O
• be readable. No extra thinness, fancy swirls… look at any default font as an example (Arial or whatever), or most people’s custom web font as a counter-example
• proportionally spaced. I like \thinspace as thousand separator and I cannot lie
• indefinitely usable (for example as part of a game) after a single purchase that I can do as a consumer. Or free/donationware of course

A very tall order I know. So far I’ve reviewed a bunch of fonts (I wasn’t procrastinating why do you ask) and found PT Sans is the best option I’ve seen, so I’m using it, but I hate its Q. It’s basically an O with a tilde below it. Any better options if all you want is clarity and normalcy?

Edit: near the bottom of the replies there’s Hyperlegible. Somehow I had read over that. Seems to check the boxes! I’ll be looking at this closer on my computer later.