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  • Luc@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what country do you live in and what language was taught in your school?
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    8 days ago

    Netherlands, it depends on the level and where you live:

    • everyone: Dutch and English, and another language for 2 years
    • higher¹ education: French and German, drop one or both after 3 years, keeping the other for another 1 or 2 years
    • for kids that are still bored: +Latin, Greek, or Spanish as typical choices (depends what your regional school offers)
    • in the province of Frysia, Frysian is mandatory
    • in the overseas territories, it can be different again. Not all of them speak Dutch primarily, some don’t follow the Dutch education system. I tried looking it up but couldn’t easily find how it works in those regions (which may be a “country within the kingdom” or a “special municipality”, depending on the island)
    • the existence of sign language did not come up, that I recall. So far as I can find, it’s only offered on schools specifically for kids that have some level of hearing disability

    ¹ “higher” is the term that is officially used. I find it a bit derogatory. Having done some of basically every education level, each one has strengths and it’s not like everyone from the “highest” one would be able to get a diploma on the “lowest” one. They’re just different. Idk what word is commonly understood for this

  • Luc@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you have an app that you use for a unique or uncommon purpose?
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    18 days ago

    GSam Battery Monitor, I use to check things like until what time I was up or how cold it was in the bedroom overnight. The graphs show when my phone screen was on (when I set my alarm) and log the battery temperature which I’ve found matches room temperature after a few hours (with WiFi/data off so it’s not doing whatever background tasks if people are conversing in a group chat or so)

    One time I was absolutely certain my alarms hadn’t gone off but you could see a little blip on the screen graph, once every minute, matching precisely the (turned off) alarms. Either Sam is in on it or I just slept really soundly that day :D

    Apparently it has ads though. Wouldn’t recommend, I always had it firewalled because I didn’t think it needed internet access to display some offline data from my phone in the first place and apparently that also works as an ad blocker? Fun side effect. But so I’m very interested in any open source alternatives people know of!