That's how USA Today learned about it.
Hegseth accidentally added a journalist of theirs to that group chat

I'm paying €10,50 / month for unlimited calling / 500 texts / 18 GB of data. Thats is with Simpel in the Netherlands.

Texting is not relevant here since everyone uses WhatsApp (and more recently Signal), and I've never actually used more then 18GB of data in a month.

Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.

I have one final question, which you might know perhaps.. Where would one go to make feature requests for Linux itself? If I quickly Google this I find places to make feature requests for specific distros, but not for Linux as a whole.

I ask because I suspect this issue is more fundamental to Linux itself, rather than the individual distros I tried.

Edit: Or maybe I am misunderstanding, and this is something that does need to be brought up with the distros

Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!

And yeah.. I could probably type all the characters I need to type through workarounds. But my problem is that I don't think I should have to relearn how to type in order to switch to Linux. It's a relatively niche issue I ran into, but I'm clearly not the only one running into it.

Which is a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back. It makes it more of a hassle to overcome the hurdle of switching OS.

The issue I'm talking about is unrelated to keyboard layouts. It's how deadkeys are implemented.

The deadkeys are seemingly defined separately from keyboard layout, and there is no way that I could find to redefine them other than either turning dead key behaviour on or off in the keyboard layouts

So the keyboard I'm using is US International (with deadkeys), which is the standard keyboard for the Netherlands.

Certain key combinations should create an accented character, but certain other key combinations should simply print the accent followed by the character. Typing this way is essentially muscle memory for me, so if it deviates from what I'm used to it really trips me up badly.

Example:

', followed by e should type é (which Linux did correctly)
', followed by m should type 'm (where Linux typed an accented ḿ)
', followed by c should type ç (where Linux typed an accented ć)
', followed by ' should type '' (where Linux typed ')
', followed by [space] should type ' (which Linux did correctly)

I checked several forums, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to change this behaviour in Linux. Dead key behaviour is seemingly consistent between keyboard layouts, and it can only either be on or off?

Edit: It shouldn't even be that complex of an improvement to the OS.
If they were to add a defintion as to how deadkeys are supposed to work as part of the keyboard layout file, this wouldn't be an issue. I could just make my own "US Intl. with Dead Keys (NL)" layout and it would be fine.

When the keyboard doesn't work correctly, that is not "just how it is" though..

I'm not going to relearn how to type accents for the sake of switching to Linux. The OS should just work correctly out of the box, or at the very least give me the option to fix the behaviour without having to go 20 internet forums deep and delving into the depths of the system files.

I tried Mint for four days before getting fed up with things not working as they should, went back to Windows for a week and then tried Fedora for two days again running into very similar issues.

Mint Cinnamon and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop.

I ran into various issues, one of them being (for example) incorrect behaviour of dead keys for accented characters. That problem was present in both distros, and I even went so far as to unsuccessfully edit system files to get the desired behaviour.

I've been trying out several Linux distributions over the past couple of weeks to figure out where to go after Windows 10.
I'm very open to switching. but if I have to be honest, there are still plenty of UX problems in my experience. It's frustrating enough that I keep going back to Windows.

You should probably also make sure to have a copy at home in case they take it from you

That seems like something that could pretty easily be added to the label down the line.

Wikipedia doing well is great, but that doesn't mean people should stop donating to them.

It's a resource of free and open information, which I believe to be increadibly important. Especially right now given everything that is going on. Democracy requires an informed populace, and having a platform like Wikipedia is an immensely important public good.

And frankly I'm not unconvinced that this "don't donate to Wikipedia" line might have originated as a propaganda campaign meant to limit access to free and open information.

I donate sporadically to traditional charities (feed the poor, cancer research, etc) when I'm asked for a donation either at the door or in the street. Similar to how I give money to a homeless person if they ask and I have some on me.

I've also donated to a couple of causes that I particularly care about, such as Wikipedia. And I'm paying some money each month to the local gay rights lobby and cycling advocacy lobby.

I don't have recurring payments to any traditional charities set up, however.

Edit: I should donate to my Lemmy instance.

Correct. There is freedom of movement between the EU and Switzerland.
Switzerland is also part of Schengen, so there is not even a need to show a passport at the border.

The article does say that it was the local council that wanted to prevent them from moving there.

I'm not saying there definitely is a discriminatory motive.. I do not know how the people of Switzerland look at the Romani people.
But given the way Roma are treated in much of Europe, and Switzerland's reputation for being somewhat conservative, I am not discounting the possibility that they are being discriminated against here.

The equivalent in the US would be if a couple of families of black people wanted to move to a predominantly white town in the south, and the county would step in claiming there are no more homes available.

"Travelers" does generally refer to the Romani and Sinti people who live a nomadic lifestyle.

The French version of the article uses the phrase "les gens du voyage", which according to the French Wikipedia page is often used to refer to the "Roma of France (including the Sinti and the Gitanos)".

So I think it's fairly safe to assume that that is what they mean with "travelers" in this article.

Homegrown criminals. He wants to deport US citizens (explicitely rather than "accidentally")

Edit: And don't fool yourself, this will happen without due process.
"Criminal" just means the Trump administration accuses you of being a criminal, rather than it actually needing to be proven in court that you broke the law.

I think that finally got fixed several years ago. I do remember this exact problem though..

By default both the Dutch and US International layouts would be enabled if you set up the computer to the Dutch region. And you could switch between them (accidentally) by pressing some key combination. It was highly annoying..

Yeah.. It's a bit opaque, I'm not so sure anymore either.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL

The Dutch Wikipedia page says that iDeal was bought by EPI in 2023. They then launched Wero in 2024, and eventually iDeal will be renamed to Wero (Note it says renamed and not replaced)

Maybe they rebranded it? Maybe they reused the technology? I'm not quite sure if and what the relation is.

Edit: This blog post from 2023 claims that EPI said iDeal will be used as the foundation for their (then future) payment platform Wero

https://bankblog.nl/2023/het-nederlandse-ideal-is-verkocht-en-wordt-straks-wero/

Its not really new. Wero is a rebrand of the Dutch iDeal which has been in widespread use for over a decade

Edit: After trying to find a source for that claim, Im not so sure its correct. The EPI did buy iDeal several years ago, but the text I'm finding doesn't say Wero is a rebrand of iDeal outright.

iDeal will be replaced by Wero (either the technology or the branding?) in the NL by 2027