Mmmm. I’m not sure tbh but I don’t think so. If your grandmother had an Irish passport though that might work. Worth checking if you’re considering it.
My sister lives in the UK a long time now and all her kids have an Irish passport. It’s actually a great passport to have for travel. EU is obviously wide open but most places accept it without much (or zero) effort.
Yeah he knew about ten words of Danish after over three years there before he moved to Germany. Even his lectures were in English which I was surprised at.
He has had to learn a little German but not that much and he’s there about 18 months now. The office he works in has folks from all over so they just use English.
Netherlands also in my experience basically everyone can speak perfect English.
I prefer to try to use a bit of the local language when I’m travelling myself as I find folks react well to the effort.
I’m terms of offence, it’s unlikely. I’d imagine tourists are common enough everywhere. I have reasonable French myself so I do try to use it when there so I can’t say for France specifically.
If you’ve any other questions I can pass them on to the young lad.
Almost anywhere in Europe is the answer. My son did his masters in Denmark and never learned Danish. He lives in Germany now and speaks fuck all German.
Once in the Netherlands, after losing my glasses I asked an optician if he could speak English and he was thoroughly insulted.
Britain and Ireland are both native English.
If you have an Irish grandparent you can get a passport. Lots of work here and Americans are welcome.
Otherwise work visas that turn into residency aren’t difficult to come by with sponsorship and it’s not the kind of sponsorship that makes you a slave.
Welcome to Europe, researchers!
Lots of great choices and don’t worry, you can move to France without knowing French or Denmark without knowing Danish!
Ah I eventually discovered that it was a scheduled signal message. Cheers though.
This was going to be my next port of call but another comment caused me to figure out that if was a scheduled signal message.
Thanks. I was about to do this but another comment caused me to check scheduled messages. It was signal.
Edit: I went in here to look anyway and this would have definitely caught it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just updated the comment above yours. It was a scheduled message in signal. Thanks!
OK now we’re getting somewhere. I don’t have that chronological order thing but I do have an icons section and in there is alarm. When I disable that it disappears. It must be an alarm of some sort that’s not in the clock app.
There is no upcoming alarm in my drop down either.
I’ll dig further.
Edit: Found that history. I went back 5 days and nothing that is alarm related. I did eventually check if I had any scheduled messages and I had one in signal. Sent it and the icon disappeared so thanks very much!
Weird thing for signal to do IMO but at least it’s solved.
That’s my experience from seeing it before. It eventually just went away and I couldn’t figure out why it was there or what would have caused it to go.
At least I’m not alone.
No, nothing like that. I don’t generally use my phone in complex ways. Like I’m a geek but the phone is mostly texting, calls, movies and Lemmy.
I’ll update the thread if some reminder does come up later but I’ve had this icon before and no “oh that’s what it is” moment after I notice it’s gone.
No. Double checked. No timers either. Rebooted the phone to see if it’s still there and it is.
Hmmm. I don’t have any automation apps installed. Can’t think of anything else I might have scheduled. No backups or anything like that. I thought maybe WhatsApp scheduled backup because I know that’s a thing but it’s off.
Network time all the way. Good idea though.
I used to have a clock app from f-droid installed but got rid of it ages ago as it wasn’t working properly for alarms. Double checked and I did uninstall it back then.
Scrolled through all my other apps (I run a relatively tidy ship so it didn’t take too long) and I can’t see anything that I think would be setting an alarm.
Great idea. Off to do that and hard kill the app. Will report back.
Edit: cleared cache and data and forced stop. No joy :(
Oh thank goodness 💀
Oh great idea. I had high hopes for this one! Went through all occurrences of “mode” and “scheduled” in settings.
The only one I have scheduled is “eye comfort”. It doesn’t turn on for another 11.5 hours so I think it’s unlikely.
Nice idea. I checked and (unusually) I’ve nothing in calendar for today. Everything coming up after that is normal looking but the nearest thing is tomorrow afternoon.
Edit: I’m gonna reboot and see if it’s still there. Maybe it’s a bug in the alarm app. Brb.
Edit 2: stupid thing is back again. :/ I rechecked alarms after the reboot in case there was some weird bug where one wasn’t showing and there are still none set.
Howled laughing at this. Amazing.