My grandparent’s desktop computer. I didn’t break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn’t old enough to understand that and my parents weren’t very tech-savvy.

For the Netherlands: Katwijk, even had a genetic disease named after it.

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

Gooseberries are found in several traditional recipes from southern Netherlands, but most supermarkets no longer carry the fruit.

In most. And effectively all of any serious size.

Mostly in a corporate setting.

Same!

Oh it hurts how many of these are recognizable.

Chitin is not produced by mammals.

Fingernails are composed primarily out of keratin (same as hair and skin).

We have these breaking news tv screens all over the lunch room. I absolutely hate it, can I please enjoy my lunch in peace?

I used to be, but for me it’s no longer available from the app store. Is it geolocked these days?

I use Hews2.

The average car age in the EU is 12 years old. Even in richer member states the average is often over 10 years (germany: 10.1, Netherlands: 11.4)

So at least in that part of the world, most people absolutely do keep a vehicle for 10+ years.

Source: https://www.acea.auto/figure/average-age-of-eu-vehicle-fleet-by-country/

Please realize Northern European winters are… dark. It’s not the cold that matters much, it’s the darkness for months on end that can be seriously detrimental to mental health if you’re not used to it.

Everyone who has ever consumed dihydrogenmonoxide will die!

Knowing how to swim. Basic life skill in a water-rich country, but many expats can’t.

I have a brand new apartment. On recommendation of the constructor (new walls contain lots of moisture that needs to go out), it’s set a little warmer than I’d usually go: 21C (70F). In my old place I’d put it at 18C (64F).

That said, currently it’s 25C inside (77F). This place is insulated like crazy, and we don’t have AC (that still isn’t common over here, even for new builds). For reference, current temperatures outside are 14C (57F)

I live in the Netherlands.

I’ve found that “new customer” sometimes gets you a human quicker…

For a whole host of reasons. In summary, quality of life for those remaining is going to crater, together with some form of social collapse.

1. Most social insurances (e.g. pensions and welfare) depend on young, healthy, working people paying for those in need. As the population pyramid gets inverted, eventually this will become completely unsustainable. Meaning those who are young now will not be able to benefit from a pension in the future.
2. Health care costs are going to soar to unsustainable levels. To some extend, this has already happened. Again, old people tend to require health care a lot more frequently - even permanently, usually- than young people. As the population pyramid gets inverted, this means ever fewer young people have to care for ever more sick people. As an example, my country estimates that by 2050 we’ll need to spend 40% of GDP and 1 in 3 working people on health care if we want to keep the service level at today’s standards. That’s of course completely unrealistic. To some extent this is already starting to deteriorate.
3. Ever fewer people will have to maintain essential services. Think sanitation, sewage, construction, rail services and so on. Again, unsustainable.
4. The gerontocracy will mean society will become increasingly inflexible, rigid, and stuck in the past. Young people drive change, old people like to keep things as they are. Opinions don’t usually change. Instead, they die one funeral at a time.
5. The economic challenges caused by an aging population will require tough choices. But with the gerontocracy, such choices will likely not be made. Or they will only be passed on to next generations (who get no say in the matter, as they will be too small a voting bloc). Ultimately this will necessarily lead to some form of social collapse.

I am very conflicted about Arch. I similarly disliked it for actual use, because it’s so unstable. On the other hand, the arch docs are a goldmine.

I think it just depends on what you want to do with your system. Do you like to tinker? Arch (and similar distros) are great. Do you just want things to work mostly out of the box? Use an Ubuntu flavor or an Ubuntu derivative.

People should have more children in the West. Especially Europe is demographically killing itself by decades of low birth rates.