Hi John, As a long time Canadian, with habits just as old, NL means Newfoundland. I always figured it out in your posts about the famous European country of Nord Lithia (kidding), and multiuse TLAs are a fact of life. My first really irritating experience of Acronym Clash was Microsoft "stealing" the abbreviation of Extreme Programming very soon after I started to try using those techniques. Alice ducking behind Rob Looksee, I gots too uh dese name tings, gotta take adantauge whiles i kan, eh? Oct 12, 2026 14:43:26 Nash JC - NCF via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>: > > > On 2026-10-12 10:43, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote: >> €20 for a 30-day SIM is a very good deal. I paid a lot more than that >> in Amsterdam, but was probably ripped off. 🙁 However, it did have >> unlimited data rather than a cap. > > Lycamobile apparently offers a "Holland package" of unlimited calls and texts in NL > (I suspect at least Benelux however) and 5G data. We used < 0.5Gig in 18 days, but did > have tablet use wifi where available, which was quite a lot of places, though the > security might not be greatest. My pre-trip research suggested Albert Heijn and > Primera would sell this for 15 Euros, but our experience was that staff weren't sure > which hanging "envelope" was the right SIM, and the fine print was very, very fine. > So Dr. Mobile in Leiden was a great find. Moreover, we've used Leiden at least 3 times > rather than Amsterdam, as it's about same distance from Schiphol, has accommodation pretty > well at the station, and lots of easily accessible things to see and do. > > As everywhere, mobile phone offerings take a LOT of checking. Sigh. > > JN > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org