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by zilti 3y ago
> if two speech forms are mutually intelligible, we call them dialects, and if not we call them separate languages You simultaneously made a lot of Portugese people unhappy and Swissgerman/Alemannic people happy
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by zilti 3y ago
Heh. Gave me a chuckle, because DAU also means "Dümmster Anzunehmender User" in German (dumbest assumed user, in context of creating idiot-proof software, and a wordplay on GAU, which means grösster anzunehmender Unfall, biggest a
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by zilti 3y ago
Good news, there is Plasma Mobile.
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by zilti 3y ago
>I'm loving how both KDE and GNOME are pushing a lot of DE behaviors into JS extensions There is absolutely nothing to love about that utter atrocity
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by zilti 3y ago
OpenSUSE.
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by zilti 3y ago
And openSUSE Argon/Krypton
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by zilti 3y ago
When your mouse is over an icon in Dolphin, it shows a checkbox in the top left with a "+" that you can click to select the item.
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by zilti 3y ago
Yes, there is even also openSUSE Krypton and Argon, basically KDE Neon but from openSUSE.
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by zilti 3y ago
> I think it's a bit of a shame that Ubuntu is the "no headaches" distro Is it though? I mean, it is advertised by magazines and shills as such, but it really is not in practice, never has been. Back in the days, Mandriva
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by zilti 3y ago
> I suspect a lot of these "Neanderthals were more advanced than we thought stories" are actually "modern humans left Africa earlier we than thought." At this point, not even that is clear anymore, by the way. There i
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by zilti 3y ago
Infomaniak
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by zilti 3y ago
Oh no...
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by zilti 3y ago
ActivityPub is a pretty terrible standard really
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by zilti 3y ago
Unfortunately, many pages supporting RSS don't advertise it via meta tags anymore
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by zilti 3y ago
Barely hanging on by nature of being an open format and Apple generously hosting the feed index publicly. But even that gets challenged now that most people switch to Spotify to listen to "podcasts" there - and those are completel
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by zilti 3y ago
> Ditto with browser support. Even Firefox dropped it - and they're the browser that introduced the feature! Didn't help that they went with the worst possible implementation.
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by zilti 3y ago
The last things I'd want an AI to do is "fixing" bugs, closely followed by writing documentation. It will confidently make things worse and break them.
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by zilti 3y ago
Because `git rebase` is a heap of crap
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by zilti 3y ago
Some people choose to blindly trust the government and decide whatever it does is for the best and has no downsides. To quote someone I asked (unsuccessfully) for a referendum signature against a surveillance law, "If I can't trus
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by zilti 3y ago
A git repo in Syncthing? Wow. You really like to live dangerously.
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by zilti 3y ago
Since you "work on climate" I am sure it got your attention that there is a massive effort happening all across the board. R&D has made tremendous advances, whole industries are investing to get away from fossil fuels, and gov
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by zilti 3y ago
Don't insult COBOL like that
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by zilti 3y ago
Same thing constantly happens in governments, too. "Oh no, something that's been done for 200 years now caused issues once! We have to restrict/regulate/bureaucratize/outlaw it immadiately!"
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by zilti 3y ago
> Being reasonable is part of being intelligent Not in the slightest, those two are quite separate.
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by zilti 3y ago
Ah yes, combining two of the worst OSes out there, what a time to be alive...
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by zilti 3y ago
Not really. Every "planet.whatever-project.tld" has been doing that since many years
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by zilti 3y ago
That Vice would shut down is known for weeks at this point though
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by zilti 3y ago
That is not unexpected though, quite the opposite.
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by zilti 3y ago
The German word for king is König, not Karl
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by zilti 3y ago
In Switzerland, there is a company Ochsner, which also manufactured the household bins to go with the hoppers, and patented that. Those bins became mandatory in quite a bunch of municipalities. Eventually, garbage sacks were introduced like

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