Ongo Gablonion

It’s open source, they can just make their own distro.

Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.

I’m no apple fanatic, I’d never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.

I’m sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they’d be looking to price up at the apple level for that.

I wish this was c/fuckcars and I could make a comment about the much louder one off that programmme - just his name breaks the verbal abuse rule though. :(

I think I’d say ‘I kept silent’ as more common or ‘I kept quiet’, probably an even more common phrase. ‘Kept’ would be slightly more ‘active’ than remained I think.

But “remain” does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator’s] “remains” - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death.

And something like a machine can “seize up” too.

I think the trick with English is to just keep seizing any old random words out of a hat until the other person nods convincingly enough.

Had similar last night, two massive fucking Mercs parked in the bike lane. There’s a free car park in the park about 25m away and at 9pm it’d have been empty - and if not the kerb on the road in between there and the car park.

Unfortunately - much as I tried - there was ever so just enough space for me to ride between without scratching either’s paintwork.

I need some spikes that I can flip out for these circumstances.

Maybe change it to “Putain” See if they get it

Judge any service (and most other stuff) by its support, aftercare and how they handle complaints / fix problems.

That’s worth more than flashy front end, marketing bs or even technical performance specs.

No way.

It’s blatant hype. They’ve probably got a quarterly investment report due. Just trying to bump up shareholder confidence or something.

As usual they’ll be flogging the elves until midnight just to rush out a reskinned version of V20.24 with a new batch of bugs and very quickly there’ll be dissapointment all round.

Haha that would be awesome/softwaregoresome. I’d pay money (well not much money) to see it just to troll MS-GUI fanatics with it.

All I can find is some mention of libreoffice doing it. and yes I did try ddging with ‘safe search’ off.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=407404

Oh shit - I turned it on in my LO writer and I can’t find the button to turn it back . . .

I think it’s pretty genderless, just because I’ve heard enough women use it about women or mixed groups. You can always use his surname instead, just update a bit to modern pronounciation, call everyone: Fuck, Fucks, Fuckers. I think that solves it.

Calling everyone “homo” is another good one.

Some languages like French use “ils” for mixed groups (same as male groups). But others like German use “sie” (same as “she/her”). Plurals in german, I think, usually become feminine (die Manner) - although German has many other gender-bending cases that I can’t begin to understand. I’m sure there’s lots of other languages that have a million other features/inconsistencies/expressions of patriarchal domination like this.

Sweet

Don’t fly in a plane until aftr you’ve applied and been rejected then, surely.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Fucking terminal, in many of them ctrl+c and ctrl+v don’t even work. and don’t get me started on how they implement ctrl+z. I’m waiting for a terminal to have the ms-office ribbon menu bar before I’ll use it.

Yeah built in user screening process. Screwed by endeavourOS though.

Guillotining the bougeoisie?

Voltaire invented most forms of “woke” in Paris a few hundred years a head of time.

There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.

So I reckon “Saint Jago”

Finding a loophole or an inconsistency about grammar doesn’t prove that language shouldn’t make sense to at least two people. I mean did anyone ever actually say that to communicate that actual meaning? If not then its not relevant at all.

But even if someone did say that with the intent to communicate (something about bison?), language or grammar, especially as it emerges from fallible human communication is allowed to make mistakes.

That’s why we have words like “misunderstanding”. It’s also why meanings and patterns of use LITERALLY change over time. But whether misunderstood or unintelligible or encrypted it’s fundamental purpose is still to communicate.