GandalftheBlack
@GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
- Comment on Inbred cat 2 days ago:
It’s always the people with all the dough doing whatever they want. It’s a kneedless display of flour.
- Comment on In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense. 5 days ago:
The phrase “long-winded” could be reinterpreted as containing the non-standard past tense of the verb “to wind”, “winded”, and it would still make logical sense.
Something like that.
- Comment on In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense. 5 days ago:
That’s not what etymology is
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be a shame, I’d be dead. I can’t worry or be upset about anything then. I get your point though - no point saving up money just for the sake of it. I’d like to buy a house eventually so that’s something meaningful to work towards, but I don’t think I would have any regrets about not accumulating random stuff if I died tomorrow.
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 3 weeks ago:
This is my thinking too. I had a housemate who earned the same as me and paid the same rent, and yet every month he managed to spend all his money while I saved a good chunk. Our pay was okay - not loads, but we lived in an area with a relatively low cost of living so the money went much further than it would elsewhere, so at least saving up a safety net should’ve easily been doable. I suppose it didn’t help that he took every opportunity to go on holiday half way around the world… I don’t think I’m miserly, I just don’t buy random stuff I don’t need. I also refuse to use Amazon, which probably makes things easier.
- Comment on 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title 4 weeks ago:
Excelling across a wide range of fields
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a jailbroken one. But I have no idea, I’ve never used one.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 weeks ago:
Any major OS should be fine, although of course a good Linux distro is best. As long as it supports multi-monitor setups, you’re fine. Not sure what your issue with browsers is, given that the ad blocker is the whole point of the operation. As for a remote, there are probably many potential solutions. A Bluetooth game controller or probably any number of apps would work as a remote.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 weeks ago:
You can plug a computer with an HDMI cable into your TV
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I donate to my favorite creators. I’d much rather do that than give YouTube a penny.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 weeks ago:
… Or you could just use an ad blocker
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
I don’t doubt that, I’m just saying the name itself doesn’t imply the centre of the world
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist
- Comment on It really is 1 month ago:
Hapax blepomenon
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 1 month ago:
Not sure it’s a new thing to ponder, but it certainly is something to ponder.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If it was Latin, the singular would be octoped(e) and the plural would be octopedes
- Comment on nice chompers 2 months ago:
Little known fact, halberds used to be covered in feathers, but they didn’t survive in the archaeological record
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 months ago:
The week, on the other hand, is fair game.
Sounds ridiculous, but apologists will literally say this.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 2 months ago:
Graham Hancock moment
- Comment on Biased source 2 months ago:
Denominalised termination
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
No worries! Sorry if I came across as overly abrasive about someþing þat doesn’t really matter, I just really dislike misguided prescriptivism
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Stop talking about the “correct” usage. This is an idea based on how it’s used in one particular context. The and thorn were used interchangeably by English scribes for centuries, so there’s nothing wrong with using thorn exclusively.
- Comment on Banana 2 months ago:
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 months ago:
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el. - Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the thyme
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 months ago:
That’s the idea, yes
- Comment on egg time 2 months ago:
Is it not the other way around? Birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 2 months ago:
- Comment on Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises 3 months ago:
Rare Northern Ireland W
