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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  First: Some UK teachers exchanged the analogue with digital clocks. This was only to reduce interruptions by some students (during a specific kind of UK exams), who had trouble determining the remaining time in the heat of the exam battle.

  Secondly: The use of analogue clocks is taught at UK schools. What’s missing is the practice that former generations of pupils had. No more wristwatches, public clocks all but gone, and (what I am nostalgically missing from my youth) no more peeking onto parked car’s dashboards to read the analogue clock there. Times have changed, and this specific partially lost ability is not the schools’ fault. (Not to say that other things aren’t…)

  Can we please bury that stupid old meme, as it has been based on some inaccurate buzz and largely giving a completely inaccurate impression of the topic from the start…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that has been really helpful advice!
  I will try to keep it in mind and rather re-mention the stuff that I refer to instead of using pronouns for the sake of clarity.
  That will be hard for me, though. I do love my tapeworm-sentences with lots of indirections and implicit references… ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Design as in “graphical design”?

  And even if, they probably also weren’t comparing to Win11 design, I guess, because even that is inconsistent (and an eyesore on top…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought “it” in this case would clearly refer to “having to go back to Windows” from the first part of the sentence.
  But I am not a native English speaker, perhaps there’s a difference to the use in my language?

  How would you use “it” as a reference correctly in English here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am using KDE/Plasma since 20 years or so.
  Each time I have go back to Windows 11, it feels like using an inconsistent and incomplete UI semester project done by some students still in their elementary semesters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sneaking snacks into the theater is objectively wrong if you are a movie fan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically this, and this also leads to the only exception to the “not-buying-snacks” rule that I have:
  In our town there is a small independent cinema (besides the big chain one), that has a little pub/cafe attached.
  I make a point in coming early or meeting way before the film start and order a drink at the bar or so. Just feels right (and also is fun somehow).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sneaking snacks into the theater is objectively wrong if you are a movie fan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To add a different kin of unpopular opinion:
  I hate the whole popcorn munching in cinemas, so I applaud everyone who sneaks in their own stuff, as that won’t be popcorn.

  Besides that, cinema halls are practically never full, so the cinema earns practically 100% of my entry price without loosing anything (as the seat I sit on doesn’t care if it is occupied or empty).

  I never buy snacks, but I also don’t sneak anything in.
  I don’t understand the whole obsession with eating tons of stuff while watching a film in public. I think that is a really strange urge that many seem to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If this question isn’t fake, it shows how senselessly polarized pictures drawn by both sides have become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably would be even more effective to say they speak British.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also got my first cellphone in 2000, but I was kind of a Luditte, mobile-phone-wise at least.
  Everyone around me were already texting happily to each other, so I had to relent at some point… :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, don’t want to make you feel old, but 25 years ago was 2000…
  It would be rather something like over 30 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mentioned the phrases that probably never were used before cellphones.

  Saying “I will text you!” would have been a really weird statement just 50 years ago…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was the weekly telephone song votings on the radio.
  They often deliberatly put niche stuff in there up for vote that then stuck with me :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would rather be the equivalent to “Bravo Hits 18” (or whatever they were called in other countries)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Better than having to buy 4 complete albums just to get the 5 popular songs you actually wanted to listen to.

  Solution to a problem from “back in the olden times”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll Never Think of the Tooth Fairy the Same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s propably also an question of economics.
  Renting an excavator to dig a 2m deep hole + extensive carpentry and dental work…
  Sooo much easier and cost efficient to just pay an Euro and get 100% merchandize!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll Never Think of the Tooth Fairy the Same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are just not enough corpses in the suitable age groups any more.

  Remember, the Tooth Fairy is after milk teeth!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. Lemmy became a lot friendlier after I blocked the worst of the permanently outraged communities and a bunch of people with extreme views.
  I try to limit that to the worst cases, though, as I don’t want to drive “bubblification” too much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivaldi… does that have a full uBlock addon? I thought it was based on Chrome, which doesn’t have that any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox and Librewolf.
  Firefox has it at or near top of recommendations.
  Librewolf already has it preinstalled from the start, so even one step less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You search for it? Why?
  I remember it basically always being the top entry as soon as you open the browsers addon menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just part of the establishment. ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is, this meme is so old by now, that “children” should be substituted by “parents”, as this is all completely ancient GenX/Millennial internet lingo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just the standard Gboard on Android. It has build-in handwriting recognition which for some reasons I like better than the standard virtual keyboard.

  And regarding the remaining typing errors: just take them as an indication that I’m very likely not an AI ;-)

  The “slipt” was probably caused by a false-friends-like scenario based on the translated word in my mother tongue: “entschlüpft”.
  Notice the added “t” at the end that denotes the past tense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not 100% identical scenario, but near enough:
  what-if.xkcd.com/140/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See e.g. here.

  The relevant part:

  The second difference between each, every, and all impacts how the objects of a sentence are distributed among the members of the group. Look at this:

  Each child wore a hat. → one hat per child

  Every child wore a hat. → one hat per child

  All the children wore a hat. → the children shared one hat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you are right…
  Sorry, handwriting recognition sometimes has its own mind.
  An this error must have slipt my prove reading as it is just to well camouflaged…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it anyways! F R E E D O M ! ! !⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you are. Just buy yourself a Burger King. American kind of freedom…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coincidently I watched the X-Files episode a few weeks back.
  I loved it!
  It is one of their more dark comedy ones with some philosophical topics.
  No “true wish” at the end, as far I remember, but a nice twist and imo quite satisfying ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just one more bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever it is that happens, it would be pretty violent.
  “What If” had a slightly different, more localized but more concentrated premise it covered once:
  Electron Moon

  Quote:
  “This is, by far, the most destructive What-If scenario to date.”