MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 day ago:
Then it’ll just be so in my heart
- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 day ago:
This feels like a Lemmy OC, is it?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 week ago:
I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a things in many languages.
Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 week ago:
I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.
So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Missed opportunity to call it “AkkuBattery” for all the dual language pun enjoyers out there 🎩
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
How so? At least dots haven’t prevented me in the past (windows, Mac, android, various cloud storage).
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
- Comment on A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates 1 week ago:
♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t call English simple haha
To me the richness comes from interesting cultural quirks of why we say something, but I’m not really feeling that for emigrate, personally, so would prefer we speed up it being forgotten. Words falling out of use is very common, so I’m happy to lose ones that are annoying
I should also specify, I’m just getting into the spirit of enjoyable nitpicking, also
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
- Comment on Full Circle 1 week ago:
Just my two cents, not having a go at you:
This is why I’m a pragmatic prescriptivist, I want people to follow norms for ease of communication, unless their innovation fills a need/fixes something about the language.
Stupid english with its stupid verbs.
We’ve got “to” and “from” why do we need to have two differently spelt verbs for basically the same thing.
Sure, you could argue that you can just say “they are emigrating” to imply people are leaving the country permanently, but let’s be honest, not providing any other context it’s practically unheard of. You’ll at least be saying where they currently are, came from, or going to, unless you’re being very abstract. Even then, you couls say “the migrants were immigrating” to be very vague about it. Both immigrating and emigrating involve moving, wtf is the point?
I’m glad few people “properly” use “emigrate” these days. Let’s kill it, it’s redundant!
I may have even gotten the difference wrong, but I’m not gonna look it up since I don’t want to use it anyway haha
- Comment on Release the kraken 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m a pretty big AI sceptic myself (as in, it’s usefulness has been way overhyped), but anyone that goes “AI, therefore not funny” needs to lighten up.
If it’s funny, it’s funny
- Comment on Clean butt 2 weeks ago:
Do people not wash daily? This seems like a general hygiene issue, and not that closely correlated with bidet use.
Source: I have never used a bidet, and my butt does not itch, ya know, because I wash daily?
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 3 weeks ago:
In true modern Microsoft fashion. Remove features, lock forum posts of people asking for them back. Provide no reason. Profit because apparently this shit is crack to companies.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)
- Comment on Australia’s science agency sent questions from Trump administration asking if it is taking ‘appropriate measures’ against gender ideology 3 weeks ago:
As much as the loss of revenue would be missed (that’s what this is, it’s not “funding” it’s a commercial relationship), the US government can get fucked.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it’s barely an effort to moderate.
Just start the communities you want to see :)
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
Would he not have already sold most when they went public?
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 5 weeks ago:
Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.
Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it’s within the realm of possibility.
I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work…
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 month ago:
Sure, but I’m still feeling like complaining that there isn’t a business that’s made affordable pay-to-search a thing. (That I know of)
I’m not taking back that $120 USD/year for search is way more than most people would be willing to pay
Though yeah, I suppose saying their business model isn’t working was hyperbolic, I must admit.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 month ago:
The business model just doesn’t make sense then (using search partners).
Because $60, let alone $120 US, a year is far more than most people would be willing to pay.
Dunno what to say, it’s just more than most people can justify paying for the service.
I’m gonna stick with DuckDuckGo and the newly free mullvad cached search
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Downvoters mad to find out cars are inherently unsafe and need very good infrastructure and to be remotely safe.
Downvoters mad that E~k~= ½mv^2^, and speed, funnily enough, is dangerous.
Downvoters mad that manual transmission isn’t making cars safer.
Car go vroom vroom, but public transport go better
Fax
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 month ago:
I’d happily pay for search, but Kagi is way too expensive.
10 searches a day, for $5/month? (US)
Like, that is way too much.
I can receive thousands and send thousands of emails per day for that price. Is search really that much more expensive?
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
This is what I’m planning to do with some textbooks I want for my work.
$200-$300 and you want me to download an app that may or may not even work in 10 years?
Nah, I’m gonna future proof my access no remorse 🏴☠️
I will pay though, because it’s tax deductible, and also because it I ever get questioned on it (since I use them around coworkers and management), I’m golden.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
I found this help article where they say “Although not all non-genuine supplies may cause quality issues”.
They said they recommend using theirs, but up until this they didn’t say you couldn’t.
support.brother.com/g/b/sp/faqend.aspx?c=us_ot&la…
Plus, it’s been universally understood that you have been able to use third-party cartridges. I really think if you’re persistent enough, you’d get a refund in Australia. Because else (in Victoria at least) you could take them to VCAT for like $70, which will cost them wayyy more in lawyer expenses than the price of a refund.
This is not legal advice, but I reckon a refund under Australian Consumer Law is extremely doable if they go down this path (for existing printers).
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
I’m curious how this will go down in Australia. Seems like a pretty solid slam dunk refund, oh the product doesn’t work as advertised anymore?
Cool, I’ve had this for 5 years and now I’d also like a full refund under Australian Consumer Law.
Motherfuckers.
(I don’t actually own a printer)
- Comment on nets 1 month ago:
I also do not enjoy the taste of fish. High five haha
