I would say that pretty much no one cares about the deprecation of Manifest v2 outside our little tech circle. Heck, not even the tech circle cares too much about this given how many use Chrome anyway. I hate to be saying this, but I’m afraid the author is right.
Thank you! I often feel the urge to use “less” before a countable noun despite knowing that I’m supposed to use “fewer.” Good to know that it isn’t just me.
I’m a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese from Taiwan. Some people often mix up 在 (zài) and 再 (zài) in writing. It’s a bit hard to explain their definitions since they are merely function words (words that have little lexical meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence), so I’m just gonna copy and paste their definitions from an online dictionary:
在: to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
再: again; once more; re- / second; another / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how … (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 (yě) or 都 (dōu) for emphasis)
As you probably have noticed, their meanings don’t overlap at all. The only reason some people mix them up is because they are homophones.
Another typo some… let’s just say, less educated, people often make is 因該 (yīn’gāi). The correct word is 應該 (yīnggāi), meaning should; must. 因該 is never correct. You can think of 因該 as the Chinese version of the much dreaded “should of.” The reason is that the distinction of -in and -ing is slowly fading away in Taiwan (it is still very much thriving in other Chinese-speaking societies), and some people just type too sloppily to care.
By the way, I should mention that 在, 再, and 應該 are very basic words, probably one of the first 500 words a non-native speaker learns.
I don’t speak Bân-lâm-gú unfortunately. I just looked up those words, and they do sound slightly different!
在: tsāi
再: tsài
應該: ing-kai
因: in
(For Chinese learners reading this, please note that the tone markers in the romanization of Bân-lâm-gú (Southern Min, a group of languages including Hokkien, Taiwanese, etc.) is different from those used in Pinyin for Mandarin.)
I also looked up how these words are pronounced in Cantonese. They sure are really different! Mandarin really does have a lot more pairs of homophones and near-homophones compared to other dialects.
On a semi-related note, I think it’s really sad that the majority of Chinese dialects are slowly being replaced by Mandarin.
In German, the practice of inserting a space before punctuation marks is called Plenken. It used to be a common practice, but nowadays it is considered an error.
I also hate going through prep. Not being able to eat normal food is bad enough, and now I need to down cups and cups of this sickening liquid reminiscent of burnt plastic?
if the surgeon lost his watch in there
Are you implying that the surgeon once stuck his fist into your anus?
So apparently there are two editors inspired by vim, but built from the ground up (as opposed to neovim, a vim fork that seeks to improve on top of vim)....
I’m usually a fan of open source games but rarely do they manage to be actually great. People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven’t aged well and don’t play well. What are some open source games that are legitimately good that I’ve missed?...
The year is 4 digits. This is just an age confirmation dialog asking for your birthday on a sketchy website, so I’m pretty sure the date won’t be displayed later.
When I turned in my iPad (Air 4) due to some issues with magnetic covers within warranty, I got a free replacement and a 90-day trial to Apple TV+. I watched Ted Lasso (all 3 seasons), Silo and Severance during these 3 months.
I’m not sure why you only got 7 days, but I would assume that Apple gives a longer trial to people who just got a new iDevice.
ps. I should mention that if I were to get a new tablet today, I would get one from Samsung.
i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...
I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux....
I’m not sure if 1 year of using Tumbleweed makes me a long time user, but here goes.
From my prior multiple years of experience with Manjaro and EndeavourOS, I must say that nothing beats the AUR. I sometimes run into softwares that are not on the openSUSE repos. If this happens, I try looking it on Flatpak. If it’s not available on Flatpak either I go search for the version that kind people have packaged for openSUSE. These 3rd party repos are kind of like PPAs on Debian(-based distros). If still no, I try looking for the .rpm made for Fedora or the AppImage version provided on the software’s sites, but this solution is less than ideal since it does not update automatically and the .rpms sometimes do not work. That is the main con of openSUSE. Other than that, I would say that there are no more major advantages or disadvantages to using openSUSE over Arch-based ones. A minor advantage is that things feel more polished on openSUSE.
I hope this was not too intimidating. Softwares available neither on the openSUSE repos, on Flatpak, on 3rd party repos, in RPMs, or in AppImages are rare. Still, openSUSE Tumbleweed remains my favorite distro and I urge you to give it a try.
Edit: I forgot another major thing about openSUSE. It uses BTRFS by default, and handles system backups for you. Fortunately, I haven’t needed to use this yet, but it is a really nice feature.
I don’t think there is much relation between a community using a language with no genders and its transgender population size. Take China for example. The nouns in Chinese are not gendered, and the pronouns used to be gender-neutral until about a hundred years ago when “她” (she) emerged. There are few transgender people in China, partially due to the fact that they are not officially recognized, but I don’t think there would be many transgender people in China even if the government legally allowed it.
I was so confused when I saw your comment abou lactose intolerance and was wondering what it has to do with “optional in Chinese.” It took longer that I’d like to admit to realize that the original comment and yours said “cheese.”
Because transgender is a concept that started in the western part of the world. It still has a long way to go to make its way into the East Asian countries. Take Taiwan for example. They legalized same-sex marriage a couple years ago, making them one of the most open places in Asia to the concept of LGB, but there aren’t many transgender people there either.
Thai culture is pretty different from Chinese culture (compared to other cultures in Southeast Asia). I did somehow forget the existence of Thailand when making my previous comment though, sorry about that.
Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd....
I respect your freedom to choose which terms to consider offensive, and I do not plan to talk you into accepting terms offensive to you. Nevertheless, I want to say that while “ricing your car” does have derogatory undertones, “ricing my Linux system” just does not have the same undertone. Ricing cars, as in the racist context, means customizing cars so heavily that it becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner#/media/File:Poser.JPG. Ricing a Linux system, on the other hand, is the act of making a Linux desktop system as aesthetically pleasing as possible.
brlbrlelebrbrbr (lemmy.world)
YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net) German
Firefox is close to not beeing supported by US government's websites (www.brycewray.com)
Maybe... (lemmy.world)
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
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The dream 🚲 (jlai.lu)
Simple Moon shot [OC] (files.catbox.moe)
Taken at f9 and 1/250th of a second exposure...
no window (feddit.de)
Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up
So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png...
Lemmygrad tankies react very sanely to Lemmy.world's defederation (sh.itjust.works)
LW Announcement...
LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand (lemmy.world)
I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others.
I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....
Reddit no longer links your content when they ban you, and you can only appeal once (lemmy.world)
Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)
What would be the worst “buy one get one free” sale of all time?
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First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)
(Neo)Vim alternatives: Kakoune is great! I am surprised that Helix is more popular
So apparently there are two editors inspired by vim, but built from the ground up (as opposed to neovim, a vim fork that seeks to improve on top of vim)....
What are some great open source games?
I’m usually a fan of open source games but rarely do they manage to be actually great. People like giving recommendations like Super Tux Kart that haven’t aged well and don’t play well. What are some open source games that are legitimately good that I’ve missed?...
Not everything has to get a reboot. Futurama is excepted. (i.imgur.com)
And I thought that I had already seen the worst date format. (i.vgy.me)
Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?
Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.
The agony of indecision (i.imgur.com)
I don’t watch shows anymore I just watch serpadesign feed his frogs on YouTube x
Are Internet boards and Forums dead
i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Long term OpenSuSE users, how has your experience been?
I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux....
Inspired by a similar meme about applied math, I present: applied physics (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Most refreshing shower of my life 😫 (lemmy.ml)
English Language Problems (lemmy.ca)
How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10 (feddit.uk)
Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation
Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd....