And this might just be a UK thing but if a person goes off it means they get really angry. And it can mean to leave for somewhere.
So a firework goes off which makes the fire alarm go off which makes the safety officer go off. Then he goes off to get a fireman. But he leaves the milk out, so it goes off.
One of my favourites is the word jam, which can mean:
And probably others, all spelled and pronounced the same way but with wildly different meanings depending on the context.
The other English thing I find super interesting is how there’s a sort of unspoken but very clearly understood order to adjectives. So for example, if I say “The big old red wooden door” it works as a description, but if I say “The wooden old red big door” it sounds weird even though it’s the same information. People aren’t usually formally taught the order (as far as I know), but everyone seems to understand it.
Although the past tense of write is wrote, so maybe for read it should be rode… dammit!
I before E, except after C!
As long as you don’t count the word caffeine. Or protein. Or species. Or seize or heinous or leisure or weird or feign or their or reignite or any of the other 923 words that are exceptions to this rule lol.
I always find that with GNOME it seems like super basic features that should be included are made as extensions instead, which wouldn’t be a huge deal except that the extensions update completely independently of GNOME and each other, with no regard for cohesiveness or compatibility. Every time I’ve run a machine with GNOME it feels like there’s always at least one extension broken at any given moment meaning there’s always something vaguely irritating going on.
Oh weird, I use it with a touchpad on my laptop (Lenovo Ideapad if that makes any difference) and it’s always been fine for me.
I genuinely use Floorp as my main daily browser lol
I’ve not really used a wide variety of LLMs, but I’ve found that the one that comes up when you use Brave search is actually pretty good at giving solutions to tech support problems. It’s not perfect, but if you give it an error code it sort of collates all the solutions it finds into a list and gives sources for each one, and I’d say probably 8/10 times it’s at least in the right general area. If nothing else, it’s saving me a ton of wasted time searching through forums and finding those threads where someone has the exact problem you’re looking for and then just posts “nm I fixed it” without explaining what they did.
AFAIK it’s not necessarily about Linux using Microsoft keys, it’s more about Microsoft shoe-horning their bullshit into everything they possibly can, including at the hardware/firmware level.
But if secure boot happens to brick your system forever because of this expiring key thing, is that worse than a boot chain attack?
That’s what I do. I never enabled it based on the assumption that because it’s a Microsoft thing, it would eventually fuck me over in some way. That attitude has served me well for may years lol.
Isn’t that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.
I have a few personal rules about it, eg. I’ll try not to pirate smaller, independent things where it might conceivably screw over the creator, but other than that it’s all fair game IMO.
As a side note, it’s been interesting to grow up hearing non-stop from the corporate world that piracy is evil and is killing art or whatever, only to watch them do a full 180 in the last couple of years now that they need to pirate the entire internet to train AI.
I like the M Plus Code Font personally.
Also even “Today” is not a happy song lol. From Wikipedia:
After the release and minor success of the band’s debut album, Gish, the Smashing Pumpkins were being hyped as “the next Nirvana”. However, the band was experiencing several difficulties at the time. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was undergoing an increasingly severe addiction to heroin; James Iha and D’arcy Wretzky had recently broken up their romantic relationship; and Billy Corgan had become depressed to the point of contemplating suicide and plagued by writer’s block. Corgan recalled that “after the first album, I became completely suicidal. It was an eight-month depression, give or take a month, and I was pretty suicidal for about two or three months.”
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The dark, ironic lyrics of “Today”, describing a day when Corgan was feeling depressed and suicidal, contrast with the instrumentation. Michael Snyder of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the song is “downright pretty as rock ballads go” but that “Corgan manages to convey the exhilaration and tragic release he seeks.” Corgan told Rolling Stone that “I was really suicidal … I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can’t get any worse.” Corgan later compared writing the lyrics of “Today” and “Disarm” to “ripping [his] guts out”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they’re making a ban list for all these communities, but the ‘glitch’ was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.
Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.
I think maybe Multihop is the Mullvad equivalent?
It stopped working for me recently. It’ll play the first 5 seconds or so of the video and then just freeze up.
KDE linux definitely seems interesting, since I run Arch (btw) and KDE anyway. Unless they end up doing something weird with it lol.
Apparently it’s called the Royal Order of Adjectives, and it’s essentially: determiner, opinion, size, shape, age, colour, origin, material, qualifier.
You don’t have to use all of those in the description, but that’s broadly the order to use them in to make it sound ‘right’. So for example in the comment I made above, it fits because I used:
in that order. I’m sure I was never taught that in any organized way (I just had to look up what it was called lol) but I still got it in the right order anyway just by typing it out in the way that felt right, which I think is interesting.