Brewchin

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

That's a fair point. I shouldn't have generalised your entire country, as it has so many linguistic differences.

Even outside of the whole pop/soda/Coke thing. 😄

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It's regional. I grew up in Australia, where it's pronounced as it is in the US: dah-tah. But I now live in the UK, where it's pronounced day-tah.

The same is true of "router", the network device (but not the woodworking tool): rau-tah vs roo-ter.

Working in IT made it a ballache for a while until I remembered to always change my pronunciation for them. 🙄

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we're seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star's poles and the other around it's equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Netiquette

Now there's a term I've not seen in many years.

And dates both of us, I expect... 😄

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, but also: you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

They're going for the FX artists.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Agree. It's definitely popcorn hour.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Been there. Christ, it was hard. But the vet team left us alone for the end. The best of the worst situation, so to speak.

Ten years later and I still tear up at the memory of it.

Knowing I have the same experience coming in the near future sucks. But it's better than the alternative, I guess...

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

TIL that version appears to be on the AUR: MicroEMACS/PK 4.0.15 customized by Linus Torvalds.

Last updated in 2014, it probably has serious cobwebs now. Even the upstream hasn't been touched in 6 years.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm assuming work and personal?

I've done the same for years, but am thinking of making use of the second SIM slot in my personal phone and using profiles to separate everything. Many phones can also use an eSIM, so that's also an option for multiple numbers.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep, with the desktop versions of Signal, Matrix (Element) and Steam chat.

I'm yet to try out gamemode, which may help. But I typically close Signal and Element when I'm gaming, so it's usually not an issue for me.

Edit: I'm on EndeavourOS, KDE, i7, 16GB, Nvidia 2060.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

bxActions, probably? Turn the useless button into something you want.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As the saying goes: capitalism, shareholder value and such things seem as inevitable today as the divine right of kings once did...

 

Posted this to AskLemmy (https://lemmy.world/post/17088629), but thought it worth posting here:

I use old.lemmy.world as my interface and I've noticed that roughly every month I'm:

  • Forcibly logged out and have to do the re-auth dance for no apparent reason.
  • Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.

My browser is set to retain cookies and such, so it's not PEBKAC/PICNIC. Why is Lemmy doing a nuke-from-low-orbit every month (roughly) despite me using it as recently as the day before? Why aren't my preferences being retained between logins?

I suspect the recent update (https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld/112706805419064266) explains the latest event, but the questions still stand.

 

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I didn't find mention of it. I use old.lemmy.world as my interface and I've noticed that roughly every month I'm:

  1. Forcibly logged out and have to do the re-auth dance for no apparent reason.
  2. Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.

My browser is set to retain cookies and such, so it's not PEBKAC/PICNIC. Why is Lemmy doing a nuke-from-low-orbit every month (roughly; haven't measured it) despite me using it as recently as the day before? Isn't this bonkers practice?


Edit: I've just seen https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld/112706805419064266 which may explain it. Either way, the questions stand.

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