Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Hi. I’ll be your “that guy” today. It’s “axes” pronounced “ax-eez”, not “axii”.
“Axis” is from Greek, and the general rule is that singular “-is” becomes “-ēs” in the plural, which happens to apply here. We don’t usually write the overline when it’s adopted into English, so “axes”, but with a Greek-derived pronunciation.
The rule you’re thinking of is that Latin “-ius” usually becomes “-ii”, but Latin or not, there’s no “u”, so we should avoid using that rule here.
I get that there’s a relatively distilled Linux user base here in the Fediverse, but what percentage of that group really needs ISOs that quickly, and presumably, often?
Is this to suggest that we’d try more distros if we didn’t have to weigh the time needed to download them?
The cloud idea is better. It would be nice to be able to essentially quicksave to off-site before logging off for an extended period, or even periodically.
On the other hand, how many gigabytes does the average person need to back up on a regular basis? Even power users don’t generate that much data, and I’d expect that they’d have some kind of rolling backup that does files at a time.
Semantic sidestep: Is gratification a necessary consequence of doing something for the love of it?
Because if so, there’s validation of a sort from within.
And if not, that’s an interesting thing to ponder.
Oh, I do hope that there won’t be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.
LibreOffice have specifically called them out, so I guess the support isn’t as good for ODF as it is for Microsoft’s OOXML.
I’m going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try.
There might be any one of a number of confusions here, depending how I read your comment. Or there are none at all. Hard to be sure. But for clarification’s sake:
Euro Office is not OnlyOffice. OnlyOffice is not OpenOffice, which is essentially defunct but was the most popular suite that first adopted ODF. OnlyOffice may have been named that way to lure people away from OpenOffice, which was, and is, still in use in some places despite a better non-proprietary option being available. Namely:
LibreOffice is the successor to OpenOffice and uses ODF as its default, so its support is 100%.
OnlyOffice supports* ODF too, but it’s by far not the, uh, only one.
* According to their specifications anyway. I haven’t used it to be able to confirm how good their support is.
To leave.
My second thought would be to print up a notice that says “If you can’t pay your staff, DON’T RUN A BUSINESS.” and go back and stick it to this notice board.
… of which I’d do neither. I have better things to do with my time.
They could have supported both by default.
Someone somewhere made the decision to concentrate on OOXML to the exclusion of everything else, either clueless as to how that would look, or hoping that few people would notice and the fall-out would be minimal.
Either way, neglect of the open alternative is not a good look.
Words often abbreviate to their stressed syllables, and occasionally any hard sounds that aren’t strictly stressed also follow through. In bicycle these are the “bi” and the hard second c.
Bi(cy)c(le)
The spelling “bike” is unambiguous* for those sounds, so it’s the one that stuck.
* Well, relatively. If you’re confusedly expecting, say, Greek, you might pronounce those vowels differently.
I think you were downvoted because Euro Office has made the mistake of supporting Microsoft document formats above all else and don’t have good support for the ODF alternatives at the moment.
They have since said they want to do better, but they’re off on the wrong foot.
I have social anxiety and some kind of high-functioning AuDHD going on. That makes most social events weird and baffling to me to be fair.
But since you want stories here’s a couple that are short and sweet if a bit loosey goosey on the social element:
One time on a bus, late at night, a very drunk individual was encouraging conversation (if only because most of the other passengers weren’t sure what he would do if we didn’t respond). He was drinking something simultaneously black and cloudy out of a plastic bottle and offering people swigs. People didn’t go that far into joining in, hence weird rather than actually scary. I may have said “no thanks I’m not sure what that is”, and thankfully he took it well.
Another time, as a kid with family on holiday somewhere. I forget exactly where. A shop in a high street with windows all covered with special offers and an opening time that was pretty soon. We think: “Why not?”. A crowd had gathered by the opening time. The doors opened. The crowd flooded in with us fairly near the front.
The shop was completely empty save for a few guys in suits in formation at the back, and one by the door who’d opened them. Sleazy sales types, maybe religious types. It was hard to be sure, but clearly some kind of bait and switch. Thus began a wave of people trying to get out as the back of the crowd was still trying to get in.
Firstly, there’s the incorrect assumption that Linux users don’t use Microsoft’s Windows operating system because they’re afraid of it. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that “phobia” has two meanings in modern parlance, one which means fear and the other that extends to mean hatred.
But you probably know all that.
The other part is that it’s surprisingly common for detractors of the Russian state to “accidentally” fall out of a window. This then appears in the news. We know it wasn’t an accident. The Russian state knows it wasn’t an accident. We know they know and they know we know, but there’s no proof and no investigation, so it was an accident. Got it? Good.
And so detractors of the Russian state are also afraid of windows.
Personally, I think Putin should spend a lot more time near them.
Yes.
Amplification does not require electronics. Good acoustics in a hall can be all you need for all vocal registers to be heard. (Edit: Whether a hall is a church isn’t strictly relevant. Took that part out.)
Even if you can’t quite pick out the low notes in poor acoustics, they’ll be bolstering the sub-harmonics of the higher pitches, giving weight to the performance anyway.
And for small groups around a fire you don’t need a hall at all, which gets us back to prehistory easily.
FTP was in its heyday for obtaining files. Usenet was the place to be for grouped content.
Old Gopher information services were mostly dead by '99 but there were still a few holdouts.
E-mail in actual mail clients reigned supreme.
Also, depending of what you think of as “web” these days, most old web stuff was basically just nice-looking text with graphics thrown in and maybe a little JavaScript here and there, not full blown interactive experiences and applications like we have now.
Brian almost definitely slept with Marsha. As best as I remember from subtext and possibly the DVD extras, he was behind on rent, and Marsha made an indecent proposal. Add that to the fact that he’s hung like a horse and you understand why Marsha might retain some interest.
Also, Tim and Daisy do eventually get together, but officially only after the series ends. Tyres saw what was going on a lot sooner than that though.
Finally, there’s the potential that Mike might actually have more than a man-crush on Tim. They have a bromance, sure, but there might be other things going on in Mike’s head that Tim is completely oblivious to.
Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.
Oh. Well that’s much better.
I don’t remember seeing it in my distro’s package manager previously, but I have a feeling I might have rejected it for being a Qt app. By default their look and feel doesn’t match my window manager choices, and my distro hasn’t ever handled that automatically, so I may have decided I didn’t like the look of it.
Now I’m aware of qt5ct (changes some of the look and feel of Qt5 apps) so that’s not as much of a problem any more.
Rupert Murdoch.
Edit: I see the title has been edited and so Murdoch doesn’t count (and it was a stretch given the qualifiers in the post text anyway.)
I want to believe that this banned AI had decided that not being unkind and not hoarding wealth were good things and was starting to make convincing arguments to that effect.
I know that it probably wasn’t that, but that’s my head canon until proven otherwise.