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This is a great write up. Thanks for this. I may daily drive Fedora as a result of reading it. I recently installed it on an old laptop when I was looking for the lightest distro that comes with gnome by default. I took a liking to it immediately and I now feel validated knowing Torvalds himself is a fan :)
Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.
Yeah I’m almost positive you’re right and the person you’re responding to is not. All browsers on iOS are skins of safari essentially right now. That’s about to change but only thanks to the EU
They are both Indo-European languages and it shows. The words for father and mother for example, are very similar in the two languages.
I will never understand why people always want to deny the interconnected nature of the universe and instead want everything to be unrelated and separate
All I said is that they are related, because they very much are. Just read the Wikipedia page for either language if you’re interested, you’ll see that IE languages are all related.
I used to type up long explanations but I don’t do it anymore. Either the person is not going to be uninterested and/or unconvinced, or they’ll read up more on it on their own
Yeah, after about 1000 years even the exact same language normally will change so much that it’s not understandable to speakers on opposing sides of that divide. I can’t read much German, but in reality German and English are very related and with some explanation one can see it pretty clearly. I agree with your sentiment I think, but “nothing like” is pretty absolute.
“Technically”… I was simply trying to state that the absolutes being used here are wrong. They are. I am not interested at the moment in splitting hairs, that was never what I was trying to discuss. I happen to think it’s interesting to see how things are related. I think I’d love studying linguistics if it weren’t for your type being so prevalent. The type of person who will say “this has absolutely nothing to do with that” as if the only valuable perspective is to split and divide, and that taking a glimpse at the unknowable mysteries-- of exactly how historical changes played out-- is stupidity that should be stomped on.
It’s 100% true that there is a relationship and telling people there isn’t serves only to make you feel smart. I made no false assertions whatsoever so stop acting like I’m spreading dangerous lies.
Yeah, the use of “related” in only one way is a pet peeve of mine. Relationships have many natures, and I think we all intuitively know that. I don’t believe in arbitrarily enforcing one of those types as the only valid one. Notice I never said anything false. I just think it’s fascinating to learn about those relationships and think about the things we can’t know. It’s not as though I imagined that they are super similar and then argued for that being fact …
If you’d be a little less prickly with your absolutes I honestly might not have a problem with that. I don’t like some of my family members, us being related doesn’t mean I would or wouldn’t want to spend time with them…
the American education system is absolutely fucked
I’ve always felt it’s a cultural issue. Just about every kid I knew thought that school was the worst prison imaginable. It was something to hate. If you disagreed with that, you were a “nerd” and should be mocked and bullied for it. That was reflected in the media at the time I grew up too.
What I don’t really get though is how people can read plurals every day 100 times with their own eyes and still not internalize how they work.
Yes, out of hundreds of people who read horrible spelling and grammar, 2 or 3 might complain. If you ask me, the ratio is pretty low. For example, often posts will have a very short title but still manage to contain at least one obvious mistake. If people are going through the trouble of posting at all, you’d think they could be bothered to read back over the three words they wrote instead of mashing the post button without doing so.
Yeah I don’t have to pretend that the actions that helped elect Trump are understandable. They’re selfish and/or moronic actions that fuck everyone over
Your repeated mention of centrism is bizarre, as is how monumentally condescending you are being while asserting you’re the victim of such.
I am not a centrist, that’s what apparently you want to be. Centrism is just giving a name to choosing ignorance and pretending it makes you a super advanced genius
"Help me choose my first distro" and other questions for beginners
You’re about to take your first steps in the wonderful world of Linux, but you’re overwhelmed by the amount of choices? Welcome to this (I hope) very simple guide :)...
YouTube on Firefox mobile is awesome
Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.
They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)
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