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  • After processing the question while writing my replies in this thread, I'd say it doesn't ring. If it vibrates then it vibrates, simple as that. If it neither rings nor vibrates but the screen turns on, then... it flashes? Not super sure about that one.

  • (of a telephone) produce a series of resonant or vibrating sounds to signal an incoming call.

    All sound is vibrating, because sound is just air vibration, therefore any audio at all produces by a telephone fits this definition. I will die on this hill.

    ... Or perhaps the definition is just a bit outdated, only accounting for ringtones that sound like bells which used to be a popular choice. IMHO the definition should be updated to include any sound that alerts of an incoming call.

    Wait, what am I saying? Where did my hill go?!

  • You know what, you're right. And the act of putting in a number can't be called 'dialing', because there isn't a dial. Also, when a car stops at a designated spot and is shut down, that's not 'parking' because there isn't a park there like there used to be when that word was first used.

    Language cannot possibly evolve in these obscene ways!

  • I don't know the system in question, but it's definitely a bad design when comments need to be written with care. Either you set this up in a really wonky way, or the system you're using did and it should be fixed ASAP.

    What code is in charge of injecting things into a shell script?

  • It was a while back but I released an extension for Cinnamon, Linux Mint's desktop environment, that lets you change the opacity of any window on the screen: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/extensions/view/101

    More recently, I'm working on importing bus stops in my country to OpenStreetMap but that's not done yet.

  • Thanks.

    The situation on the ground is actually not as bad as that. I think most of the jamming affects aircraft a lot worse than grounded devices. Still, in Haifa (city in the northern half of Israel) even on the ground you can almost never get a good signal of your actual position.

  • I wish books gave me a small map of every location so I don't need to just guess what the author might have been imagining while writing, specifically because of this nonsense.

    But eh, who am I kidding, I don't read books anymore :/

  • I'm in the annoying position of actually being able to blame my GPS. Not my navigation app, the actual GPS signal. My incompetent government, as you might have heard on the news in the past year, has decided to provoke every other country in the region (and plenty more elsewhere) into a regional war. So now in "self defense" from guided missiles, they are constantly jamming GPS signals in my city and some other areas of the country. My GPS has been telling me for months that I'm in Beirut.

    Somehow this precaution isn't necessary in Tel Aviv though? Curious....

  • MatPat started to get on my nerves years ago, but I'll give the man credit: it was easy to just stop watching his videos. The only time I saw him after that is when he made a guest appearance on Pitch Meeting and that was actually a cool cameo. He's not one of those people you just can't get away from. He never (to my knowledge) got mixed up in some horrible controversy or anything, he just kept doing his thing and if you don't watch him you wouldn't know him.

    Anyway, I feel for you, it sucks when someone you're a fan of stops doing the thing you love.