darklamer @ darklamer @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Why do people find it acceptable to use the bizarre word "sideloading" for the fundamental operation of "installing one's own software on one's own device"?

I read weekly newspapers. I used to read Morgenbladet, now I read NZZ am Sonntag, and there are many others to choose from, but getting away from trying to find something engaging each day solves a lot of problems.

But pretty much all of these organizations have their own Discord servers, don't they?

So why would it matter so much what the parent company does? If some changes are seen as unacceptable one could simply just not apply them to one'a own server. (It's not like the Discord company could force anyone to run some particular software on their server. How would that even work.)

I don't understand why people care what Discord does. If they do enough unwelcome changes the people who run their own servers will simply detach from the parent company.

Now there you have one more pet peeve of mine, language preference settings that pretend that all language versions are equal, that shitty translations aren't abundant. If the original text is in a language that I can read then I want the original, not some shitty translation. It shouldn't be that hard!

Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.

Now that's a pet peeve of mine, a bizarre belief surprisingly often held by people, who must be oblivious to the existence of tourism.

Paperclips.

Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it's far harder to do the later due to point one)

This is not quite accurate, Proton quite nicely exchanges PGP encrypted mail with people who have PGP but not Proton.

"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." http://mutt.org/

The only one I know of at all is ConnectBot: https://connectbot.org/

That must be the Linux kernel.

When I was a school kid (long time ago) we learned that there's breakfast, dinner and supper, dinner being the midday meal.

… which isn't wrong, just incomplete.

The second they make it a mixed code base, that's the same second quality will deteriorate.

I envy your confidence!

Note that "lunch" and "dinner" both can refer to the same meal, a midday meal, in English:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dinner#English

Anyone who's job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.

Well, that's the problem right there, isn't it, that a lot of jobs don't actually produce any real value.

Well, my point is that it's not considered a u, and Austrian and Swiss don't use it.

It's true that u and ü are very different things in German orthography, but it must be some bizarre misunderstanding that ü wouldn't be used in Austria or Switzerland, the largest city in Switzerland is even named Zürich in German (Züri in Swiss German).

I'll just leave this here, "An Introduction to German for ABAP/4 Programmer" (SAP):

https://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/sap-germ.html

I have once actually used a console server console server to troubleshoot a misbehaving console server.

That happened to me just a few weeks ago: a cashier refused to accept money as payment.

Once every 24 hours.

Just revert to using the old name: Vinland.