pedz @ pedz @lemmy.ca

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I'm in my 40ies and have heard about sexual abuse in the army since I was old enough to understand what's said on the news. Unfortunately there is nothing surprising here.

Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?

Because as a French speaker, when I tried DDG a few years ago, it was pretty hard to have some useful results. Like, I was looking for some local results and they were nowhere to be found.

I know it got better, that it's possible to tweak this, and that I should try it again. But because the first impression wasn't good for me, it made me dubious about giving it another try.

I'm using Android but I can give you a few personal examples on why I still prefer mobile websites to apps.

1. The place where I take weather has a shitty app full of ads and always sending notifications. They don't have PWA offered on their site but just going through a browser instead of the app is significantly better.
2. YouTube's app is also full of ads. So I use the mobile website in Firefox with uBlock Origin.
3. Again with awful apps full of ads. Twitter is also much more tolerable through the mobile website. There's no autoplay on FF and again, ads blocked.
4. I still use IRC and my client is web based, so that I can see pictures and videos in my chats. The web based IRC client (The Lounge) offers PWA and it's very nice to have the thing in a "clean" browser.

Again, I don't use Apple for reasons like this, but Firefox is already pretty bad with PWA and having those possibilities mangled or removed wouldn't be acceptable to me.

Maybe you don't use a browser on mobile and just do everything through terrible apps. Maybe most people do the same. But if you don't use it, why do you care if those using it want to retain the possibility to do so?

I personally don't watch TV so nobody watches TV anymore, right?

This is a tad misleading.

Other languages may use the word computer in their language but some also have their own word, even if not using it.

Spanish has 'el ordenador' and German has 'der Rechner'.

Also, it's a bit rich to say French has an extended vocab when English sometimes imported French words twice, like warranty and guarantee, or guardian and warden. In fact, English supposedly has more words than French.

French is purist but then English took words like 'dette' and 'doute' and added a 'b' just to keep it closer from Latin... right.

Les francophones aiment perpétuer l'idée que le français est une langue riche, complexe et difficile, mais en réalité c'est rien de si extraordinaire. ;)

I live in a studio and I am "lucky enough" to have one big 11' x 4' window pointing southeast. Half of it can be opened but since there's no way for air to circulate, it's pretty useless. So when the sun is out and is shining in my only window, the place turns into an oven.

The poor.

Ha! I actually left reddit 14 months ago because I thought users of /r/fuckcars were too much pro cars. Like, there was a post of a dude with a giant pickup truck driving in a snow storm saying that if there were trains, he'd use it, bit now he's "stuck" using a pickup truck to drive between two cities during a snow storm because "he had bo other choice". And that crap was upvoted and defended.

Like, if I made comments that were too much 'fuck cars!' in /r/fuckcars, I would be told that some people would just loooooove to use public transit but there's none where they live so they really don't like it but don't have any other choice than using a car that they "hate" but don't want to give up.

Lots of users of a sub against cars that couldn't walk nor bike to save their lives. They want bus, trains... taxis or cars.. but walking and cycling? No. AmEriCa iS BiG aNd RuRal So YoU woULdN't uNdErStAnD! Yet I live in an even "emptier" and bigger country...

They wanna "get rid" of their cars but as soon as someone proposes to walk a bit, or bike somewhere, they are like "but what about robotaxis?!" FFS!

It mostly sucks ungodly amounts of electricity for a mediocre result. And I don't think the energy consumed for things like driving a two ton vehicle around, when people can take a bus or a train, is worth it.

But be careful of the "smart" ones. If you have a "dumb" one that is working fine, keep it. I changed mine last year and I don't like the new "smart" one. IDGAF about Netflix and Amazon Prime buttons or apps. And now I'm stuck with a TV that boots. All I want is to use the HDMI input but the TV has to be "on" all the times because it runs android. So if I unplug the TV, it has to boot an entire operating system before it can show you the HDMI input.

I don't use any "smart" feature and I would very much have preferred to buy a "dumb" TV but "smart" ones are actually cheaper now.

Same for my parents. They use OTA with an antenna and their new smart TV has to boot into the tuner mode instead of just... showing TV. Being boomers they are confused as to why a TV boots into a menu where they have to select TV again to use it.

New TVs may be cheap, but it's because of the "smart" "spying" function, and they are so annoying. I really don't like them.

Camping has the potential to be any type of fun. From 1 to 3. It depends a lot.

I love type 2 fun so I'm equipped for multi day bike touring and camping trips but it's a bit like anything: if you don't practice it's difficult to get better at it.

However mosquitoes are indeed the worst. I avoid certain areas at some periods of the year because of that. Again, depends where you go and how prepared you are.

Those VR headsets always make me think of this

But I learned that apparently porn is not "possible" on the Apple one... yet.

For the nostalgic, there is Qmmp that looks and behave like XMMS/Winamp and is still maintained.

It seems hit and miss for VLC. I've used it for many years in Linux and can't pinpoint the moment when it became bad for me, but it now has difficulty to read a significant portion of my video files.

It lags when playing videos, or there is sound but no image, or it flickers. It just became unreliable for me. And if we google a bit, there seems to also be lots of people in that situation.

I tried a few things, changing settings and what not, but it never worked correctly again. Even on a fresh install. So I gave up and just use mpv now.

Edit: I just remembered. At one point it was not closing properly. Like, if you didn't stop the video playing before closing VLC's window, it crashed and stayed in the background. It opened new instances but every time it was closed before stopping a video, it would just crash and stay in the background. Eventually I'd have 4, 5 or 6 icons of VLC in my notification tray and would have to kill all of them. It was annoying.

I can only speak for French. It's a whole letter representing a vowel called "l'e dans l'o" (the e in the o). It's completely different from an accent and doesn't work according to the same rules as accents. I know it may sound crazy but yes, there are rules/a history for diacritics in French, and that letter is not part of it.

It does make two different sounds depending on the word though, so maybe œ should get an accent?!

And they're called diacritics.

As long as it's not à la Musk where the new versions will be inferior to the previous one because "no modern trains should rely on antiquated technology so we're scrapping everything from before to start from scratch".

Modern web IRC clients like The Lounge or Convos can now display images, play mp3 and mp4 formats, and they have upload options. It can still be excellent for real time support, but I'm not so sure about documentation though.

My landlord is a multimillion dollar faceless company that sends me offers for a reduction on rent if I refer someone else. They have partnerships with other giant businesses and send me coupons for other companies. They push tenants towards a particular ISP. They amass personal data and seem to share it.

They want to make it seem like added value, but as a tenant, it feels like you're just another consumer to be sold something. They send me so much spam...

I think he "went back" because he knows very well that in order to do electoral reforms, he would need to open the constitution and that would be extremely messy, if not the end of Canada.

Every time we even think about changing the constitution, it's endless national drama.

Apparently they are both.

How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The relevant part is around the 5 minutes mark.