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  • To people thinking of enforcing UTC around the globe:

    obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish

    Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link,

    Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:

    • causes the question “What time is it there?” to be useless/unanswerable
    • necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
    • convolutes timetables, where present
    • means “days” (of the week) are no longer the same as “days”
    • complicates both secular and religious law
    • is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
    • makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
    • does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
    • is not simpler.

    As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.

    (copied from one of my 9-month old comments)

  • I just pulled this out from my ass, but I would guess yes, they do. But you rinse your mouth after brushing your teeth so I would guess it's not that bad? Since you're (mostly) not ingesting the microplastic particles from the toothbrush. But again I'm going off of nothing.

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  • That is nice, but I need the Google Play Services for push notifications on the messaging app that everyone in my country uses. It's sad, I know. If it weren't for that I wouldn't log in to a Google account on my Android phone either.

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  • IMO, Windows without a Microsoft account misses out on the least features, when compared to macOS without an Apple ID, iOS without an Apple ID, or Android without a Google accout. Sad that Microsoft keeps making it more and more difficult to bypass logging into a Microsoft accout during installation. But I use Linux anyways (btw)

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  • Agree. On iOS, if you don't login with an Apple ID, you can't really install apps. On Android though you can just use F-Droid to install apps just fine.

  • I like Zen for its different interface. I like having a built-in vertical tab bar. It's not as focused on privacy and security as Librewolf is, though.

  • Yes, like the Vietnamese name "Nguyen", but not like "wininks". The best I could describe it is as a hybrid between "ninks" and "ginks". Pronounce the first consonant with the back of your tongue while keeping the image of pronouncing an "n" sound in your head.

  • I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.

  • Sorry if this is off-topic, but I can't be the only one who read the title as "pegging canada," right?

  • aww it's not available in my region

  • They look great! Now I want even more strawberries...

  • This is what the ¥862 strawberries look like.

  • 2000 yen for strawberries? How much strawberry is that? I got a handful of strawberries for ¥862 today.

    Yes, the rice is expensive.

  • I have no idea why you're being downvoted. Perhaps it's coming off as a bit rude to some?

  • fck yea

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  • I also managed to did that once, but after a while (20 seconds or so) the color started to fade and we had to add more, and overshooting miserably

  • True. It doesn't even install on Android 14.

  • Fcitx5 is the best for Chinese. Honestly very impressed that there is a open-source keyboard this good for Chinese. Only thing missing is fat finger error correction (like autocorrect but it works on the preedit text instead of text already output)