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ð is edh, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the “th” in “them”

ŋ is eng, it represents a voiced velar nasal, like the “ng” in “sing”

ç is a “c with cedilla” or “broken c”. It’s used in several languages with different readings, but they seem to be using it as a voiceless aveolar affricate, like the “ch” in “match”

“All animation is similar.”

using AI actually drives up the quality by a mile

[citation needed]

I was actually up late playing Deus Ex the night of September 10, 2001, which I think added an extra layer of surreality to the next day.

Regarding your call to get DOS and Win32 games running on Linux: they do, and have done for years.

You’re describing Cunningham’s Law. Which the relevant xkcd doesn’t call anything in particular.

Nerd sniping is unrelated.

Do you have any tips on how to set up a python environment using nix?

I also use NixOS (btw) but have so far sidestepped this by the expedient of giving up on any project not in nixpkgs whose install process is a pypi script.

That was a valid reason 15 years ago, but wine/proton have gotten really really good.

I saw something recently that made the argument that English has structures that act like kanji as well. The same is true for Spanish.

Consider the glyph 1. By itself you’d read it ‘one’, but then what about 1st, where it is read ‘fir-’? And then 10 and 11 don’t match either of those, or each other.

Personal pronouns and verb conjugations based on formality

Hoo boy, if you want to talk about vocabulary and grammar changes based on formality, that’s like Japanese’s whole thing.

One thing nobody’s mentioned in this thread is counters, which are little helper words attached to numbers. Which one you should use depends on what is being counted, the categories are highly idiosyncratic and generally have nothing to do with their ordinary use (e.g. 本, which elsewhere means “book” is the counter for long thin objects like pens or bananas), and there are dozens of them.

When I think about this comic, it’s always the alt-text that comes to mind:

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

Solaar does work to change it, it’s just that I have to go back and change it again every time I plug it in to charge, and then once more when I unplug it.

Looks like OpenRGB doesn’t list my specific mouse but does support the wired version, so maybe I’ll give it a try.

Do you by any chance know how to configure Solaar so that the LEDs don’t change to the default pattern every time I plug or unplug my mouse? It’s the one annoyance I’ve run into.

That’s not true. I care very deeply about avoiding them.

One example is Civilization VI, where the Linux build is several versions older than the Windows build, and one of the DLCs just silently doesn’t install unless you force Proton.

Another that comes to mind, Colossus is…well, not this exact scenario, but relevant.

There’s an argument that BSD would have been dominant in that case. It was bogged down in lawsuits claiming that it was pirated Bell Unix at the time, but they were dismissed not long after.

The arrival of Linux also slowed development of the GNU Hurd kernel, so that’s another possible contender.

In the sense that PC stands for “personal computer”, yes.

But PC has historically been a shortening of “IBM PC compatible”, which makes certain assertions about system architecture. In this sense, x86 Macs are PCs, but others are not.

The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.

I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.

Ubuntu circa 2008 it is, then.