Revan343

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

That's the quote from the movie itself, unless the book has the same scene word-for-word

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

Good thing Trump knows all the best lawyers

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

Aha! Who defined that? Big Dictionary, that's who.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

We aren't the ones who needed a multi-paragraph explanation to differentiate between domestic abuse and femicide; the difference between the two is rather large and made rather obvious by one of the words being gendered while the other is not

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Why does a woman that was killed for being a woman need a special word for it?

Because creating words for specific ideas is central to language

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Sexagon sounds like an MMA-themed porno

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't actually have to be either-or; we can have trucks with significant hauling capacity and have safe roads. My truck is smaller than my last minivan, with a bigger box than most new trucks. I'd go even smaller, but kei trucks aren't very common here

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

'Alternate spelling' is a fun way to say misspelling /s

Viricide is more consistent because vir and femina are both Latin (as is -cide/-cidium, but that's less important), while andro is Greek. The Greek-rooted synonym for femicide would be gynaecide.

But yeah, androcide would be more likely to be used, because it avoids the superficial similarity to virus; kind of like how Latin and Greek numerical prefixes often get mixed together to avoid the prefix 'sex-'

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're letting them take the word grok now? Fucking Nazis ruin everything

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

It's true we have the problem that BitTorrent protocol is not though for updating files

Bittorrent v2 has updatable torrents

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And fuck you if you're under 25, I guess

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're fascism experts, not grammar experts

 

Currently the 'Parent' button takes you to the top-level comment of the thread. Could it be split into two buttons, one of which takes you to the immediate parent comment?

 

Does anybody know of a list of usb live-bootable distros, with links to the download pages?

I have a coworker who wants to switch his gaming computer over to Linux, he has Linux experience but from like a decade ago.

He's not partial to any particular distro, so I was hoping to just put together a multiboot flash drive with a bunch of live images he could try. But I'm not sure what I should include, and what has live images, vs. install only images.

I'm most comfortable in an environment with apt, so Debian and Mint are of course already covered, but if the gaming-specific distros have live usb images, that would probably be the best thing for him to try.

 
 

When reading a web page within Connect, it would be nice if long-pressing on links in the webpage would give a popup with the option to open the link in an external browser (and probably also an option to just copy the link). I frequently find myself linked to Wikipedia from a Lemmy comment, and then want to open other links from that wiki page, so then I have to open the page I'm on externally and refind my spot in the article.

Having the same options when long-pressing a link in a comment/post would be nice as well.

 

Edit: there's already a setting for it, another user pointed it out. Ignore me :)

~~Currently, when you block an instance or community, it's blocked app-wide. I had blocked various NSFW communities and instances on my main account so that they don't show up in my All feed, but now I can't access them from my NSFW account unless I use a different app to do so, or repeatedly unblock and reblock them as needed.~~

~~Can we instead make block lists on a per-account basis (or have the option of account-associated or global blocking)?~~

 

The text when I try to type comments (but not the text in the search bar or, as I'm just now learning, here in the 'post body' text box) is white, and I can't find the setting to change it. Obviously I could change my background back to the default blue that it was, but that's the opposite of a solution.

Anybody know?

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