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C is for Cognizant btw. But Cisco wouldn't be too far off.

It's a desi-fied version of WITCH, for those familiar with that term.

Lemmy is a part of the fediverse.

The OP has a kbin account, which is something akin to Lemmy. But they can comment here because both kbin and lemmy are a part of the fediverse and therefore are interoperable.

But within lemmy itself, you can also have accounts on different instances too! E.g. my account is on lemm.ee, while yours is on lemmy.world. Both servers are a part of Lemmy, but act separately, and are interoperable!

Think of it like email.
Kbin is like gmail.com, lemmy is like outlook.com. Users on gmail can send and receive emails from outlook, and vice versa.
Now think of lemm.ee as outlook.co.uk, and lemmy.world as outlook.co.ca.

I hope this clarifies stuff a bit!

It's due to the nature of social interactions in India (more broadly, South Asia).

In most of our native languages, we don't directly address someone by their name, unless we've been acquainted before (sometimes even after, if it was just a formal acquaintance). We add a little something for politeness and respect. So it's always 'firstname'-ji or 'lastname'-ji, for example, in Hindi.

Since there isn't a direct carry over for this in English, people adopted sir or ma'am as replacement.

That's more or less it. It's about respect when interacting with someone else.

You'll notice that people who have been brought up in or are more familiar with western culture don't really do this.

EDIT: Unless ofcourse, your question was regarding the accent. In that case, most south asian written scripts lack certain soft tonal pronunciations of English alphabets, so most conversions result in hard sounding words, due to which you get the characteristic Indian (or again, more accurately, South Asian) accent.

Rust wouldn't necessarily make it more responsive. It is more oriented towards safety and robustness.

Cosmic might be more responsive / efficient due to the fact that it's a new development and they can choose to implement things better and not carry old baggage, but that's about it. Rust doesn't have much say in it.

Edit: Although, if they are moving away from JavaScript in Gnome as their shell language to pure Rust in Cosmic, then you would probably see some responsiveness / efficiency gains, yes.

It's not.

The dev says they'll open source it later, but it's just hypothetical for now.

This!

I do the same for my parents. $10 a month, no fuss, 5PB of media from all over the world (and growing!), all high quality Bluray Remuxes along with Dolby Vision content and what not. Can even put in requests for something specific using a discord bot.

It's just like the 2016 era Netflix never died.

The only investment is an Nvidia Shield Pro because it supports any darn format out there. Without it, you're only limited to 1080p content (or 4k if the device can direct play) since transcoding anything above 1080p is not allowed due to processing limitations.

But yeah, it's a set up and forget kind of service. Make sure to join a reputed server though. And never pay multi-month in a single go unless you're absolutely sure of their trustworthiness.

+1 again to what Mancy said. I just pay for the convenience. But yeah, if it's not cumbersome for you to manage your own server then that's great too!

As for the cost, oof I can't even imagine. Besides, they have to make use of CDN services and what-not just so that the experience is consistent worldwide.

But then again, the server that I'm a part of has like 100 people paying every month, and this network is a consolidation of many such servers, so I think the costs and labor get distributed.

Connect just got the 'swipe to go back' gesture in its latest update (among various other things)!

The dev is extraordinarily active. Give a suggestion on their lemmy community and be assured that it'll be implemented within a week or so.