hakase

@hakase@lemm.ee
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Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.

When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.

I switched my four home computers to Linux Mint this week. Windows is just more trouble than it's worth nowadays.

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It's on purpose to force you to use their shitty app.

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Too late. I've already switched all four of my home PCs to Linux Mint.

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That point didn't need to be made in the first place because Steve already specifically noted that it was auctioned for charity in his video.

To me, this is just evidence that Linus didn't even watch the video.

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The irony of this poll blocking access from users with a VPN.

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Not on lemmy.ml there isn't!

What an ass-backward decision.

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Just bought $50 of merch off their website -- this is the sort of journalism we should all be supporting.

"A language is just a dialect with an army and a navy" -Max Weinreich

Beware!

This unsubscribed me from twenty+ communities on all of my instances. It first tried to subscribe all of my accounts to all of the communities of my largest instance, which is what I wanted it to do. One instance failed to sub to 20+ communities, which was fine, as it was a smaller instance.

Ten minutes later, however, I got a notification that it had unsubscribed all of my other instances from those communities as well. It took me about an hour to figure out most of the ones that had been lost, and even now I think I'm missing a few.

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"Does anyone else... (have trouble finishing video games/use their toenail clippings to add texture to a pot of chili/etc.)?"

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Lol my wife is from DFW and the first thing she said was "why the fuck would anyone want to go to Houston?"

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There are far worse examples of Germans getting lost.

Sekiro has the best combat of any game I've ever played, so I'd be satisfied with just having something like it in other FS games.

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Thou seest me rolling, thou'rt hating.

Fleming himself was a British agent, and knew SMERSH so well that he put this foreword at the beginning of From Russia With Love:

"Not that it matters, but a great deal of the background to this story is accurate.

SMERSH, a contraction of Smiert Spionam--Death to Spies--exists and remains today the most secret department of the Soviet government.

At the beginning of 1956, when this book was written, the strength of SMERSH at home and abroad was about 40,000 and General Grubozaboyschikov was its chief. My description of his appearance is correct.

Today the headquarters of SMERSH are where, in Chapter 4, I have placed them--at No 13 Sretenka Ulitsa, Moscow. The Conference Room is faithfully described and the Intelligence chiefs who meet round the table are real officials who are frequently summoned to that room for purposes similar to those I have recounted.

I. F."

What actually happened is that these roots were borrowed from Ancient Greek by paleontologists to form the word "pterodactyl", not modern Greek.

In Ancient Greek, they would have pronounced both the "p" and the "t", but "pt" isn't a possible beginning of a word for English speakers, and so borrowed words that start with "pt-" (and "mn-" and a few others) have the first sound deleted as a repair mechanism to allow English speakers to pronounce them.

In modern Greek, "pt" consonant clusters that used to be pronounced as-is have undergone dissimilation - both "p" and "t" are stop consonants, so the "p" has instead become an "f" (which is a fricative, not a stop), to make the cluster easier to pronounce.

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I just assumed the OOP was also a cop.

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How do I turn off Yuzu's auto-update? I don't want my computer to connect to a website that Nintendo now owns every time I boot up the emulator.

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Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.

You must resent every single natural human language then, since all of them show the exact same kinds of irregularities, for the most part.

And, if we all did decide to use Esperanto because it's regular (and therefore artificial), irregularities would inevitably be introduced within a single generation, because the nature of human language is to change, and that change will always result in irregularity.

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Exactly. I'm proudly 3 years Nintendo-free, and I don't see myself going back anytime soon.

Nice! I used to have a surprisingly similar setup!

https://imgur.com/1zbGMRm

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It wasn't a criticism - I was just curious if anyone had any more info.

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Probably a-ha's "Take On Me" if I'm being honest.

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The way I like to put it is that every single time you randomly shuffle a deck of cards, you are guaranteed to get an order that has never been seen before, by anyone in history. That will be the case for every person who ever shuffles a deck of cards for the rest of time.

Odd that 25 would be the limit. Luckily I only use 21 eye drop products, so I'm fine.

As one might expect, mass shootings are decidedly not legal.

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Do we know when Mint 22 is coming yet other than just "summer '24"?

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And 5 was a significant downgrade from 4.

To provide a dissenting opinion, I've always preferred harpsichords to pianos, which is one of the reasons I love Bach so much.

Pianos somehow sound simultaneously harsher than harpsichords with the off-putting initial clunk of the keys, and boringly muted in comparison.

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It would be if they hadn't chickened out with the last episode. Unfortunately that kind of tarnishes the impact of the penultimate episode in hindsight.

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Same.

Star Wars. My highest-ranked movie that isn't usually on these lists is Stardust, at number 3, following The Matrix at number 2.

Lol can't wait to see Jomboy's video on this one.

This is a great resource! Thanks for your effort!

This has "mah bucket" sea lion vibes.

I'm still playing civ IV. With the direction the series has been going, it looks like I probably always will.