Pedant warning: your last phrase should contain "than", not "then".
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Indeed. I literally never use the word "than". Fuck grammar, "than" looks weird.
I never say "than", I say "then", therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.
Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?
Edit: I'm concerned for everyone who upvoted this
It's not grammar it's an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.
Edit - you know what, I'm leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.
I laterally never use the word "entirely". Fuck grandma, "entirely" looks weird.
I never say "entirely", I say "entitlement", therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.
I think you meant "literally". Laterally is a complacently different word
I think you meant "completely". Complacently is a completely diffident word.
I thank you meant "completely", which is totally different to "complacently"
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Almost perfect.
Fuck grandma, "entirely" looks wired. Wood be chiefs kiss.
Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant "then" instead of "than", and the sentence will make little sense.
The words "I" and "eye" sound similar, but if you write "eye" I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue.
End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.
Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn't laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.
Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.
We write our language (swiss-german) like this π everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.
And us german-germans think you are very weird and you might as well call your spoken language something other than german, cause no one can understand it anyways. Also why are you so afraid of this: Γ?
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You literally used the word "than" in your comment just now.
I hope this does not affect your usage of effect in the correct context.
As a former copy editor I find the effect of using affect incorrectly eye roll inducing.
But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.
The easy rule of thumb for then/than is that if you are comparing things or qualities or quantities of things, you use than, otherwise, then is used.
I thought there would be a hyphen between βeyeβ and βrollβ, no?
lol, you are correct!
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~~"Language is fluid and constantly changing"~~
Our education system is in the toilet and I didn't pay attention π
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The literal way to read what you wrote is to never ask Flatpak, in order:
- how it can download more
- the total file size
The only reason no one thinks this is what you mean is because of how many people also mess this up.
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Are you using a white theme terminal? I hope it's just an edited screenshot.
White theme terminal
You monster.
Check out the neat themes of UNIX legends:
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
Oh boy, never meet your heroes.
Based and anti-dark-theme-cult-pilled
Bantha Fodder
What the fuck is wrong with you lol
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Light theme used to be the only theme. People now need dark themes because they're eyes are too week from all the worke.
And before that, black text printed on white continuous form paper.
Paper doesn't fry my eyeballs.
You could turn down the brightness lol
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We'll update the 200 mb program.
not pictured: the other 500mb of libraries and dependencies that tag along.
I also enjoy needing to download 1GB to update a 14MB program
The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It's okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It's okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They're using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You're on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you're stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.
I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.
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I am learning flatpak. Can someone explain why is like that???
Well, one part of it is that Flatpak pulls data over the network, and sometimes data sent over a network doesn't arrive in the exact same shape as when it left the original system, which results in that same data being sent in multiple copies - until one manages to arrive correctly.
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something something ostree and how complicated the stuff it does actually is
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Shoddy implementation they can't be arsed to fix. They do all kinds of shenanigans like show the size of all locales but only download one, or the other way around, it does not count dependencies and then realizes it has to download something extra etc. It's all over the place and I've given up on it making any sense. I've just made sure it's on a drive with plenty of space and hope for the best.
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/c/datahoarders would like to know your location
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