Sloogs

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[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's not so much whether the word is spelled with a vowel, but whether it makes a vowel sound.

In English, the y sound is considered a consonant when at the beginning of a word but a vowel elsewhere.

Europe makes a similar y initial sound as, e.g., yurt, young, yellow, yell, youth, etc. so in those cases the words take the "a" article instead of "an".

A yurt, a youth, a yell, etc.

Likewise Euclidian, European, Uranus, ewe, union, user, universe, unit, usage, all take the "a" article instead of "an".

And in the reverse, words like hour and heir become "an hour" and "an heir" because the initial sound is a vowel even though the first letter is a consonant.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah I'm incredibly impressed with Fedora. Rides the fine line of cutting edge, without tipping over, any time something matures enough to adopt, so it's still stable—which means I've found the typical Linux faffing about is optional if I want to do it, rather than mandatory, which isn't always the case for distros that adopt cutting edge sooner.

That said, distros that pioneer new stuff quickly can be fun in their own right, but right now I'm just happy to have that balance.

Another thing I've found is that it makes tinkering easier any time I want to try something new, since the whole distro tends to be on newer but still stable packages, so there's less breakage. That isn't always the case on Debian based distros which can sometimes be a little too conservative to make adopting newer things simple, or bleeding edge distros where things tend to break just by virtue of being bleeding edge.

It's quite literally the Goldilocks distro for me and my needs right now.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's trivially easy on everything—except maybe Windows. I use them because I like the way they look.

Android: long press the dash

Linux: Compose Key + three dashes (you can set the Compose Key to whatever you want, I use the Right Alt key).

macOS: Opt + Shift + dash

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just use sick days for that. Sick doesn't exclusively mean physical health and they're not obligated to know why you're taking time off — although thankfully most of my employers especially ones with younger management understood that sick = mental health too and it wasn't a taboo.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mmm, not sure I like this better. If the majority in your community are filled with religious crazies suddenly you're ruled by backwards ass religious laws from millenia ago. Laws and enforcement would be even more incoherent, not less. No matter who is enforcing the laws, we need ways to keep ALL people in power accountable regardless of how it's organized and I don't think that goes away in a more anarchist kind of world.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fella, the stuff Gen Z struggles with is the light switch.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Nah sorry we're not taking the red states. They can be their own Christofascist hell elsewhere.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

No hate, I'm just surprised. I've legitimately never not had a game work so far, and most people I know only seem to have issues on games with anti-cheat.

Doesn't mean I don't believe you though, I just might have horseshoes in my ass, such that I somehow have only played games that are largely compatible without issues.

I am curious what games had issues for you though.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not holding my breath until all appeals get denied

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The problem with having reasonable and respectful discourse with people you disagree with, is that you first have to find people willing to have reasonable and respectful discourse. In real life I've met plenty. On Twitter, there are none. They're mostly just in getting a rise out of libs and lefties. We've already been finding that disengaging with them and moving to a platform they don't have influence over has made them a lot more impotent.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

They said that in 2016 too after rigging things against populist grassroots candidates in favour of establishment Democrats and learned nothing.

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