Reminds me of the time I had to explain to a friend that twat was not a synonym for twit.

I have a friend who thinks LOL means "lots of love" and uses it as a generic signoff.

Had to reread it several times when he wrote "Mother in law died yesterday LOL".

How does a CPU drop support for an OS? Seems the wrong way round to me. Is there a Windows 10 specific way of loading 5 into the accumulator or something?

To use more inclusive language, of course. That's what we're all doing now isn't it?

The problem though is when they flip the "enshittify" switch and everyone, even you, then knows they're the wolf in sheep's clothing they always were, it'll be too late, and those of us that don't want to pay the Zuck tax or have ads shoved in our faces left right and centre is to start over.

But we're done retreating. They took Fark, they took Digg, they've just taken Reddit, and now they want Lemmy. Enough is enough. The line is drawn here and they are NOT crossing it.

If Meta's other sites were shining examples of the best then you might have a point. The only viable way to prevent Meta killing Lemmy is to nip them in the bud. And yes it seems mean because this is the stage when they're pretending to be everyone's best friend and giving us loads of stuff for free. But we know the playbook, we know they're at step 1, and we know perfectly well that Zuck isn't sniffing around here out of any kind of altruism but because he's after more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

European here (Brit). I could drive for 13 hours along the M60 and still be on the M60. No problem comprehending that.

People think the speed of light is fast, but darkness is faster. Wherever light goes, it finds darkness got there first.

-source not sure, Pratchett probably? If not him then Adams.

That's not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There's some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that's 2025 years.

Maybe that's the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!

If flossing is a pain in the ass you're doing it wrong. (Hint: floss your TEETH!)

GenX here, sounds like me a few decades ago, counting the pennies and balancing everything, and not completely succeeding.

Several things, but top of the list is guns.

Phone got small screen. Computer got big screen.