To avoid censorship filters in social media, same with PDF files.

I really hate when native English speakers use could of or would of. It makes no sense and sounds completely wrong, yet some people claim it's just a minor mistake.

My GPU had a shitty blower cooler, switching to water-cooling made my system so much more quiet!

This is not how umlauts and layouts work

That one works as well, but I dislike the way quotes work on that keyboard. I never got used to that.

If you use the keyboard for desktop mode:

1. Open system settings
2. Navigate to "Input Devices", "Keyboard"
3. Go to the "Layout" tab
4. "Configure Layouts", then "Add"
5. Add "German (US)"
6. Switch the layout on the "Taskbar" on the bottom right of the screen.

You can then use Umlaute like on any German keyboard, plus on the "a,U,o" keys themselves when you press AltGr (right alt). Any Sonderzeichen are like in the American layout. If you want to change that just use the normal German layout instead of German (US).

There is no way to change the layout of physical keyboards in the gaming mode. Those settings don't change anything in the gaming mode and but the gaming mode settings only work for the on screen keyboard.

Bonus Umlaut of the day: Ö

It's because people aren't wired that way. There's a name for that phenomenon, but I forgot.

The idea behind it is that people make up "reasons" (conspiracy strategies) that fit the event. A big event needs a big reason, they can't just accept that some things happen due to accidents or just by chance.

That's why Covid can't have been natural, it must have escaped from a lab! The government is giving us free vaccines? It can't be that they just want to get us back to work, there must be a secret plot behind that!

Society has to pay any healthcare stuff that's caused by smoking. An earlier death and the resulting savings for the retirement fund is not enough to outweigh that.

I've heard "My dad is a lawyer" works for some people, but YMMV

I alegedly YouTube music and premium is super cheap if you VPN from Argentina or türkey. At least that's what I heard (alegedly)

I'd say standing 1m in front off a bass wall with your friends at 5 in the morning.

Das ist im Deutschen definitiv ein schwieriges Thema, besonders nachdem die Frauenrechtsbewegung hierzulande so lange für die Sichtbarkeit von Frauen in bestimmten Berufen gekämpft hat. Aber ich muss sagen dass die Amerikaner da die bessere Lösung gefunden haben. Es verwendet einfach kaum jemand die explizit feminine Form. Stattdessen wird mit einem "female rapper, male nurse, police officer|woman|man" qualifiziert worum es sich handelt.

In der deutschen Sprache haben wir aber eben die Artikel und solange die da sind, schwingt bei "der Ingenieur" eben immer unterbewusst mit, dass es sich um einen Mann handelt. Wenn wir Deutschen uns mit diesen ganzen Artikeln eine so komplizierte Sprache gönnen, dürfen wir dann halt nicht meckern, dass Gendern auch kompliziert ist. Haben wir uns sozusagen selbst eingebrockt.