[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 20 points 6 months ago

My grandparent's desktop computer. I didn't break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn't old enough to understand that and my parents weren't very tech-savvy.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 19 points 10 months ago

That has been tried with the DoNotTrack header. Turned out servers didn't oblige by it.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 18 points 11 months ago

For decades I pronounced albeit like "al-bayt", instead of "all-be-it". I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 21 points 11 months ago

That English natives have so much trouble distinguishing effect from affect keeps surprising me.

As for Dutch, the dt-issue is presented as if it is this hugely complicated set of rules. While in reality it is dead simple. Third person in the present time is ALWAYS conjugated as stem+t for regular verbs, except in ONE case: when the stem already ends in t. Dt isn't special, it's just the rule applied to all stems.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago
  1. Content that is pulled halfway through watching it.
[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

I turn off almost all notifications. I only allow messaging apps, and system notifications. Even then I find it too much to be honest.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

Since this week I get some form of ad in the github diff viewer. "Copilot is available for purchase for you organization". Horrible.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 21 points 1 year ago

Netherlands. You'd get a glass or cup of hot water, and a box of tea bags to select from. If you want ice tea, you explicitly have to call that out. Just "tea" refers to the hot (original) version without sugar.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 22 points 1 year ago

I used to teach a python scripting course to graduate students in Biology. With each progressing year, the average base computing skills actually went down. A very large fraction these days has trouble with the very concept of files and folders.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

For me it's back to the pirating era.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 21 points 1 year ago

France and dystopian copyright laws, name a more typical duo.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

Oof, that sounds seriously unhealthy. No food for a couple days, sure, most humans can handle that no problem. But no water? Damn.

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