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edit: Looked further, found that the cause ultimately turned out to be the 'Allow notifications when mirroring or sharing the display' setting under Notifications, which was off by…

Late last year after an OS update, notifications in macOS mysteriously stopped popping up. They were getting triggered and could be seen by opening the right sidebar, but the banne…

> disappointed that so many people thought this was a good idea Perhaps it's more that Fulani speakers truly appreciated having an alphabetic script that is able to adequately repr…

Reddit Is Fun (rif) was a well-designed app that just worked. It was fast, had a customisable user interface with defaults that didn't get in the way of enjoying the content, and c…

> Growing up in 90’s and early 2000’s Slovenia, this sounds strange to me Perhaps my memory of primary school's a bit fuzzy in this regard, but the point I intended to make was tha…

I think the real problem with handwriting is the way it has been thought in school. Growing up in mid 2000s Australia, I recall it being thought largely as a rote learning exercise…

Google's Noto project has a decent sans-serif Mongolian script typeface ( https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-mong ) that is pre-installed on newer Android and iOS devices.

Chinese characters (hanzi) are not an 'archaic writing system'. While hanzi allows for the expression of meaning in addition to pronunciation, which is unique amongst the other wri…