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As someone who has an interest in etymology and historical changes in vocabulary, I'm always amused by how fruitless the attempts to avoid negative connotations have been with rega…

>Speak for yourself Haha. Firefox went from above 20% marketshare in its early days, to below 4% today, and the number is continually dwindling. At this point it's the few defensiv…

There is an epidemics of people who argue on bad faith on the internet and just google links from pubmed to add to their ""argument"" without ever reading or understanding the arti…

>They're proposing removing most of the nicotine from real cigarettes, too. This must have been imagined by people who have no understanding of drugs whatsoever. Lessening the cont…

No. Swing does not suffer from that problem because Sun actually cared about accessibility requirements back in the days, in fact, the only reason there's a desktop on Linux that h…

>Caries are a sign of an immune disorder or imbalance Or just terrible habits like drinking liters of soda everyday. Besides the diabetes, the mix of sugar and acid is terrible for…

Yeah. I've finished Elden Ring, and as a long time admirer of what From Software did to revitalize the action RPG genre, I felt the open world was a deeply unnecessary addition tha…

I play elden ring on windows.. with dxvk/vkd3d dll because they fixed the massive stuttering issue that this console port had on PC. Even on windows this translation layer can give…

>That scratch was caused by a bump into metal while she was carrying it by hand Not to defend samsung, because foldable phones are a flimsy bad idea, but it's to be expected that b…

> I wouldn't be surprised if the flash chips might be wearing out and take longer to read/write to. This is what happened to the Nexus 7 tablets, I owned one and the experience, wh…

>I have a sense that this is the dirty little secret of the spyware advertising industry, personalization just isn't that great. Personalized adverts and recommendations can be inc…

France is not America, thank you very much. I have never seen people leave tips here.

This is just anecdote versus anecdote, but I've never had to replace a LED because of them blowing out. Just recently, I replaced a LED that has been turned on for 24 hours a day e…

Likely not caused by the fact that the charger is high wattage. I have an Anker charger with two ports which use different tech to detect what the device needs : an USB A with Anke…