It was the same thing with IE back in ancient times. A popular browser violates web standards so many sites were designed with that rogue browser in mind. If you use a browser that actually follows the standards, some sites just won’t work properly for you.

This is the way. If OP doesn’t like olives, that just leaves more for the rest of us. It’s a win-win for everyone.

But it can always get worse. When they run out of money, some of the stuff that used to be free will begin to cost you something.

Forget about the usual office chairs. Get an adjustable standing desk and stand. Eventually you’ll get tired, so lower the desk a bit and sit on a saddle chair for a while. Switch between the two positions every time you feel like it.

Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.

Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

unexpectedfactorial

It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.

The first time I heard it, was in a BBC documentary about old cars. The pronunciation was nowhere near /ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/. I think it started with something like /ə/ instead, and that sound corresponds with way too many letters and I haven’t figured out how to make any sense of that.

Fortunately, modern tools will help you find the word you’re looking for, so knowing the correct spelling isn’t that critical any more. However, I was using a paper dictionary at the time, which explains why it took so long.

Respite is one of those words. You don’t get to use or hear it very often. Come to think of it, I would probably pronounce it the logical way, just like you did. Ok, now I’m going to have to look it up.

Turns out, difference pages give a slightly different pronunciation: /rĕs′pĭt/, ri-ˈspīt, /ˈres.paɪt/, /ˈres.pət/. So, the first vowel is mostly /e/ and the last one seems to be /ı/ if some kind.

One step closer to the origin: “to all intents and purposes”. If I use that, people are definitely going to look at me weird.

Just like the way a snowman is a man made of snow.

Wait until you hear about butterflies and dragonflies.

Maybe we should just lower the bar of what’s considered common sense. Water is wet and rocks sink in water, that should be common knowledge.

However, it isn’t common knowledge that you have to be careful with medication. I would like it to be, but people still make dangerous mistakes like taking a double dose after missing one.

Yeah, you’re right. That was a bit too harsh. Those patterns exist, and they make it easier to navigate this maze. Once you know the common ones, you don’t actually have to try every letter every time.

English spelling is just fantastic. If you hear a new word, there’s pretty much 0 chance that you can look it up in a dictionary on the first try. Just imagine how “epitome” sounds to someone who isn’t already familiar with it. You’re going to have to go though every vowel before you actually find it.

Also, if you’ve never heard a special word being pronounced, but you’ve read it many times, you are pretty much guaranteed to make a fool of yourself when you finally get to use that word in a social situation. No wonder why spelling bees are a thing in English speaking countries.

Drop table animals, is clearly the best one.

What does it even mean for something to go against nature? Biology is absolutely wild, and as long as something is physically possible, it will happen somewhere. You could say this and that about a specific group of animals, but there are always crazy exceptions to whatever rule you can come up with. Who knows, maybe there’s a species that depends on virtual particles, superpositions, quantum tunneling, teleportation or entanglement. Sure, those things are really weird, but they are still possible, so why not. Biology seems to be all about this “why not” style of thinking.

Have you tried porridge? Oat, rye, barley, buckwehat etc. are good. If the taste of just one of those isn’t to your liking, try mixing two different types together.

Maybe the KDE devs were expecting you to do file management using the keyboard only. Or maybe they thought that linux users aren’t technical enough that they would ever consider organizing their files. Just dumb it all on the desktop and call it a day, amarite?

This is pretty cool. We really have moved over from Reddit, since we already have some of the niche communities. There are plenty of Linux users already, so it shouldn’t take long for people to start posting there.

Has anyone made c/distroHopping yet?

It’s a lot like email really. If the 14 MB of storage hotmail once offered wasn’t enough for you, switching to the 1 GB of Gmail may have seemed appealing. If Google seems a bit too creepy for you, consider switching to proton or something.

If the admins of your current instance don’t like your cat memes, feel free to move to another one where cats and dogs are equally appreciated.