A. You can see more of the cute owl.

I don’t really care what it’s called, just that the Brits have a habit (is two a habit?) of making up a word, using it until Americans adopt it, and then dropping it and saying “dumb Americans”. Not that that’s actually what happened, as I detail in my comment below, but it sure does feel that way.

You’ve misread the Wikipedia. It states that he didn’t agree but it could possibly be named aluminium. He then proceeded the next year to use aluminum instead. It was then called aluminum and aluminium in Britain for years.

However, in England and Germany Davy’s spelling aluminum was initially used; until German chemist Friedrich Wöhler published his account of the Wöhler process in 1827 in which he used the spelling aluminium[o], which caused that spelling’s largely wholesale adoption in England and Germany, with the exception of a small number of what Richards characterized as “patriotic” English chemists that were “averse to foreign innovations” who occasionally still used aluminum.[139

So for almost twenty years the Brits (and Germans) called it aluminum, not aluminium.

Americans used aluminium until Webster heard aluminum and put that in his dictionary. Then they actually continued to call it aluminium until the 1890s (the Brits still using both at this point). Then there was a swap in that decade

It is decidedly (according to the source you posted and my past research) the Brits fault. They called it aluminum. They used that name for years, and then only later changed it and then acted like the Americans were weird.

So yes and no, but mostly yes, it is the Brits fault.

Yeah I lost count a while ago. It’s probably around 20, maybe less.

The US’s largest “share” of exports to china vs other countries are soybeans and jet engines. China has spent the past decade and a half working to diversify their imports so this exact thing wouldn’t destroy their economy.

What are your issues with Apple currently? Have you turned on Advanced Data Protection? Might not be possible anymore if you’re in the UK, but I’m wondering what reason you think you are being surveilled with the OS you’re currently using? It’s much more likely you’re being surveilled with the programs you are using than the OS, though Microsoft is pretty scummy about it.

in India, there is a religious group that believes/ed bodies should be donated to the sky. they laid out the bodies for the vultures to take them. The entire body would be picked clean in less than a day, going directly back to nature. Sadly most of the vultures are gone now, due to pharmaceuticals. Strangely vultures can consume cyanide and other crazy poisons, but not certain pharmaceuticals that help humans.

depends on your country. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7909512/

edit: sorry was talking with someone and realized that this isn’t as clear as it should be. this isn’t a ‘moral that most don’t agree with’ in all countries. like the US.

That took me too long

Exact same thing with aluminum. Officially named by the Brits, then other Brits didn’t like it.

People just downvote articles from this community without even reading them lol. Shit I’m as progressive as they come but this has no reason to be downvoted. It’s an article about city code…

You can compile Java and Kotlin to native if you want. That’s not the issue here. Like OP responded to you, it’s not a property of the language but the implementation.

The font. It’s the exact same font that has been circulating in all the AI generated art in the past week.

These AI comics are terrible.

Lots of times it is a real question, especially if the other person cares about you at all.

You can pay to keep getting windows security updates and prolong the upgrade even further.

Holy shit I remember that article too!

Someone recreate this without AI please

True. But do we have to include the NVidia disclaimer in every post about Linux adoption?

we do if people keep claiming things like

If all you do is web browse and play games, you should be able to use Linux without the CLI just fine.

or

Then don’t use the terminal. You don’t need it.

or

Silly to get angry about, because you can use Linux just fine without it. But the terminal is a powerful tool.

or

With flatpak/snap you don’t need to use terminal anymore.

The truth is that on a basic default install, even for a software engineer who maintains linux servers daily that you are going to encounter problems on linux that are much harder to solve than problems on other systems. And people want to pretend that it isn’t the case, because “I’ve been using linux for x years and never encountered that” (look at the other response to my comment besides yours for an explicit example of this). People want to say that all you need to do is learn to copy and paste from the internet, but 1. that’s a terrible idea, and 2. it doesn’t work half the time! An example of this is audio drivers! If your audio drivers don’t work, you’re probably just fucked. It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable in the terminal, it matters if the support exists at all for your system. Which you will not know until you actually install linux and spend hours trying to fix it.

It’s like people here refuse to believe that linux has problems, even for experienced users, because they think that it should be the norm to spend hours trying to resolve a problem on your computer that just … doesn’t happen on other systems. The thing is that other systems do have problems. They’re just not the literal show stopping problems that linux has. I’m literally unable to use my system because of Nvidia support and audio drivers. But mac and windows have other problems. For example my mac really struggles with my monitor usb hub in the back with usb-c passthrough. While my windows freezes when it tries to switch to dark mode, and blue screens once a month. Those things are resolved in seconds or minutes. But I literally cannot use my linux partition. It’s unusable. I’m not going to spend 50 more hours (i’ve already spent 48) trying to fix the damn issues to make the system literally usable.

I understand Linux is better for a lot of reasons. I want to switch to it. But I’m sick of people pretending like the issue is the user. It’s not. At least not a majority of the time. Linux as a whole is incredibly difficult to use if anything goes wrong. Because it’s not little things that go wrong. It’s big things.

touché