You joke, but one time I got woken up by what sounded like a Chinese lady complaining about batteries, and it turned out to be the low power alert on the cheapo import soundbar.

directus→derecho from “straight” to “right”

So that’s why “straight on” and “on the right” are the maddeningly confusable “a derecha” and “en derecho”. Such a pain when following directions.

I’m using an LG K9 right now. Works ok, but I’d prefer a smaller screen

I think they’re regional. I don’t remember seeing one either, but I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t encountered it, or because I didn’t notice.

I would say “it’s on backorder”. You could verb it as “it’s been backordered”, but that feels a bit clunky somehow.

Placebo buttons.

Some appliances like elevators or traffic crossings cycle automatically, but they still have (non-functional) buttons. If the buttons are removed, people complain that the wait is too long. Let them push a button while they wait, and they’ll think it’s much quicker.

I’m often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like ‘why are you worried about fuel, it’s not that expensive, guys’ because he didn’t understand the questions. He didn’t understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn’t understand the rocket equation. He doesn’t understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.

May be a special interest? I don’t know if there’s a clear cut distinction, or where it would be, or if it’s even useful to make one.

If you check the ‘nerd stuff’, it shows it was posted at 15:13, and updated at 15:16. But there isn’t a UI element to show that at a glance.

Thanks. The links work at least, so I’ll leave them as they are.

Hello, I have a question.

What is the preferred way to put a link to a Lemmy post (as opposed to a community), on Lemmy?

I can get the URL of a post, for example this one is https://lemm.ee/post/14775141 , but that goes via the instance URL and could (I’d imagine) cause problems for people coming from other instances.

Worse, when I get the URL for my own post, eg https://sh.itjust.works/post/9023136 , it goes via my own instance, despite being posted to a community on lemmy.world.

There is an instance-agnostic way to link to communities. Is there one for posts?

Home secretaries are always the worst. I don’t know what it is about the position - is the selection process ‘are you the worst?’, or do they have a procedure to instill worstness the moment you get the job? Whatever it is, it’s been true as long as I’ve been aware of such things.

Did you know YAML is a recursive acronym? It stands for ‘YAML AML MAML LAML’

I don’t get the gender neutral either (using Gboard on an older Android). Which is a bit odd because as far as I can tell gender neutral is the base character, and the male and female versions are customisations that are applied as if they were accented characters.

I’d rather have them all as no-gender, no-race, generic little yellow peeps but eh…

Does anyone else find ‘Caramac axe’ somehow very pleasing as a collection of syllables?

“You’re as much use as a Caramac axe”.
“Can you carry my kacks?”.
“My porn name is Cara Macaques”.

I’ve fixed it! The bottom of the door is attached to a quarter circle panel, which slides into a slot under the floor when the door is closed, and provides a temporary floor when the door is open.

Stamets, put Lemmy down! You can post a meme once you’ve done a task.

Same, same.

“I’m just a stupid little idiot guy” is a very Joelish turn of phrase

What’s Ubuntu duntu u?