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Both factors are related, I couldn't find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There's a section for cell phones specifically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome

The term "Galápagos syndrome" was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.

When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.

The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example

Hmm, could we do away with months and just number the weeks from top to bottom? Or better yet, number the days.

Happy 2026-77 everyone!

At the same time, weeks do let us organize our working and non working schedules neatly.

I don't ask for permission because it's almost always yes, but I will delete it if the person asks.

I like to leave a comment because it helps people discover the smaller communities

Does it? I haven't seen complaints about bricking, and limine should make it trivial to undo a bad update. It wouldn't need a redownload

Also these stats aren't based on downloads

I'm not familiar with Manjaro, what was wrong with it?

Limine is also a good reason for people who want the benefits of Arch but are worried about bad updates. Being able to rollback to an earlier snapshot in the boot menu is nice for new users

This one probably needs a NSFW filter, for "I was eating" reasons 😅

Instead of buying a new printer, can you print at a local print shop/library/university? That might end up being the cheapest option

Why are they so hell bent on finding a reason to scan eyeballs

Neat :D

That’s not the only feature: if you place a file named .XCompose in your home directory, you can add custom combinations! So, if I want to send a heart, I can just hit Compose < 3 and I will get a ♥. Besides emoji, I also find myself often looking up various arrows and punctuation: now I can simply hit Compose - > and get a nice → arrow quickly.

From what I remember, they were going to "use AI" to handle moderation. It felt like a grift from the beginning

This is one of the questions we asked on our census this year. We are still working on cleaning the data, and we may exclude additional responses if we identify more duplicates / errors, but here is a preview of those results:

It depends on the field and where you are in your career. From my university, it seemed like the computer science and business people needed to be on LinkedIn, while the other sciences did not. It also becomes less important as you progress in your career, since there will be better ways to share your experience

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Do the senior engineers NOT sign off on changes to systems that can take down the production servers? Even if we take out the LLM created code, this sounds like a bigger problem

If you want a version of this community that excludes company/legal/legislation news, there's !tech@programming.dev

This is nice, but I think it belongs in a different community like !pics@lemmy.world

!lemmy411@lemmy.ca would be best for that. You can also ask in the various c/nostupidquestions communities

This is a common scam/phishing attempt that shows up from time to time.

They wouldn't suddenly ban it though.

Any ban would roll in without enough time for people to switch away. Twitter doesn't do anything special that can't be replicated elsewhere.