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PeriodicallyPedantic

@ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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  • Who is your oldest "hear me out" that you can remember from childhood?

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  • Ah, I see you're a Canadian of culture, too

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  • It varies by keyboard

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  • Probably that I'm pedantic, periodically.

    (The irony being that it's using the loose definition rather than the literal definition of "periodically", although it's still in the dictionary)

  • Comments from multiple posts on the same page

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  • I only see one title and one post body; what happens if 3 people share the same link but with 3 different titles and description bodies?

    Do they get merged, does one get arbitrarily selected, or does this only work on posts with identical link+title+body?

  • What's your favorite Lemmy mobile client?

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  • I'm pretty happy with Voyager. It's not perfect but it's good

  • Don't be fooled by Big Math propaganda!!!

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  • You can never trust Big Number.

    They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • But they were still users who were active in that half-year, so even when they went offline it shouldn't have resulted in a dip

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • This graph doesn't make sense to me. The drops on the two graphs shouldn't line up, right? Make me sus

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    There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO!

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  • That's a very reddit thing to say

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  • I probably say somethingAnd it gets me in trouble

    Edit:Hahaha I actually forgot my username and thought I was using one that I use elsewhere, but this still applies exactly the same 🤣😭

  • Freedom software

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  • I'm gonna be a bit rude here because you're not reading what I wrote.

    I did not say that such apps cannot be updated, I said that they're not updated through a central update manager. So I don't give a flying fuck if you implemented your own custom app updater in your app because that's clearly and explicitly not what I'm talking about.

    I also don't give a fuck about throwing config files all over the place, since a) the uninstall script takes care of that and b) this doesn't have to be specific to windows. Having an installer doesn't mean that configs must be thrown everywhere. Afaict apt-get isn't throwing files everywhere.

    Again I don't really give a fuck about windows, but saying it hat it's not possible because people don't use the tool that makes it possible is fucking inane bullshit. Idk why you think the windows store "sucks" and I don't really give a fuck, it works fine as a user, even if I don't personally use it.

  • Freedom software

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  • Cool, that doesn't help because I don't actually want blender.

    I'm commenting on how much I hate when software is provided as just a portable executable.

    I know that a lot of the time they're also provided as flatpaks or debs or in snap or windows app store, or Apple app store, etc.But I'm talking about doing the thing that is being described in the image: unpacking a portable executable.

  • Freedom software

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  • Not really moot, no.

    A portable executable can have neither of those things. It also won't show up in the start menu app list.

    With an installer, it'll at least show up in the uninstaller, with an install size that I can see when I'm looking to uninstall things, and it'll at least show up in the app list.

    But they could also package it through the app store where you get all that plus centralized update management. But I'd be happy with just having it show up in the app list and uninstaller.

  • Freedom software

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  • I know I don't NEED an uninstaller. I want to use the uninstaller I already have for all my other apps.

    Let me have a consistent user experience.Automatically figure out the right spot for the app resources and set the appropriate file permissions.Show up in the list of installed applications, so I can sort them by size, if I'm running out of space.Don't make me jump through hoops or know the magical directory I need to put it in, in order to have it show up in the start menu or app drawer.

  • Freedom software

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  • Hot take: I hate when software just extracts an executable. Fucking install it so that it's registered with the software updater and uninstaller. Don't make me remember that I have to go hunting in the folder to delete this one app.

  • Buyer's remorse is such a strong taboo that it leads people to defend things in their lives which harm them. Can anything be done to start countering this?

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  • I wouldn't know, I've never made a bad purchase in my life and I'll fight you if you say otherwise 😭

  • mmmm tasty carbon

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  • The alkali metals get more strongly reactive the higher their atomic number.

    Lithium will react pretty violently with the water in your saliva, but cesium will blow up your head. If you get enough of it wet to cover your tongue

  • mmmm tasty carbon

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  • If cesium is only a red, I'm scared to know what the purple ones would do 😱

  • If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?

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  • Probably Polynesia.

    There are places where you can go and slum it and still have a great time, just visiting free attractions and going everywhere on foot and by pubic transit.But then there are places where the luxury itself is the attraction, so cheaping out doesn't really make sense.

    I can afford to get to Japan and then just stay in cheap hotels and explore local attractions in Kyoto and Tokyo. I can afford to get to Bora Bora or Tahiti, but I can't afford the luxury stay, which would be the point of the trip.