It’s Microsoft. For some insane reason, excel formulas are localized. E.g. German Excel uses “SUMME()” instead of “SUM()”.

It’s insanely annoying because it sport of makes it more difficult to ask for help (I.e. only Germans might know what SVERWEIS does). And if you manage to find a solution in English, you need to translate it.

Steam is partially funded by underage gambling. They know about this. They could literally shut it down within hours.

They’re better than most, but that is a major moral failure they don’t get nearly enough flak for.

And here I thought chains were only used for cricket and train tracks.

And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.

I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.

There’s a slight difference in that “Ostsee” is the common name. If the German chancellor decides to call it “Deutsche See” tomorrow, the name would continue to be “Ostsee”, because that’s how language usually works.

“Gulf of America” is just a dictator’s wish of a common name. The people of OpenStreetMap decided to use the tag “official_name:en_US” for that reason, while keeping “Gulf of Mexico” for the commonly used “name:en-US”.

Lemmy itself doesn’t support user tags, but some of the clients like voyager, do.

What the heck is that map projection? It’s like Mercator on steroids.

In Germany, people are very concerned about Zugluft, i.e. draft from opening multiple windows.

Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?

Reminds me of the list of tales of grand adventure that my storyteller bard used for bardic inspiration. It was tagged so I could find one fitting the current encounter.

SELECT Insult FROM Insults
ORDER BY RAND()
LIMIT 1

I would go one step further and require all companies to provide an email address that must be clearly listed on a “contact” page, including a PGP public key to allow for encryption if desired.

If they want people to use their chat bot, the chat bot just needs to actually be good.

You can hate the Biden/Harris stance on Gaza as much as you like (and there’s good reason to). But if you failed to vote for the obviously less bad option, you are partially responsible for the actions of the obviously even worse option.

You could go into all manner of discussions about how being all but forced to vote for the lesser evil because of a broken and corrupt electoral system is terrible and a major systematic issue. And there’s a lot of merit there as well. But at the end of the day, those systems were not on the ballot.

You actively failed to do the bare minimum for the people of Gaza, along with many other groups of people inside and outside the US just so you could watch the suffering from a slightly higher horse.

F is for Fisticuffs

You can literally sort issues by last activity if you want to proritize based on that. There’s no reason to autoclose issues.

If we ever figure out teleportation, it will be expensive. Of course, there’s a free tier where you get teleported into a void where you will have to watch ads for 20 minutes before you get sent to your destination. Complete with regular reminders that you can simply upgrade your plan to get out of teleportation purgatory immediately.

Nobody wants to ban people from taking a car if they reasonably need it to get around. Or even just want to use it.

But if alternatives are actively pursued, it’ll end up better for everyone. Bikes, pedestrians and public transport cause way less traffic per person per mile. And usually cheaper (in terms is tax dollars spent), too.

And shorter distances between homes and stores will also reduce the length of the car trips.

It’s incredulous to me that people will still frame this issue as “car drivers will lose”.

Cookie Auto Delete (and similar extensions) doesn’t really help of you enable FF’s built-in Total Cookie Protection (which you should).

Assuming both of those people use exactly the same infrastructure (which they do), yes.

The person with the higher usage will still pay more in total because the connection fee is just a base price, you’re still paying per kWh (which is forwarded to the companies running the power stations)

Who says anything about “significant”?

“Hey man, can you pick up some Gatorade when you’re a the store?”

“Sure, which one?”

“Blue”

Is not exactly an unreasonable conversation to have.