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.

It’s a mobile client for Lemmy

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 just sent you a message, then deleted it. Check if you can see it in your mailbox.

Hello yes thank you. I got a mention notification.

And a follow up question that’s not really liftoff-specific - 2 times out of 3 I got the handle wrong on the first attempt and had to go back and edit. Does the tagged user still get the mention notification from the updated post?

I’m going tag myself in this comment to test it. First, do you get notified for self-mentions @octoperson@sh.itjust.works ?

E. Nope. I didn’t get anything for mentioning myself. Testing ends here (unless I make an alt login)

Answer from @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee when I asked the same question;

Good question, and sorry to disappoint but I believe the answer is still no. This has been talked about a lot ever since the initial exodus over from Reddit, so I can only assume there’s a complicated technical reason why it’s not a thing yet.

If you’re Lemmying from a browser there’s a tool called Lemmy Universal Link Switcher that I’ve heard good things about, although full disclosure I’ve not used it myself. It doesn’t solve the problem of generating instance-agnostic links but it does try to solve it from the reader’s side.

I got the same trying to make an instagram login earlier this year, having never used insta before. I think Meta just has some overzealous automoderation of new accounts.

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.

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.

Dunno. They’re probably all on X these days.

Can’t find any evidence of that being a term prior to the tweet. I’d guess one of

• they meant something simple like ‘hateful dialogue’ or ‘hateful diatribe’, and thought it was a smart person way of saying it.
• it’s the dog whistle du jour. Somewhere on stormfront or voat they’re getting terribly worked up about ‘dialectical hatred’ as the new current threat to the white race.
• it’s used in some niche context where it has meaning. But our tweeter thinks it’s got more reach than it actually does.

And also

I don’t even work that hard

Trump would never compare himself unfavourably to anything, even in jest.

Most pictures lack snow. Out of all the pictures in the world, most of them lack snow.

Nope. It asked which appears warmer. Warmth is about subjective feelings of comfort - it’s not a direct synonym for temperature. No-one describes getting burned as being lovely and warm.

Most pictures lack snow. You’d expect the interior of a room to lack snow. Lack of snow alone does not communicate anything unless it’s in a context where you’d normally expect there to be snow.

If I was a visual designer, and I was tasked with providing a picture to represent warmth, I might choose, I don’t know; hands in mittens clutching steaming mugs of cocoa, a cat snoozing in front of a roaring fire, or what else? Welcoming light shining from the windows of a house in a snowy landscape! If I submitted a nondescript photo off of a real estate listing, and said “look bro! No snow”, I’d be looking for a new job.