Synth noodling conceptual artist
“American”
But also used in Canada, UK, Australia, and much of Northern/Western Europe.
Earliest uses of the 5 bar gate can be found on prehistoric bones dating back 30,000 years and found on the continent of Africa.
But sure, “American”.
I’m not criticising you. Privacy should be an informed choice. Data exchange should be via consent and transparent.
You seem to know what you are trading and why, so more power to you!
Did it take 36 years for someone to make this joke, or did every lame comedian make it in the 90s?
Let’s ask a bunch of kids who weren’t alive then…
Gets hardened, privacy focussed distro.
Logs into Google on browser.
Oh fuck it’s contagious.
It’s fucking spreading!
The fuckupalypse!
I wouldn’t.
These survivalist fantasies where people paint themselves as capable and not fodder…
Hell, you outlast the outbreak/bomb you’ll probably die of sepsis the first time you get a bad cut or a tooth that goes rotten.
If it is truly the apocalypse, you are best just letting go, because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.
Hell, if only they made Linux open source so that we could change anything we didn’t like about the age verification stuff.
And yet another piece of software I have to abandon because of this dioshit cult behaviour.
Thanks guys. You really just went ahead and put your dick in it.
Go back and read the comment thread.
We are talking about the origin of the divergence of an English term. That’s what we are talking about.
Yes, you are right, it happened a long time ago. Well done. That’s the point. It’s what we were talking about.
Stop framing your poor comprehension skills as conversation.
In the mid-1800s aluminium was more expensive than gold.
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I’m not sure if one /s cancels another out or multiplies it.
I’ve used it to set academic (mostly scientific) works and it was rather lovely in that context… But it really highlights that sometimes efficiency isn’t always what you want in a creative process.
I didn’t know that about King Louis (n) … That’s a great fact!
In part it was because it was named out of standard through a misunderstanding but then it wasn’t corrected…
You spell it differently so that you can pronounce it differently, as I say, to make it sound like a rare and valuable metal.
It is pure marketing.
Aluminium used to be hard to obtain. It was a rare metal and then some smart bastard worked out how to extract it using electrolysis and it became as common as dirt.
Some people had invested heavily in it as a precious metal and overnight their investment was worthless, so hence the reluctance to rebrand.
I see Resolve has just moved to challenge Lightroom too, which is kinda of amazing.
Between the affinity apps, reaper and Resolve there’s a fairly competent replacement set for Adobe apps on windows.
I wish Linux was as good.
My main gripe is the lack of professional typesetting software. Scribus just doesn’t cut it.
Possibly because Americans were so keen to call themselves billionaires they lowered the requirement.
Similar to how they pronounce “Aluminium” the same as “Platinum” to make it sound like a precious metal.
This isn’t a criticism. If I’m being kind the real reason is that less separation between “million” and “billion” is functionally more useful, as well as aspirational.
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That’s fair… We just get tired of American appropriation out here.
You can appreciate how often, on a daily basis, we see someone from the US claim ownership over something that belongs to someone else… Whether that’s physical or cultural.