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  • There’s a language selection option in your preferences. Some people may have that set up to not show “undetermined” although at least on my instance the interface warns that people won’t see most content if they deselect that.

    I never select a language when commenting, though have done so a few times before (not recently) when starting new threads. It seems that sometimes this is automatically determined, although I can’t tell what this depends on.


  • When I was new to Mastodon, I followed everyone who might maybe have something interesting to say (e.g. open source projects that I’ve never used but found somewhat interesting).

    Right now I have 43 tabs open on my phone most of which are links from Mastodon I haven’t yet gotten around to reading… I think you can see why nowadays I tend to unfollow more things than I newly follow.
















  • Andere haben korrekt angemerkt, dass das keine Linux-Distribution ist. Es ist zu Windows das, was GNU zu Unix ist.

    In der Prä-Smartphone-Ära, als Computer nahezu synonym mit Windows waren, hat es Sinn ergeben, zu versuchen, so etwas zu entwickeln, um Menschen und Organisationen zu ermöglichen, auf freie Software umzusteigen, ohne Kompatibilität mit bestehender Software (insbesondere auch organisationsinterner Software) einzubüßen.

    Jetzt, wo die Welt der Computer dank Android, iOS und auch macOS erfolgreich diversifiziert wurde (und wir erkannt haben, dass so etwas grundsätzlich möglich ist), ist es wahrscheinlich weniger wichtig und es ist sinnvoller, seine Hoffnung auf GNU/Linux oder BSD zu setzen.






  • schnurritotoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    I know you didn’t mean this seriously, but it’s easy to see:

    • zero has 4 letters
    • one has 3 letters
    • two has 3 letters
    • three has 5 letters
    • four has 4 letters
    • five has 4 letters
    • six has 3 letters
    • seven has 5 letters
    • eight has 5 letters
    • nine has 4 letters
    • ten has 3 letters
    • eleven has 6 letters
    • twelve has 6 letters
    • after this, there are no possible candidates anymore: the next numbers are all just 3-9 (with slight spelling variations) followed by 4-letter “teen”, giving us at most 9 letters, too few to have equal value to the numbers they name
    • after that there is no possible way to get to the high values of the numbers they name by combining words like “twenty” or “thirty” or “hundred” or “thousand” or “million” with the previous ones

  • I once heard the word “purrito” (purr + burrito) in a video, meaning a cat wrapped in a towel like a burrito. My username is the German translation of that: “schnurren” means “to purr” in German. I’m no longer sure why I chose this as a username specifically here… that just crossed my mind when registering here.