Like I said I don’t advocate erasing languages. Just to have a common international language whichever it is. Local languages can still play a big role in cultural matters (eg literature and life on the street for locals)

I’m from Holland myself and I know most people there don’t care so much about our quirky language, we are happy to speak other ones. It doesn’t mean that Dutch is worth any less. Mind that it doesn’t have to be English (especially now that the US is rapidly declining as a world power). But whatever it is, I wish the world would just pick one so I don’t have to keep learning new languages every time I move.

But failing a global language perhaps AI translators will become so good and smooth to use that soon we can just communicate regardless of what languages we speak.

I often get situations where umount -f doesn’t even work :( Especially on a full desktop (not server) where some stuff is probably crawling the drive to make thumbnails or whatever.

Oh yes I know but as a common universal language it really has failed. It never became more than a fringe thing (sorry).

Yeah I’m just not really wed to any language. I guess it is also because I have moved around so much. I’m from Holland but I don’t consider myself a Dutch person, more like a citizen of the world. I’ve become too different to fit in in my home country (also because it’s become an extreme-right cesspool lately 😢 ). I’ve spent about half my life elsewhere. And the places I’ve lived where I spoke the languages I fared noticeably better.

Don’t forget that a lot of today’s problems center around not understanding each other. The hatred of immigrants for example.

But I know a lot of people do view language as a cultural thing, it’s just my point of view.

I didn’t know that, but I do know that homelessness isn’t just a housing problem. A huge number of cases are more mental health related: E.g. even if the person had money they wouldn’t be able to live in a stable home. Because the root cause of their lack of money and homelessness is mental health. I would also consider drug addiction to be a mental health issue here by the way which would be a significant percentage of the homeless too.

And that is of course heavily associated with the lack of affordable mental healthcare in the US :( And drug addiction care.

Of course if you would give out housing you would save a lot of homeless, just saying it wouldn’t work for all.

Does it really matter? I think the extreme amount of languages in the world right now is not helping us communicate. I don’t view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol. And I have moved around a lot in the world, it’s very difficult to be constantly adapting to different languages. That causes a societal integration barrier for me.

I think if we had a universal language (note that it wouldn’t have to be English) we would be able to understand each other better and have less wars.

PS: I’m not advocating to ban languages or something, just to have a universal one. A bit like what Esperanto tried to achieve. Mutual language means more mutual understanding and thus less “us vs them” underbelly feelings that the fascists thrive on.

Yeah I agree, Meta specifically bought meta because it is Zuckerberg’s obsession to own a mainstream computing platform. Microsoft own Windows. Google owns Android. Apple has their own platforms. All of them are deeply entrenched. But meta never did. So the emergence of metaverse was Zuckerberg’s chance to jump into that, this is why he went all-in on it. But this is also why there’s so much lockin on the Quest :( Even though it’s based on Android technically.

I totally agree it should be standardised and some movements have been made to that effect with OpenXR and the like. But nobody big from the industry really stands behind it. OpenXR is more a developer-side thing than a client-side anyway.

To me it has always sucked compared to something like Slack. It has really low information density for example with its huge bubbles around everything. Multi-tenant switching was a really slow and painful process unlike slack which simply has a sidebar for quick switching, and it creates a huge garbage dump in sharepoint when people upload stuff to a chat.

The native app for Linux is no longer supported anyway. PWA is the only official way now.

And yes the UX is terrible. Especially the search function, it always finds unrelated things and almost never what I’m looking for. Same thing with Outlook (the real outlook and the ‘new’ one), OneNote and Sharepoint.

It is my #1 and pretty much only usecase for copilot. I think copilot for office is not great but searching for my stuff it does do very well. Paying $30 a month to fix something that should have worked in the first place is a bit mad though.

We do have rolls royce of course… They should be able to cook something up. And CFM is half French.

Well yes I thought Zelenskyy looked great in that thing he was wearing. I thought it looked pretty kick-ass. To me personally pissing Trump off would be a feature, not a bug 🤭 But I don’t have any responsibility to save a war-torn country of course. There’s that. I do agree with Zelenskyy’s reasoning, he’s not a president who just sits behind a desk to sign papers.

But yes establishment, that’s what I associate suits with. That’s a better description than “old money” which I said.

For me it tends to have the opposite effect. I remember when my boss always wore this formal stuff and one time we had an issue and she came from home in a hurry to look at it. She was just wearing jeans and a T-shirt and I remember thinking “wow she is actually a nice person” 😆 . But yeah I’m not very (neuro) typical. Though a very typical thing of autistic people is that they love rules and I personally hate them with a passion.

I like the big capes, I sometimes wear them as part of a gothic/alternative outfit, though no suit under it but more like some mesh top. But I wouldn’t wear a suit at university if I had to.

And no I do think that last one is very different because the fabric is very fluffy on that one.

I think it will. I agree about Meta, though I’m too much of a VR fan to not have one 😳 And Pico isn’t any better (owned by bytedance). Vive is very focused on business (like large events with multiple people running around with headsets) these days.

Thanks!! I have seen those signs but I never realised what they were about. I thought it was rather some kind of tag for those people that do street measurements with those sextant-like things on a tripod. We have those big crosses on the ground for that too, that can be viewed from the air.

I think I’ve seen these signs in Holland too. Huh.

But I don’t think it’s an issue to park near such a hydrant, otherwise they’d make it more clear in the driving education. The only reason I knew the ground hydrants even existed was because once I called about a trash bin fire and I saw them using it.

It’s also better really.

I used to live in a place where I needed a car to go anywhere because the buses were so unreliable, infrequent and useless (all going through the town centre with lots of delays). I hated it, because everyone drove and was stuck in traffic. Driving is very stressful too.

And now I live in a big city, have really dense public transport for 20 bucks a month flat. No more finding and paying for parking spaces. Being able to go back from a different place than I arrived. No more parking meters timing out. No more maintenance. No more fuel costs. No more insurance. No more traffic fines. No more yearly inspections. No more people damaging my ride with shopping carts. I love it honestly. And to top it all off I can ride while playing with my phone and not having to pay any attention to the road. No need to be sober either for that matter.

Quality quickly drops off leaving the city unfortunately but that’s the thing with cities, you rarely need to leave them anyway.

Here in Europe it’s very hard to see hydrants though. There are no signs and they’re just little panel-covered holes.

It’s because your country makes so many cars. Same in the US. Cars are holy because so much money is made off them.

Where I’m from in Holland they are sacred also but it’s kinda a different reason, car ownership was a big symbol of economic progress in the 60s and people have become addicted to them.

Eh so these are official parking spots? That’s a bit weird yeah.

Whoa and that in Germany where people are pretty law-abiding.

Yeah that search bar, so useless because the start menu itself is a search bar if you simply start typing.

Yeah and also, many of the drawbacks of windows don’t really apply to companies. All the AI and MS account crap? Just switch it off in intune and M365 portal. Telemetry you can minimise with group policies. Crapware you can simply not install. It costs money? Sure but at a corp level so does Linux because they always want to pay a vendor so they can blame them when something goes wrong.