MagnificentSteiner

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Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 87 points 8 hours ago

Can't wait for Google to drop this after a year leaving anyone who was using it fucked.

Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

home despot

This is the perfect typo for this post lol

Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language they are fluent in, similar to functionally illiterate, but for speech? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Actually, I think the most common phrase conveying this is "it's like talking to a brick wall". The hardest thing here is including both inability and active choice.

Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language they are fluent in, similar to functionally illiterate, but for speech? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Inarticulate?

Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You'd think a dictionary could get that right.

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Aye, Cinnamon i'd say is pretty Windows like now (taskbar, start menu and tray) but definitely not as good as KDE. The average user would be happy with either I think.

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you didn't know, Ubuntu is based on Debian.

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Mint has the Cinnamon desktop environment which isn't that different from Windows/KDE. You're probably thinking of Gnome?