• Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
      21328·
      2 months ago

      Indeed. I literally never use the word “than”. Fuck grammar, “than” looks weird.

      I never say “than”, I say “then”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

      Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?

      Edit: I’m concerned for everyone who upvoted this

        • Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
          1124·
          2 months ago

          If it was an actual formal writing I would use proper grammar but other then (oh man what do I do here) that I never really use than.

          • 9point6@lemmy.world
            741·
            2 months ago

            Lol it’s not grammar, you’ve used an entirely different word that just sounds kinda similar. You’re essentially saying the actual words used don’t matter in these two sentences because they sound similar:

            I like to wear t-shirts

            Eye lick two where tea-shits

          • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world
            52·
            2 months ago

            Hilarious when people want to resort to “I WASN’T WRITING FORMALLY” in these situations. Just take the L and acknowledge it was a flub. Much less cringe that way.

      • then_three_more@lemmy.world
        78·
        2 months ago

        It’s not grammar it’s an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.

        Edit - you know what, I’m leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
        55·
        2 months ago

        Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant “then” instead of “than”, and the sentence will make little sense.
        The words “I” and “eye” sound similar, but if you write “eye” I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue. End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.

      • palordrolap@kbin.social
        29·
        2 months ago

        Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn’t laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.

        Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          10·
          2 months ago

          We write our language (swiss-german) like this 😂 everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.

          • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
            11·
            2 months ago

            And us german-germans think you are very weird and you might as well call your spoken language something other than german, cause no one can understand it anyways. Also why are you so afraid of this: ß?

          • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

            • Petter1@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 months ago

              Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write “do” I mean it is not a normal spoken “o” and not exactly a “u” like it is a “u” but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔

                • Petter1@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Fair 😆and expectable, since I normally write phonetic in the german way

        • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Understood everything you wrote without issue.

          English is a Honda civic. Its not pretty but it works even after years of abuse and neglect

      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
        21·
        2 months ago

        I hope this does not affect your usage of effect in the correct context.

        As a former copy editor I find the effect of using affect incorrectly eye roll inducing.

        But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

        The easy rule of thumb for then/than is that if you are comparing things or qualities or quantities of things, you use than, otherwise, then is used.

          • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 months ago

            If you mean that you are having an effect on said change… oh god maybe that’s actually correct?

            If you are affecting (a) change, that would mean you are basically causing change.

            But if you are effecting change, said change would have to have been previously established or referenced.

            I think???

            English is a goddamned shit-show sometimes.

            Anyway, we should bring back the interrobang, and the thorne, and also I actually love the Oxford comma even though the AP style guide hates it.

            • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              It’s the other way around! Effecting a change means causing it, whereas affecting a change would be having some effect on an existing change.

        • Classy@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          This is me with everyday and every day. It’s an everyday occurrence that I see everyday used incorrectly!

        • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          2 months ago

          I came across effect/affect swapping in university level textbook the other day, couldn’t believe it.

      • akakunai@lemmy.ca
        10·
        2 months ago

        The literal way to read what you wrote is to never ask Flatpak, in order:

        1. how it can download more
        2. the total file size

        The only reason no one thinks this is what you mean is because of how many people also mess this up.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
        103·
        2 months ago

        “Language is fluid and constantly changing”

        Our education system is in the toilet and I didn’t pay attention 😂

        • Lime66@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          But it is fluid and changing. Do you know anyone who would know what Þæs oferéode, ðisses swá mæg or some other sentence from old english means, or someone who thinks that jail is spelt gaol?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Upvoted because you have the sort of can do won’t do attitude that made American English great. Emerald for dictionarian!

      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        Sir I have downvoted simply to help you reach a record know that in my heart it is an upvote.

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
        26·
        2 months ago

        They reject u even though you spoken truest worders good are.

        Nobody who spoke English that read your sentence misunderstood what you said based and than vs then and that English doesn’t have to be pretty to get the job done

        • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
          4·
          2 months ago

          I had to read your comment at least twice before I could parse it.

          So basically what you’re both saying is that you are so incredibly selfish, you don’t care if someone needs to read your comments multiple times in order to not misunderstand you, as long as it’s easier for you and you don’t have to bother learning to be understood

          Thanks man

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
    1668·
    2 months ago

    FLASH
    Are you using a white theme terminal? I hope it’s just an edited screenshot.

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    724·
    2 months ago

    We’ll update the 200 mb program.

    not pictured: the other 500mb of libraries and dependencies that tag along.

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
      683·
      2 months ago

      Well, one part of it is that Flatpak pulls data over the network, and sometimes data sent over a network doesn’t arrive in the exact same shape as when it left the original system, which results in that same data being sent in multiple copies - until one manages to arrive correctly.

        • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
          10·
          2 months ago

          I think this is actually very unlikely, flatpak is most likely using some TCP based protocol and TCP would take care of this transparently, flatpak wouldn’t know if any packets had to be retransmitted.

      • Hujaj@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        Hence why Fedora Linux actually recently removed delta updates for DNF. Turns out it used more data in retries than just downloading a whole package again.

          • Hujaj@lemmynsfw.com
            2·
            2 months ago

            I think they have moved from trying to fix it in DNF, to using the capabilities found in BTRFS for Copy on write. Can’t quite remember exactly.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      174·
      2 months ago

      Shoddy implementation they can’t be arsed to fix. They do all kinds of shenanigans like show the size of all locales but only download one, or the other way around, it does not count dependencies and then realizes it has to download something extra etc. It’s all over the place and I’ve given up on it making any sense. I’ve just made sure it’s on a drive with plenty of space and hope for the best.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      161·
      2 months ago

      The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It’s okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It’s okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They’re using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You’re on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you’re stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.

      I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.

      • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        I want to do that, but not because of Flatpak. That’s incredibly far down the list of things I find offensive in my professional life. At the very least it does fulfill some sort of purpose and also doesn’t cost any money to use.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      2·
      2 months ago

      Flatpak runtimes need to be damn unified. There needs to be one, and instead of a KDE one just have separate runtime parts.

      Currently using 3 (and if I would use Fedora Flatpaks, 4) runtimes. It is okay-ish, but where are all the optimizations?

      I have to say Flatpaks run fine on very old hardware though.

  • Tash@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Makes me think about what I should prioritize… network transfer or local storage.