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When you’re old enough to buy physical media, your eyes have gone bad enough that you don’t need 4k 8-)

I regularly use optical drives for the movies. Why should I pay twice the price to “buy” some movie from Apple or Google? I rather wait 2 days for the mailman to deliver me a Blu-ray that doesn’t only have better quality, but also keeps working when some company decides to stop licensing the stuff I purportedly “bought”. Second-hand discs sometimes cost as much as 1€.

But well, I might be a bit old school, as I just got a few new vinyls delivered to me the other day.

Just add // @TODO find out why this crashes our application sometimes to fix that issue

The G in GNU stands for JPEG.

The W in Windows stands for worse, so good for you.

The revised version is also great. Most of the content is still the same, a nuclear reactor works just the same way as it did in 1995. But most of the IT topics are updated. Instead of a ball mouse you’ll find an optical one, instead of the CRT they explain LCD screens etc.

There’s also a “new”(2016) book in the same style but for science instead of technology. It’s just as good as you’d expect it to be.

At least Denmark and Canada had Leopard 2s in Afghanistan that were involved in combat. So maybe the “Brits” were just fancy Canadians.

It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.

It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:

*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.

Why? :'-(

Man, these pesky doctors. They always forbid the fun stuff.

If you’re really concerned about leaking your email address, I’d suggest using an anonymous mail service like https://anonbox.net/. Just create an one-time address for registration and don’t forget your password ;⁠). That way you don’t need to trust the admins nor their server security.

My email provider also has a service where they give you a throwaway email address that’s only valid for a month. Maybe yours does the same?

(Whipped cream) (Please note that I’m not a whipped cream supporter, I made this one for light theme users)

(Black Plague) (Please note that I’m not a Black Plage supporter, I made this one for shots and goggles)

I mean, obviously people would be confused if you called February “spring” in Australia, but then again you celebrate Christmas in summer 😁

What do you mean when you say that the US uses this model and Australia uses that model? Who uses it and for what? In my country the government doesn’t tell us what season it is or what system to use. People just use whatever system they fancy and most likely it’s just based on gut feeling instead of a calendar day.

No one will look at you sceptically when you say “This is a cold winter” on a freezing November day, nor will the be confused if you say “What a nice spring day” on a sunny February afternoon.

There are (at least) four different definitions of winter:

• Astronomical seasons are what you describe, and these are obviously based on astronomical events, for which the equinoxes and solstices are the perfect fix points. That the seasons start at these days is purely conventional, and in some times (roman empire) and places (Celtic calendar) people used these days as the center point of the season instead (also known as “Solar seasons”). Why those don’t match up with the actual temperature has already been explained in countless other replies.
• Meteorological seasons use a simple, month based approach, where winter is just December, January and February. That makes it easier for statistical usage but obviously is also just a man-made convention.
• The energy sector defines winter as the time of extended energy needs due to heating. Where I live, that’s defined as 1. of October - 31. of March, but for obvious reasons that’s highly dependent on where you are.
• Phenological seasons are a bit more what you’re looking for: They are based on biological events in indicator plants and a lot more complex than just being four fixed periods and only ever the same for small regions. Where I live, there are ten phenological seasons, winter starts when the English Oaks drop their leafs and ends with the blooming of the Common Hazle.

In other cultures there might be vastly different seasons. In many tropical countries you’ll only have the dry season and the monsun season.

Use the drumset on speaker mode at 3am, sell silence to your neighbours for money and use the ransom to buy a pressure washer.

One lander for the astronauts, one for the film crew and a third one for the cameras, lights etc. You know you can’t just walk into a RadioShack on the moon and ask for a camcorder, right? Because in because in space noone can hear you ask.