Oh for fuck’s sake…

If it did, the knee jerk reaction would be to find some other instance

With no horse in the race, I think it’s just a reaction to seeing your name everywhere. The fedv genuinely isn’t that used to activity and everyone is understandably suspicious in the Age of Slop. I’d like to say that maybe if you proved your humanity blah blah blah, but realistically that wouldn’t be anywhere near enough

What, would it have been any more staggering if I said quintillion?

To a degree, yes, how do you build that list otherwise? Most “communities” are duds with no activity. And poor support for aggregating even identically named communities across instances means all of this is a real chore. And how do you even find the relevant ones anyway? I keep whining about discoverability on here but that’s just because it sucks

Unfortunately the fact that you need 400 billion fucking things blocked to make this place less annoying… means that it is annoying. Bot accounts and communities that already exist fifty thousand other fucking places with no activity are way too trivial to spin up

Amen to that. For -ly in English, it’s a reasonably good bet it’s an adverb and will still be something if you lop it off, but in this day and age it seems like you shouldn’t need to. For starters it’s not always as obvious, and it’s an extra pointless click which people used to care about.

Sure. As I said, it makes sense to just… not be ambiguous. As for familiarity, I don’t think you really need it? You’ll have an inkling of where the recipe came from and be 90% sure most of the time. If not, searching for one more recipe means it’s suddenly really unlikely to still be unclear. No matter what you want you could search for non-US units to rule out/convert.

Familiarity would mean it’s even easier, you’ll go “of course this is baked at around 175°C like virtually all the other things like it” and almost certainly be right. Although baking is notoriously finicky…

As with everything, we know it’s all the Americans’ fault. Joking. Halfway, anyway - they are a majority of the people who, internationally speaking, wanted to be all precious about this stuff. Although even if they didn’t, it’d still seem like “good practice” to include units anyway, though.

The cooking does tend to just be context, though, or at least “same as all the other recipes”. There’s only so many sane temps to pick for any given thing, and there’s a factor of ~2 between the two choices. E.g. if you were baking, 210° is either pretty hot or way too cool for most things.

Not necessarily, but why choose a project that needs interfacing with an existing ecosystem where it can mostly only be noise?

If you want to deal with a complicated mess of a system as a project, you could always grab Arch

On the other hand, who wants to fucking work for Microsoft?

A bunch of the “fediverse” reacts poorly to this. But, speaking as someone who never even considered Apple, using Android doesn’t have to mean it’s smart to go into intentional denial of a long list of shit that sucks, just to be a fanboy.

Vivaldi is Chromium based but with a team that works towards reducing the privacy and usability impact of running something Chromium based. Retains support for adblockers etc, after Google severely limiting that functionality in Chrome itself. Supports Chrome extensions like usual - better than Chrome itself, now.