Tonal and Logographic didn’t become Lingua Franca because they’re more difficult to learn and standardization is even more challenging than with Alphabetic languages.

This is like language 101 stuff.

This is well explained in Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by The Great Courses.

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Monday’s what?

Attention Whore is what we used to call such people.

Seems like we should bring it back.

You. People like you cause unrest.

Hahah, made me snort!

They do?

Think we need some examples

Wow, awesome!

I’d say it’s generally inverse! Haha

Though here the little guy is like “is it morning, already?”

Awesome! Haha

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for photo/file backup from phone. Both work amazingly well.

I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

Never.

I’ve had better luck using MKV for my Samsung TV.

But yea, Mp4 is generally more compatible.

It’s shocking how little resolution plays into quality. I’ve re-encoded some videos down to 480 and played them on a 65" TV and they look fine.

I can also make videos look terrible by just trying to save space by reducing the quality level of the conversion while retaining high resolution (1080).

And according to the Bureau of Labor (and some other sources) the median hourly wage in the US for non-supervisory (eg non-exempt) workers is around $34/hr.

The average (mean) is $36.67.

Of course these are heavily influenced by high COL areas, but if you lookup distributions, most people fall in the $24-$35 area of the curve, with only the 10th percentile making under $15. That suggests there aren’t many jobs paying that kind of money (or the distribution would look different), and that 90% of jobs pay above $15, with 80% paying above $20.

Planned obsolence via shoehorning crap connected tech into things that can run fine with controls from 1947 that will last 50+ years and are easily replaced with commodity components (relays) at any time.

Ok, bye.

Just search, and run across other recipes in links of current ones.

There are certain cooks who I’ll check occasionally (chef John at foodwishes.com, Nick Stellino).

I also have some cookbooks: the cooking bibles (Joy of Cooking, Gourmet). America’s Test Kitchen cookbook for standards to start from.

Otherwise I do a search and see the person’s actual site. If there’s AI generated crap, I just never go back.

The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.

Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.