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Yes, linguistically I find that quite unnatural as well.

To me it’s quite unnatural to use singular they about someone whose gender I actually know.

no one fucking talks that way

What part of “formal language” did you not understand :P

I think it’s changed now but I think this is exactly it: for a long time, singular they has been held to be informal. It doesn’t matter how people normally talk, because rules of formality are not about that.

English lessons (or any lesson teaching you about your native language) are often expressly about teaching you a formal, standardised version of the language. Sometimes that’s for reasons of control and the imposition of a hierarchy, but there’s a practical element to it, as well. If you’re somewhere where different registers of a language are spoken, being able to write and speak the formal register (or the “prestige dialect”) unlocks opportunities and jobs.

Understanding of linguistic subtleties like “formal register” and “prestige dialect” is often lacking though so teachers often say that informal or regional dialect versions are wrong rather than merely not the preferred dialect you are learning in these lessons. I suppose there’s an argument that, in context, those two things are synonyms.

I’m interested in the same question but more broadly: currently everything gets automatically backed up to Google, or mindlessly shared to Google. I see that Immich supports backing up folders, but I’m worried about missing an app and not backing stuff up or something like that.

Yes, very deep, but what I just said is not “it’s insignificant” but “that’s not what software licensing does”.

I don’t understand. It’s already ok to “lock down” devices, from the point of view of most consumers and the courts, regardless of the software license. Phones make it hard for you to flash new firmware onto them. That is still true with android and the open source components in its stack.

Using bsd licensed software in every day life cannot accelerate that because it has already happened, and I don’t see how it would be otherwise, because software licensing doesn’t protect against the kind of locking down you’re talking about.

Cool.

And what, exactly, is the path from “pushing back on zsh” to “embedded device manufacturers can no longer lock down their devices?”

It’s such a shame that, if zsh gains enough critical mass, all copies of its source code will be deleted from the universe and no-one will be able to use it without paying any more.

No he didn’t. He swapped DDR5 memory on laptop SO-DIMMs onto desktop DIMMs. The article focuses on the form-factor of the source memory and the generation of the result. But the generation doesn’t change, and I assume that it is not possible. You can see the source memory here

While it’s a cool project and may be useful while laptop RAM is cheaper than desktop RAM, that state of affairs is unlikely to last that long, because the actual chips on the PCBs are the same.