ObjectivityIncarnate

Island has an ‘s’ in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.

Seems a little more complex than that, according to this. Specifically, the first syllable was modified by association to the word “isle”, which does have a Latin root word (insula, same root word for “insulate”).

To be even more pedantic, “would” and “will” don’t mean the same thing, either. 🤓

Instantly thought of this from Goldeneye:

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She’d already clinched her loss before she started chumming up to Cheneys, I think.

Pretty sure that falls under the “productivity” umbrella, lol.

The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.

Just boot the computer, choose which DE you want to install

Yeah, that’s not at all accessible to the average consumer; they don’t know what a “DE” even is, much less why they should choose any over any other.

Very, very few people want to deal with something other than a ‘just works’ situation.

I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.

The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.

If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.

EDIT: The previous sentence is actually more of the reason, upon further reflection. The total number of people playing on desktops period is falling, and the vast majority of desktops are Windows, so non-Windows OSes will comparatively gain ‘market share’ as that happens, even if their numbers don’t change at all.

It was a 4-person tournament, what kind of prize pool do you think that’s going to have? lol

It looks like she was playing in these events all throughout her pregancy, including a win at 7 months.

Credit where credit’s due, but it seems like great pains have been taken to hide the fact that this was a tournament of 4 players.

Looks like she also had a 1st place finish in this tournament, which had over triple the entrants (14), and she did it while 7 months pregnant—that’s much more impressive, imo.

I didn’t say the mention was disingenuous, I said the comparison was.

It’s a bit disingenuous to compare an annual cost with a one-time expenditure, isn’t it?

Can’t help but notice you didn’t quote him saying any of this.

Ridiculous stuff like this is what keeps you from being taken seriously, and makes it harder to win over voters. You guys are acting like you enjoy losing elections.

So where in there did Trump call Hitler a “good king”, call Jews “dishonest”, refer to anyone as “evil watermelon people”, or call anyone “closet f*ggots”? You know, the things being directly attributed to him here.

Also, being a chat room, none of it came from Trump’s mouth either, but who cares about accuracy, right? No bad tactics, only bad targets. /s

The punchline should be on its own panel to create a natural temporal gap between it and the setup, for the reader. :)

This is two panels too long, imo.

Change the first panel’s text to “Forgive me, Helen, I’ve changed!”, the second’s to “Have you, Theseus?”, and you’re done, lol.

Some of my favorites:

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody’s fingers.

I’m not a hypochondriac, but my gynecologist firmly believes I am.

My mother, she never breastfed me. She told me she liked me as a friend.

Nothing goes right. I joined Gamblers Anonymous. They gave me two-to-one I don’t make it.