cazh wins my opinion is officially correct 🥳

@ben can you see this?

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?

CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."

how would you abbreviate the english words "casual" and "usual" to their first syllables? the abbreviated forms should be intuitive to someone who hasn't seen them before, and should not use graphemes outside of the 26 letters of the latin alphabet.

e.g. "she was dressed real caʒ", "i ordered the uʒ".

the words are pronounced /kæʒ/ and /ˈjuːʒ/, respectively.

also worth keeping in mind: does your method work well for other words using this phoneme? vision, invasion, etc.

(this poll has ten options; your client may not display it properly)

#linguistics

if you see someone referring to their "fianceee", they're probably a little too attached to their asus netbook

fiancé: engaged man
fiancée: engaged woman
fiancee: a woman who is not engaged
fiance: a man who is not engaged
fiancéé: woman engaged to multiple partners
fiancë: a man who is engaged to multiple partners
fiancx: engaged person (gender neutral)
fianc: engaged person (explicitly agender)
éecnaif: woman who is in the process of breaking her engagement
financé: man who is engaged for money rather than love
bianceé: engaged woman who sings
biancé: engaged man who sings
biancee: woman who is liked, and therefore should have a ring put on her
seancé: engaged man who is a ghost
fricassée: meat stew
fricasséé: engaged woman who is a meat stew
fricasséx: gender neutral term for a meat stew
fricassee: meat stew that is not engaged

dell has made the genius move of completely changing their naming scheme for all products. gone are the latitudes and XPSs and inspirons. now we have a two-pronged system: there's three categories (dell, dell pro, dell pro max (yes, really)), as well as three tiers (base, plus, premium)

this means we'll now have something like "Dell Pro Max 13 Premium" instead of "Dell XPS+ 13", and "Dell 15" instead of "Dell Inspiron 15". in some ways, this is clearer, sure, but it has the same problem replacing tweets with "posts" does: "XPS" on its own is short and memorable and doesn't require you to mention the brand. now it's a Dell Pro Max Premium, which is far clunkier. there's a reason samsung calls it an "S24 Ultra" and not a "Samsung 24 Ultra Premium".

dude, you're getting a Dell Pro Max 15 Premium!

source: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement

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