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formats.
Sure, any of them are perfectly useful for TODAY's date, because generally my mind is present enough to know what year and month I am currently experiencing, but when reviewing past docs it annoys the fuck out of me because I always have to get that cypher sorted before I can get started.
I don't know who needs to hear this*, but when you're washing dishes, you need to wash all the surfaces of every dish. The top and bottom of the plate, the inside and outside of the pot, the tines and handle of the fork, etc.
Grease and germs get everywhere. You can't see or feel them when the dish is wet. washing just the parts you think came into contact with food means you're leaving the dish dirty. #PetPeeves#LifeHacks
*Narrator: he knows exactly who needs to hear this.
It's time for the sharing of the peeves. Here are 2 of mine:
Calling someone or something "white trash." It has an underlying distinction that's super racist. Also, "trailer trash," is classist af. Stick with "trash." It's a slight that doesn't require any further definition.
The USA isn't America. There are other Americas, & they're chock full of Americans, & they count just as much as the we do.
I totally mute people just for posting long threads that aren't threaded.
If you've been in the #Fediverse for a long time and you're either too dumb to have figured out how to thread properly or too rude to bother, then I guarantee anything you have to post is being posted by someone else who's less stupid and rude. #FediRant#PetPeeves
#petpeeves paradoxical meaning of "drop" in contemporary English. "Microsoft drops support for older CPUs" can now mean they removed OR added it at the same time.
I usually post my #petpeeves about the specialty coffee industry on Friday nights, so might as well start doing it here on Mastodon!
I bristle - BRISTLE whenever I hear a youtube coffee gear reviewer use the word "clarity" when describing grinders, coffees, or equipment that brews it.
Most of them really don't know what that word means. They've heard Hoffmann or an actual Q-Grader use the term, and decided, yeah. I can do that too!
Hey! Is there a technical reason why printer paper trays don't hold a full 500 sheet ream? It's bugged me forever that I have to have an open pack sitting around.
I can’t believe that in this the year of our Lord, 2023, we are still defaulting to using masculine pronouns for the general case. I’m reading a book about writing technique and the writer is always referred to as ‘he’, the character is always referred to as ‘he’, the audience (if singular) is ‘he’. It’s not that fucking hard to use ‘they’, jfc.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
Two of my #petPeeves in this regard are with #Mozilla#Firefox, and in both cases they are about feature removal because of perceived bloat.
The first is the removal for the support of the #MNG format. The purported reason for this was the “bloat” coming from linking a 200KB library. Reading the issue tracker for this, 20 years later when Firefox installations are 200MB and counting is … enlightening: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574