My daughter came to us on the first day of school telling us that one of her teachers had a cross and a Bible quote on the wall. I didn’t want to get my daughter into trouble by letting the principal know about it myself since they would attach my name to it and she might face retaliation. So I wrote to the FFRF, sent them a...
I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux....
I’m not sure if 1 year of using Tumbleweed makes me a long time user, but here goes.
From my prior multiple years of experience with Manjaro and EndeavourOS, I must say that nothing beats the AUR. I sometimes run into softwares that are not on the openSUSE repos. If this happens, I try looking it on Flatpak. If it’s not available on Flatpak either I go search for the version that kind people have packaged for openSUSE. These 3rd party repos are kind of like PPAs on Debian(-based distros). If still no, I try looking for the .rpm made for Fedora or the AppImage version provided on the software’s sites, but this solution is less than ideal since it does not update automatically and the .rpms sometimes do not work. That is the main con of openSUSE. Other than that, I would say that there are no more major advantages or disadvantages to using openSUSE over Arch-based ones. A minor advantage is that things feel more polished on openSUSE.
I hope this was not too intimidating. Softwares available neither on the openSUSE repos, on Flatpak, on 3rd party repos, in RPMs, or in AppImages are rare. Still, openSUSE Tumbleweed remains my favorite distro and I urge you to give it a try.
Edit: I forgot another major thing about openSUSE. It uses BTRFS by default, and handles system backups for you. Fortunately, I haven’t needed to use this yet, but it is a really nice feature.
Hi everyone, I have always kind of been interested in composting. However, I live in an apartment in a city, and I am not sure whether this will make my house stink or how to even use the compost. Does anyone have any advice?
I don’t think there is much relation between a community using a language with no genders and its transgender population size. Take China for example. The nouns in Chinese are not gendered, and the pronouns used to be gender-neutral until about a hundred years ago when “她” (she) emerged. There are few transgender people in China, partially due to the fact that they are not officially recognized, but I don’t think there would be many transgender people in China even if the government legally allowed it.
Hi. The caption in the image reads 你们用性别的代词吗？. Literally, it translates to “you (pl.) (你们) use (用) gendered (性别的) pronouns (代词) [question particle] (吗)?” As you have guessed, it means “Do you (pl.) use gendered pronouns?”.
However, the way this sentence is worded is pretty awkward and gives off the impression that it was written by a machine translator. It sounds as if the speaker actually did not know whether they use gendered pronouns or not, while it’s supposed to sound like that the speaker just learned that they use gendered pronouns and is asking for confirmation.
A much better way to say this would be 你们用的代词有性别？, which means “The pronouns you use are gendered?”. Note that the translation is not “Are the pronouns you use gendered?” (Yes, I did not use a 吗. It is for yes/no questions, but only when the equivalent question in English begins with a Do, Will, Have, Are, etc. should you use a 吗.)
Edit: An exception to the 吗 rule I mentioned just occurred to me, namely “How are you?” (你好吗？), but I would say that’s due to a difference between how Chinese and English greetings work. 你好吗？ is actually closer to “Are you good?”.
I was so confused when I saw your comment abou lactose intolerance and was wondering what it has to do with “optional in Chinese.” It took longer that I’d like to admit to realize that the original comment and yours said “cheese.”
In duolingo, it rarely “tells” you the definitions of things, and leaves you to suss it out from context.
I’ve also had a similar experience when learning Japanese with it.
多少 roughly translates to either “how many” or “how much,” but it can also be used when asking for almost any kind of numerical answer. Your understanding of 他的电话号码是多少？ is almost correct. It means “what is his phone number?” If you want to ask someone how many apples they have, you would say 你有多少颗苹果？ or 你有几颗苹果？. (几 is “how many.”) Another few example sentences:
你有多少根香蕉？(you have how many bananas?) (How many bananas do you have?)
你的体重多少公斤？ (your body weight how many kilograms?) (How much do you weigh?)
你还有多少面包？ (you still have how much bread?) (How much bread do you have left?)
你刚刚吃了多少薯片？ (you just ate how many potato chip?) (How many potato chips did you just eat?)
你家里有多少本书？ (you home have how many [classifier for books] book?) (How many books do you have at home?)
你的身份证号码多少？ (your ID card number how many?) (What is your ID number (social security number)?)
你一个月的收入多少？ (you one month income how much?) (What is your monthly income?)
你手机的容量多少？ (your phone capacity how much?) (How much disk space does your phone have?)
It’s ok if you don’t understand some of the words I used. Only after I typed those sentence out did I realize that some of them might be too difficult, so don’t be intimidated by them.
Because transgender is a concept that started in the western part of the world. It still has a long way to go to make its way into the East Asian countries. Take Taiwan for example. They legalized same-sex marriage a couple years ago, making them one of the most open places in Asia to the concept of LGB, but there aren’t many transgender people there either.
Thai culture is pretty different from Chinese culture (compared to other cultures in Southeast Asia). I did somehow forget the existence of Thailand when making my previous comment though, sorry about that.
I find this mildly infuriating, I only use Windows for work, I even personally purchased Windows 11. Local account and disabled as much as I could. I personally do not like Windows or Windows in general....
This has always, always, always been the case for me since I got a laptop with Windows 11 preinstalled on it. I dual boot Linux (openSUSE) and rarely use Windows, and this screen pops up like 5% of the time when I boot to Windows.
Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd....
As an east Asian that eats rice every day, I must say that I don’t consider this term racist at all. The meanings of words shift over time. For example, nice used to mean “foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless,” but now it means “kind, thoughtful.” Gay used to mean “lighthearted, joyous,” then a slang for homosexuals, and ultimately became the term with which many homosexuals choose to describe themselves. Rice may have been a racist term, but now what it means is “to extensively customize one’s desktop system to one’s liking, especially Linux systems.” It no longer is racist.
I respect your freedom to choose which terms to consider offensive, and I do not plan to talk you into accepting terms offensive to you. Nevertheless, I want to say that while “ricing your car” does have derogatory undertones, “ricing my Linux system” just does not have the same undertone. Ricing cars, as in the racist context, means customizing cars so heavily that it becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner#/media/File:Poser.JPG. Ricing a Linux system, on the other hand, is the act of making a Linux desktop system as aesthetically pleasing as possible.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a great organization that helped with an issue in my daughter's public middle school.
My daughter came to us on the first day of school telling us that one of her teachers had a cross and a Bible quote on the wall. I didn’t want to get my daughter into trouble by letting the principal know about it myself since they would attach my name to it and she might face retaliation. So I wrote to the FFRF, sent them a...
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Long term OpenSuSE users, how has your experience been?
I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux....
Inspired by a similar meme about applied math, I present: applied physics (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
A nice infographic for newcomers (slrpnk.net)
Most refreshing shower of my life 😫 (lemmy.ml)
English Language Problems (lemmy.ca)
How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10 (feddit.uk)
Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff (lemmy.world)
I find this mildly infuriating, I only use Windows for work, I even personally purchased Windows 11. Local account and disabled as much as I could. I personally do not like Windows or Windows in general....
Firefox gang raise (lemmy.world)
Hey, we should all really stop using racist slang to refer to customozation
Meta post I’ve decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd....
What do you call Marshmallow in your native language?
In German it’s Mäusespeck = Mouse Bacon
What was the best video game music of all time?
For my money it’s a tie between Eurydice’s song from Hades, any of the tracks from VVVVVV and Still Alive. But what do you think?