Great way to explain it at any age.

It’s just language that computers use to talk to other computers.

Mostly right but it has little to do with computers being “dumb”. It has more to do with predictability.

Protocols are simply the standards used in he communications, much like people have standards for post mail, shipping, etc: where to write the address, what ZIP codes mean, how to mark packages en route, etc. It’s not that people are “dumb” but it’s just far more efficient to have most packages marked in same “language”.

Sure, computers are “dumb” (and also universal) but that’s why programming languages exist, protocols are not quite as good example of that.

Hey, great use of the word “How”. You really nailed it!

😛

I do my taxes. I renew my driver’s license. I pay my electric bill. I don’t understand how else someone would say those things.

“I do taxes. I renew driver’s license. I pay electric bill.”

“I do the taxes. I renew the driver’s license. I pay the electric bill.”

As a non-native English speaker I know “my taxes” just sound most natural because–but only because–that’s how lot of people say it. :D

(Not that it’s relevant, but In my native language, Czech, we would not stress the “my” part, maybe only in case of the driver’s license, and even there, only indirectly by grammar. But I’m aware Czech is weird to most of the world… :D))

It’s ZDD (Zucc Dysmorphic Disorder). From Wikipedia:

Zucc dysmorphic disorder (ZDD), also known in some contexts as zuccmorphophobia or simply zuccmorphia, is a mental disorder defined by an overwhelming preoccupation with a perceived flaw in Zucc’s physical appearance. In ZDD’s delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. When an actual visible difference exists, its importance is disproportionately magnified in the mind of the Internet. Whether the physical issue is real or imagined, Internet ruminations concerning this perceived defect become pervasive and intrusive, consuming substantial social network bandwidth for extended petabytes each day.

No, originally (roughly around in 2023, although there’s ongoing debate among historians suggesting it might be as late as 2033) it was actually donkeys and farts in general direction of target. Then straight to the wi-fi. Then some hipsters complained so wires were added – both to the technology stack and also into the word “internet”. (As you have probably noticed, the letters ‘i’ and ‘t’ are made of wires.)

Lost count but I’m confident it’s somewhere between zero and 23423431.

a moderator removing posts for a very far stretch interpretation of Rule 3

…stretch by which party? in the sense that the post not really about self-hosting (and OP tried to use rule 3 in a stretched interpretation), or that the post was about self-hosting but moderator applied it in unnecessarily strict way? The way you phrased it seems like the former, but then why would that result in moderator resigning?

(I’m not a native English speaker so sorry if it should have been clear.)

Lava is horrible but at least it’s fast and often you don’t need to ponder if or how you should come back, you can just go straight to mourning (your precious diamonds). Poor horse, though. 😢

I haven’t played chess in a loong time but when it comes to crushing my soul I doubt it would beat Minecraft when you spend 3 hours on a trip across the whole map, collecting tons of resources (many of them for the first time) only to be blown by creeper somewhere in a the crevice of a deep cave.

If you have a backup map copy, vaguely know where the cave was and its layout, and if are fast you can theoretically go back and pick up your things. So you do it and keep running around looking for the cave, then run inside, start looking for the pile of items but can’t find it. Although in this cave you were rather meticulous with torches (yeah it is unfair!) so it’s not crawling with zombies and you sort of know your way around, you don’t really remember 100% where you met the creeper. After all of this was because of a moment of absent-mindedness. The only way you can really tell is by the pile of items scattered around. But if they’ve already de-spawned you would not know for sure, and could be running around passing the spot several times.

So over time, the feeling slowly sinks in: if they already de-spawned you might just be running in circles.

I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that managed to pull the band-aid so slowly.

Syncthing for files, Nextcloud (synced to fastmail and file tree using vdirsyncer) for calendar and contacts.

TBH—and I’m not a native English speaker—I think it’s a bit ambiguously phrased. “Increase by 200%” would be more clear.

“Mark Zuckerberg” -> “cum rag berzerkk”

“but … the … it … … w… the thing … so … the …” 😵‍💫 🤯

idk if it’s just me but “think before you speak” just triggers me.

it’s what my dad used to yell at me (and pepper with calling me an idiot) when I was 8 and he had no patience with my questions and he hated the way i think and am.

when you could be sitting in a cafe or restaurant and contributing to the economy

or even better, being exploited for cheap labor in prison!

BTW, little newborn kittens or puppies are also called litter.

say “little kitten litter” 10 times

I don’t disagree about the education. (Technically I can’t agree too vehemently since I don’t know that much and I don’t live there nor do I know anyone in person who lives in U.S. but I hear about the problems all the time and, fingers crossed, all power to you if you can improve it).

My point was just that, as someone who had a love-hate relationship with alcohol that lasted too long and had a bad break-up, I was really excited about this question and then disappointed about the discussion being derailed, and even more disappointed that OP is contributing to that derailment.

And I guess I overreacted a bit, sorry.

None of that was meant to invalidate your concerns about U.S. centrism and education issues, it’s just a different topic, that’s all.

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