For example?

I’ve installed Lawnchair and I’m quite happy with it.

Yep. I recently bought a used Pixel 8 and wanted to install a new launcher - my googling turned up Nova launcher, but the app said it had ads, so I looked a bit further and installed Lawnchair instead. Does the job!

Ah, OK!

There’s a big difference between warning that nationalists are a risk to the European project and expressing doubt about the future of the European project.

The person they’re quoting is a green politician, not the chancellor in the picture, and she’s absolutely pro European.

Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.

The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.

In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word “Magd” (a cognate of “maid”).

Second hand ThinkPads are absolutely brilliant value.

garlic and basil in the same pot. They all three

Wait, are you counting garlic, basil and the pot, or how are you getting to three?

Wait, you didn’t know this before getting into it? That’s the first thing I ever heard about it, and I’ve never owned any 40K anything.

Lenses maybe, camera bodies, nah.

And Russia rubs its hands in glee at having divided the West. Great job, MAGA.

“apt install <program>” is just so much nicer than running some weird installer.

As a massive Wikipedia fan and a longtime editor, the comments in this post make me very happy. You’re my people, Lemmy!

I’m about to replace a once year old phone because I can’t flash the ROM, and I hate Xiaomi’s native apps and don’t trust them anymore.

My previous phone was a Xiaomi on which I installed LineageOS. I was very happy with it, but my GF’s son had a very very old phone, so I changed it after only 3 years and replaced it with another Xiaomi. I’m deeply unhappy this time because they’ve made it practically impossible to unlock the bootloader without using dodgy unverified tools. It’s only a year old and now I’m replacing it with a second hand Pixel.

Before the first Xiaomi, I had a OnePlus that I kept for six years.

Ah, good old aposematism!

https://xkcd.com/566/

Remember that Fortran has an arithmetic if statement. You can write

IF (expression) s1, s2, s3

where s1, s2 and s3 are labels. If the expression is negative, it jumps to s1. If it’s 0, to s2 and if it’s positive, to s3.

It also has goto variable. You can do

INTEGER a
ASSIGN 20 TO a
ASSIGN 17 TO a
GO TO a
20 PRINT *, "foo"
17 PRINT *, "bar"

and it’ll print “bar”. In this snippet of code, everything seems quite logical, but imagine debugging spaghetti code written using these patterns.

Oh, it also has

GO TO (s1, s2, ... , sn), N

First, N is converted to an integer. If N is 1, it goes to label s1. If N is 2, it goes to s2. If N is less than 1 or greater than n, it does nothing.

Ha, I thought a 1Hz display was a typo until I read the article - that’s the minimum display update, not the maximum: for situations when nothing’s changing on the screen to save battery life.

Counterpoint: Alice Weidel