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  • LemmysMum@lemmy.worldOPtoAustralia@aussie.zoneAussie Crispmas
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    8 months ago

    Joke killer:

    Flame - fire.
    Flammable - has the potential to be set on fire. (eg. burn, ember, catch)

    Inflame - to burst into fire.
    Inflammable - has the potential to burst into fire. (eg. explode, detonate, erupt)

    Non-flammable - cannot result in flame.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Blame the Ancient Greeks for this wonderful bit of English.


  • I misstyped. It’s supposed to be younger not older. Older cars are still required to show the correct speed however in 2004 manufacturers started putting in a ‘buffer’.

    Cars manufactured before 2004 will generally have a very exact speedo that has the potential to display below the travelling speed under certain circumstances, eg bigger wheels than intented for the vehicle, overinflated tires, etc.

    After 2004 manufacturer’s started putting in a ‘buffer’ of anywhere between 4 to 12 km/h due to new regulation preventing the previously mentioned situation.

    For example a Taraga people mover can be anywhere from 7 to 12km under the displayed speed, Camry hybrids are almost always about 4km/h slower than their shown speed, Prius are mostly 5km/h slower on the dot.

    My 2002 Camry is on the money.

    Experience: Few years as a taxi driver.





  • Windows is still a middle ground of functionality and user safety. Better for corporate tasks than a Mac, better for gaming than both, and benefits from massive marketshare making their systems better knows though osmosis, superusers still know their way around windows as well as any knows theirs around Linux.

    Developers aren’t going to go after a 3% desktop market share of Linux users so most software development is still Windows and .net based in the corpo and developer spaces.

    Linux as a desktop OS lacks both usability and compatability still. I don’t have to emulate shit in windows to do anything. No wine, no Proton, nothing. A normal user never has to touch a console in windows. Until you can go the lifetime of a PC for a regular user not needing the console then Linux will not be as viable as Windows for ‘regular’ users.