Ummm… I have questions.

Neither do gasoline or batteries.

They’re a mixed bag. Some are good, others less so. My family spent a summer taste testing and rating apple varieties. Fuck [Diesel] Sweeties and their horrible chemical flavor.

I also hate the artificial corporatized naming/branding of these apple varieties. Apples should never have a fucking registered trademark.

I think that’s it: simply blurring the background instead of just disappearing, it makes it feel like it’s not “gone”; just not the current focus, so to speak.

I also was on Ubuntu for a lot of the time while they were fooling around with “Unity” so I’m sure my experience is skewed compared to a clean pure gnome setup.

Of course you’re entitled to your preference, no debating that.

I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.

Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen? That seems like the silliest thing to care about… it’s there for 2 seconds while you type the name of the app you want, and letting you focus on that task. It’s not like I’m browsing the web in the background while I wait for the start-menu-equivalent.

I think as a GNU project, Gnome is an exception. That might be a bit of a hypercorrection though.

Which one’s the hard g? If that’s the one that sounds like j or “g as in giraffe”, then I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Jnome? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very well.

That’s not true; most cars have a lot of plastic in trim, upholstery, etc.

🙄

Kick them out?

Nah, there are options between “nothing” and “arrest”. Even for Nazis.

I wouldn’t be sad about some Nazi-punching though.

I’m gonna say “arrest is unwarranted. Just kick ‘em out or end their speaking time.”

Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.

Seems fine to me. The author mentioned is in reference to the origin of the name, as an explanation for why it would be called that and what it is measuring. It’s not the author of the website or this tool.

This is the way.

Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”

I’ve taken to editing my messages to strike through removals and [edit: italicize] additions/corrections, if I think it could cause confusion.

No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.

It’s before our time, early 1970s.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/334947/when-and-where-did-become-splat

“A star” would also be reasonable but I wanted to use the more obscure option.

A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)