I was lucky to buy and have a mortgage before the market went crazy crazier.

The neighbourhood is changing with more and more AirBnBs. The rent and purchase prices have skyrocketed.

I keep using it as much as I can. Currently iPhone 16 that I don’t see upgrading it before the iPhone 21.

Before that, iPhone X.

So, moreless every 5 years.

Famous person in the 90s: I fuck men and women.
Media in the 90s: Confirmed gay.

Not doing an impression but trying to sing seriously.

https://youtu.be/QrTfYItDDwA

You can migrate accounts over Mastodon instances, I don’t know why is not something similar implemented in Lemmy.

Nintendo is pushing for digital very aggressively in their marketing to gear people towards digital only.

Give them a generation or two more and you’ll have them doing the same shit Sony is doing now.

Complain, as I usually do at work where we are forced to use windows and WSL crashes are frequent.

On Wednesday, Mr. Bessent said the administration had considered imposing sanctions on Chinese companies that steal intellectual property from American firms. “Open source is not open season on American IP,” he said, referring to intellectual property.

Unless you are OpenAI/Anthropic/Meta, then the use American and worldwide IP is totally acceptable. 🙄

One of the reasons I stopped watching Netflix shows was because all the ones I got invested those were cancelled just after one season.

As others stated, it is when two words in different languages are similar phonetically/graphically.

They are called false friends because they seem familiar and you expect to mean the same as with other words that are pronounced similarly in two languages and mean the same. False friends not just mean different things but they sometimes can change the phrase in a bad way.

Note: The following examples are with Spanish from Spain, they might be different in other Spanish speaking countries.

Alice and Bob discussed about having children
Alicia y Bob discutieron sobre tener niños

In English Alice and Bob had a conversation, in Spanish they had an argument.

Bob is a sensible guy
Bob es un tipo sensible

Bob is a person who acts with prudence and thinks carefully in English, in Spanish he is a guy who is easily affected by feelings.

I had an English teacher who told the same anecdote about false friends and her sister. She was in UK and the batteries for the remote died, so she went to a convenience store and asked if they had them.

The thing is that in Spanish we only use battery (batería) for the ones that are not meant to be replaced regularly, like the car battery, the laptop battery, etc. The replaceable ones (even the rechargeable that take the same shape), are called pilas. So in the anecdote, the sister told the woman at the store very confidently “Do you have piles?” (haemorrhoids, for the ones who doesn’t know).

I don’t know how real the anecdote was, but it fulfilled its purpose to make us aware of these situations.

I wrote variable names and comments in Spanish when I started as my English level back then was very low.

Once my English improved and started to use English documentation and tutorials I just switched to write in English.

In my previous job I worked at software consultancy, I had coworkers who wrote code in Spanish but it wasn’t the norm.

Currently I work for an international company, the team is Spanish but we have to write everything in English as it can be shared with teams in other countries and audited by international organisations.

When AI tools were allowed, a lot of people use them in Spanish, it generates code with comments in Spanish. I had to reject a lot of PRs from the same guys over an over because everything must be in English.

This, I switched my keyboards to US layout, and since I learned a bit touch typing , having the laptop with ISO es_ES is not of a big deal having the symbols not matching the input layout.

For Mac it is a bit shittier, I don’t get used to the way to introduce the Ñ with its US int.

On Linux, I didn’t managed to set the US int, only US so I don’t have either Ñ nor the possibility to add accents. It might be easy but I didn’t look for it either.

Didn’t the call for violence happened to be just a mod from another instance that had “death to zionism” that stepped down after he was called out?

Radical opinions such as supporting trans people or being against genocide.

I’ll have to create one then.

No, I don’t have any word filter.

Some pizzas say 200°C for same amount of time.

Same manufacturer, same style of pizza but different content (4 cheeses vs pepperoni)

Stop attacking me!

I don’t put a key under the mat, even less for the cops.

And they give birth through a pseudo penis that is torn apart.

I don’t think it brings anything useful to the conversation, but it is an interesting fact.