There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.

My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.

I don’t know anything about insects and spiders, but maybe some sort of running crab spider, e.g. Philodromus cespitum?

@Vincent@feddit.nl was dead right in their comment here - you can escape out of the search by tapping Esc twice, at which point you’re back to the URL. Panic over!

Great news, thanks! And likewise, I’ll give it a chance. Ideally I’d be able to get to the URL from the omnibar with an extra click, to get the best of both worlds.

Yup - most typically to change TLD (e.g. from example.com to my own country, when I’m after local results) or as a quick way of copying the URL without unnecessary extra arguments to share elsewhere.

I like most of this, but if search term persistence makes it harder for me to tweak the URL (like on mobile), it’s going to be really annoying. I’ll suspend judgment until I’ve tried it, I guess.

I’ve used the “writing tools” extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.

I’ve also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.

The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.

I’m really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we’ve got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn’t set our expectations too high. I do respect that they’ve not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.

Six songs later in the album is a tune specifically about the evils of making people self-conscious about their body. Be more kind.

Is a human a type of ape? No.

Er… yes, categorically and definitively.

Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They’re apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

Spring to fall, I drive in bare feet whenever it’s appropriate. It’s so much more direct and comfortable. That said, I prefer bare feet when possible anyway - I realize it’s not for everyone.

The post has been removed by mods - it still exists and you can link to it, but it’s delisted and won’t appear on Reddit through browsing/exploring or search.

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These seem fair ideas? They’re not paywalling critical functionality and you can’t run a massive social network for free. It’s not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it’s hardly outrageous.

Chill. The graphic wasn’t made for this specific discussion. It’s a widely accepted way to group users of a service. In this case, the bell curve represents the adoption of something other than Twitter by Twitter users, and the driver isn’t “new thing to try” (in as much as neither federated or newer centralized microblogging platforms have much new to offer), it’s the slowly-heating pot of water that the frog is in.

WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

I’m going to assume you’re being wilfully ignorant but not trying to be an ass. “Gay” is more often used of men than women, and it’s perhaps more common for people to use “lesbian” for gay women, but it just means homosexual (or sometimes more generally not heterosexual), regardless of sex or gender.

Cambridge: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same gender or sex”

Merriam-Webster: “of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”

Oxford: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex”

Brittanica: “sexually or romantically attracted to someone who is the same sex”

Wiktionary: “Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.”

We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that’s not wh-

We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

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Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

Mark Gurman, who’s normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they’re unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

There’s no safe way to answer this without giving away plot points, I don’t think. Most important thing is that it’s sci-fi, not a drama about developers in the way you might expect.