I used to use Standard Notes for a while (didn’t self-host the server) but for various reasons switched over to Joplin, syncing the data between devices with Syncthing.

The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.

I feel like Facebook is much worse for that, but I haven’t touched Facebook in many years so I couldn’t tell you why I feel that way.

Wait what, Syncthing is dead? But it’s what I use!

I’ll keep running W10 on my current machine, but when I build the next one I’m very seriously considering going Linux. My only concern is that many of the software I use regularly don’t have Linux versions.

It’s good for when you want to keep up with what people or organizations you’re interested in are up to. Artists, authors, game developers, etc.

It sucks for any kind of in-depth content or conversation, including politics.

I first thought this was a bad idea by Paypal but you opened my eyes

I was never a fan of Calibri but the new font looks way too Arial-like for my taste.

No

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

It’s a very deliberate phrasing, since not everyone agrees that initialisms are not acronyms.

Personally I think that “ackhually that’s an initialism not an acronym 🤓” is exactly the kind of ultimately irrelevant distinction that internet know-it-alls love to know and point out. I know because I used to be like that too when I was younger.

But often those distinctions are not universally acknowledged or useful in all contexts. Like how strawberries are not scientifically berries, but we still often group them as berries.

Nitpicking word definitions is pointless when the distinction being pointed out is not relevant for the conversation.

Initialisms are a type of acronym. All initialisms are acronyms but not all acronyms are initialisms.

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters

What fell off was a plug filling in an optional emergency exit location. It was a regular row of seats because the plane didn’t have the optional emergency exit installed (it is only required for high density passenger cabin configurations).

Japan has various earthquake notification systems. Tweets are just one more way to get the information to the people on a platform they use.

A 5 second break, while suboptimal, is significantly less suboptimal than having to watch 20+ second ads.

I often watch vods. My favorite streamer’s time zone and streaming schedule mean that I can only catch a couple of hours of the beginning of their stream before going to bed, and I couldn’t regularly watch 8-10 hours of stream in one go anyway, so I watch the vods of the streams I want to see the rest of.

It’s not the exact same thing, but I’ve definitely been drawn out of what I’m watching because of compression artifacts.

I believe it is the Vsauce video titled The Banach-Tarski Paradox.

Yes

That’s why I have separate accounts for general commenting and for poking the hornets nest