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My biggest regret was getting rid of a perfectly good portable CRT TV that would have been ideal for pre-7th generation gaming, just as they stopped making good quality CRTs.

I’m about to get rid of my ageing “dumb” TV and not replace it. Everything comes in to my laptop now, so any monitor and set of speakers to plug it in to will do.

My prediction is that this is going to be the end of the line for TVs as stand-alone hardware - just like most people don’t really have stand-alone Hi-Fi systems any more.

Of course, yes, and that’s why I’m not much of an advocate for English spelling reform. Japanese has particularly a lot of them.

Just a learner of Japanese here. Japanese is difficult to read if written purely phonetically because there are a lot of homophones (words that sound the same with different meanings).

So typically kanji carries the root of words and kana is for all the grammatical parts, loan-words, and everything else. Hiragana/katakana duplicate each other but are no more redundant than lower/upper case.

Speaking as a learner, sometimes it’s easier to learn the kanji than the sound of the word so sometimes it can make learning to read easier.

Yes, I was kind of being rhetorical there, I thought that would be enough to draw attention to what’s going on. Also a new Lemmy account that exclusively links to one unknown website is a big red flag.

Twitter in the old days and Mastodon now I treat as custom news feeds, you subscribe to people or entities you’re interested in hearing news from and there you have it. I find it much less useful as a platform for having discussions or browsing for pleasure than Reddit in the old days and Lemmy now, which as you say is topic-focused rather than individual focused.

Well he’s on Mastodon so I guess that’s your answer.

Why would we attack the author? That seems like an oddly specific request that makes me oddly suspicious of the author, if anything.

I mean, 100% of posts get an automatic upvote because they all start at 1 instead of zero!

If you upvote everything isn’t that the equivalent of not upvoting anything?

I’m not familiar exactly with your posts, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume the downvotes are for the reasons you think they are. Sometimes I’ll downvote a post because I don’t think it’s relevant to the topic or that it’s simply not interesting (and I really do view it merely as a vote, nothing personal). Then the OP will sometimes respond with “I can’t believe I was downvoted because of x, y, z” where x, y, z really had nothing to do with the downvote. If I disagree, I try to upvote because it’s on-topic and reply with my disagreement (which I have just done right now).

Don’t worry, it’s a pet peeve of mine as well, shallow and pedantic or not.

Short memory, you said:

The USA, for all its faults, remains the standard against which other countries measure themselves (and find themselves lacking).

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“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” (Hitchen’s razor), you made the claim.

The USA, for all its faults, remains the standard against which other countries measure themselves (and find themselves lacking).

This statement - do you not see how that’s an incredibly arrogant and patronising thing to assert?

Not for me it isn’t, smartphones and tablets have always been a horrible user experience (and I’m always bewildered by stories about them replacing desktop/laptops for people), I only have a smartphone out of social pressure, making them even worse is going to drive me away further.

Honestly I once owned one and I didn’t like it. This may get downvoted because it seems to go against popular opinion but with a bidet I never felt properly clean until I’d wiped myself with paper afterwards - washing myself with water was fine but took time and I’d always get some more off with paper.