Malgas

Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

I’ve seen ¤ used as a currency mark in games. Dwarf Fortress is the one that comes to mind, but I feel like I’ve seen it elsewhere as well.

Needless to say, they’re wrong.

Not least because there’s no such thing as a “compiled” or “interpreted” language.

Which is to say that it’s a property of the tooling rather than the language itself. There’s nothing stopping anyone from writing a C interpreter or a Python compiler.

But also it’s a magical curse from Molag Bal.

Though the metaphysics of TES are weird enough that it’s not really safe to assume anything has the same underlying cause as it would in the real world (e.g. sunlight comes from another dimension through a tear in space). So maybe all diseases are actually curses in the setting.

NGL, I spent a minute wondering why Microsoft would be going after NixOS in particular.

Not a fan of Empire Strikes Back?

I thought I was an autonomous collective.

That’s a huge improvement over !!Linux!!

Soon the bitsmiths may improve to the point we can have ¤«¤Linux¤»¤.

Sturgeon’s Law has been around a lot longer than that.

Back when copyright was created, it had a fixed term of 14 years.

The old tractor-feed dot matrix printers never had great print quality, but they were built like tanks.

I wonder if this was inspired by a koan:

A monk asked Tozan, “What is the Buddha?”
He replied, “Three pounds of flax.”

Weird. I have yet to encounter a game that wine-ge couldn’t handle out of the box.

I don’t understand why I would need that. Can’t you just run any release through a normally installed version of wine?

🔫🐧

I don’t know about salsa (old Pace commercials notwithstanding) but Arizona tea started in Brooklyn and is now somewhere on Long Island.

🔫🌼 Always has been.

I’ve only ever heard that term used in Cajun cooking, where it refers to onion, celery, and bell pepper.

The version with carrot is mirepoix.

Looking at you Windows 11

Yeah, I got a new laptop recently with no intention of using the pre-installed OS, but I wanted to boot it up once just to make sure all the hardware was working.

It may have actually taken longer to figure out how to create a local account on W11 than to wipe it and install Linux.

Looks like wood sorrel (oxalis) to me.

That said, I’m here from All, have no expertise in identifying plants, and am doubly unfamiliar with Australian flora, so take the above with a biiig grain of salt.