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mtchristo , to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

OEM have no incentive to ship Linux in their laptops. Plus they get discounts from Microsoft for using windows. So that's not gonna happen

mtchristo , to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

Microsoft is so confident in its desktop marketshare that they allow themselves to push the overton window on what users will tolerate.

The only competitor they can lose users to is Apple. And even then not everyone can afford an Apple computer, especially in the rest of the world

mtchristo , (edited ) to Android in Pixel 8a joins the LineageOS 21 build roster

LineageOS kinda dead these last years they only do pixel phones. While the hoards of people using android are buying Samsung's and Xioami's budget phones

Edit: after reading the comments. I checked again and was surprised they have updated the list with newer models they weren't on the list a few months ago

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in What's the reason for the empty comments, lately?

Are you using the eternity app ?

Cause I have noticed deleted comments showing up as blank. While on the web version the show up as "deleted by Creator"

mtchristo , to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

We need help communities on Lemmy. That's what is going to make it rank in SEO and fly. Communities like software help (office, adobe creative products, etc), financial help and advice. And ask docs communities.

Memes won't help SEO rank.

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

You do you. And you have to take into consideration what your goal is by learning Arabic.

Dialects are definitely easier to learn and more rewarding as it allows you to converse with people and test your advancements. But you won't be able to easily transition to another dialect. Because MSA is the glue that make the intelligible.

Learning MSA will take you triple the time. And I imagine your teacher is both proud of his dialect. But also doesn't want you to drop learning if you were to have chosen MSA

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

We only refer to MSA when talking about Arabic. Most Arab speakers consider dialects side languages to Classical Arabic. They have never had a transcription throughoutout history. People started writing in their dialects only recently with the arrival of SMS and the internet.

I get that as a new comer to Arabic you probably have come across learning materials for dialects like Egyptian and levantine. But in reality you won't find uni courses for those dialects because academics don't consider them to be proper languages with clear grammar and an established vocabulary.

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

Languages with phonetic writing in the modern day likely achieved that through a language standardization process that included spelling reforms.

Not Arabic. It is pronounced as it is written. Except a handful of words that have a different transcription to make them easily distinguishable.

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in When you stopped caring about staying in good shape?

Those women don't deserve you. Live your life for your own enjoyment. But keeping a healthy weight is important to enjoy your later life.

mtchristo , to Technology in In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs

Aren't apps on android hermetically sealed from other apps and malware. How could this be achieved ?

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?

I struggle to make my mum take my advice about subjects of my field of expertise for which I had spent 5 cruel years at Uni. So I am at peace now not being able to make my point across the internet.

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?

The problem with Lemmy and with reddit too. Is that conversations Die off or stale too quickly. Reason being most engagement happens with older more upvoted comments. And newer contributions don't benefit from the same exposure. Which doesn't give much incentives for people to comment. Which in return deplets the platform of its userbase. Lemmy apps should ship with viewing newer comments by default to combat this. And Lemmy users should also change this setting in their apps.

mtchristo , to Ask Lemmy in What's the best sandwich in the world?

Shawarma sandwich

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