Others have pointed to the very slow development pace. I’ll point out something else. When I was first starting out with desktop, Linux enlightenment 16 was one of the desktop options but apart from looking very ‘different’ to KDE or Gnome, it was damn difficult to get it to look anything other than default. Other desktop managers came on in leaps and bounds but enlightenment just stayed where it was and from what I can tell still is where it was. Meantime, kde and gnome have had multiple major versions and forks. These days I use either xfce or cinnamon, depending on whether hardware acceleration is available. Fundamentally I want my desktop environment to be a launcher for my applications and a way to manage my peripherals and UI preferences. I don’t want to be looking at it or dealing with it or spending time thinking about it. I suspect that enough other people feel the same way

I think they might be trying for more than just one up

I have a Rocku streaming stick and it won’t work without an internet connection

Maybe they unzipped the archive? /S

This sounds like a client problem. Modern Lemmy has community blocks as part of the insurance user profile. Have you tried web client or another app?

Why not use GitHub for notes storage? That’s what I do

At 200mph

I thought the onion only posted satirical or parody stories, not real news

Toilet can mean the whole room if separate (i.e. no shower or bath) or just the appliance, depending on context. Can use loo to mean what Americans would refer to as ‘bsthroom’/‘restroom’.

A lot of ‘samurai swords’ in media are really just machetes frankly. The linked article describes

Gus Lawrence admitted to using his feet to bend his brother’s “prized samurai sword” into an L-shape while trying to break it, according to a bail memo.

Yeah it’s mall ninja kit.

The core problem is that many movies have the audio mixed for a movie theatre with multiple separately controllable audio channels. You might see this marked as 5.1 ; DTS; etc. In a typical home environment, you only have stereo sound. This means that the multiple audio channels have to be mixed down to two unless there is a separate stereo audio mix channel provided - basically never except commentary tracks. The shitty way to do it is to just take the left and right front channels which are mainly meant for sound effects and not bother to mix in the center channel which covers the dialogue. It’s still hard even if you mix in some of the centre channel.

Short version: asshole movie makers mix only for movie theatres, not stereo.

I’m missing where Russian Santa’s presents are shown, he mostly seems to be involved in surprise pyrotechnics

Given the recent Azerbaijan airlines disaster this really is cartoon level evil.

81 is current average US female life expectancy. Where would you suggest people ‘get old’?

Thanks and apologies I’ve edited this in my post

There are rather more than three Abrahamic religions, there’s also:

• Baha’i (Corrected)
• Rastafari
• Momormonism

Amongst others

Ok so almost 20 years ago, great. What about now?

Yup. Obviously a smooth brained idea

"Dear BBC, thanks for the illustrated article on our product. Our advertising and PR manager says it’s the best £2 we’ve spent all year’

Maybe they do crossover marketing?