Well, for most real-world programming languages, you do have to teach syntax. You do not have to use the word “syntax”, you can call it something else.

Obviously there are things like Scratch that are intended for your exact use case.

I don’t think you need to use the word “syntax” at all when teaching anyone basic coding. There are many ways to paraphrase the concept. It is kind of an odd question, why that specific word?

You mean the part about spinning counterclockwise?

In the original text form https://what-if.xkcd.com/42/ this was just a link to the comic, I guess that wouldn’t have worked in a video.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

That would cause me to miss many interesting threads that were created at a time when I happened not to be looking at Lemmy.

“New comments” it is for me, that causes threads to get bumped to the top as long as other people still find them interesting.

It doesn’t, but I’m curious too.

Is it part of the joke (“oversized”) that the comic is way too big for the page, I wonder…

Notepad: Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code. Or if you like terminal windows: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

Paint: https://www.pinta-project.com/ seems to have Windows builds.

Calculator: https://qalculate.github.io/ is the best I know of.

That is the opposite of what this thread is about.

Or you might, we just would have no way of knowing.

your first sentence not all verbs :D

Do you only want to geotag, without editing the files any further? If yes, you can do this on the command line with exiftool or exiv2.

If you are also going to edit your photos, then AFAICT darktable preserves all EXIF data, though I am not familiar specifically with the HDR data you refer to. It allows geotagging by dragging on a map.

The same applies to all other app stores, there won’t be any to move to.

I no longer use IRC; when I did, I used KVIrc near the end, which seems to still be getting releases.

I looked at the two complaints you linked to and at how those threads seem to be displayed on these users’ instances:

• https://sfba.social/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115267196743748430
• https://mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468

(edit: I don’t know why they aren’t displaying as links, but changing them to have a link text doesn’t help either, so I’m keeping them like this)

That looks the same as it has always looked, to the best of my knowledge. I’ve gotten at least one similar complaint before, from a Mastodon user who didn’t understand what they were looking at when they got a Lemmy post in their timeline. So I think the answer to your question is no, nothing changed, either it is a coincidence that you got two such complaints within a few days, or what actually changed is that your posts have (for whatever reason) become more visible on Mastodon.

on my work computer (Windows 11), I’m pretty sure this was the default and I didn’t have to configure it to do that? I use this all the time because part of my current job is to send screenshots to people in order to verify that software is working correctly. :D

Shotcut does everything I need and tends to “just work”, better than most others. I think I tried OpenShot once or twice and it didn’t work so well, but don’t remember details.

I can think of plenty that is arguably wrong with at least the GDPR: the definition of “processing of personal data” is so broad that it can arguably cover way more than intended, and the extraterritorial effect sets a precedent that governments can regulate the Internet beyond their borders. But that is off-topic here and I’m not exactly in a mood to write essays about it…

The DMA is one of the very rare examples where it’s a good thing that governments are regulating technology. Most of the time it is a bad thing, but requiring interoperability and sideloading – it’s kind of sad that it’s necessary to solve that by regulation and market forces alone don’t work, yet here we are.

then I have good news for you: https://linuxiac.com/ladybird-browser-team-selects-swift-as-preferred-language/