8mo ago

I really do want to know though

95 comments

Pedant warning: your last phrase should contain "than", not "then".
- Indeed. I literally never use the word "than". Fuck grammar, "than" looks weird.
  I never say "than", I say "then", therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.
  Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?
  Edit: I'm concerned for everyone who upvoted this
  
  It's not grammar it's an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.
  Edit - you know what, I'm leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.
  
  Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant "then" instead of "than", and the sentence will make little sense.
  The words "I" and "eye" sound similar, but if you write "eye" I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue. End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.
  
  Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn't laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.
  Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.
  
  I hope this does not affect your usage of effect in the correct context.
  As a former copy editor I find the effect of using affect incorrectly eye roll inducing.
  But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.
  The easy rule of thumb for then/than is that if you are comparing things or qualities or quantities of things, you use than, otherwise, then is used.
  
  You literally used the word "than" in your comment just now.
  
  The literal way to read what you wrote is to never ask Flatpak, in order:
  how it can download more
  the total file size
  The only reason no one thinks this is what you mean is because of how many people also mess this up.
  
  ~~"Language is fluid and constantly changing"~~
  Our education system is in the toilet and I didn't pay attention 😂
  
  Upvoted because you have the sort of can do won’t do attitude that made American English great. Emerald for dictionarian!
  
  Sir I have downvoted simply to help you reach a record know that in my heart it is an upvote.
  
  Hoink me with your yimyam flutings.
  
  I upvoted it because its nice for someone, anyone to be concerned about me.
  
  They reject u even though you spoken truest worders good are.
  Nobody who spoke English that read your sentence misunderstood what you said based and than vs then and that English doesn't have to be pretty to get the job done

Are you using a white theme terminal? I hope it's just an edited screenshot.
- White theme terminal
  
  You monster.
  
  Based and anti-dark-theme-cult-pilled
  
  Bantha Fodder
  
  What the fuck is wrong with you lol
  
  Consider Solarized Light, its is easier on the eyes
- Yes.
- Light theme used to be the only theme. People now need dark themes because they're eyes are too week from all the worke.
  
  please let your grammar be indication that this is satire

We'll update the 200 mb program.
not pictured: the other 500mb of libraries and dependencies that tag along.

I am learning flatpak. Can someone explain why is like that???
- Well, one part of it is that Flatpak pulls data over the network, and sometimes data sent over a network doesn't arrive in the exact same shape as when it left the original system, which results in that same data being sent in multiple copies - until one manages to arrive correctly.
  
  Could also be that the HTTP server lied about the content length.
  
  Hence why Fedora Linux actually recently removed delta updates for DNF. Turns out it used more data in retries than just downloading a whole package again.
  
  ?????? Retransmitted packets don't get counted towards downloaded file size
- something something ostree and how complicated the stuff it does actually is
  
  I mean ostree is just git for binaries, isnt it?
  But it will likely be the issue here.
- Shoddy implementation they can't be arsed to fix. They do all kinds of shenanigans like show the size of all locales but only download one, or the other way around, it does not count dependencies and then realizes it has to download something extra etc. It's all over the place and I've given up on it making any sense. I've just made sure it's on a drive with plenty of space and hope for the best.

I also enjoy needing to download 1GB to update a 14MB program
- The race never stopped. You buy an Apple II. It works for a while. Then everyone is running Lotus 1-2-3 so you gotta get an expensive 386. Now Windows 3.1 and 95 is the standard, and you need Internet too so you buy a modem and a Pentium machine for a couple grand. It's okay for a while. Then downloads take longer and longer, and your computer gets slower again, so you upgrade to 6mbps cable internet and an AMD athlon/Pentium 4, and Windows XP. It's okay for a while. But then games and software no longer fit on a CD ROM. They're using DVDs, and the space they take up on your HD is approaching tens of GB. Suddenly you need to upgrade to 25mbps internet and a terabyte drive to keep up with the space requirements and updates/service packs. You're on a multi core CPU now because nobody fucking optimizes shit anymore and assumes you have the horsepower to deal with it. Then they get rid of physical media altogether. Now you're stuck downloading a fucking several hundred gigabyte game or piece of software on a 100+mbps connection to do largely the same shit we did on that Apple II in 1980. Your system RAM alone can now hold all software ever made for that Apple II with plenty room to spare.
  I get why a lot of retirees in the industry want to burn their computers and take up farming.
  
  I want to do that, but not because of Flatpak. That's incredibly far down the list of things I find offensive in my professional life. At the very least it does fulfill some sort of purpose and also doesn't cost any money to use.
- Flatpak runtimes need to be damn unified. There needs to be one, and instead of a KDE one just have separate runtime parts.
  Currently using 3 (and if I would use Fedora Flatpaks, 4) runtimes. It is okay-ish, but where are all the optimizations?
  I have to say Flatpaks run fine on very old hardware though.