I’m studying a couple of languages that don’t have English as the native tongue. They provide no grammar notes.

The ones with native English do, but accessing it is not intuitive since you have to go to the Units view.

Red tape.

In my country the checkbox must be for opt-in. And it must start off unchecked.

I find brutalism beautiful. Wish we could have more of it in my country but solid concrete, especially preformed, performs poorly under shear.

It’s gotten so “brutalist” is almost synonymous with “earthquake-prone”.

I wonder what gun ownership would look like in 20 or 30 years if right now were enacted (and not thereafter repealed) a countrywide prohibition on advertising of guns & ammo, and on showing any firearms before the watershed and at any time in G- and PG-rated media.

Putting aside the reality that this could never happen because of frozen peaches and strawmen on slippery slopes, I strongly suspect it would do a lot to curb the fetishisation of firearms.

When I hover over the pipedbot’s link it looks like it goes to piped. But yeah, misleading link text.

Somewhere between chaotic neutral & chaotic evil here.

One of a pair as portrait, the other as landscape; laptop left-aligned with landscape & base-aligned with portrait for an appropriately unholy trio.

I also use workspaces and screen sessions for maximal WTFery.

When I’m in the zone, my heart rate slows, as do my breathing rate and rate of blinking. I forget about hunger, thirst, sleep, toilet, and all other problems. The only thing in the world is the thing I’m working on. Time passes unnoticed. Afterwards it all comes crashing back.

I get that when I swipe up, but not down. Maybe it’s a different launcher thing. I’m using Lawnchair.

On an A32 4G if I’m on homescreen I can swipe down anywhere to open notifications drawer.

If I’m in an app though yeah, it’s top or nothing

I adore pōhutukawa, Metrosideros excelsa. Gorgeous colours, heavenly scent when it’s in bloom, and the wrought branches and aerial roots give it such an evocative stance.

I’m also a fan of the wind-tortured gigantic Old Man Pine (Cupressus macrocarpa in particular).

Not in Australia, but good suggestion in some other countries!

I see the block of the birth certificates as being ostensibly in support of the prohibition of this practice, but I can also very well see the underlying intent as being anti- same-sex-parenting.

Further, I don’t understand why the practice should be prohibited in the first place.

So I disagree with it, but on the other hand I also disagree with it. Am just a filthy foreigner though so other than this comment I’ll keep it to myself.

I suspect the ban on disposable vapes will have some effect.

So would an age limit on nicotine-containing product purchases, but there’s less unanimity on the need for that.

Nah it’s been years since I was charged fees for eftpos.

Paywave though, the vendors are getting shafted for that since it’s credit. So of course they’ll pass it on

Those people always seem to ignore the fact that 5% increase on sod all is still sod all.

I like lots of space, hence small icons.

I like logical (to me) groupings in clearly defined and very separate areas. These features help me quickly find the app I want.

Rh screen with games

Lh screen with utils

Behind screen (if you think of it like a loop) with rarely-used things that I still want quick access to

I made the wallpaper.

Nova and some stock clock widget.

Who is in government with rank enough to authorise this violence, but doesn’t have the above-$10M to lose?