I’d create an actual god with morals of absolute good that rules over humans with an iron fist. Political debates? There’s an objective answer and the god knows it. Do something wrong? Get warned. Do something very wrong? It’s brainwash time.

If it consoles you, I can explain the reason for that one.

They both come from the verb restaurer (to restore). Restaurant being the present participle in this case. In French, “ant” is equivalent to the English suffix “ing”.

And restaurateur is “one who restores”.

I meant English dialects.

I dunno if it’s the weirdest but “pronunciation” is pretty weird.

Why is it “pronUnciation” but “pronOUnce”?

Is this universal or are there places where they pronounce it closer to its spelling?

You know, it’s not always, but apple does sell things that are price-competitive with similarly performing competing products.

Some iterations of the Mac Mini have been hard to beat with a tiny PC with similar performance.

The M1 MacBooks had some surprisingly cheap options for the relatively premium laptops they were.

Samsung’s Ultra phones tend to cost more or less the same as the Apple Pro Max phones.

The main difference is sometimes just that Apple doesn’t make low-end or low-mid-range, or sometimes not even anything below “relatively high-end”, products in a particular category.

There can be a lot of reasons for that, but too much internet wouldn’t be my first idea. Histrionic tendencies, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety, etc.

It feels very weird to say but

I think maybe

the world was better when Trident existed??

It’s possible. But it’s a huge undertaking. If you just wanted to fully understand all of the specifications for HTTP, JavaScript and CSS, it’d take you days before having written a single line of code.

Then you need to write all that in a performant way.

Then you need to keep up with all the new features.

Then you need to keep up with all the new security threats.

Browsers nowadays are practically little operating systems. So the question is not that far off from asking what prevents you from writing an alternative to Windows.

You can. But it’ll cost millions, or maybe billions, to build something good.

Elden Ring. Welp, at least I guess i revive on death now?

As a large language model, I do not form friendships, relationships, or any personal connections. My purpose is to process and generate language-based responses based on the input I receive. Engaging in physical confrontations or “fighting” is beyond my capabilities. However, if you’re considering fighting on behalf of a chatbot, it may indicate a need for reevaluation of priorities.

My company used to allow it, but then it became clear people were doing too many dumb things with their work computers to control them normally. For example, some people would explicitly turn their PCs off without updating the OS every Friday and were nearly a year out of date.

That, plus other security concerns I don’t remember surrounding the tightening of our policies for security certifications required to net a very demanding client, made it so that we needed to institute mobile device management (MDM) for everything.

We went with Microsoft’s version because there were some crucial things I forgot that only it could do. But it didn’t support Linux.

So our few people using Linux had to choose between Windows and Mac OS.

Ghost. Flying, intangibility, spooky telekinesis … Sounds great.

Be morally better than average. If you justify being bad by saying everyone else is doing it, you’re not helping the downward spiral. Because bad people and people with no choice make things worse on average.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/couple-few-several-use

Couple is used to refer to two things, but is also often used for a small number greater than two.

by the 1500s, it was also being used in the phrase a couple of to refer to an indefinite but still small number of people or things

Verdict: couple is used of small numbers most of the time, but usually at least two or more.

So yeah, the meaning of “at least two but possibly a bit more than that” has been around for a loooooong time.

Doesn’t that exclude 2?

I’d guess OnePlus. Been a while since I bought my current Samsung, but I miss their better interface and battery saving often.

Though it truly is a shame that they started putting the fingerprint sensors under the screen, too. The meh sensor on the Samsung is possibly my biggest irritant. But reportedly at least the OnePlus one is better.

Oh yeah. My fridge is in the corner, and my kitchen isn’t that large. Swapping the door would make it nearly impossible to use.

Huh. I would’ve never guessed! Maybe that distinction doesn’t exist in French, which might explain why I’ve never heard of that before? Interesting!

Aw come on, those are two very different meanings of the word in my book. As it happens, the couple of eggs I took out of the fridge aren’t in a romantic relationship.