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HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?English8·26 days agoWe speak Mandarin at home and microwave in Mandarin is 微波 “way bo” (literally means “micro wave”). To “microwave” as a verb usually gets shortened to the first character in colloquial speak. We 微 “way” our leftovers.
微波 means microwave as in that particular frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum. When referring to the kitchen appliance as a noun, we specifically say 微波炉 “way bo lu” which means “microwave stove.”
Additional fun fact: If you think it sounds like Weibo the website, you’re right. It has almost the same pronounciation but has a tonal difference on the second character. Weibo means “micro blog,” same first character but the second character is 博 which is a loan word for blog.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the modern design trends you hate most?English2·26 days agoWouldn’t that also mean that when the file gets overwritten, i.e the next time the system hibernates, you can potentially run a data recovery program on the C filesystem to leak its previous contents since modern filesystems don’t necessarily immediately overwrite the underlying data anymore, but usually just change the regions on the drive the file points to? So you could have ghost memory dumps hiding out in your free space just waiting for malware to access. You can definitely recover data from the free space of a Bitlocker volume because the encryption is transparent to the filesystem.
This is also why I don’t like swap files and always disable them (or use an OS like Fedora that doesn’t have them by default), because it kind of defeats the point of only storing some data in RAM for security.
I could just be ignorant of how memory files in storage are managed though.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the modern design trends you hate most?English2·26 days agoAlso doesn’t hibernate write your RAM contents to your disk? That sounds like a great way to leak your passwords and encryption keys in plaintext. Also you need to always reserve the same amount of space on disk as your RAM and can’t use that space for anything else on the off chance you might want to hibernate.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Pineapple on pizza is always hotly debated, but do you think Pineapple belongs on a burger?English3·27 days agoApologies, I should have made it more clear that I was talking in general and not directed at you or this post specifically.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Pineapple on pizza is always hotly debated, but do you think Pineapple belongs on a burger?English71·27 days agoJudging people on the kind of food they like is literally the dumbest shit ever. You’re not the one eating it so why do you care?
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People of Lemmy, what does your egg carton look like? No fair changing the setup for the picture.English31·27 days agodeleted by creator
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People of Lemmy, what does your egg carton look like? No fair changing the setup for the picture.English1·27 days agodeleted by creator
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you have “the” or “a” in your language? What language is it?English7·28 days agoMandarin:
No “the,” you just say the noun and that’s it.
“A” or any other quantity of a noun is generalized as a number, followed by a character indicating quantity, followed by the noun. “An apple” is 一个苹果 (yi ge ping guo), 一 literally means one, 个 is the character that denotes quantity (it’s the most common one but some nouns have different quantity adjectives), 苹果 is apple. Two is an exception because there’s a special character for it that’s different from the number two (两个苹果 as opposed to 二个苹果), but every other number quantity is the same as the number itself.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it?English5·28 days agoI’ll bite, in what way are left wing incels different? Genuinely curious because I’ve never heard incels split into right vs left before.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it?English6·28 days agoPond scum is an extremely productive microecosystem. I won’t stand for you insulting it by comparing US soldiers to it.
Additionally, gonna hazard a guess that the majority of the protesters aren’t white or at least wouldn’t be considered white by the soldiers regardless of their skin tone. They’re literally protesting white supremacist actions by the government.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it?English155·28 days agoThe majority of gang members also grew up poor and joined a gang to get out of poverty. Does that make it justified?
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•You're old, but are you excited-to-buy-a-new-rug old?English3·28 days agoI’m in my 20s but I was excited to get a new rug last year because it was for my dog. Does that count?
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your favorite food of all time?English16·28 days agoFresh bread straight out of the oven.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it?English179·28 days agoThey’ve never had any problems with any of the other crimes against humanity they were ordered to do so why start now? They literally think they should be hailed as gods in the US and anyone who doesn’t is a traitor, you think they’d have any qualms about killing protestors when they’ve already been told that they’re anti-US terrorist scum?
It’s literally the exact same tactics the IDF uses. Wonder who Israel learned it from.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What, if anything, are the Democrats doing to stop Trump and his cronies?English26·28 days agoThey’re complying.
That’s what they’re doing.
Prioritize having it fit your needs best instead of pleasing other people who don’t even live in your home. Don’t fret if it might look bad to someone else as long as it looks good to you, and don’t forget that functionality should come first. There’s so much BS styling for the sake of styling that make homes more difficult to actually live in and use the amenities of.
Also, I find that you get used to your home to the point where any decorations fade into the background so fast that it’s rarely worth it to spend a ton of effort to make it look pretty. You’re not going to appreciate or even notice it just a month or two after you redecorate.
“guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue”
Nosy people who can’t mind their own damn business really judge people for things as benign as this and don’t see any issue.
(This is directed at the poster of the tweet you linked, not you.)
橄榄 “gan lan”
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are the modern design trends you hate most?English9·1 month agoI’m on Linux which isn’t able to control the RGB lighting so it’s rainbows forever.
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