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I don’t mean IPA symbols (which I can’t read) but rather characters from a normal alphabet being used to phoneticise a word, e.g. excerpt is pronounced “[EK] + [SURPT]”. What would this be called? Letter-based phoneticisation?

I enjoy lurking but sometimes I would really like to be able to engage with points or learn more about niche® details :) Anyone want to give me a nudge in the right direction?

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I would like to have a browser with some long running tabs available at all time on all my workspaces – is there an extension for that?

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I use openvpn to connect to my server at home. When I surf the Internet or any of my apps on my phone go to the Internet while I’m on the VPN it’s going out to the internet from my server....

I am old enough to have witnessed the golden age of The Simpsons as it was happening, and I know that, even then, people thought it was past its prime. I was among the many who tut-tutted that it was trash beginning in the early 2000s, but… I was getting over being sick a week or so ago, and I gave myself an experiment that...

I’ve been looking around for some more communities to subscribe to and thought I should ask you guys

Both for users and community.

Hi, do you think lemmy would be as popular as Reddit ? I mean, many subreddits have much more posts compared to communities on lemmy… sometimes I scroll through Reddit sub top of month and see no end. At lemmy mostly I see 10 posts monthly… I do like concept of moving to lemmy, but it might make no sense if people’s are no...

Or why Lemmy is too much like hard work...

Not on a theoretical level, but how would you practically have to pay costs, access specialist doctors?

Which one do you prefer?...

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Just stared into a lemurs eyes for half a minute aparently (that felt like an hour) and it freaked me tf out. Since been staring into peoples eyes or animals eyes and its consistently weird and freaky no matter what. Also it feels like my conciousness is behind my eyes and maybe thats why they say eyes are the window to the...

Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.

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I’m currently on the Imac using Deluge as my preferred client - it just seems so much faster than (say) Transmission, which has recently been struggling to connect to other pirates on the high seas....

**Potential spoilers for both Castlevania Netflix in the comments **...