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OsrsNeedsF2P , in Be mindful of allergies lads

Browsing this community is honestly like the reverse of learning

THE_ANON ,

You unlearn things

Quadhammer ,

A learnest man

hikikoma ,

Eventually your brain turns to mush and you’re just stuck with an ahegao face.

CADmonkey , in it really makes sense

So, the bonus goes to the guy who was playing Factorio when he should have been working?

Land_Strider ,

Isn’t Factorio very optimized, not in the sense that it uses all system resources completely, but in the sense that it has very efficient code enabling millions of operations and increasing without needing much more system resources to scale it?

I would definitely go with Arma in this case. Although it has very heavy calculations for a lot of things to start with, it can’t scale well and cause CPU bottleneck very soon.

dfc09 ,

Factorio definitely taxes CPU usage heavily if you’re building a mega base. Don’t get me wrong, it’s gotta be a big ass base, but you could just import somebody’s monstrosity and run it in the background.

AngryCommieKender ,

Join a Space Exploration server and help optimize that mess, lol

Nommer ,

cries thinking about circuit network rocket controls

SaltyIceteaMaker ,
@SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

So i played through factorio once and i gotta say cpu isn’t that big of a problem. Ram is tho. Had 20% cpu utilisation in my end base but like 80% ram usage. I had 16 gb at that time, i specifically bought 64 gb just to make sure i can play factorio without problems😂

AngryCommieKender ,

Watch Nilaus Mega base Master class videos. CPU matters once you’re building city blocks at a time

kuberoot ,

It is pretty well optimized. I think it might not be, like, genius-level amazing, but the devs care about performance and worked to improve it.

In the end though, it’s a game where the entire map (as generated so far) is simulated - I think there’s cases where chunks go to sleep, but it’s not Minecraft’s “stop simulating anything not next to a player”. When combined with players building lots of machines moving many, many items around, you’ll inevitably end up with some serious CPU usage. Not a problem on a decent computer, but I have had friends struggle on weak laptops, even getting dropped as they literally couldn’t keep up with the server.

aBundleOfFerrets ,

You can always use the gamespeed command to lighten the load on slower clients

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Modded minecraft bb

MintyAnt ,

Just boot up a modpack, that will max out all resources for a solid 10 minutes during launcher startup

ryathal ,

If you want to crush a cpu it’s Dwarf Fortress time.

TrickDacy , in hypocrite.

Strawman.

What people are justifiably concerned about is pollution causing death and disease. Fuck off with this hYpOcRiSy bullshit

Dazza ,

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  • TrickDacy ,

    OP is minimizing an actually very important issue. They may as well work for an oil company (and they very well might)

    LinkOpensChest_wav ,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

    That’s a reeeeaaaal stretch, and I think you know it lol

    Seems to me more likely that OP is supporting veganism

    smotherlove ,

    Why?

    balderdash9 ,
    cashews_best_nut ,

    Guarantee the person who made this is a vegan.

    threeduck ,
    @threeduck@aussie.zone avatar

    You’d hope so, the more the better for the planet

    victorz ,

    You’d think so, until you hear the rebuttals to this that never ever get brought up by the media.

    WldFyre ,

    What are some of these “rebuttals”?

    victorz ,

    For example that producing and shipping the pure amount of mass corresponding to the same amount of nutrition in vegan foods vs dairy/meat products is not sustainable, because plant based foods contain so much less nutrition than animal products. You have to level and destroy forest habitats to grow all these things for 10,000,000,000 people… That’s an infant amount of plants.

    And a lot of foods that claim to be “good sources of protein” don’t really… contain much else, like meat does. Some are even harmful in large quantities like too much soy in your diet, especially to children.

    I dunno, these are things I’ve been told. Just the messenger so take with a grain of salt. But I thought they were interesting points that shouldn’t be ignored and should be disproven before dismissed. I just have too much going on in my life to worry about researching it right now. 😓 But one day maybe!

    What do you think? I think this topic is definitely more complicated than “let’s fix/save the world by going vegan”.

    FIST_FILLET ,

    who do you think pollutes the waters? you get 3 tries but no phone-a-friend

    Tavarin ,
    @Tavarin@lemmy.ca avatar

    Mostly China and India.

    tonyn , in Bad day
    ininewcrow ,
    @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

    According to AI … this is anatomically correct

    MartinXYZ ,

    Wow. Her neck-area is all kinds of fucked.

    harry_balzac ,

    I really hope so. Any other interpretations and extrapolations would probably just make me feel sad and disappointed.

    ohlaph ,

    What a majestic piece.

    LemmyKnowsBest ,

    okay now do one where it’s the edge of a sofa.

    TimeNaan , in Wooden spoon

    Aneurysmposting

    SnokenKeekaGuard ,
    @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Honestly this should be a community.

    makingStuffForFun ,
    @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

    Birth of a community

    Diprount_Tomato ,
    @Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world avatar

    A of birth community

    PinkyCoyote ,
    @PinkyCoyote@sopuli.xyz avatar

    !aneurysmposting

    And now it exists!

    Tetsuo , in I asked Microsoft's image creator to create "Godzilla in a 512k Mac game" and while this is not what I asked for, I can't help but be impressed.

    Well AI might destroy mankind but at least we had this.

    Worth it.

    VikingHippie ,

    At first I read it as “Weird Al might destroy mankind” and was extraordinarily confused 😂

    blackluster117 ,
    @blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

    He might! Would be one of my preferred endings.

    VikingHippie ,

    Yeah, if we’re going to go extinct anyway, we might as well have some fun doing it! You just KNOW Weird Al would be able to come up with a way of murdering us all so delightfully silly that we’d all enjoy it 😂

    TheRealLinga ,

    And there would definitely be polka involved!

    GratefullyGodless ,
    @GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world avatar

    The accordion apocalypse!

    ada ,
    @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    And spatulas!

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    If it goes that way I win a bet

    kautau ,

    That’s the secret ending. We haven’t unlocked it yet

    samus12345 ,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    Happy birthday

    Happy birthday to you

    Happy birthday

    Happy birthday to you

    Well, what’s the matter little friend? You think this party is the pits?

    Enjoy it while you can, we’ll soon be blown to bits

    The monkeys in the Pentagon are gonna cook our goose

    Their finger’s on the button, all they need is an excuse

    It doesn’t take a military genius to see

    We’ll all be crispy critters after World War III

    There’s nowhere you can run to, nowhere you can hide

    When they drop the big one, we all get fried

    Come on, boys and girls, sing along, okay?

    FlyingSquid OP ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    We did dare to be stupid.

    Tbird83ii , in But my WiFi is just fine!

    What’s the criteria?

    Speed and reliability? Snakeboi.

    Ability to move around unimpeded and/or taking a dump while being on Lemmy? $350 router with spikes.

    And if prison rules, I’m going router with spikes…

    mvirts ,

    Idk… I’ve got some pretty long snakey bois

    A7thStone ,

    Are you hitting the max yet? 100m

    lud ,

    There are also the glass snakey bois that you could use.

    GreatAlbatross ,
    @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk avatar

    Be careful though, glass snakes don’t like being coiled too tight!

    WrittenWeird ,

    I ran a 100ft snakey boi to my desk around the start of COVID and it’s still there.

    Bonus: switch mounted under desk feeds another 75 footer to kid’s room and PC.

    Only the best.

    uis ,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    I ran a 100ft

    It looks big, but it’s only 30 meters. It’s nothing.

    Piers ,

    If it’s anywhere near that long you should see a doctor.

    tpihkal ,

    SAME…ladies?

    Ya_Boy_Skinny_Penis ,

    Yo

    Rootiest ,

    Reliability 100% the snakeboi

    But for speed, WiFi can actually out-perform those particular snakebois in many scenarios.

    pedz ,

    In perfect conditions for Wi-Fi. I live in a high rise and the 2.4 Ghz band is hardly usable. My previous phone didn’t have dual band Wi-Fi and it was much faster on 4G than WiFi.

    Plus, modern routers and APs often rely on band aggregation and so even with devices that have dual band, crowded airwaves will have a negative effect on speed.

    Wi-Fi is very fast when I’m in my cabin in the countryside. But when I get home with the same devices, it’s barely usable.

    You could argue that I need a better router with the newest protocol and gizmos but so far, even with new bands and protocols, Wi-Fi is still a competition of which router and devices will shout louder than their neighbors.

    FordPrefect ,
    @FordPrefect@startrek.website avatar

    Yes, it seems painfully obvious that the primary driver of new WiFi router sales, is WiFi overcrowding.

    MystikIncarnate ,

    I would argue that the public needs to be better educated or at least saved from themselves with WiFi, however, nobody will be doing that. Having multiple lower-powered APs in a space can dramatically reduce how far outside of your premise the signal travels, and provide fast speeds indoors, however, it only takes one dummy to pick up a long-range AP, and put it in their apartment to ruin the wifi for everyone else around them.

    Unless we start EM isolating apartments, or get everyone to start using modern lower-powered WiFi with multiple access points for coverage, things won’t change. I largely consider it to be impossible to fix WiFi in large buildings; especially established apartment buildings. No company is going to spend on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz isolation insulation to be installed between units just for their renters to have better WiFi, and the general public as a whole… well, it’s basically a fool’s errand to convince everyone to do anything without government regulation, and bluntly, the government, made of the same idiots that make up the general public, isn’t any better and won’t be forcing everyone to “do it correctly”… so we get this dystopian landscape of WiFi for any high-density area.

    IMO, new builds don’t really have an excuse not to, it’s a trivial additional cost to install while things are being built, putting AP hookups in the ceilings, and WiFi blocking measures in the walls between units, but they still don’t, because cost. They want to spend nothing and collect huge rent payments for basically squatting on a plot of land.

    A7thStone ,

    Snaky boi is consistent

    v81 ,

    Nope. While WiFi has fancy claims you’re not going to get any more than around 1200mbps at 20 metres on the best day with the best gear.

    While with cat6 you’ll probably do 2.5gbps to 100m no problem, and even 10gbps. Even cat5e will do those speeds at certain distances.

    JudahBenHur ,

    I have a 10 meter cat5 cable I use for one application that can’t have any interruptions or lag.

    Calling it cat5 cable makes any woman who hears me want to leave their man for me. Good to see another king our there using the proper terminology, stay tight player

    Honytawk ,

    Cat5, what is this? The year 2000?

    At least use cat5e

    Confused_Emus ,

    cat6 or bust!

    gtaman ,

    U wont believe but its almost easier to get cat5e than cat 6 here

    PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

    Cat5e. What is this 2005? Use Cat9.

    FordPrefect ,
    @FordPrefect@startrek.website avatar

    Hmmm, that reminds me; I need to separate out all the old ones that say “10BaseT”

    JudahBenHur ,

    I did buy the cable around 2010 for cheap

    egonallanon ,

    Also WiFi is half duplex so you only get those speeds in one direction at a time.

    Rai ,

    Didn’t know that, thank you!

    uis ,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    Physical limit for 2.4GHz is 1.11 gigabits per second or only 143 megabytes per second AT ALL. For 5GHz it’s slightly more than twice as much, but still less than even shitty cat5e, that allows 2.5GBE at 100 meters or in certain conditions 5GBE.

    While with cat6 you’ll probably do 2.5gbps to 100m no problem,

    Cat6 is 5gbps no problem at 100 meters and 10gbps at 55 meters.

    Num10ck ,
    uis ,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    TLDR, Intel banned my country

    PixxlMan ,

    I have 0 faith that a router which doesn’t have high speed ethernet will ever be able to deliver such fast WiFi. If they’ve cheaped out on the ethernet I doubt they’ve splurged on WiFi most devices can’t use. And if you’re talking about fast ethernet, then WiFi is chanceless.

    MystikIncarnate ,

    “fast ethernet” is defined as 100mbps. I know what you meant, but there’s an actual industry definition for “fast” ethernet…

    Most of the marketing is showing a combined speed at 100% optimal conditions. Unless you live in a faraday cage and have 4x4 802.11 equipment on all of your 5Ghz devices, and 2x2 at least on all of your 2.4Ghz equipment, then do massive, consistent and continual one-way data transfers using UDP or something which doesn’t have window sizes and can support one-way no-reply transfers like with multicast, all with a perfect signal and the highest wireless PHY rates, you’re not going to even remotely see that much speed.

    tryptaminev ,

    What communitys do you browse that dont load satisfactorily with a normal wifi router?

    themusicman ,

    Normal router wasn’t one of the options

    uis ,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    Unless your toilet room just so happens to have a RJ45 socket in the wall. I know one that has two of them.

    rostby ,

    There are some pretty long snakebois in prison, there usually in the shower areas

    jaybone ,

    But router needs cable.

    EdibleFriend , in 89 stories 🤖
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    If any of them was going to tell this fucking joke it would be Bing

    ElCanut OP ,

    Bing would instruct you to jump

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar
    fitgse ,

    Do a flip!

    YoorWeb ,
    lud ,

    Yeah chatGPT is very boring. https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/304471be-d16f-4f99-857e-a9904c7562f2.png

    At least it understands sudo so that’s neat.

    tabris , in A And B

    I used to work in a new age shop that sold rock salt lamps. A woman came in one time to complain about the lamp she bought.

    Woman: My salt lamp was dusty and dirty.

    Me: Okay…

    W: So I took the rock salt off the base.

    Me: Hmm?

    W: And I washed it with hot soapy water.

    Me: Ah.

    W: And it just dissolved!

    Me: Yep, it’s salt.

    W: I want a refund.

    Me: laughs.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    This has me wondering if art supply stores have people coming in complaining that their pencil ran out of lead when they were in the middle of drawing.

    MightyGalhupo ,

    Yes, I have seen that first hand. Crayons too.

    vithigar ,

    Aren’t those things like the size of a fist? How long did she wash it for?!

    usualsuspect191 ,

    I’m guessing it just lost all of the desirable texture of the crystals

    BobbyNevada ,

    Im thinking she either just ran hot water over it, or decided to let it soak, only to come back to sea water in her sink.

    Tangent5280 ,

    lmao reminds me of that raccoon with cotton candy

    robocall ,
    @robocall@lemmy.world avatar

    I’d like to subscribe to more new age shop stories!

    spader312 ,

    You’ve been subscribed to New Age Shop stories. For just $1 a day receive a new story delivered every morning. Reply HELP for help, STOP to unsubscribe. Msg& Data Rates May Apply

    Everythingispenguins ,

    Stop

    Stop

    STOP

    STOP

    STOP STOP STOP

    WHY THE FUCK WILL YOU NOT STOP

    smeg , in “Rumblr”

    Violence with strangers? Fuck yeah!

    Swear words!? Fuck no!

    Bonehead ,

    It's not even really a swear word. Slightly vulgar, maybe, but "pussy" isn't on the same level as "fuck" or "shit". It's not even the same level as "bitch" or "turd". Ironic...the site was built by pussies...

    smeg ,

    Oh I didn’t even see that someone had blurred “pussy”, at least that could be explained by OP being a child and wanting to share this in the family group chat. I meant the fact that the original creator used “fck”*, like anyone who doesn’t have to deal with broadcasting regulations would ever have a reason to pointlessly censor themselves.

    Bonehead ,

    I didn't notice that...that's even worse...

    blanketswithsmallpox ,

    It’s funny because Fuck is really the only word that has limits for censoring still in the USA. It’s the one naughty word on radio they can’t use.

    N bombs? Other racist slurs? Shit, ass, pussy, cunt, all okay.

    Not fuck though. Never fuck. Even YouTube is controlled by fuck.

    camr_on ,
    @camr_on@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s simply too f***ing powerful

    blanketswithsmallpox ,
    BruceTwarzen ,

    Americaaaaa. Guts exploding on tv: that's nice. A boob on tv: not even the elders themselves are ready for that level of porn.

    Enk1 ,

    Have you actually watched TV in America in the past decade? We take our violence with all the boobs we can get these days.

    mapiki ,

    But beware the nipples.

    irreticent ,
    @irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

    Nah, beware of the penises. Plenty of nipples can be found, but full frontal male nudity? Sacrilege!

    Lophostemon , in Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is.

    The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

    The modern game and all its hideous capitalist/ classist cultural connotations is fucked.

    Aux ,

    Tell me that you’re poor without telling me that you’re poor.

    dorron ,

    Tell me you’re an asshole without telling me you’re an asshole.

    Aux ,

    Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Hating poor people is as American as you can get. You should fit right in.

    HikingVet ,

    Well, not American, but I can tell you are a Classist asshole.

    irmoz ,

    Uh, what?

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    How dare someone be poor! Anyone who makes that choice is doing it to be offensive!

    mriormro ,
    @mriormro@lemmy.world avatar

    Why does it matter if they’re poor or not?

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Didn’t you know? If you’re poor, you’re supposed to be ashamed of it because it means you didn’t try hard enough to not be poor.

    Sammy ,
    @Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Drag’em, squiddy

    Lophostemon ,

    Jesus HATES poor people. It’s the American Way!

    hydrospanner ,

    Basically what they’re really saying here is that anyone with money would agree with them and have no issues with the negative impacts of golf because it’s something that all financially well-off people enjoy. Therefore, if you have any issue with golf in any way, it must be because you don’t have the money to enjoy it, because every single person that ever lived is in love with golf, and the only reason anyone might have for not golfing is lack of funds.

    Of course the nonsense needs no explanation, but that’s the angle they were going for, and why they’re rightly being ridiculed for it.

    Sharkwellington ,

    For someone who spends so much time talking about growing up in poverty, this is a surprisingly callous thing to say.

    Aux ,

    Poverty sucks. Don’t be poor.

    dependencyinjection ,

    Depression sucks. Don’t be depressed.

    Does that work too?

    Aux ,

    Ofc.

    irmoz ,

    You have to be joking.

    vivadanang ,

    tell me you’re a classist prick with more money than sense, oh no, wait, you’ve already done so.

    Mr_Fish ,

    The original game as invented by bored semi-drunk Scots was, I’m sure, a good laugh several hundred years ago with wee sticks and a random round thing.

    Robin Williams did a great bit on this.

    youtu.be/14NQIq4SrmY?si=kv-5NtoSsdtBs3p0

    Lophostemon ,

    Thanks I’ll have a look.

    Diprount_Tomato ,
    @Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world avatar

    Cope harder

    gibs ,

    I have it on good authority that golf was in fact invented by Bandrobas Took during the Battle of Greenfields.

    LemmyIsFantastic ,

    🙄 modern home is just as accessible as any sport that requires gear eg hockey. Even more so. You folks just looking for enemies.

    LillyPip , in x last night

    They spelled ‘eat’ wrong.

    4onTheFloor ,

    We hungry!

    photonic_sorcerer ,
    @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yeah but then you couldn’t get that timely ‘X’ in there.

    mryessir ,

    Let me introduce you to him: sh.itjust.works/comment/1700891🤣

    crazyminner ,
    @crazyminner@sh.itjust.works avatar

    AXE THE RICH

    WarmSoda ,

    Yes! Bombard them with body spray!!

    vaultdweller013 ,

    Dear god its a highschool boys locker room!

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    My noses! They die!

    Stez827 ,
    @Stez827@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Bro how many noses do you have

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    None anymore

    Stez827 ,
    @Stez827@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Damn big L

    BenHM3 ,

    Ze goggles, zey do nothink!

    XEAL ,

    Delete the rich

    Extinguish the rich

    A7thStone ,
    PunnyName ,

    Execute?

    owenfromcanada , in math checks out
    @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

    It depends on their window.

    If they include call volume data back to the Neolithic period in their calculations, then yes, call volumes are higher than average (the average being 0.001 calls per century, rounding up).

    Pretty sure that’s how they do the math.

    hemko ,

    Or just let’s assume the phones are open 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. The average call volume would be drastically lower than during business hours

    Mirodir ,

    It’s even simpler. A strictly increasing series will always have element n be higher than the average between any element<n and element n.

    Or in other words, if the number of calls is increasing every day, it will always be above average no matter the window used. If you use slightly larger windows you can even have some local decreases and have it still be true, as long as the overall trend is increasing (which you’ve demonstrated the extreme case of).

    dan ,
    @dan@upvote.au avatar

    It’s even simpler. They just lie about and always say it’s higher than average.

    Zink ,

    Yeah it’s fun seeing people figuring out which loophole companies use. Is it really anything other than they save a tiny bit of money by not giving a shit about your experience.

    Mirodir ,

    Eh, nothing I did was “figuring out which loophole [they] use”. I’d think most people in this thread talking about the mathematics that could make it a true statement are fully aware that the companies are not using any loophole and just say “above average” to save face. It’s simply a nice brain teaser to some people (myself included) to figure out under which circumstances the statement could be always true.

    Also if you wanna be really pedantic, the math is not about the companies, but a debunking of the original Tweet which confidently yet incorrectly says that this statement couldn’t be always true.

    then_three_more ,

    They’d just need to include the call volume for when they’re closed. Open 9-5 but take the average over a whole 24 hour day.

    Dagwood222 , in Big booty girl meteorologists are best meteorologists

    True story.

    Work TV is on the local news channel but the sound is off. Guy is watching the girl presenter. When the commercial comes on he says “Man, that weather girl is hot.”

    I tell him she’s hotter than he realizes.

    He asks how can she be hotter than he knows.

    I tell him that she was doing a traffic report, not the weather.

    lowleveldata ,

    Because traffic is hotter than weather? How does this work again?

    kindenough ,
    @kindenough@kbin.social avatar

    Tarmac can be really really hot.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    Depends on the weather, though…

    Dagwood222 ,

    Because there were clues in the background as to what the report was; such as a banner saying ‘traffic report.’

    He ignored everything that was unimportant.

    Kusimulkku ,

    But how does that make her hotter though

    PenisWenisGenius ,

    The temperature inside your car’s engine is usually hotter than the outside weather.

    Viking_Hippie ,

    Even if it’s an electric car an you’re crazy enough to be in Arizona in July or Australia in January?

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot , (edited )

    Unless you keep your car in an air-conditioned garage its engine is generally going to be at least as hot as the outside weather.

    ImplyingImplications , in A handy reference

    These are a dead giveaway that someone speaks English as a second language. You can tell right away because they never mix them up. Native speakers use whatever they’re hearts desire.

    ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
    @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ve seen non native speakers use better grammar than native speakers

    fushuan ,

    Thatsthejoke

    ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
    @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

    Fuckin whoosh on my ass

    Betch ,
    @Betch@lemmy.world avatar

    Hah, funny. As a non-native speaker I never mix them up as I am very conscious of it when I’m writing. I’m also often translating from French in my mind to English on “paper” which helps differentiate all of them since they don’t sound the same in French.

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    If you are a proper stereotypical French speaker though, I bet you confuse “actually” with “currently” all the time ;)

    Betch , (edited )
    @Betch@lemmy.world avatar

    Currently I don’t

    Edit: Is that a thing though? I really don’t think I do.

    Edit 2: Took a second to think about it and yeah I guess because actuellement translates to currently it could be mixed up but I don’t think I have or have I ever heard anyone mix those two up. I also speak English since I’m like 5 years old though so maybe I would have at some point but I can’t say I do now.

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    Being a German, my fellow countrymen have the same problem as the French, I hear the mixup a lot in my work environment :) We use “aktuell” for currently. But yeah, I have not spoken English from quite such an early age as you, but that particular mistake I also don’t make. I feel it’s the kind of mistake that people make for whom learning the language was a “necessary evil” / chore in order to succeed professionally or accomplish some other goal. People who actually enjoy learning a language will not keep repeating the same mistake if they can regularly witness native speakers using a word differently.

    Betch ,
    @Betch@lemmy.world avatar

    I feel it’s the kind of mistake that people make for whom learning the language was a “necessary evil” / chore in order to succeed professionally

    Ahhh yeah that would make sense, I do love languages and have always found them fun. I also grew up in a bilingual area. My little village is French but most surrounding towns/cities are English speaking and was immersed in it from a very young age. I actually learned English mostly to argue with the kid next door who only spoke English (and from a whole lot of American English TV.)

    basxto ,
    @basxto@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    From wiktionary:

    In most Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages the cognate of actual means “current”.

    needthosepylons ,
    @needthosepylons@lemmy.world avatar

    Another French here. That’s definitely a thing!

    eager_eagle ,
    @eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

    True, my pet-peeve as an ESL speaker is that native speakers write it’s instead of its all the time. They could make it right and save one character, but nope.

    Aphelion ,

    As a native speaker who has to write grammatically correct, professional communications all day, it drives me crazy other native speakers can’t be bothered.

    krashmo ,

    I’m pretty particular about my there, their, and they’re but what you described happens to me all the time. My phone defaults to using “it’s” and, unlike many other scenarios, I don’t feel like correcting that one is worth the time it takes to do so.

    garbagebagel ,

    My phone is smart enough now that it corrects it depending on the context. Not always but most of the time, like if it write “it’s his aunt” it does it automatically and also if I write “my life has had its struggles” it writes it’s at first and then corrects it once I finish the next word

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Whereas I’m extremely pedantic and edit my posts to correct such errors if I notice them later in the day.

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    As a non native speaker I almost always type “it’s” out before my brain autocorrect reminds me “that means ‘it is’” and then I have to correct it to “its” - it’s kinda counter-intuitive…

    eager_eagle ,
    @eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

    I get if you’re not paying much attention to it, but the apostrophe indicates a contraction, idk how that’s counter-intuitive.

    stankmut ,

    The apostrophe is also used for possession. For example, the DoJ’s lawsuit against Apple was filed Thursday morning or Adrian’s baseball went missing. It’s only backwards for its.

    4am ,

    The confusing part of “it’s” vs “its” is that “its” is a pronoun, and therefore its possessive doesn’t use the apostrophe, where as you use one with possessive nouns. So usually when you are writing you’re thinking about the possessive relationship, not so much about whether you are using a pronoun to describe your subject.

    “My Lemmy account’s username”

    “Its username”

    It’s funny because my phone defaults to adding the apostrophe when I just type “its” but if I follow it with a noun (or adjective) it automatically goes back and removes it.

    TrickDacy ,

    A lot of people would get “its” wrong anyway, but my autocorrect on my phone changes it basically every single time. Including just now. I sometimes don’t catch it, other times I don’t feel like fighting a touch screen to go back and fix it. Having said all that, it’s a pet peeve of mine too lol

    garbagebagel ,

    The one that really kills me is the apostrophe for plural stuff. My boss did a PowerPoint the other day with fuckin apostrophes all over the place. It’s not that hard.

    AnUnusualRelic ,
    @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

    And they also regularly use whatever vowel suits their mood. It’s like they have a vowels bucket where they’re all mixed up.

    xx3rawr ,

    My pet peeve is “could of”

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Ugh. That’s just immediately makes me cringe when I hear or read it.

    HopFlop ,

    I see what you did they’re at the end ;)

    Siegfried ,

    Well, native speakers are the ones that have decide what’s the future of the language. Maybe you guys think that each “form” holds irrelevant or redundant information and in a few decades you fuse them all into one.

    basxto ,
    @basxto@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Written and spoken language is usually not 100% the same language. And this is an error that comes up when you screw up converting homophone words of your spoken mother tongue into written language.

    FlyingSquid ,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Excuse me, but I am a native speaker and the misuse of those three or the various ‘yours’ annoy the fuck out of me.

    hash0772 ,

    I knew the difference between the multiple you’s when I just started learning English and was around the A2 level, but when I read someone write “you’re not your” to another person I thought your was not an actual word, so I used you’re all the time, even for some freelance translation jobs (lol). It’s really weird that someone who speaks English all the time mixes these things up, while a beginner knows all about these.

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