And even with a lid, it isn’t quite #7.

#7 is for things where there’s basically no distinction between the top and bottom. Even pies with a crust on top has a distinct “top” side, whereas the sides and bottoms are all pie crust.

#7 is for calzones, corn dogs, burritos, dumplings, pot stickers, ravioli, etc.

The only way to learn what something sounds like as a non-native speaker is to look it up or listen to someone pronounce it. There are no rules – or at least no useful rules, because any rule will have many exceptions. Even different English dialects differ in how to pronounce words. There’s simply no making sense of it.

For example, in many British English dialects, the “a” in “can” and the one in “can’t” are pronounced completely differently, despite “can’t” being a contraction of “can not”. It’s literally the same word, just with a different word afterwords, and yet the two get different pronunciations. There’s no way to guess at that being the case, or come up with a logical reason why. You just have to accept it.

How do you pronounce gnocci, gnat, etc? They may start with a ‘g’ but the proper pronunciation is just /n/.

And then there are the cases where two consonants combine to form another sound entirely: ph, ch, sh, th.

Do you mean “almost completely”?

What makes you think Google didn’t influence their decision making process? (Assuming that’s what you’re saying)

Mozilla, though getting funding from Google to make google its default search engine, officially decided to keep supporting Manifest v2.

For now. Google probably isn’t too concerned since they have a more than 70% market share, and nearly 90% if you count all Chromium-based browsers. Firefox has managed to do what Google wants, which is “exist” and “not meaningfully compete with Chrome”. If that changes, Google might lean on them harder.

“Partly funded by”?

Google contributed roughly 83% of Mozilla’s income from 2020-2023, and 89% of overall income since 2005.

https://windscribe.com/blog/windscribe-expose-mozilla/

I imagine the reason that Cloudflare is doing this now is that Google just got off with no punishment from their antitrust loss.

Anybody who competes with Google now has to worry that they’ll do to them what they did to Microsoft. And, with Trump’s DOJ, the government will probably just ignore it if Sundar Pichai shows up with a shiny bauble for Trump. So, I’d imagine that Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon (AWS, Twitch), and Meta, among others, might all decide to fund an alternative browser.

This is very encouraging:

Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team.

Browsers that rely on Chromium / Blink rely on Google. Firefox relies on Google for its funding, so any browser based on Gecko relies on Google. If they can make a browser engine that has rough feature parity with Chromium but doesn’'t rely on Google that’s very healthy for the web.

Or you could use a console-friendly editor like Emacs, then when you wanted a GUI-friendly editor you could switch to Emacs.

Text editors should be simple and approachable above all.

Why? I’d say they should edit text well above all.

That doesn’t help when you remember what effect the command had but nothing about what the command itself looked like.

But, why? Ctrl-R is right there.

I’ve been using it for a few months, and so far it’s not as good as just regular old command history. I think any benefit might be for really, really old commands, or commands happening in a specific location. So, I’m going to keep using it to see if it helps then. But, so far it’s a massive downgrade.

The worst is when you remember doing something before, but don’t remember enough details to be able to effectively search for it.

Although, even then, I’m not going to just mindlessly hit “up”. Last time it happened I fed my command history through grep and removed all the things that I knew the command wasn’t. Just removing “ls” and “cd” from your history cuts the number of commands down by 80% or something.

Thanks. In theory if I do change my mind and run Steam on my HTPC, it should work even if I don’t use Bazzite. But, for now, I’m going to aim for keyboard control and Kodi.

It seems better now than it was a few months ago. Back then it actually locked up my machine if I triggered the bug. Now it just temporarily slows things down.

But, I haven’t gambled on running a few apps that would regularly trigger it just in case. What’s funny is that modern Steam games are no problem, but it’s running emulated games using Emulation Station that causes problems. Games from 2024, no problem. Games from 1984? Hey, that’s pushing it.

On the HTPC you’re running Bazzite? Do you play games on that machine?

I’m planning on setting up a HTPC, but I won’t use it for gaming. I was thinking of setting it up to run Sway because I think I’ll mostly be using Kodi which has good keyboard support, so why not try to do everything in a keyboard-friendly way.

Yeah, there’s the KDE version, the Gnome version, the Sway version, the Budgie version and the Cosmic version.

There’s also uCore as a server OS, but I haven’t looked into that very much.