Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@TheAncestor
Isn't this that girl from DDLC?

@TheAncestor
I had no idea the word made it into so many foreign media... It feels like other people are using "strigoi" more then us.

https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Strigoi

@TheAncestor
You might find this interesting.

https://vampires.fandom.com/wiki/Strigoi

@TheAncestor
From romanian wiki: Vârcolac is a demon that eats the Sun and the Moon.

Holly fuck...

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A2rcolac

@TheAncestor
Apparently the word has slavic origins. I just looked it up out of curiosity. The word means: having the hair of a wolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrykolakas

I'm not a big fan of the Romanian language. I find English much more elegant.

One of the things that I absolutely love about English is how easily you can create brand new words, either through altering a prefix/suffix, or by merging or concatenating 2 previous existing words. And the end result sounds just as natural as any other English word.

You really can't do the same with Romanian. No matter how much you try, "băiat-pisică" doesn't flow as easily as "cat-boy".

We literally had to copy the word "weekend", because a literal translation would be "sfârșit de săptămână", which is way too long and unwieldy, and we just don't have a way to make a good alternative.

@wzqtparor@mstdn.io
2TB is enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwgyzX-76g

If Vee switched to making the exact same content, but in Romanian, I'd probably unfollow him.

@TheAncestor @RUSHIFA
Well... It's not unlikely. I started doing English in school, at an advanced level, from 8 years old, till 14 years old. I was probably already considered fluent at that point. After that, while I wasn't doing advanced English in high-school, the internet came in my life, so I've just been using it more and more anyway. About 90-95% of the internet content I interact with is in English.

@TheAncestor @RUSHIFA
Oh yes. I picked up English from cartoons and movies before I even learned how to read or write.

@RUSHIFA @TheAncestor
I was a bit shocked back then too, as I perfectly understood what she was implying, but regardless, the scene was and still is hilarious.

@Lumeinshin @GNUxeava
>They removed most 32bit back compat stuff...

I haven't used Windows 10 in recent years in a large enough amount to notice any of this. Usually I end up doing some installs for a cousin, and I haven't encountered any problems with 32bit software. Although, the only legacy software I deal with for him is Winamp (because I can't be bothered to teach him some other music app, and he can't be bothered to learn anyway).

I know about the 16bit removal from Windows 8, and even back then I remember hearing something about some work-arounds to keep stuff working. As always, Windows users were still adamant about keeping that stuff working.

Maybe they did start removing more back compatibility stuff from Win10, but so far I haven't managed to hear or witness any effects. I've got a secondary Win10 laptop, that I don't use much, but I've played a few games on it from around 1999-2001 just fine (in the last year). So whatever 32bit stuff they might have removed, clearly it wasn't that much.

@fluffy
I'll tell them how China made Western countries pay for technology than China stole from the very same western countries.

@Rasp
Nah. The original aesthetic of the show worked better to illustrate the silliness of having the Grim Reaper be the slave of a bunch of kids.

When Nvidia drivers crashed in Vista, people blamed Microsoft.
When Nvidia drivers crash in Linux, people blame Nvidia.

When your laptop's wifi doesn't work in Linux, you blame Intel.
When your laptop's wifi doesn't work in Windows, you blame Microsoft.

@icedquinn @GNUxeava
Their monopoly comes with a huge downside that they have to keep backwards compatibility for corporate users that refuse to update a lot of their software, but still blame Microsoft when things break.

Look at how many times Apple broke all compatibility without giving a shit. They just forced software devs to issue new updates or be excluded from working on future Macs.

Microsoft can't do that, because some of the software the corporate world uses can be decades old and no longer in development. They can't even be updated anymore. But the users still expect them to work, and they'll blame Microsoft alone when they don't.

Let me ask you something, how many times did you blame Linus Torvalds when a compile failed on Linux, or when an old version of a program can't install on a new distro? You don't. Nobody does. Linux is never to blame for these things. It's either the software developer for not maintaining it, or worse case scenario, the distro for doing something wrong.

But that's not how things work in Windows ecosystem. That's not how Windows users think.

Under Linux, if the user wants to use an old version of software, but it doesn't work anymore because of newer dependencies that break things, that's an user problem, that the user has to fix.
Under Windows, a similar issue will always be viewed as a Microsoft problem, that Microsoft has to fix.

And funny enough, even Linux users don't notice the double standard Windows is being subjected to.

And I'm sure you or someone will bring up the excuse of "well I pay for Windows, so I expect Microsoft to make it work! REEE".
And while it's true that you pay for Windows, the thing is, you pay for Windows 10, for Windows 10 technology, Windows 10 software support etc. You don't pay to have Win 98 era software support.
If we were to use Linux/Apple thinking instead, Microsoft should tell you to fuck off and use a 1998 PC with Windows 98 if you expect 1998 software to work. But Windows users don't accept that, and then they REEEE again.

I don't use Windows as a main OS for several years. I have my own criticism for Windows. I'm glad other people criticize Windows too. But I expect it to be fair criticism, that takes into account that Microsoft has certain restrictions put on them from their userbase that limits them in some areas of what they can do with their OS.