pcdandy

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by pcdandy 2y ago
edit: Looked further, found that the cause ultimately turned out to be the 'Allow notifications when mirroring or sharing the display' setting under Notifications, which was off by default. I use an external monitor almost the ent
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by pcdandy 2y ago
Late last year after an OS update, notifications in macOS mysteriously stopped popping up. They were getting triggered and could be seen by opening the right sidebar, but the banners were no longer popping up in the corner anymore. I had be
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by pcdandy 2y ago
> disappointed that so many people thought this was a good idea Perhaps it's more that Fulani speakers truly appreciated having an alphabetic script that is able to adequately represent the distinct sounds of their language without
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by pcdandy 3y ago
Reddit Is Fun (rif) was a well-designed app that just worked. It was fast, had a customisable user interface with defaults that didn't get in the way of enjoying the content, and could run on all of my devices easily, including an Andr
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by pcdandy 3y ago
> Growing up in 90’s and early 2000’s Slovenia, this sounds strange to me Perhaps my memory of primary school's a bit fuzzy in this regard, but the point I intended to make was that handwriting was an unpleasant but necessary thing
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by pcdandy 3y ago
I think the real problem with handwriting is the way it has been thought in school. Growing up in mid 2000s Australia, I recall it being thought largely as a rote learning exercise in which one repeats the same letters over and over again w
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by pcdandy 6y ago
Google's Noto project has a decent sans-serif Mongolian script typeface ( https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-mong ) that is pre-installed on newer Android and iOS devices.
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by pcdandy 7y ago
Chinese characters (hanzi) are not an 'archaic writing system'. While hanzi allows for the expression of meaning in addition to pronunciation, which is unique amongst the other writing systems of the world, they are also more phon