Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the gardener spread out on my parlor floor
It’s hard to say it, time to say it
Dropped no eaves, dropped no eaves

Just to clarify, since Yezhov (listed above in the post you’re replying to) was the main architect of the Yezhovshchina, and was himself later a victim of the same Great Purge, did he do some hard self-reflecting and turn himself in?

Seems a little redundant when the article we’re all commenting on does precisely that.

Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it’s pretty much a guarantee that there’ll be corners that don’t make distinctions between at least two of these words.

There’s no such thing as “regular English” in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.

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The chart suggests that some time late into the day before yesterday, they had about -0.3 husbands.

I realize you’re joking, but the vehicles considered to be the first motor car and first motorcycle were both created in the same year, FYI - neither is a response to the other.

It always confused me that there was no Eorth Carolina.

The original Family Circus comic had the kid saying, “Grandma!,” for anyone curious.

They don’t hve extra pointy ears

But neither do elves, as far as we know.

Introducing the new pinePhone: wooden back, wooden buttons, wooden battery, wooden mainboard, and a revolutionary screen made of gorilla wood. You’ll never need a screen protector again!

Also addressed in the video! Neither I nor the video creator has any stake in what you choose to do, and I’d prefer not to rehash the whole video for you since it’s right there for you to watch if you’re interested in this topic, but the main points were generally about reducing subscription costs and gaining better control of content (e.g. no surprise removals of music, videos, and ebooks).

Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.

If you really don’t want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.

ultimate (adj):
from Late Latin ultimatus, past participle of ultimare “to be final, come to an end”

You have a more human ticketing system than any I’ve worked with if that’s an option!

the receptionist filed another ticket: “My keyboard is missing.”

Impressive. Voice dictation, on-screen keyboard, or they had a help desk that is actually slightly workable on mobile? (The third is imaginary.)

Psst… O, not O’ - it’s the vocative particle, not a contraction of of or on.

I like my iPhone. It’s solid hardware and reasonably capable software. It does everything I need it to do, and gives me really solid control over API access to privacy-centric controls like location and microphone.

I still wouldn’t skip a beat to switch to another phone manufactured by another company (though I regret how much of a duopoly there is). The inconvenience is minor; Apple just needs to give me a shove and I’ll switch.

The Start menu is C++/XAML, but the “recommended” section uses React Native for Windows. That still means a performance hit, but it’s got nothing to do with Electron.

Gil-galad was an elven-king;
Of him the harpers badly sing
For none can rightly say his name—
Jill misappropriates his fame