It's short for spermaceti whale.
Spermaceti is the name of the oil they produce for buoyancy/echolocation. Why is it called that? Because it was originally thought to be whale semen. Yes, really.
So many get this backwards.
The languages (there are multiple, including historical languages that explain the transition into the modern languages) came first - by about 40 years.
He did not invent languages for his world. He invented a world to explain how his languages would come to exist.
I made myself a wallpaper to force myself to study toki pona. Maybe someone else will like it too.
Since I went through the trouble of making this for myself, I figured I would post it in case it might be useful for someone else. Prices are in millions of credits, rounded to the nearest decimal.
The developers who created Lemmy are leftists, and they run the lemmy.ml instance. The lemmy.ml (.ml is for Mali, btw) domain was allegedly chosen because ML can also stand for Marxist-Leninist.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but lemmy.ml users are known for being tankies. People don't like that.
However, some of you whipper snappers don't know that those of us with really old accounts joined back when lemmy.ml was the most popular instance. I just like FOSS things.
Edit: added "allegedly"
If they're US American, a plane is likely the only public transportation they've ever taken. If they live anywhere remotely rural, it's likely the only one available to them.
Signed, -An American
Hello all!
My new phone (Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 running Android 14) keeps giving me this alert that an app is giving full screen notifications. The app in question is the freaking telephone app, which I of course want full screen notifications from! There's no option to disable the alert. (The two choices are "go to options" and "not now," by the way. And "go to options" takes you to the telephone app's notification settings.) I cannot seem to find a setting related to this, and I've disabled every Motorola app (including system apps) that I can find in the app list. Although, some of them don't allow disabling.
Anybody familiar with this by chance? I'm getting this stupid alert for every other phone call.
Thank you!
This is the "Lagrangian standard model" - the mathematical formula explaining basically all physics as we know it.
When you DON'T assume spherical chickens in a vacuum, this is what you gotta calculate.
Even if it did work, why would you do it? You'd still be playing League of Legends.
Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: "dick" is the German word for "thick."
You may now resume your laughter.
Before you get excited, it's an IndieGoGo project.
Selling drugs? Because, we've all been dealers before... I guess?
It's a type of fish, and they are making word plays with the name of the fish. Why? I'm not sure of the origin of this one. I imagine it's like the beans or the beef stroganoff memes - the origin doesn't matter much at this point.
No, they didn't. If they did it would be huge news.
It's a decent machine. If you haven't already, a €0 upgrade would be dusting it. For a little money you could get a tube of thermal paste and reapply it to both the CPU and GPU. If the thermal paste has never been replaced on either, then I would say it is time.
Other than that, I vote for trying out Linux on it. The system is good enough that you don't even have to aim for lightweight distros, I'd say. Try out any distro you like.
It should be good enough for a daily driver Linux PC with some mild gaming thrown in as well.
Although, If the hard drives are as old as the rest of the system, you may want to avoid storing important data on them.
Edit to add: if you have need for a smart TV, using this as a HTPC (home theater PC) could also be a good idea. The only thing you'd need to buy for this would be a wireless keyboard with a touchpad. And that's optional. (Although, I would highly recommend it since I use one with my HTPC, and it's great.)