[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 162 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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Vavilovian Mimicry (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 4 months ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

In summary, humans domesticated rye and oat ON ACCIDENT.

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submitted 9 months ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

This is a fun one to scroll through. Maybe somebody will enjoy it.

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submitted 9 months ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/toki_pona@lemmy.ml

I made myself a wallpaper to force myself to study toki pona. Maybe someone else will like it too.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 202 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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"

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submitted 1 year ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

It's a fresh install of 15.6 Leap that I downloaded and installed last night. Device is a 1st generation Surface Go. I just can't seem to get the onscreen keyboard to stay up when I swipe it up from the bottom.

Also, the keyboard does not appear when I click a text input box.

I thought maybe the long click of swiping up was triggering a right-click, but the problem persists when I disable the long-click option in settings.

I'm stumped. Everything else is working great. I really like that long-click right-click is working, and this is the first Gnome distro I've tried where Firefox touch-scroll works out of the box. And, in general, the system seems faster than other gnome distros I've tried. (The device isn't exactly a powerhouse.)

Thank you in advance for any replies.

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[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemmy.world

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!

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's a great manager, I'd imagine. He doesn't need to punish anyone for poor performance. He can just give them his signature look of disappointment, and they know.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is the "Lagrangian standard model" - the mathematical formula explaining basically all physics as we know it.

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-standard-model-equation?language_content_entity=und

When you DON'T assume spherical chickens in a vacuum, this is what you gotta calculate.

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submitted 2 years ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/rimworld@lemmy.world

I tried to make my duplicate as different from the original as possible, but they fell in love anyway

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submitted 2 years ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've tried to find them to no avail. I'm guessing the box sets just aren't made anymore, but I figured it's worth asking in case there's some obscure one out there somewhere.

To clarify, I'm looking for a more recent Linux version. I know the older ones can be found on auction sites and the like.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 152 points 2 years ago

Even if it did work, why would you do it? You'd still be playing League of Legends.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I remember finding them on the Internet somewhere in the early 2000s. I remember that Kimi was one of them, so it would have to have been after the second movie (Rugrats in Paris). Anybody remember these things? I can't find any details about them online.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 97 points 2 years ago

Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: "dick" is the German word for "thick."

You may now resume your laughter.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 126 points 2 years ago

Before you get excited, it's an IndieGoGo project.

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submitted 2 years ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/dnd@lemmy.ml

A dice tray or a set of dice is an obvious and universal choice. Anybody have any more ideas? Thanks in advance.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 93 points 2 years ago

Selling drugs? Because, we've all been dealers before... I guess?

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 years ago

No, they didn't. If they did it would be huge news.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

When I am making a post or a comment through jerboa, I am having a weird issue where if I backspace/delete, the text of the word I'm writing will combine with the word before it.

As an example, if I type

The quick brown foz

And I backspace to fix the typo, I get this

The quick brownfo

If I keep backspacing to fix the problem, it keeps combining words like this

Thequickbrown

It's very annoying and sometimes I have to delete entire sentences and start over. Also, if I have a wall of text and click somewhere in the text to make an edit, sometimes it will keep typing where I was before. Also annoying.

Does anybody else have this issue? It could be a product of my keyboard, which is Open Board from F-Droid. But I usually only have issues like this when trying to type my information into websites that aren't designed for mobile. (Fennec, if it matters.)

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submitted 2 years ago by janNatan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I chose my instance 9 or so months ago purely because it was suggested by the Jerboa app at the time. In lieu of making numerous accounts to access communities that aren't federated with my instance, I was hoping to make a second account with a very "federated" instance. Any suggestions?

Despite being here for a while, I've mostly been a lurker til recently and haven't learned a lot. Thanks in advance.

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