Microphone is shorted to “mic” not “mike”.

It’s pronounced “gif”

Rating things on a numerical scale is pointless and only meant to give the false impression of some objective standard, when really knowing what the person meant requires knowing what their tastes are anyway

If you’re gonna review something, just give me insight into your personal tastes, and then tell me whether you liked it or not

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements because they allow greater representation of precision without having to do any +/- bullshit.

For instance, if your measurements are precision to half a meter, in decimal you either have to record it to the nearest meter, imply your measurement is five times more precise than it is, or do something like “1.5 meters +/- 0.25 meters”.

Wheras fractional measurements allow you to just put the precision as the denominator. Just don’t reduce your fractions.

Please spell and punctuate correctly, and don’t use “common use” as an excuse to hide your egotistical unwillingness to learn.

Question marks are for questions.

You do not need to bless people when they sneeze, ever. That’s all, thank you.

Browsing a thread like this is far preferable to doomscrolling through the actual news feed on the frontpage of Lemmy/Reddit.

I like to eat my breakfast and have my morning coffee while I scroll the internet a bit, and it always leaves me feeling worse off. But if I scroll through a bunch of weird user-written opinions that nobody is really taking seriously… far better time, left feeling much better off.

White trim on houses make them look cheap/bad. You’ve got every color in existence paint your house something interesting.

I don’t like small tiles. I prefer wood, carpet, cement and smooth large tiles.

I have a few, I’m sure, but the one that comes to mind is my hatred of PDFs. Or, I suppose more accurately, the things people choose to use PDFs for. If something is not primarily meant to be printed, then a PDF is a suboar choice to something like HTML. Worse, virtually EVERY place you’re getting a PDF from is already a website so they already have the ability to give you HTML.

You can create a single HTML file, embedding all images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. directly into the file. Then you can open it in your browser. It works. It’s easier to read too, unless you want to print it. I would argue that in the vast majority of cases they actually aren’t being printed. And get this, you can actually print HTML files too, ya know. So PDF is really only better if you need to print something with a very specific and strict layout, like a brochure or something.

“But Jackby, I use PDFs and I love printing them”

Okay, that’s fine, I just think you’re the exception. I think most people open them in browser or some PDF viewer and never print them ever.

My favorite response to this opinion was someone telling me that having all the CSS and JS in one file makes it load slower. Like uh, off my computer? Because I’m talking about distributing the file itself, not hosting it on a website. I think web folks just latch onto best practices for the web.

Inspired by u/_NetNomad@fedia.io comment, loaded fries defeats the purpose of fries because they become soggy every time at which point you’re basically just eating a baked potato.

We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.

If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…

Also, toilet paper direction is a personal preference and is often driven by needs like pets and toilet/wall distances.

Understanding an argument doesn’t mean you agree with it.