They and them can both be used in the singular.

Yeah I get that.

And it doesn’t need to refer to a non-binary person.

Is it correct to switch pronouns every other time when referring to a non-binary person? Serious question.

nice repost

but if someone installs arch then complains that it broke because they didnt check the news (something that the maintainers recommend you do) then the blame/fault shifts to the user, not the system.

The question is though why pacman does not display these news during the update. Gentoo has been doing this for decades.

they just said

He even tied me up

them ontop of me

He got really worried

I am next level confused, why are you alternating pronouns? Or are these multiple people?

Indeed I am always disguested when someone says “send a mail”.

Maybe this is more common when English is not your native language; e.g. in Germany, “mail” is “Brief”, and “email” is just “E-Mail” or more short “mail”, because no one says “elektronischer Brief”.

Interesting to see his take on “e-mail” vs “email”.

So that might just be the origin of this language butchering you observed; as “email” means something different in various languages, lots of people who don’t speak English as their first language might have chosen to use “mail” for electronic mail. That is just speculation of course.

Download the music at home with yt-dlp, put it on USB and bring the USB to work.

I don’t know where you are living, but in my place there are local “tech collectives” which are non-profit organizations that provide folks with an email address. Of course way too many people are still using gmail, but the alternative is there.

I think what’s worse is that you are basically forced to have one of those corporations email account for a smartphone, and nowadays you are basically forced to have a smartphone to participate in society.

I have been done with email for nearly a decade now, mostly. So, to answer your question, I use fax and snail mail. Not joking. I feel liberated and don’t give a shit about postage or inconvenience. There is still that exceptional 5% or so who I will exchange email with, which does not have GAFAM in the loop.

I respect that. Reminds me of Donald Knuth, who stopped using email in 1990: " I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address"

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

when email is effectively controlled by major tech companies,

That is not the case. We both can setup a mail server and email each other without any issues.

What alternative do you propose that is not based on some proprietary solution?