atocci

joined 2 years ago
[–] atocci@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Welcome To Night Vale-ass economic forecast

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Thank you Ryan Gosling, very cool

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ngl, this was the most fun I've had watching a movie in a long time. 100% worth it and the downvote button is not a disagree button 😌

[–] atocci@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you tried Zevia before? I'm currently drinking a Zevia root beer. Stevia is used as the sweetener instead of sugar or aspartame, so zero calories and no artificial sweetener.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In short, no.

What's changed here is now the Kindle and PC will actively communicate with each other during file transfers with MTP instead of the Kindle "pretending" to be a USB flash drive with USB mass storage. There are some important trade-offs that come with the switch to MTP but nothing that will stop you from transferring ebooks to or from a computer.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I like to rag on Amazon as much as the next guy here, but this article seems a tad misleading. They do still show up when you plug them in. The article even says they use MTP now instead of functioning as a direct USB mass storage drive, which means you can still plug them into your PC and transfer files though File Explorer. Android handles USB file transfers the same way, and that works fine.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

AWOL, OSHA, AIDS, ICE

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (9 children)

But why? We don't pronounce any other acronyms like that, so why treat GIF different? The U in SCUBA isn't pronounced like it is in Underwater. The first A in CAPTCHA isn't pronounced the same as in Automated and the CH isn't split up to be pronounced like Computer and Human. The second A in NASA isn't pronounced like in Administration and the I in PIN doesn't get pronounced like Identification.

We read acronyms as their own words, not as a collection of the first sounds of each constituent word.