Smiths and millers were common enough professions that basically every village had one but rare enough to be useful as a description. John the farmer would have been way too vague, leading to names that come from physical appearance, place of origin or relatives‘ given names.

It isn't very funny. (Sorry if my German is showing)

Celsius. That would be 86°F.

Many years ago I read the D book and really liked many aspects of the language. What kept me from using it was the ecosystem. They had three compilers and two different standard libraries, none of which were fully compatible with each other which led to a whole bunch of weird problems. These days it’s probably better. Maybe I should give it another chance.

We've had this kind of shit for decades. It's a manager's "make it more interesting", no matter if the executing side is a robot or an underpaid graphics design intern.

Wo? Wir sind heute schon bei 34 Grad.

Bin ich in der Tat. Wir hatten gestern Abend mal überraschend ein paar Stunden Abkühlung, aber davon abgesehen sind wir gerade mitten in einer Hitzewelle, bei der mir die Nina-Warnapp heute schon Alarmstufe rot gibt und es soll gegen Ende der Woche eher schlimmer als besser werden mit Fühltemperaturen deutlich über 40°C.

You asked about lemmy.world specifically. They are on lemmy but not on lemmy.world. People from different instances talking to each other is the whole point of lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole).

Das Video hat mir erst gezeigt, warum ich unbedingt einen Deckenventilator kaufen sollte und dann, warum ich es nicht tun sollte. Die Chance, ein Modell zu finden, das tatsächlich gut funktioniert und gleichzeitig mit der bestehenden Verkabelung in meiner Wohnung funktioniert, dürfte nahe null sein. Ich bräuchte was, was mit einer einzelnen Stromleitung für Ventilator und Licht auskommt, sich aber von der Zimmertür aus steuern lässt (also vermutlich Zigbee oder sowas)

Nein. Das Video ist erst ein paar Tage alt und sehr gut. Das darf noch im Kopf präsent sein.

Und vermutlich wollen sie alle nach Hause telefonieren. In meinem HA läuft ganz bewusst nichts, was selbstständig mit dem Internet kommunizieren kann. Lampen, Lichtschalter und Heizungsventile laufen komplett über einen Zigbee-Hub, dem der Router verbietet, mit irgendwas anderem als dem HA-Server zu sprechen.

Und bevor jemand fragt, warum ich überhaupt sowas im Einsatz habe: uralte Mietwohnung mit mehreren Durchgangszimmern, die jeweils nur an einem Ende einen Lichtschalter hatten. Da ich nicht mal eben die Wände aufreißen kann, um alles neu zu verkabeln, musste Funktechnik her und wenn die Infrastruktur schon existiert, kann man auch noch gleich Funkventile an die Heizkörper montieren, damit man nicht alle 10 Minuten dran rum drehen muss.

Being able to stay in the coldest room in the apartment instead of sweating my ass off.

Darüber hab ich auch schon nachgedacht. Im Zweifelsfall käme die Zigbee-Unterstützung über eine Ikea Tretakt Steckdose. Hab ich an einer Stelle auch schon mit dem Licht so gelöst. Dann müsste ich nur halt schauen, dass der Ventilator so Platz findet, dass die vorhandene Beleuchtung nicht im Weg ist.

I feel like a lot of answers here are dancing around why people find it offensive without really addressing it.

As an adjective "female" is completely fine to distinguish between genders when applied to humans. As in "a female athlete" or when a form asks you to select "male" or "female" (ideally with additional options "diverse" and "prefer not to answer").

Where it's problematic is when it's used as a noun. In English "a male" and "a female" is almost exclusively reserved for animals. For humans we have "a man" and "a woman". Calling a person "a female" is often considered offensive because it carries the implication of women being either animals, property or at least so extremely different from the speaker that they don't consider them equal. This impression is reinforced by the fact that the trend of calling women "females" is popular with self-proclaimed "nice guys" who blame women for not wanting to date them when in reality it's their own behavior (for example calling women "females") that drives potential partners away.

So in itself, the word "female" is just as valid as "male" and in some contexts definitely the right word to use but the way it has been used gives it a certain negative connotation.

I once did an even more extreme version of this. I showed up with a contract for a new job that would give me a 30% raise and an opportunity to work from home as much as I want. I told my boss to match that offer or I would sign it.

He took a few days to decide and made me an offer that was significantly worse, so now I have a new job, more money and haven’t seen the inside of a corporate office in months. My old team has been completely dissolved because the old crew left faster than they could train replacements.

That's VGA, it's gonna be fine. Most wires are either ground or not used for actual image data. R, G and B are analog so noise on those just makes the output noisy, no big deal. That leaves us with HSync and VSync. They are digital signals with 3.3V between on and off and only a single pulse per line / frame so they're also pretty robust against noise.

So unless you're going for an extremely high resolution on a really cheap monitor over a long distance, the worst that will happen is that your image will look grainy like TV static. It would take quite a bit of interference before the sync signals degrade enough to not get any image at all.

That using 100% free and open source software is more important than actually getting your work done.

In a thread about Affinity Photo where someone insisted that we should all use gimp and just not edit photos if gimp doesn't have the features we need rather than asking Serif to port their software to Linux.

Also in several threads about migrating from Windows to Linux where every missing or complicated feature was brushed away with "just get used to not being able to do it, even if it's critical to your workflow".

Well, until you open a browser... or five, because these days nobody wants to build native applications anymore and instead they shove webapps into electron containers.

Right now, my laptop doesn't have to run much. Just a combination of KDE, browser, emails, music player, a couple of messengers and some background services. In total, that uses about 9.5 GB of RAM. 20 years ago we would have run the same workload with less than 1 GB.

My old manager sent out invitations to the bride‘s family before telling me I was the groom.

(he publicly announced the new product‘s price and release date before telling the dev team that there will be a new product)

As we said back in university: "If we have too few women in our field, we will make our own."