Even if you're right, which may well be, it's still the equivalent of "you're holding it wrong"...

Come on over to our side, the water isn't actually that unpleasantly cold, despite the penguin mascot. And the stories of problematic drivers. And of problematic hardware. And of problematic support mentalities, like RTFM. By the way, which Linux?

J/K

The water is cold, but you get used to it if you learn to accept that.

The project that was originally sponsored by the good old HP, which at some point got bought by Apple and then for the first time since forever started acting up and misbehaving in Linux? That CUPS? That took about 3 years to get un-fsckd? I had literally not had any printing issue on Linux ever (in about a decade) on any of my own devices due to getting cups compatible devices (still recommend Epson, shy away from Canon), then life got turbulent, when Apple took over. Ah, that CUPS. Yeah, heard of it. It's sort of okay now.

I came here for an "analog" word abuse rant, since many real world things are now called something something analog, if it means you don't use your mobile phone, if it's without anything online, etcetera. But analog has a specific meaning, an analogue clock has hands that move in an analogy to the shadow of a sundial (and to the sun if course), a fuel gauge moves from up to down as the tank gets empty, etcetera, there is some analogy to the real world.

Then it dawned on me, Lego, real world, analogy, ... W-w-wait, ... Okay, carry on!

I just read your exchange and figure it's probably Gnome's fault that discussing its shortcomings gets people so confused and upset they get into a disagreeing mode out of contagious contraryanism.

To be entirely fair, I think the good thing of having Gnome is to have a place for all condescending, Windows loving and Apple worshipping devs to congregate and not infect other places where they'd do more harm. And I stay away from Gnome to keep my sanity. And my computer. It's mine, and I decide how it behaves.

Your post triggers lots of memories, I sort of did the same regarding the push to Linux. In the 90s I got to use HP-UX as a student of electrical engineering, we did a collaborative chip design, that actually got implemented. At times people at the faculty shop got their 2MB PC memory extension (SIMM?) to go to 4MB, the HP-UX systems had 96 and 108MB (yeah, weird number) of RAM. Running at 90 something MHz but proudly boasting about 100+ bogomips or whatever.

Not having to deal with admin stuff, we the students really liked the systems, including CDE (hey, hack this file like so and you'll have 6 instead of 4 virtual desktops!) on Apollo stations with huge 1600x1200 monitors. I recall someone using xsetroot with an Erika Eleniak playboy picture gophered from nic.funet.fi and the guy using that station panicked, switched it off and on again, for us all to find that the video memory didn't have a proper reset, so one could still make out what picture was in the background, just with funky twisted colours....

Fast forward to 2003-ish and I did chip design professionally on HP-UX and just did a demo on how much one could do with Linux. Tried out Linux instead of Exceed on Windows for X windows. The bosses calculated that Linux would save loads of cash through faster hardware, not even cheaper, but allowing to use fewer tokens for cadence and synopsis and stuff, which really made Linux ultra competitive due to the hardware performance.

I'm guessing this will ring the bell for those who were there, and no one else...

Sounds to me like they are profiling you.....

At minimum, I require a window manager to offer me what KDE mover sizer offers on windows, and makes it bearable. KDE offers much more on the window manager front, and I use quite a lot. Zoom, transparency (looking through windows, not fancy decorations), snapping / resistivity, ....

Agreed. And merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you, sir.

That some very scientific and very expensive equipment happens to have similarly special parts makes you say that it's not special that ASML machines have that too..? Just because it's been done before, doesn't make it not special, if you ask me. Now, if I can buy such a mirror for only a little bit more than a regular one, and almost any mirror manufacturer can produce it, then I'd call it not special.

Good thinking. And considering how long most plastics have been in use, your conclusion on how lethal plastics are to humans is likely quite right.

However, before being lethal, doses of whatever may actually have detrimental effects, so we should probably want to account for those. Not you and me here on Slashdot, but the scientific world. Like other chemicals, such as lead in gasoline.

Regarding the mirrors, an information clip of ASML I recently saw mentioned that if enlarged to the size of Germany, no point of it sticks up more than 1mm. Like the other post mentioning their mirrors are flat to the atomic level, it's just more extreme than other similarly flat mirrors.

CD (all formats - don't give me any of that Sony developed it too, they were a partner for marketing reasons), laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, MP3, Bluetooth, euv lithography, various COVID vaccines, and surely loads more.

Then we have the USA, which brought the world the following: Google, Meta, Apple,.... I'm not quite sure what you're so proud of...

No problem. Like I said, you're not wrong. I'm not a native English speaker, so that means I happen to use a different understanding of the word toxic than you, which triggered my initial response. I searched a bit and there are native speakers who adhere to my view and certainly many stick to your view and would never have commented anything.

See also: https://www.merriam-webster.co...
Meaning 1 and 2 are medical, 3 and 4 more as figure of speech. As for the point that things are poisonous as long as there exists a dose that becomes harmful, though perhaps true, makes the word poison and poisonous useless, so I don't see the sense in that. I leave that to those who have a different twist in their smart pants.

Calling water poisonous doesn't make so much sense. Calling salt poisonous, a bit more, though it's still hard to reach the problematic limit by accident. Calling paracetamol poisonous makes a lot of sense, since a single box of 25 pills of 1000mg that costs 5 bucks can kill 2 adults, 10g at once (actually in 24 hours) can already be lethal. Worse, some more sensitive adults may have adverse effects on the liver at a dosage of 8g in 24 hours, whereas 3g is the standard for adults, it's actually one of the medications that's quickly problematic at just a triple dose...

But then people tell me it's just a medicine and I shouldn't worry about it...

You're clearly not wrong, though you did jump over this phrase: "Sometimes the word is more or less synonymous with poisoning in everyday usage" before getting to the part you quoted. I guess Martin and I don't take the broader meaning and you do.