Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.

You’re conflating “disk” with “drive”.

An SSD is not a disk.

This is correct in most cases but I don’t think it’s the underlying principle.

This wiki talks about the etymology, with a lot of examples. Most conform to this rule, but there are exceptions in astrophysics like an accretion disk.

Even in info tech, “hard disk” doesn’t really conform to this rule. Like is a hard disk a square hard drive or is it the round thing inside? If it’s the square hard drive, that’s not thin enough to be a “disk”. I’d it’s the round thing inside that would be hard disc, but also creates problems for floppy disk because why refer to the housing in one instance but not another.

Sadly, I think the correct answer is that either refers to a thin flat thing, some spellings are preferred for some uses.

I’m not really a gamer, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

AI isn’t anywhere close to being able to replace “good” narrators. Maybe a bit like self driving cars - the first 90% was achieved rapidly, the next 5% took some doing but ok, now though the final 5% seems kinda unachievable on any timescale.

That said, automation (and yes, AI) tends to approach industries incrementally. A headline voice actor isn’t going to be replaced tomorrow, but maybe some low level roles are. Fewer voice actors just means less demand for the really good ones. Def not good for the industry but… time marches on I guess.

Similar here. I’m an accountant by trade but tech is my strongest hobby.

Tomorrow: a new mothership!

One, day… some adult is going to think “that fucking cunt ass bitch lied to me about the rice”.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think it’s a histamine response which is just directed at parasites in general.

It’s not really about reaching a wide audience, but about actually supporting the people I care about.

I don’t think even my elderly parents watch “news” anymore, and their main threat is vanilla type phishing emails.

I switched to catch and release 5 or 6 years ago and never looked back.

It’s not hate, I’m critical because I just don’t understand how this can work.

Has to be fake.

You’re kind of assuming people will stop using Chrome as a consequence, but i just don’t think that’s the case.

David didn’t slay Goliath, Goliath just walked away and took command of David’s army, leaving David to play with his rocks.

Surely they wouldn’t do that…

“Look at how expensive crooked sleepy Joe biden has made this trash. Who would even buy this.”

It just seems to be how it goes. It’s the same here in Australia. The conservatives fuck everyone who is not already wealthy, then the progressive get elected just long enough to get blamed for how fucked everything is, and the conservatives get elected again because they’re “superior economic managers”.

I know, but the commenter I replied to is obviously American and I didn’t want to just outright tell them, and thought it was more polite to just let the implication hang there.

Japanese cars are more expensive than American here also.

These are actually a bit of a cult classic in Australia. Very desirable, great 4wd campers.

I don’t think I’m really making any of those points in isolation, but I think probably the first.

It’s possible to acknowledge that I don’t agree with the views of the devs while using their software, but it does create a kind of tension that I would avoid if a viable alternative existed.

The views of devs are relevant to my decision whether or not to use whatever software, but they’re not solely determinant.

Similarly, I prefer open source software and will always seek it out and when comparing alternatives I heavily weight open source as an advantage. That said, I do still use some microsoft software (notably microsoft teams) for a variety of reasons.

I’m strongly opposed to the lemmy devs political and social views, yet I’m happily using the platform they developed.

I’m not quite sure how I can be clearer?