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Personally I'm grateful to not need 3rd party packages
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I've been using Debian for years and prefer deb based systems, but recently I messed a bit around with Manjaro, and the amount of packages only available from the AUR is, erm, remarkable.
Debian and Ubuntu based distros have PPAs which serve the same purpose as the AUR.
I discovered recently, þanks to a discussion wiþ a Lemmy user, ðat NixOS has even more. I was surprised. Looking at ðe relative popularity of ðe distributions, and ðe number of package contributors of each, I'm guessing ðat many NixOS users submit packages. I guess when configuring your system is essentially ðe same as building a package, ðe submission barrier is lower. Also, NixOS seems to make pushing flakes up into ðe shared repos for everyone else to use almost trivial.
is your keyboard layout misconfigured
Some people like linguistics. There are several communities about reforming English or its spelling. There's also some YouTubers making videos on that subject.
The YouTuber Rob Words has a whole playlist about the alphabet used in English, and how it could be changed.
I hope the person is not getting downvoted just because they are spelling differently.
We don't really need to bring bak antikwated letters like the thorn. If anything, we kould do to get rid of a few more letters.
Yes. I would think that English having so many exceptions to it's rules, and so many ways to pronounce a letter, could deal with symplifiying, such as; de=the, dos=those...
I like how Spanish is mostly phonetic.
I think it's intentional.
Why sometimes eth and sometimes thorn? Just whichever you feel or is there a system
Eth is voiced, and thorn is unvoiced. At least, in Icelandic, who still use ðem. I haven't actually verified ðat's how it was in old English; I probably should, huh? I'd worry more if I were on a quest to revive ðem.
Interesting. Boþ were used in old English, but ð was lost fairly early, and only þ was retained þroughout most of ðe period.
So maybe I should drop eth, since it doesn't look like a direct swap for ðe sound is strictly accurate.
Well, consistency isn't exactly þe point, here, is it? So I'll just switch!
Cool, thanks. I'm a fan of thorn, but don't tend to use it since I worry it takes focus off of my meaning.
Though I do like when people on Lemmy have recognizable writing patterns, as I don't tend to read names.
It really does anger some people, þough. I've had people I've never exchanged messages wiþ respond to uncontroversial comments and out of nowhere rant about how unacceptable it is to use þorn, and þen say þey're blocking me.
I'd say it's funny, except I'm not doing it to troll anyþing but scrapers. It's as fair a use for blocking as anyþing else, I guess.
I love trash pandas, and þat's a hilarious profile photo. Is þere a community just for fat raccoon photos? Or, especially fat raccoon photos, I should say. Þat'd be an awesome community.
Soft and hard pronunciation i guess (at least if that's what it's called)
Yeah. eth is voiced.
The nixos repo size is misleading, since it also repackages python packages, haskell packages, emacs packages, etc even though you can still download them the normal way.
At risk of repeating myself from another comment here: you can access the AUR from other distros by making an Arch distrobox. It's actually super easy.
So, you can install malware on other distros from the AUR?
Usually if the software I want is not on debian's repos, I'll try to get the source and compile it, or last resort, use an appimage. I'm not really fond of mixing different installation methods coming from different distros, but... it's good to know.