TwilightKiddy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Yea, Croatia is the only place it got widely used. Is it some kind of historical elective course in Croatian schools? Been a coupe of times in Croatia, never seen Glagolitic in the wild, though. Maybe wasn't looking good enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

There is no single person responsible for Cyrillic script. It is mostly believed to be created by mixing and changing Greek and Glagolic scripts by the scholars of Preslav Literary School, which was indeed in Bulgaria. After a while, Peter the Great changed it a lot. And then Stalin stomped out almost all the deviations in the usage of the script.

The last part is mostly why it is considered Russian. A lot of languages suffered because of Moscow just forcing them to use the version of Cyrillic that Russians were using.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It's a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus' it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying "most Slavs don't know how to read it" is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Nah, Georgian is arcs and circles everywhere, like this: ეს ქართული დამწერლობაა.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Why not use a proper downloader for that sort of stuff like yt-dlp? You can get it running on Android via Termux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You misspelled "StarCraft 1" so bad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Maybe because it alters your maximized resolution, which makes you easier to identify? But that sounds like a bit of a stretch to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

While Apple's products indeed are a bit less than compatible with privacy, it does not mean the owner of such products can't care about it. Maybe they just recenty got into it, or have to use their products for some Apple-only feature that is essential for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

You can play HotS without Battle.net, you'll just have to input your credentials manually whenever you start the game. Alternatively, contrary to Steam, you can just kill Battle.net after it has updated and launched the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've used VLC for an incredibly long time, until I found about mpv about two weeks ago. It's both a lot lighter and packs a lot more utility. I can finally frame step backwards and see millisecond timestamps! The only downside is that you have to do a bit of tinkering with all the configs and plugins, but it's so worth it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not to invalidate the point made, but…

While Japanese indeed uses question marks, you can get screwed if you think that every sentence without a question mark at the end is not a question. For example, this is a grammatically correct question:

それは質問ですか。

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apple products are usually easy to use and hellishly restrictive, preventing the dum-dum user from breaking it. Phones that run under Android allow for much more customization and utility, to the point you can "soft lock" your OS.

Apple is less functional, easy to use, hard to break (software-wise, at least). Android is more functional, though requires skills to get to the functionality and not break anything.

Meaning those with the skills use Android. Thus, skill issue.

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