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  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom LocationEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I don’t know if there is a version of Poe’s law for Apple fanboys, but your comment makes me think there should be.

    Roflmao

    I don’t own a Mac Mini, and never will. I’m not trying to defend Apple.

    But I’ll use my work laptop as an example. I have external monitors, so I never open the damn thing except on the rare occasions I need to use the power button. This happens infrequently enough that it gives me a pretty good notion of how often people need the actual power button on a modern computer.

    If the button can be reached without turning over the device or even picking it up, as it sure appears, what’s the problem? Other than that it’s an Apple device and people love to hate on Apple devices.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you secretly judge people for?English
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    9 days ago

    It is but no educated person qualifies themselves by that name as it means nothing.

    People seek to label themselves in the most accurate category not the broadest one.

    I’m not sure that’s true. If you ask someone what they do for a living and they say, “I’m a doctor,” you don’t say, “I doubt it. A real doctor would say, ‘I’m a cardiovascular surgeon,’ or ‘I’m a pediatrician.’” We adjust our labels for our audience.

    I wouldn’t be surprised to find a biologist or a climatologist who might just say, “I’m a scientist” to a broad audience. Not that they couldn’t use the more accurate label, just that they don’t necessarily have to.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you secretly judge people for?English
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    9 days ago

    The way I handle this is to parse them differently. They mean the same thing, but “I couldn’t care less” is sincere and “I could care less” is sarcastic.

    Sort of like, “I suppose it’s possible that I could care less about that” reduced to the phrase.

    Because both phrases obviously communicate the same meaning, a lack of care, the issue for me isn’t in the understanding but in the parsing. So I had to come up with a way to parse it as sarcasm so it doesn’t bother me.

    Like when someone says, “I’ll try and be there” my brain, mildly traumatized by really good English teachers in my youth, screams, “YOU’LL TRY TO BE THERE.” But lately I’ve been making an effort to interpret the “and <verb>” following “try” as an alternate form of the infinitive, since it’s so readily accepted and common in spoken English. We already construct other verbs that way anyway (eg. “I’ll go and do that”).

    I…might have a touch of the ‘tism. It wouldn’t surprise me. 😅