I’m surprised it has that much impact. I try to avoid wine when I can, but when I have used it I haven’t generally noticed it slowing anything down.

Totally fair. I generally try to avoid it when I can. And it’s pretty rare that I can’t find a native Linux alternative that works for me.

You should be able to use Notepad++ with Wine.

Yeah, I was just trying to point out the absurdity of trying to assign gender to either of them.

Most bees people think of are worker or queen bees (female) while the birds people tend to picture are bright and colorful (males) or the songs (also typically males). On the other hand people associate birds and egg laying (so I suppose femaleish) and bees have a stinger that could symbolize a penis (though if you have a barbed and venomous penis please stay far away from me).

So I vote you pick based solely on vibes instead of gender. Hell, I vote we take it a step further and stop gendering bathrooms at all. Just put random unrelated symbols and people can pick which they like. So like one with a book, the other with cheese. Or whatever else you want. Make it a big poop related social experiment.

Male bees don’t have stingers though…

I mostly agree with this. Your word choice doesn’t have to be ‘perfect’ by some random definition of that. When a friend makes a request like yours did, as long as it seems reasonable, then I think its worth putting an effort into accommodating it however.

I tend to not be overly concerned with how random strangers think I should speak, but I want those around me that I care about to feel heard and cared about.

I assumed it defaulted to on. I use Vanadium on mobile, and don’t use WhatsApp. So I wasn’t going to try to check.

I just meant that defaulting to off is the only way ‘features’ like this are even remotely acceptable.

Its a unique link that Mozilla knows is tied to your device, and can see what devices open the link. That is pretty invasive tracking.

If it defaults to off, that’s fine. I’m tired of constantly having to go into settings for everything to see if they added some invasive bullshit.

How is a tracked link at all privacy respecting?

GrapheneOS does allow you to turn it off. It has a permission switch for your phone sensors. I don’t know if there are other versions of android that allow the same.

Oh, I misunderstood. When you said screen only, I was thinking an all-in-one, but sounds like you were meaning something more like a tablet.

You can get a mini computer and mount it to the VESA mounting point on the rear of a compatible monitor. Not quite screen only, but pretty close and has roughly the same footprint aside from a little extra cabling.

It’s a letter called a thorn. Its from old English, and was used for the ‘th’ sound. Its been largely removed from the languages that used to use it. I dunno why they have decided to try to bring it back, but that’s what the letter is.