Real connoiſſeurs uſe the long s.

Never heard of it, but if it’s a TikTok-like I’m not interested anyway.

All monitors at the office I work at are in the #3 position, and everyone uses them like that. The first thing I do when I get there (there are no fixed desks, and I’m only there on Mondays) is move one screen to the left and one screen to the center. Then I use my laptop as a third screen, but pretty much only to display my todo list.

I also think it’s weird, but everyone here does it…

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

Great choice. I love his pictures, they look so good, it’s as if he had traveled back in time with a digital camera.

My desktop PC ran Windows 10 and didn’t have the magic Windows 11 chip. I tried to do some easy things to get it to recognise my PC as having that chip anyway, but it didn’t work, and I was a bit afraid it’d run like shit with 11 anyway.

So I just decided to try something different and install Linux. First on an old little laptop I had lying around. I tried Mint first, then OpenSUSE - the first because it was supposed to be easy to newcomers, the latter because it’s German (and I liked the way it felt when I tried it on my laptop).

After trying it for a bit, I just decided I’d install it on my desktop as I didn’t want to use Windows 10 without security updates anyway. I’ve now been using OpenSUSE Leap for about half a year, and I’m quite happy.

Ah, alright then. I thought I could use YaST’s GUI, but then I just need to do it using the terminal.

Isn’t it possible to make a manual snapshot?

It worked, so thank you!

I don’t read anything about that being the recommended method, but I’ll give it a shot and try that tomorrow, then.

Fun. I learnt about Jespersen’s cycle when we discussed the historical Dutch negation, which, roughly speaking, was [negative particle] [finite verb] in Old Dutch, [negative particle] [finite verb] [negative particle] in Middle Dutch and is [finite verb] [negative particle] in Modern Dutch.

Eg. (using an invented sentence with modern spelling) ‘Ik en/ne hebbe brood’ - ‘Ik en/ne hebbe geen brood’ - ‘Ik heb geen brood’ (‘I don’t have bread’).

I was fascinated by the Middle Dutch ‘double’ negative before I studied Dutch in university (we had to call it a ‘tweeledige ontkenning’, so a two-part negation, instead of ‘dubbele ontkenning’). It’s used in the Early Modern Dutch (±1550-1800) Statenvertaling of the Bible of 1637, when it was already an archaic feature.

The first negation lives on in a so-called ‘petrified’ expression, ‘tenzij’: ‘[he]t en zij’, thus ‘it [negative particle] be [conjunctive]’, meaning ‘unless’.

Custom QWERTY with IJ on semicolon :p

Also with proper „low and high quotation marks” on R-Alt(+Shift) comma, K and L.

Speaking as a Dutchie, I hope the big American middle finger (and Hitler salute) will at least lead to their culture not being so omnipresent in European countries anymore.

I’d like that for Feddit too, actually…

For Dutch an important source of public domain literature is the Database voor de Nederlandse letteren (dbnl), in cooperation of the Nederlandse taalunie (Dutch Language Union) with several heritage libraries and the Dutch Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library).

My favourite book you can find on there is probably De stille kracht (The silent force) by Louis Couperus. It’s about a high ranking Dutch colonial family living in a town in East Java, and also the people around them, trying to get the Indies to follow their rules, to be what they want it to be, but in the end failing miserably.

There’s always a lingering feeling of impending doom which, though it goes more to the background at times, never fully goes away. I love it.

De stille kracht is well-known as far as Dutch novels go, there are translations in major European languages (even one in Finnish!).

Fair enough.

Caps lock works the same as windows.

Capslock definitely doesn’t work the same as in Windows. If it did, I wouldn’t need to run a weird script to get it to behave like how I’m used to after more than twenty years of using Windows. I’m not the only one with this problem either (this is actually exactly the reason why someone went and made said script), nor is it only present in OpenSUSE. I’ve read it’s a general Linux thing, and I can at least say it’s on Mint as well. Interestingly (though unrelatedly) on Samsung Dex as well.

Another difference in behavior I’ve noticed is that in Windows, if you press capslock to turn it off, it does so upon pressing the key. In Linux, it does so only after releasing the key. Pretty weird.

Firefox restoring session no matter what: I’ll try that and get back to you.

No need, ikidd@lemmy.world suggested deinstalling the default Firefox installation and then installing it as a flatpak; this fixed the issue.

It seems to have done the trick, cheers! I do get the ‘Your Firefox session has closed unexpectedly, do you want to recover it?’ screen, but I read earlier that Firefox on Linux indeed thinks it has crashed when it’s not closed the ‘proper’ way, which is by closing it from the menu. It doesn’t do this on Windows, which is really odd. But I should be able to just turn off that screen in about:config. Perfect.

I already had that turned on as I want to start with a completely new session everytime anyway.

Interesting idea. I’ll give that a shot soon.

I’m going more for a mix between Windows 7 and 11 with more colour:

That’s turned off, yes.