Aw. Somehow missed it.

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“penis” is masculine while “bite” is feminine, too

I would argue that “chauffeuse” for feminine drivers and “chauffeuse” for easy girls should be considered different words, homonyms. A feminine driver should be called a chauffeuse, and theorically an easy boy could be called a chauffeur. It will not happen because nobody uses the slur this way, but that’s unrelated to the grammatical structure of the language. Wouldn’t call it built-in.

Words meanings always slide around and we have markers in some of them that determine whether the word describes a man or a women. Since we treat women and men differently, it’s not surprising that the feminine variant might end up with different connotations than the masculine one. But the words in question do not have gender, they inherit the gender of who they describe. It’s a different thing, unrelated to the assignment of genders to objects

To be clear, I am not defending the idea that you should give gender to things, nor that you should change the suffix in all the words that refer to women. I think it’s stupid and I wish we didn’t even have pronouns in the first place

You’ll be right 50% of the times. Or 33% in german. And it doesn’t match between languages. Like, “cat” is a she in german and a he in french. Often synonyms have different genders : une lettre/un courrier (both mean a mail).

I think the issue is that you are searching your mind for correlations between gender and sexism-related, which is often easier than searching for non-correlation. If I ask you “quick, think of a singer that wears leather”, you’ll find one instantly. But if I ask “quick, find a singer that doesn’t wear leather” it takes a while, even though there more of them.

If you want a better impression of the phenomenon, open a dictionary, go over words one by one and count the points.

And also “organ” (the instrument) in french is male when singular and female when plural. “C’est un bel orgue” and “Ce sont de belles orgues”.

How does anyone manage to keep allll the words pronunciation and spelling they know is already amazing, craming pronouns on top of that isn’t much worse

You will be understood, it will just give people a small pause.

Sometimes it may cause confusion, like “the phone (he) went through the washing machine (she) and now <she/he> is broken” changes meaning if you get the pronoun wrong. But then if you are used to disambiguate thIs kind of situation - and you have to in english - it shouldn’t happen too often

Most of the errors aren’t so bad, but it’s definitely nice to correct them.

You need to know Wikipedia’s system a bit though, because ChatGPT suggests these kind of things:

Want me to draft a crisp correction note you can paste on the article’s talk page?

Using LLMs when interacting with other editors is “strongly frowned upon”, and you can get banned if you refuse to stop. Especially if you are editing a lot of pages as you just discovered a lot of issues.

There’s a note on the Flathub page that it requires permission to your home folder, so this should be granted automatically. Maybe they made an update since you had the issue?

In most cases the sandboxing should not require user intervention. Apps can either use the native file picker (which gives them access to selected files) or list which directories they want to access in their manifest. If an app tells you to select a file by path-in-text-input or homemade file picker, but doesn’t have permission to the relevant directories, that’s a config issue on the packager’s side.

I remember having this bug on Debian, like, 7 years ago or something

You should install Signal as Flatpak. It should be available through the app store if you are on Mint. Otherwise see https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.signal.Signal

Do not consult companies websites for how to install on Linux if you can avoid it, they will nearly always break your setup. Just head for the app store and click the big green button.

Prettier but has a track record of having more technical issues. Also the devs are a company with absolutely no transparency. At some point there was so few communication that I thought they closed shop.

If you want a similar UI, I would advise going for a vanilla Gnome and adding the desired “Zorin *” extensions. It’s a bunch more work to setup but it feels more trustworthy to me.

It’s a defuckulated Ubuntu with a a dozen custom Gnome extensions. They do publish the extensions code. It exists because Mint is often ugly and not very ergonomic. See the “file” apps for both distros, Mint’s buttons are too small and the progress indicator is a tiny 16px icon in the status bar.

They’re just having fun

If he did, it wouldn’t make things any better. Don’t even give them the idea. “Look, I have nothing to fear from the cops because I agree with the cops, be like me, and nothing bad will happen”

Aren’t they getting, like, at least a tiny bit of backlash for this shit?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience

"c'mon I just checked that three lines ago"

Oh my god, thank you.

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You can check if your games are compatible on http://protondb.com/

If you have the game as a cd-rom or “just files”, you will have to copy the files inside a windows-compatibility environment. It won’t just start on double-click. Bottles has a pretty UI to create windows environments and run executables in them