Deconceptualist

No, the point is that it’s not controlled by any one megacorp or nation state. Being an open social media platform it’s still going to have shitty people trying to attack its infrastructure to try to silence others or tilt voting the way they want or just chaotically troll the hell out of people. Admins are needed to protect it from that.

I mean, that would work once or twice, but after that I don’t think remaining war criminals would agree to the deal, knowing their predecessors were executed.

Time to deliver a pizza ball! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOkeLQohC0

It’s a little more than that. I had to manually install speech-to-text and fiddle with language downloads and mic permissions to get that to work on my 8a. And I had to disable exploit protection on my banking app so it would launch. And… well that’s about it. The rest was basically identical to setting up stock Android.

Maybe he was out of juice

My understanding is that AOSP is still and will continue to be a thing. That’s Android. What Google has done though is put more and more new capabilities into Play Services, which are not open, rather than AOSP.

I hope someone will correct me or add better nuance though.

Hey alright. I didn’t know if you just wanted something available pre-1900 or specifically a horse. If I knew how to get you the hookup on equestrian pizza I’d be happy to tell ya, but I don’t.

It’s pretty commonly delivered by bicycle in NYC.

Appeal to authority popping up again? Fry is not an expert in usage. You are ceding him credibility he has not earned.

That part was my opinion. Sorry I didn’t label it with a big red marker. You’re welcome to your own opinions.

Overall though, I think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit. This is tiresome so I’ll just leave it at that.

If you enjoy linguistics, I’m happy for that, and glad we have it in common. The minor quibbles don’t really matter. It’s been fun; take care.

We don’t use it in English. We just retain the latin plural for Latin words.

The English plural of alumnus is alumni. Yes of course it’s retained from Latin. But it’s also become a word in the English dictionary. We actively use that form in English written and spoken communication. It’s been absorbed into the language. I’ve never once heard “alumnuses”.

No, we generally don’t use the “i” ending on new words, but we could. There’s no rule against it.

You made an appeal to authority when you provided the Steven Fry video

I never claimed he was an English professor, though he’s certainly an expert when it comes to usage. I shared it because I like his point, and I think you’re a bozo for ignoring it, since it makes a strong case against proscriptivism.

But ok, if you like authority, here’s a similar point made by a PhD sociolinguist.

The “i” as a plural is only for words taken straight from Latin.

Sure, but we use it. We adopted those words without altering that form. You said we don’t use it in English, full stop, so I gave 13 counterexamples.

I don’t place any value on youtube videos made by people speaking outside their expertise.

I don’t think my eyes can roll any harder.

Sure we do, on occasion anyway. Cacti, fungi, alumni, syllabi, loci, foci, radii, moduli, stimuli, uteri, papyri, nuclei, termini.

Language isn’t about being “correct”, as there’s no truly objective standard. Rather, it’s about being understood. But I guess you didn’t watch that video.

Yeah but we’re using English which doesn’t follow Greek spelling rules.

Also, this.

Yes

Many octopodes can change the color and pattern of their skin at will.

Our clothing and tattoos are but crude facsimiles of their capabilities. Cephalopods have no need of such frivolities.