This was not allowed before. Until just recently, the technology didn't exist to place icons anywhere in the grid. They would automatically smoosh up into orderly rows starting at the top-left with no gaps between icons. Apple is continuing to develop cutting edge innovation, though, and now you will be able to leave entire rows and columns empty, or any specific icon space you choose!

The American way would probably be still using the units you listed but still meaning 1024, just to be confusing.

American here. This is actually the proper way. KB is 1024 bytes. MB is 1024 KB. The terms were invented and used like that for decades.

Moving to 'proper metric' where KB is 1000 bytes was a scam invented by storage manufacturers to pretend to have bigger hard drives.

And then inventing the KiB prefixes was a soft-bellied capitulation by Europeans to those storage manufacturers.

Real hackers still use Kilo/Mega/Giga/Tera prefixes while still thinking in powers of 2. If we accept XiB, we admit that the scummy storage vendors have won.

Note: I'll also accept that I'm an idiot American and therefore my opinion is stupid and invalid, but I stand by it.

Boogie2988 is a 49-year-old youtuber. The person in the picture is their 20-year-old partner.

He'd rather have A buffalo Take a diarrhea dump in his ear He'd rather eat The rotten asshole Of a roadkilled skunk and down it with beer He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd He's the Angry Video Game Nerd

--AVGN theme song

Boomer is a state of mind, love, and this post is a shining example of boomerism.

Every Rule post, including this one, provides clues to the nature of the underlying RULE. Once somebody actually figures out what the RULE actually is, it is posited that the fediverse will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Private Message (PM) was common until Twitter and Instagram came around, where the platforms did not want to get in trouble for implying that your messages were "Private" in any way, so the renamed them "Direct Messages". Reddit and Lemmy make user-to-user messages easily accessible by admins, so DM is appropriate here.

“newest self-made billionaire.”

Uh-huh. She was in a relationship with Sergey Brin when she founded 23andme. She really tightened her belt and pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Such an inspiration.

It's a protocol named NTP. If you want to say "the ___ protocol", you can say "the network time protocol" or "the NTP protocol". Both are correct, even if the latter is technically redundant. You would sound really weird if you insisted on saying "the NTP". Let's not bring the worst parts of reddit to the fediverse. Needlessly pedantic is something we can move beyond.

"solve"

to make your site good

unsustainable

I think you're misunderstanding reddit's goal. Over the past year, they have been in IPO mode. They don't care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community. They want to cash out and are burning down any structures that are providing any resistance to that.

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As the old saying goes, "Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time."