For the optical media side of things, the name was coined by Phillips while they were consorting with Sony to develop the standard and named it the “Compact Disc” to compliment their already existing “Compact Cassette” product. They developed an official logo for the format which spelled it “disc.” That’s been with us ever since.
Didn’t LaserDisc predate Compact Discs?
Yeah, Lemmy doesn’t block you from accessing it via a VPN, for one.
Every sign, every rule, every law has a story as to why it is necessary.
I look back and my parents let me read this in high school without comment…like wtf mom and dad.
“This book is a testament to how even the most stupid among us can write a fully fledged book with words, chapters, and everything.” ~@tea
Is that where Ted’s ego came from in HIMYM? I thought it was just Ted, but maybe all architects are horrible?
Yeah, people just want a “generic” place because they generally don’t want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I’m basically a vanilla NPC in my life and “sh.itjust.works” is simply too spicy!
Probably because lemmy.world is down again.
Wait for lemmy.world to be back up and try again. If you can’t login on the web, the tool won’t be able to login either.
Yeah, but they have to be installed by the server admins. lemmy.world added them. I’m not aware of any other instances that have them, but I’d love for them to be standard. The a.lemmy.world is my favorite lemmy experience so far (though I can’t…ummm…use it right now).
Yeah, if I were LW, I would stop allowing new users. I feel like servers should be either user or community based, not both. One for users has nice things like alternate skins (e.g. a.lemmy.world or old.lemmy.world) and ones for communities are focused primarily on having good moderators and being super reliable so that federations to them work 100% of the time.
At the very least the LW sign-up page should possibly have a step that points you to a similar instance that might be better equipped to handle the user load.
Yeah, I joined lemmy.today so I could have a place to go when my OG lemmy.world is down. I like lemmy.world, but it’s constantly down (like right now). I suppose there’s no reason I shouldn’t just use this one as my primary, though I do like the other skins that lemmy.world added (old.lemmy.world and a.lemmy.world) when I’m on desktop.
The Pledge of Allegiance is what kids say, not the Star Spangled Banner. The Pledge is a little light on drama and more nationalist than patriotic imo. Not too terribly bad, except for the “under God” part they added in 1954.