Yep, it’s “Estadounidenses” in Portuguese as well. The distinction (and occasional confusion/debate across languages/cultures) makes sense, considering how those cultures learn about continents.

In contrast, English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model, in which there’s not really any place called “America.” So when we omit “The United States of” for brevity, native English speakers still understand where it’s referring to.

“USians” is an interesting shortcut. It may not be proper English, but it still seems understandable enough in text. Hopefully everyone who vocalizes it, pronounces it your way. If I ever hear “Oosian”, I’ll probably assume they meant “Asian”.

Neat buzzword ya got there. Anyway, I acknowledge that you’ll continue ignoring 9-9-6. Consider your attempts to dodge it a success. And congrats on your success :)

On a lighter topic: I’m still curious about “USian”. Appending a suffix like “ian” to an acronym is unusual in English, but this is the second time I’ve encountered it on Lemmy. How is it pronounced?

Wow, that looks like a lot of work to avoid the 9-9-6 thing. I like this first one though:

What about unpaid holiday in the USA?

Was that at the top of the list because it was meant to compare to 9-9-6, somehow? I mean sure, unpaid holidays suck, but that’s not even in the same ballpark as working 72 hours per week, every week. At that point, you’re just living to work (as a robot/zombie slave cursed with a depressed human brain and flesh body).

As for the rest of the list: I appreciate the effort, but would it have been much harder to use an unordered list? And do you think it’s not possible to gather a big list about China that isn’t just as bad or worse?

Just out of curiosity: When you say “USians” IRL, how do you pronounce it? “You-ess-ians”? “Yousians”? “Oosians”?

There are laws that limit it, and 72-hour work weeks are pretty extreme, even in the US. Do they happen? Sure. I’ve known people who have had to do hours like that for a week, maybe even two. But it’s not their normal schedule like 9-9-6 workers.

So you didn’t visit any factories with suicide nets. Great! I’ve also never witnessed a mass murder. Lucky us!

You chose the easier, less common example, but ignored the more common one that I mentioned. So whatabout 9-9-6? I’ve spoken to people in that 9-9-6 life, and exactly zero of them were happy about it.

9-9-6, suicide nets on some factories… Sounds like a happy place to be.

It’s interesting how much pro-China stuff seems to have flooded the Internet lately. They’ve even been inviting (maybe paying?) YouTubers to visit their country, despite not allowing YouTube to be accessed (legally) on their Internet. This campaign seems to be effective though.

I’m not even really anti-China. I used to conduct a lot of business with Chinese factories, and might do it again someday. But let’s not ignore reality and pretend it’s all sunshine and rainbows over there.

I’m still kinda surprised to hear that people are still having trouble with Nvidia drivers. I would have thought that Nvidia would have decided to improve that because of the AI boom. I wonder why they continue being so bad at this 🤔

Yeah, good point. Owners of Samsung “smart” refrigerators started seeing ads on them recently.

I’m sure there was some sort of legal terms that users had to agree to to enable that, but it still feels like a scam. Some amount of those fridge owners would not have bought the fridge if they knew there would be ads on it at any point in time.

I wish companies would at least offer a “no data collecting/selling” price option. Like, how much would they make from selling my data? Just give me the option to pay that extra amount so I can buy a vacuum without thinking about how it’s spying on me.

My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I’m talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.

Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.

I’m looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.

I mean places that don’t care about any laws at all. Places that might only be accessible on the dark web, etc. There’s terrible stuff out there

🤔 I’m not sure that lawmakers really understand what they’re up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are… Less legitimate.

It’s interesting how often I see memes here that require knowing so much non-obvious context to understand.

Anyway, that sounds like a really cool art installation. Anyone know the name of it?

This text doesn’t make sense, right?

If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?

Start pushing buttons. Start typing things, try pressing tab variously. Look up guides, introductions, help.

Sure, but my point is: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a terminal present those instructions when you open it. Unless it’s immediately shown in some MOTD or something, the average user isn’t going to take the time to figure it out if they don’t have to.

If my grandmother wanted to draft a letter on her computer, she’d use something that looks more like Notepad and less like Vi.

OpenSUSE always seemed underrated IMO, especially in those pre-Ubuntu days. Such a polished UX overall

Eh, I think it’s just about ease of use and discovery. When you open a terminal, it just shows a blinking cursor. If you’ve never used the terminal before, how do you know what to type?

In a graphical desktop environment, you see icons, menus, etc. If you open a GUI application, you usually see buttons and things to click, and maybe even some guidance on how to use the app.

A lot of people just want to use their computer without too much of a learning curve. Most people are not powerusers.

Why? And which coins are good?

How would a surveillance state even prevent that?

People are still mining with GPUs? I’m kinda surprised that’s still profitable