I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.
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I dunno if I would say 🇬🇧 is traditional. At the time of the American Revolution, the British accent was pretty close to what’s considered an American accent today.
Check out this video around 13:40 https://youtu.be/KYaqdJ35fPg
Throwback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English.
The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.
Yeah, this feels like a courtesy thing. I just didn’t expect it.
(And only just now noticed after switching three weeks ago since this was the first time I had to delete anything in all that time.)
That’s funny, I hadn’t heard that before. Situations like this is why actual humans will always make better translators (overall).
Native readers can almost always tell when something was just run through a translation tool, because translation is about meaning, not just word/phrase replacement. Even LLMs will make weird contextual mistakes because there’s no fundamental understanding of meaning.
I’ve never associated .zip files with mailing addresses, a lot of the time they have a zipper pull tab as if you’re zipping up tight clothing around them to make them smaller. Nothing to do with the Zone Improvement Plan.
Amusing fact: There was a tool similar to winzip or winRAR for the classic mac called “Stuffit” which I think is the most superior name.
I don’t think they are, it was just Microsoft screwing things up. I’ve never heard someone call them postcode archives.
yeah it’s an exapmlenof the Scunthorpe problem.
It’s “Wastebasket” in the UK on the GNOME desktop. I’m happy enough with that.
OS/2 Warp called it the shredder.
Now that I could get behind, although shredding files has taken on a different meaning now (i.e. overwriting files so they are irrecoverable).
Gnome is going for the avocado-toast-eating market.
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Fancy thing to call it maybe?
Now this is the kind of innovation we need
Can confirm. It always seems overly verbose, though. Why not just bin? Or Rubbish? Nobody IRL would ever say “rubbish bin”.
I guess because ‘bin’ is a shorthand of ‘binary’, that is, the directory where all your executable files reside, so the developers felt a need to clarify that /usr/bin isn’t to be cleaned.
I thought the ‘bin’ folder in program folders was where they put trash for longer than I’d like to admit. >_<
Did you move to the UK Squid?
I did. Left the U.S. with my daughter on January 20th, arrived here on January 21st.
I’m so happy for you! Well done getting the hell out of there.
Thank you. Now I need a job.
Best of luck. I’m just glad you got out! Was it hard to do?
No, I have dual US/UK citizenship (until Trump decides to revoke my US citizenship, which wouldn’t shock me). But I need to find a job paying at least £29,000 a year so my daughter can stay on a family visa. She’s currently only here on a 6 month visitor visa. My wife is also still in the US and won’t be coming over until I secure it.
Just don’t put the stuff to delete in /bin or /usr/bin
