I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.
Now this is the kind of innovation we need
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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
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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.
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.
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.
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.)
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?
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. >_<
