Lvxferre [he/him]

That’s Gawr Gura, my literal opposite! 🙃

I’m in the closet. I don’t identify myself as Guay[rá] in the open; if anyone asks I’m Paraná.

A lot of people there speak other languages, from Guarani to Welsh.

…but yeah, most speak “cahteshano” aka Spanish.

Also, they circled my home, alongside Argentina :3

“This is an LLM — Linux Libre Machine!”

Nah, that’s the cartoonist, it’s TheJaredComix for a reason :-)

B[r]azilian here. We do use “ué”.

I am aware “ué” is also commonly used here, as the “also” in my comment shows. And my point still stands, this stuff is likely from Angola, given the genus in question is African:

Ficou claro agora?

James, listen to him!

Nah, likely Angolan. Angolan Portuguese speakers sometimes also use “ué”, and the genus in question is African.

Okay. I could spend hours and hours criticising GNOME for a lot of things, but this is not one of them. It is not removing functionality, as the article implies; as others here highlighted, it’s simply changing a default. That’s completely fine.

To add to that: that gender you’re talking about is actually two distinct concepts, one social and another grammatical/linguistic. The later is more like a traditional way to refer to noun classes, when they also split humans based on social gender.

Sadly my go-to example for that doesn’t work in English, because of the lack of grammatical gender.

If she is/was alive, what if she was the one vibe coding the AI? Then you’d get Ai Ai AI AI Ai Ai.

…this is quickly becoming buffalo⁸ tiers of silly.

You’re hired!

You know what, I got a brilliant idea:

See, the chimp in my avatar is called Ai Ai. Was? I don’t know if she’s still alive; last news I could find about her are from 2005, when she stopped smoking. Anyway, what if I had artificial intelligence to create a bunch of her pictures, and sold them as NFT? The “AI Ai Ai collection”, or Ai³ for short. I wouldn’t do this to scam a bunch of suckers, noooooo; I’d do it because you can get rich, if you “invest” into my collection: buy an Ai³ NFT now, for just 100 euros. Then resell it for a thousand euros, for mad profitz!!!

[…I’m obviously joking. C’mon, this summer is easily getting past 30°C, in a city where it used to snow once in a blue moon. I definitively don’t want to feed the global warming further with dumb crap like this.]

The nomenclature is really messy across countries and even sub-country entities. The Portuguese language Wikipedia even highlights the mess:

Nomenclature diversity across countries. // Some surveys estimate protected areas in different countries and regions are called by at least a hundred names, and not uncommonly countries have their own categories of protected spaces, roughly similar to the protected space concept defined by the IUCN.

From that I guess the restrictions associated with those spaces also change, and in some you aren’t supposed to remove local fauna and/or flora, creating situations like in the meme (removing invasive species is against the letter of the rule, but within the spirit).

I just tested it in Wayland and couldn’t get it to work there.

But in X it works fine for almost every application. Exceptions are usually the same ones who throw hissy fits against dead keys, like games. For those, I typically type the text in a notepad, copy it, and paste it there.

I learnt about .XCompose in my last uni times; it made typing transcriptions in the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) actually bearable. Every other strategy was a mess: copying and pasting was too laborious, and it was too easy to forget something if I used find-and-replace.

# random misc
<dead_acute> <%> : "‰"
<dead_acute> <minus> : "⇌"
<dead_acute> <apostrophe> : "`"
<dead_acute> <h> : "⟨"
<dead_acute> <j> : "⟩"
<dead_grave> <h> : "͡"
<dead_grave> <j> : "͜"

# typing Polish in an ABNT2 keyboard
<dead_grave> <C> : "Ć"
<dead_grave> <c> : "ć"
<dead_acute> <D> : "Ą"
<dead_acute> <d> : "ą"
<dead_acute> <F> : "Ę"
<dead_acute> <f> : "ę"
<dead_acute> <X> : "Ż"
<dead_acute> <x> : "ż"

# Subscript numbers
<dead_acute> <0> : "₀"
<dead_acute> <1> : "₁"
<dead_acute> <2> : "₂"
<dead_acute> <3> : "₃"
<dead_acute> <4> : "₄"
<dead_acute> <5> : "₅"
<dead_acute> <6> : "₆"
<dead_acute> <7> : "₇"
<dead_acute> <8> : "₈"
<dead_acute> <9> : "₉"

# Change vowel height a bit, consonant fortition, tap
<Multi_key> <a> <1> : "ɐ"
<Multi_key> <e> <1> : "ɛ"
<Multi_key> <h> <1> : "ʔ"
<Multi_key> <i> <1> : "ɪ"
<Multi_key> <j> <1> : "ɟ"
<Multi_key> <l> <1> : "ɬ"
<Multi_key> <o> <1> : "ɔ"
<Multi_key> <r> <1> : "ɾ"
<Multi_key> <u> <1> : "ʊ"
<Multi_key> <y> <1> : "ʏ"

# Change vowel height by a lot, lenition
<Multi_key> <a> <2> : "ə"
<Multi_key> <b> <2> : "β"
<Multi_key> <g> <2> : "ɣ"
<Multi_key> <o> <2> : "ɒ"
<Multi_key> <p> <2> : "ɸ"
<Multi_key> <q> <2> : "χ"
<Multi_key> <r> <2> : "ɹ"
<Multi_key> <t> <2> : "θ"
<Multi_key> <v> <2> : "ʋ"

# Vowel fronting, consonant palatalisation
<Multi_key> <u> <3> : "ʉ"
<Multi_key> <l> <3> : "ʎ"
<Multi_key> <d> <3> : "ɟ"
<Multi_key> <n> <3> : "ɲ"
<Multi_key> <s> <3> : "ʃ"
<Multi_key> <z> <3> : "ʒ"

# Vowel backing, consonant retroflexion
<Multi_key> <a> <4> : "ɑ"
<Multi_key> <e> <4> : "ɜ"
<Multi_key> <i> <4> : "ɨ"
<Multi_key> <r> <4> : "ɻ"
<Multi_key> <t> <4> : "ʈ"
<Multi_key> <d> <4> : "ɖ"
<Multi_key> <s> <4> : "ʂ"
<Multi_key> <l> <4> : "ɭ"
<Multi_key> <n> <4> : "ɳ"
<Multi_key> <z> <4> : "ʐ"

# Rounding/unrounding vowels
<Multi_key> <o> <5> : "ɤ"
<Multi_key> <u> <5> : "ɯ"
<Multi_key> <w> <5> : "ɰ"
<Multi_key> <j> <5> : "ɥ"

# Diacritics, tone
<Multi_key> <a> <6> : "́"
<Multi_key> <b> <6> : "ʱ"
<Multi_key> <c> <6> : "̩"
<Multi_key> <d> <6> : "̣"
<Multi_key> <e> <6> : "ᵊ"
<Multi_key> <g> <6> : "ˠ"
<Multi_key> <h> <6> : "ʰ"
<Multi_key> <j> <6> : "ʲ"
<Multi_key> <n> <6> : "ⁿ"
<Multi_key> <q> <6> : "ˤ"
<Multi_key> <r> <6> : "˞"
<Multi_key> <o> <6> : "̥"
<Multi_key> <s> <6> : "̯"
<Multi_key> <t> <6> : "̃"
<Multi_key> <v> <6> : "̆"
<Multi_key> <w> <6> : "ʷ"
<Multi_key> <1> <6> : "˩"
<Multi_key> <2> <6> : "˨"
<Multi_key> <3> <6> : "˧"
<Multi_key> <4> <6> : "˦"
<Multi_key> <5> <6> : "˥"

# Linguistics misc
<Multi_key> <a> <7> : "ʕ"
<Multi_key> <e> <7> : "€"
<Multi_key> <w> <7> : "ʍ"
<Multi_key> <n> <7> : "ɴ"
<Multi_key> <l> <7> : "ɫ"
<Multi_key> <h> <7> : "ɦ"
<Multi_key> <g> <7> : "ɢ"
<Multi_key> <j> <7> : "ʝ"
<Multi_key> <q> <7> : "ʁ"
<Multi_key> <r> <7> : "ʀ"
<Multi_key> <v> <7> : "ʌ"

A few tips I can give people who want to use .XCompose:

• If you often need a character, keep the keystrokes sequence associated with it short.
• Try to be consistent-ish and organised, it’ll help you to remember the sequences.
• Even then, perfect is enemy of good. Don’t go too hard; note for example I didn’t add letters like ⟨æ⟩, ⟨ŋ⟩ or ⟨ð⟩ to the file, all of those are easier to type with AltGr.
• Don’t feel afraid to rework sequences that you find awkward; eventually your muscle memory will catch up.

I fulfilled the first two by using sequences ending in numbers, but note that isn’t the only way to do things. As long as it makes sense for you, it should be fine.

What makes me lose my sleep:

Trees are extremely iconic and we see a lot of similarities between them, but they’re mostly due to convergent evolution. Plants have been growing that stalk independently over and over and over. Crustaceans become crab-like, mammals become ant eaters, and plants become trees. *carcinisation intensifies*

Done!

twaróg

That’s actually a great idea — gotta try it next time. (I’m almost sure the locally sold keschmier is the same as twaróg, but worst hypothesis homemade requeijão does the trick.)

Ah, I stole the pic from some random site. They do it this way because it’s more presentable. But it’s better to spread the “sauce” across the pasta, mix it a bit, and then add the strawberry pieces. (Or add the strawberry pieces and then mix it, your choice.)