Yeah, if you’re going to post one of these take thirty seconds to find the uncensored version and post that. We aren’t governed by gross advertiser whims.

Yep, but not on Lemmy. She uses Mastodon.

It’s to do with how I think about numbers, rounding, and margins of error. I don’t know how to express that better, I’m sorry.

I was not raised using inches for anything. It’s not a cultural thing, it’s a use case I’ve found them useful for.

Recipes I use regularly say “2cm chunks” and the like. I’ve never seen one measure in fingers.

I wish we had a metric inch because the fuzziness can be useful.
“How small do you need these veggies diced?”
“2.5cm ish” vs. “about an inch”

I feel like the implied margin of error is much larger for inches, which make them useful for many things where precision isn’t necessarily desirable (hemming, wargaming, moving furniture, etc…). If I’m wargaming having a limit on rounding is useful (half an inch - either round up or down), assuming I’m playing at a scale that uses inches.

Feet I have no use for, with one exception - adult human height between 5’ 2" and 6’ 2". There I find metric too precise (whereas to the nearest inch accounts for variance in sole thickness, hair volume, etc.).

I wasn’t raised on imperial (and I’m baffled that people younger than me in the UK still talk about stones. Sixteen stone is fat, sure, but I’ve no idea how fat if not told in kilos) but I find inches to have their uses.

Also miles for cars - because common speeds are ~60 and ~30 mph so a road sign effectively gives the time to arrival (e.g. 13 miles on a motorway = about 13 minutes). I don’t use them for actually measuring distance on a map but they’re handy when driving.

I have five users, max, and barely any files. I don’t know which one Nextcloud AIO uses and I don’t care. There’s no wrong answer for such a small deployment. It uses whatever database Nextcloud felt was sensible as the default. They know more about picking the right tool for their requirements than I do.

If I’m building something for myself, then I care.

Conflating going places and driving gives me the ick.

Sure, but the point still stands that the placement of the symbol isn’t one nation standing alone - it’s one of two options and the world is split. Some currencies work one way, some the other.

I don’t like France but I still respect it’s preferred placement of its currency symbols, both present and historic. Seems rather arrogant otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#Economies_that_use_a_"dollar"

I wasn’t asking on behalf of the US specifically. Pounds also work like that.

I have a laptop in portrait mode directly above a landscape monitor. I’m ungovernable, apparently.

Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?

(I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I’m not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)

Stupendous Sunfish

It feels like an additional layer of mechanics that I didn’t sign up for. I used it as necessary when playing Titanfall 2 but didn’t care for it there either!

Interesting… I felt like I was the only person that doesn’t care for that kind of movement in shooters.

That’s fair enough, thanks for being chill about it! Opinions about this stuff are all over the shop in this thread so it’s hard to be sure. When I learn I’m part of a given problem I try to mend my ways but on this I feel like it’s a lot of other people that could do with learning a lesson.

Most of us don’t need to be in such a rush - some people do though! Get out of their way!

I try to remind myself that I’m just not that important. An extra few minutes just don’t matter much for me in the grand scheme of things. Those few minutes might make a difference to someone with a dying relative or similar - I’m happy to simmer down and wait my turn (or even more, giving up my turn so others can go before me). Hence why being called part of the problem is a bit upsetting - I’m trying to be the kind of person I’d want to meet!

Sorry, I didn’t think I needed to outright state that I’m not obstructing others. I assumed, it would seem incorrectly, that that went without saying!

If you’d like you can assume I also block people at the baggage claim and take my time when I’m at the front of the passport control queue with people behind me. I don’t, obviously, but if you’re going to start off assuming shiftiness why stop at the basics! Take it the whole way! Presume I’m incapable of using a luggage trolley too! Why not!

It stands, but it neither contradicts nor supports my line of thinking. I was aware of it already when I wondered about adults constantly being in a rush. You can restate it if you like but it doesn’t change my curiosity at the nature of this common problem.

My comment is more about what the underlying cause of the pervasiveness of this issue. Were people always like this or is it one of these fun results of industrialisation? Is it a western culture thing? Is it a capitalism thing? Rhetorical questions in this case - I’m not seeking specific answers from anyone today. I am interested but it feels like we’ll end up arguing and I could do without that.

I’d be curious how different cultures handle rush, timekeeping, social pressure related to commitments. Needing to rush constantly seems like a bit of either a systemic failure or a deliberate dark pattern.

May the odds ever be in your favour!

It’s remarkable how many people in these comments detest people wanting to have a chill time when flying.

We’re not slowing the rest of you down - we’re getting out of your way. There’s so many moving parts that an extra five minutes are so far down the list of things that I’m just not fussed.

Trains are a bit different - there rushing can make all the difference. The limiting factors there are usually how quickly one can get between platforms!

Staying out of the way of all the people rushing is somehow the problem?

Explain.