At least in Austria the first e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä.

On the other hand many actual ä are also much closer to e than to ä in Austria so ig it might be different in Germany.

I’m using Firefox as my only browser. If everything works in Firefox that’s fine for me.

That’s the best advantage of only making websites / web applications for fun (for friend groups, video games, family etc)

Cardio

Elder blossom syrup?

Wouldn’t e halfway to a be ä

The short e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä

The difference is so narrow that I wouldn’t notice any difference apart from the length, the first and last e are very slightly shorter than the middle e. And of course you have the usual going-down-with-your-voice-at-the-end-of-the-word

Meta probably is the hardest one given that in many influencal countries WhatsApp is the app everyone uses for communication

Oh right in the USA there are mostly automatic cars

Huh?

I hope so. I don’t want Android to become the new Apple

Is that real

LLM have greatly increased my coding speed: instead of writing everything myself I let AI write it and then only have to fix all the bugs

Often the answers are pretty good. But you never know if you got a good answer or a bad answer.

Hopefully that’ll change, iirc the EU discussed about requiring physical buttons for the highest safety rating a few months ago. Idk how that turned out but if it passed there’s hope

I love it when politicians in a democracy are doing things for the people.

Are these buttons in a room with us right now

Give me my buttons back

We still have Lemmy

Sounds like you’re somewhere around the center in a polarised society

That’s just crazy… When I’m sick I’m getting paid leave - when coming to work and they notice I’m sick they’ll send me home. This even makes sense from a 100% capitalist perspective, because it costs less to pay one person to stay at home and recover as quickly as possible than to have them spread their infection, making everyone less productive, but at the same time keeping everyone at work, greatly slowing down the recovery.

Vacation also is known to be net positive since even just one week or just a few days off every ~2 months greatly increases productivity and prevents burnouts. It’s like weekends but more extreme. You wouldn’t want someone who probably already is stressed because they have to catch up after being sick to also lose their vacation.

Those US-american laws don’t even make sense from the USA’s system’s 100% money focused view.

You don’t have mandatory paid sick leave but have to use your vacation instead?

I’m living in an area where AC is completely unnecessary. About +15°C in warm summer nights (that’s when I open my windows to let fresh air in), +30°C peak but all houses here are well-insulated (they have to be because of winter).

Of course it’s different in the USA, you have higher temperatures and don’t insulate your houses (a well-insulated house keeps its temperature: it stays warm in winter and cool in summer).