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I know my work computer and phone are in English. Maybe the car too but I’m not sure. I have no idea what language I have on my own computers at home (English or French, but I don’t know which)
Outside the so-called Anglo sphere is no longer english?
Although I can be considered a very tech-savvy person, I actually have my laptop set to use my local language and not English. This is because my local language has an issue of absorbing too many English words, I feel better when I have to remember and use my language’s words and not the English ones. Not really sure if you will understand what I mean here though.
English. It’s my second language & I’ve been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.
I’m Dutch and always set everything to English. Except if Dutch or German is the original language of the content.
I really hate software that is German native and was somehow translated to English by someone who has the English skills of a 5th grader…
Generally same here, shame phone apps are not language selectable in most cases.
I don’t remember. My phone is in English because games used/use to take your phone language as their default, and I wanted the original voices and stuff. Some apps do it as well. PC… I’m not sure.
When I started using computers, my mother tongue had spotty support. Most of the content that I need(ed) to digest is also in English.
Only on past few years it made sense not to use English but now I’m habituated
Since I let the browser to English so is less unique in the fingerprint I also let my computer in English.
A particular thing in Linux that I notice when I started using it. In the Windows even in other languages the Downloads/Music/Documents/Image/Video folders their paths are in English while Linux is the name of the folder so in the other languages this shit can be annoying to deal.
English, because:
a) I’m used to it.
b) Looking up error messages in my mother language is a giant pain.
English for me, because when I started using computers, no one made computers in my mother tounge. And when they did come into existence, I had already had 2 decades of experience in English computing.
Computers and phone: Spanish
Most of the software that allows me to change the language setting: Spanish too
Exceptions: MTL’d stuff or when i feel like deliberately using another lang Funny case: Y’know Turkey is both the name of the country and the bird associated with thanksgiving / christmas? Yeah, gues what did I see once in a country selector (the country is Turquía, the animal is pavo)
Smartphone: No
PC: No
Programs: DependsEdit:
Forgot, my debian servers are configured for english with german keyboard layout qwertz.I use Dutch, because I’m one of the three Dutchmen that actually likes his language and I don’t want to see English all day.
Generally to my mother tongue, unless it’s more technical (wider support) or clearly machine translated
english on most cases, but my local language on m$win because it helps troubleshooting for others (gotta know what a menu is called) and some proprietary shitware only outputs garbled text when system is in english
Upvote: I use English
Downvote: I use my local languageFYI, there are instances on which down votes are disabled. Reddthat, for example. I can’t see or make downvotes on this profile.
Beehaw is the same way. I’m fine with not having downvotes, I generally don’t tend to miss it…
I think Reddthat enabled downvotes a little while back. I still don’t use them, because I prefer the "upvote only method… rather than downvote, I’ll just comment why I disagree or ignore entirely. I feel it encourages discussion to not be able to downvote
Still disabled.
And I like it. I agree with you, it encourages me to ignore the bad faith trolls and the bigots quicker. I apply a user tag to them and move on without getting bogged down into reddit-style fights.
Oh, I didn’t realize that
On .ml it shows me a nice overview of votes in both ways
English language, local keyboard and formatting
Can confirm that Hexbear does not support downvotes.
Nor does Beehaw, I just remembered
