My Passport was my favourite phone ever, I think if apps like WhatsApp hadn't stopped supporting it I might still be using it.

I'm going to be that that guy and say "plank length" is probably constant for a given plank. Planck length, on the other hand... :)

My dad (who worked for BT in various positions) claims he was involved with the decision to move the exchange in our/their village from one end to the other. Coincidentally, closer to the end in which we lived, which I gather would have a non-trivial impact on our internet speed.

I think this probably coincides with the time period we got ISDN, very early, and I was amazed by the concept of _always connected_ internet. I can still vividly remember watching GoZilla download a game demo at 7kb/s, stunned and excited.

I also would have said "Sikh" and "seek" are homonyms until recently when I found out that Sikhs' preferred pronunciation is generally to sound closer to "sick" (aspirate the H if you like)

To be fair I don't know any Sikhs, though there is a Sikh community where I live (there's a Sikh temple at the bottom of my road).

I'm going to listen out for how Sikhs pronounce it.

And yet you wanted to correct someone else, without ever having heard someone say it? I moved from California to Louisiana, and while my pronunciation / idioms used to get poked at in good cheer, I never deigned to correct the natives - "its the ten freeway, get it right, I should know, it starts in my state!"

> And yet you wanted to correct someone else, without ever having heard someone say it?

I've heard "Sikh" pronounced many times by native english speakers and that invariably sounds like "seek". Now that I've heard that it's pronounced differently by the Sikhs themselves, I'll aim to use the correct pronunciation. This is an unusual situation in that I am a "native" (i.e. a native of England) and arguably Sikhs are non-native though I'd expect most of them near us were born here.

Also, the English have a long history of turning up in other countries and pushing their own religion/language/culture onto the natives, so maybe I'm just a product of my upbringing?

Also from the UK and have just learnt that I've likely been pronouncing it incorrectly. Here is a video where a Sikh uses the word several times and it sounds like "sick": https://m.youtube.com/shorts/kM1-DUTgTC4

It feels similar to the situation with "Muslim" or "islam", which have a proper "s" sound in Arabic (as in "messy") rather than a "z" sound (as in "music").

Or Škoda cars that most people call "Skoda" when it should be pronounced more like "Shkoda"

It's an interesting question as to whether an adopted word gets to be overridden by the preferences of the target!

Suppose the people of Edinburgh didn't happen to like Ee-dan-borghh as the French say it, that doesn't make the French pronunciation "wrong".

More people use their phones outside than use their desktop computers outside, though

You could have a look at Harbor: https://goharbor.io/

More common in the UK

They've just released a version as it existed some time in 2005: https://www.habbo.com/community/article/34151/launching-tomo...

Like OSRS but for Habbo

That's interesting. Thanks for the link.

The amount of developers that were building retro servers with modern stacks for their clones was really impressive.

Of the Cornish variety, the singular is pasty.

Isn't the expression usually "blow a gasket"? Meaning to blow a seal in a pressurised system

I think you're right, but "blow a casket" does sound more dire!

Oh god you're right! I think autocorrect just jumped to casket on me. I'll edit it to fix.

yeah, but blowing a gasket might put you in a casket