I once found a huntsman spider in my car. I pulled into a playing field carpark and encouraged the spider out. It was immediately eaten by an Australian magpie

I tried to save it, others would have crushed it. The maggie did.

I use keepass, it’s a little more work than many closed source ones, but it’s only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything

My “smart” bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you

I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi

Its app hadn’t been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again

You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms

I got depressed and pretty useless, she got sick of it and left

That word is empirically - by experiment or observation

If you want stability sdf.org (lemmy.sdf.org is their Lemmy service) has been around for decades

This thread tells how to export and import your favourites, posts, comments

IRL 1984 was fine. America was still good; the Soviet Union didn’t nuke us all

It doesn’t fit with the fairytale. Father bear found everything too much, mumma bear found everything too little, baby bear found everything perfect

I really need to watch Donny Darko. It’s like a hole in my soul that I’m missing it. Two holes. That and reservoir dogs.

Trainspotting was great, but it wasn’t a storm film

Have you seen lock, stock and two smoking barrels? (Also not a storm film and not a heroin film)

Fun film, was it Twister or the other one. This one was better than the other film

Edit: Ah the other was Into the storm. Not nearly as good. Didn’t even have cows. Four stars.

Is the centaur going to be top or bottom?

To Germanic languages from romance languages

It came to English via old French

You won’t like the way we say bishop compared to how the French said it

Well here’s the English word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crepe#English

Unfortunately you’ll have to read the IPA to get the British pronunciation, as the only recorded version is the US pronunciation.

Visit the link I linked, listen to the samples of French speakers from different regions saying the word

Interesting that your pronunciation is listed as predominantly US, but Larson lives and lived in Washington state and pronounces it the way I and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth do

Neither of us can say the other is mispronouncing the word, it is said both ways

How did we get that way of saying it? The French version of the word has a circumflex over the e (crêpe) I’m not up on French pronunciation but I suppose that influenced how it was pronounced in English

Edit to add: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crêpe#French

The French pronunciation