Nova also adds that quick menu with most used apps and recently used apps. And that also includes a search bar that will search installed apps by default but can be configured to search the web with your browser and search engine of choice. I used those features a lot, but these days I use Niagara.

I have seen this, but with “Y”, “N” instead. That was the way the database stored it and the way the UI displayed it, but everything inbetween converted to boolean instead, because there was logic depending on those choices. It wasn’t that bad, all things considered, just a weird quirk in the system. I think there was another system that did just use those strings plain (like WHERE foo = 'Y' in stored procedures), but nothing I had to work with. We just mapped “Y” to true when reading the query results and were done with it.

(And before anyone asks, yes, we considered any other value false. If anyone complained that their “Yes”, “y” or empty was seen as false, we told them they used it wrong. They always accepted that, though they didn’t necessarily learn from it.)

X is under total control of that person. As long as the lemmy source adheres to fediverse principles, this developer can believe whatever they want and run their instance however they want, and no one else has to care. If his beliefs starts affecting the lemmy source, it’s always an option to fork.

If you exclude a branch of the fediverse because of one bad instance, you’re missing the point of the fediverse.

Only problem is you now have a translation that makes you go “hmm, seems right”, but you have no way of judging that yourself, so you’d need an expert anyway. Sometimes, having no information is better than having wrong information.

That’s what the Egyptians did. When the Israelites spared the Midianite women, Moses got angry at them and commanded them to kill everyone. Except the virgin girls, probably for completely wholesome Christian reasons.

It is a bad thing, it’s not like they planned it ahead of time and prepared for the consequences of population decline. The entire system is designed around a growing population and if that growth turns negative, so does the government’s budget.