In that example, it should have been first-hand or firsthand. When multiple words are used together as an adjective, in this case an adjective-noun pair, those two should become hyphenated. I just wrote another example – it’s ‘adjective-noun’ because the two words are used as an adjective for pair, even though they would not ordinarily be hyphenated.

For the same reason, asking “is it ‘first hand’ or ‘first-hand’” would be meaningless, because it depends on the context, unless a stylistic choice is made to write ‘firsthand’ instead

I’m in my mid 20s and a woman and I found out recently that the skinny jeans I’ve been wearing for the last decade have supposedly been uncool the whole time. I don’t care. Style is personal, and I like them.

Maximum dynamic pressure. At max q, the mechanical stress on a spacecraft stops increasing and starts decreasing. If a spacecraft is going to blow up, it usually does so before max q.

Not sure how to make that apply here 🧐

complete feature parity isn’t a good goal, or the alternatives will always be behind. Partial parity, with some features Discord doesn’t have (e.g. E2EE) is an achievable goal which does successfully encourage migration

I’ve been using it as my only form of messaging with most of my contacts for several years, many of whom have little knowledge of technology. It’s really not.

Yup, that’s what DMA should solve (edit: or, rather, will solve, when Whatsapp fully complies with it)

depends what you mean by closer – by features and ease of use, Matrix is the closest you can get to Whatsapp right now. XMPP is good, though!

ah, hopefully with the Digital Markets Act in the EU, reliable bridging to Matrix with E2EE intact will come quickly. You can already bridge (e.g. I run mautrix-whatsapp), but its not in an ideal state

Matrix!

The world doesn’t (need to) run on giving only what you owe. People donate to creators not through moral obligation, but because they like what the creator has made and they want to reward them for it and/or enable them to make more of it.

Why do you think Patreon (and others) is so popular? Any cynic would surely point out that from a purely transactional outlook, the donors are getting a bad deal. And yet.

It’s classic motte-and-bailey technique

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about