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Wingy commented on Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Tomte
OJFord · 4 months ago
Is there a term for this (bad) style of writing or linguistic device where you mention the thing ('purple dragon') in the title/first paragraph and then really force a synonym in the second?

> Federal Magistrate Judge Ray Kent of the Western District of Michigan was unamused by a recent complaint (PDF) that prominently featured the aubergine wyrm.

(Emphasis mine.)

Wingy · 4 months ago
You could call it Elegant Variation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation
Wingy commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
scioto · 4 months ago
My $0.02 with 708 comments ahead of me.

I currently use Windows, 10 to be exact, to play games, and in a VM to run an income tax fat app (since the online version is so much more expensive). My game machine cannot upgrade to 11. A mobo upgrade won't be that expensive for the game machine, but instead I'll covert it to a Linux box and run the few games that work on Linux.

I believe my Windows days are over as of, say, October 14 this year.

Wingy · 4 months ago
If you make your Windows 11 USB with Rufus you can disable the TPM 2.0 and other hardware requirement checks. You totally should try a Linux install first though!

u/Wingy

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