Before timezones and trains, each town had its own natural time (based on the sun or whatever). Would you have preferred that?

It’s the standard transcription of the Arabic sound, which is closest (in fact, pretty much identical) to the Hebrew sound which is typically used to pronounce the first consonant in Hamas. Blame the bad Arabic-language education is Israel for not pronouncing it correctly…

This is, as far as I know, not a word in Arabic, and non-standard transcription for Hebrew — the standard would be “Ḥamas” or “H̲amas” (using “ch” is common but non-standard as well).

Netanyahu only wants one thing, and it’s to stay in power for as long as possible. If a regional war gives that to him (via Ben-Gvir), he won’t mind.

Edit: He currently holds a parliamentary majority. If he agrees to a ceasefire, the more extreme members of his coalition will no-confidence him together with the opposition. And, as it stands right now, he has no chance of participating in the next government.

You can use negative decibels, right? It’s a logarithmic scale

But you can never know if they pronounce them right :(

Then again, Tolkien does describe the pronunciations in enough detail in the Appendix to LOTR (I don’t know if it’s in every edition though).

They only took down the TV channel. I don’t know what usage statistics are like, but I suspect the website was already quite used.

To clarify my previous comment, this doesn’t mean that the Israeli government’s actions aren’t fascistic in nature, or concerning for the future. Just that their chosen course of operation in this specific case is ineffective. At worst it’s an inconvenience.

Does M3/M4 support AV1 encoding?

There’s a known Plasma 6 bug causing some weirdness at the bottom of the screen, but I expect it will be fixed soon. In any case, switching between virtual desktops gets rid of it.