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It's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An application program is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task

A howitzer is a projectile weapon designed to fire a specific projectile

Rejoice, your paint guns are now all howitzers!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully the dictionaries get a little more specific. I do want an artillery capable paint gun though, that sounds rad

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I presented the above as a joke and I had faith that the definition of a howitzer wasn't that vague to begin with. angery

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gottem 😎

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I used to think howitzer was a specific model or even brand of artillery piece, like the Gucci bag of artillery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Task Manager in Windows always had an "Applications" tab and a "Processes" tab, going back to Windows 98 at least. "Programs" was always too broad and restricted to being colloquial; the specific word was either application or executable.

What's worth ranting about is whether people have stopped understanding "App" as short for something.