I rather liked Lidwien’s enraciné, though I think I might use déraciné. As Alex says, for IT and a lot of other modern stuff the French have a tendency to just use the English word - sometimes even when they have a perfectly good word. They’re always talking about the “shift” key, much more than “majuscules”. But of course in English we’ve been borrowing other people’s words for centuries
Excellent! In English we’ve borrowed wurzel for one of the root crops, mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel. Rooted Android
For those who’ve never seen it, an excellent Norwegian sketch from 2001 imagining the Helpdesk back in the mediaeval days of the end of the scroll and the introduction of the codex. There’s a more recent American version that’s not nearly as good in my opinion. I remember how we laughed when it came out.
For non-french speakers, that was the French word invented back in 2010-11 to replace the english word “smartphone”, and it was a fail But you can still find it in very old posts of the forum.
I guess you (non-German) folks are aware that the Germans actually use an English word for cell/mobile/smartphone that the English themselves don’t use for the same thing – the Handy.
(In fact, not the only “English” word Germans use to describe things that English native speakers use all different words for.)
I’ve always thought, when considering the use we make of computers, that the French word ordinateur is better suited than the English. But ordiphone never had a chance I think
Yes, I noted that with interest some years ago, But there are plenty of strange borrowings as you say. I love the bizarreness of language though I was never much good at school, too lazy
Checking device battery charge level from computer when connected with USB
For those who didn’t know, when your device is connected to a Windows computer with USB, you can check the charge level without handling the phone. Just open the Windows Explorer, go to “This PC” and open the properties of the device.
I expect the same can be done with Linux and Mac. It can be handy when the phone’s a little way from your keyboard …
My wife is looking to get a FP4 and was wondering about the fun factor of different colour combinations of phone and protective case. You can’t really get an idea from the store page of what they might look like together.
Does anyone have a photo they could share of a green backed phone with the red protective case, for example? Or is that a bit too controversial ?
The only place you can see the colour of the phone if you use a protective case is around and between the triangle of camera and sensors on the back of the phone.
Do I have to stay in this cage till Xmas?
I mean killing me in the future is one thing, but imprisoned for life until then, come on let me go and see if you can catch me.
And also a very slight rim around the screen… and you can see the aluminium color in the holes of the case (around the power button, the 3 microphones, the speaker and the USB plug). All that is not very often seen, though.
But you can still find it in very old posts of the forum.
This is the epitome of geeky laziness. 
(but I’m pretty sure you can use a similar way on a Mac)
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