Oh, TIL that the small part by the Caspian Sea is far enough west to be considered Europe. Thanks for the correction.

Don’t forget the reverse Romanian Wilkinson.

Not quite correct. Kazakhstan is in central Asia, not Europe, even by a loose definition. Instead, Belgium (Brussels vs. Antwerp) and - by some definitions of Europe - Turkey (Ankara vs. Istanbul) should be on your list.

Wikipedia has a complete list.

Edit: Germany used to be a case that did this intentionally until 1990. While it was split into West and East Germany, West Germany chose Bonn as its capital as Berlin was surrounded by East Germany. They could have chosen a large city like Hamburg, Munich, Cologne or Frankfurt but went with the much smaller Bonn to symbolize that it was only a temporary solution.

Habe gestern ein Experiment gewagt. Mit süßem Senf. War gar nicht mal so schlecht.

To add some more, here’s a list of stuff that I would love to do at some point but haven’t found the time yet:

• A tool that directly translates PCB designs into a format that my resin 3D printer can read so I can abuse its display as a UV etching machine
• An alternative to GPlates that’s a bit easier to use for fantasy worldbuilding. GPlates is great but it’s mostly meant for serious scientific work so its UI is a bit complicated.
• A minimalistic blogging platform that interfaces with ActivityPub
• Many, many games.

Instead of a long-winded post, here’s a quick list of stuff that I’ve worked on in my free time over the last few months:

• Some scripts to automatically set some metadata on my photo library
• A tool that grabs a video stream from an HDMI input (from the OS’s point of view that looks just like any webcam), finds text in it and overlays a translation. I use that to play Japanese visual novels on my Switch
• A simple Bubble Shooter game because my gf was frustrated with some bugs in the one she had found online
• A simple 2D game engine and editor inspired by RPG Maker XP
• Updates to the registration website for a community event that I host twice a year
• Updates to a discord bot that automates some dice rolls for my online TTRPG sessions
• A browser extension that helps me scrape some data from a specific website
• Helped a friend port an old website from PHP5 to PHP8

Overall, it’s mostly stuff that is useful for my hobbies for which I can’t find an existing solution that fits my use case.

All of the Discworld books of course. Or at least your favorites.

Could be a mild form of synesthesia or just some subconscious memory.

Anyway, what colors are the following:

• Wednesday (the weekday, not the Addams family character)
• science
• heartbreak
• fantasy
• the letter F
• infinity

Damn, you were faster than I was, I was just calculating the same thing. All I have left is to assume that they won’t be able to fully dry the silver and guess a bit higher… 850g.

Foreign dubs are basically whole movies lipsynced from start to finish and that happens all the time.

Never said that. I said I rarely block people in general, not that there are few trolls.

But sure, if you want to increase the size of my block list, calling my post “some bs” just because my experience is different from yours is probably a good start. Let’s see if I’ll stick around long enough to get so annoyed that I need to block you or if I just walk away.

I block people very rarely (I think I have just two or three blocks on Lemmy and Mastodon combined) but when I do it’s because of tone, not because of content. I’m fine with reading things I don’t agree with or that I think are disconnected from reality. As you say, it gives you an idea of what others think. But if someone is needlessly and consistently rude, I just don’t need that in my life.

I really hope they’ll streamline that a bit more or at least create some documentation that’s more than a hand full of bullet points.

I live in Germany where people usually drive reasonably-sized cars. Something like a Škoda Karoq SUV is already considered unreasonably large.

A while ago I saw someone drive a Ford F-150 past our house. That thing is almost 1m (~3 feet) longer and 30 cm (~1 foot) taller than those SUVs. In its smallest version. How the hell do Americans live like that?

Den Windows 11 Kram muss sie für die Arbeit eh lernen und kriegt es da im Zweifelsfall von der IT beigebracht. So lange das noch klappt, bin ich einfach nur froh, meine Ruhe zu haben. Hab wenig Lust, rauszufinden, ob es für die diverse Software, die sie für ihren GPS-Fitnesstracker und was auch sonst noch verwendet, Linuxversionen gibt.

Wenn sie bereit ist, Linux auszuprobieren, setz ich ihr gerne was auf. Aber so lange sie sich damit unwohl fühlt, ist mir das Risiko zu hoch, dass sie einfach aus Prinzip anruft, auch wenn sie es selber hinkriegen würde.

Ich hab meiner Mutter schon angedroht, dass sie das Gerät früher oder später in den Ruhestand schicken muss. Ist eh ein Wunder, dass noch alles tut. Aber so lange sie das noch ein bisschen rauszögern kann, ist sie glücklich.

Ich spiele immer wieder mal mit dem Gedanken, was aus dem X61T zu machen, das hier noch liegt.

Fühle ich. Ich habe gestern den 2012er Acer Laptop meiner Mutter (Intel Core i5 2450M, nachgerüstet mit 8 GB RAM und 750 GB SSD) dazu überredet, Windows 11 zu installieren. Und bevor jemand fragt, Linux war keine Option, ich bin froh, dass sie überhaupt Windows bedienen kann, ohne alle zwei Tage anzurufen.

Nächster Schritt: einem MacBook Pro von ca. 2010 eine SSD verpassen und Ubuntu drauf schmeißen, damit es seine letzten Jahre vor der Verschrottung als Heimautomatisierungsserver fristen kann.

I could go on for days about the problems with medical devices. I write software for one of those at my day job and as much as our team would love to port the software to something other than Windows, that would be a logistical nightmare.

The thunderbolt connection alone can break because of a thousand factors, even on the exact combination of hardware and operating system it was tested with. Processing of medical images is often very GPU-heavy which gives us the same problems as with CAD software.

Even if you get all the technical problems out of the way, medical devices need to be certified before you’re allowed to use them for diagnostics. This often includes an exact specification of the platform you run the software on. If you just take something that’s certified for “Windows 10 between 20H2 and 22H2, Intel or AMD CPU, device driver version 8.1.23” and try to run it on Wine, I would expect the American FDA, German TÜV and Chinese NMPA to fight over who gets to kick your door in first. It might be possible to get a certification for a Linux version but probably only for one specific combination of distribution, display server and desktop environment.

Kinda unironically: yes.

Linux is great for some use cases and at least decent for most others but what I’ve experienced in some Linux communities made me understand why people don’t feel welcome. In a thread literally titled “Help me like desktop Linux” that listed a few things I was struggling with, I got hit with a bunch of “you’re an idiot for not using the exact same distro that I like”, “works on my machine” and “you want the wrong things”. Even as someone who already had over a decade of Linux server experience, that almost made me turn around and walk away.