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  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.detoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Million seconds → ~11.6 days, how much is a billion?
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    4 days ago

    I, mean, it’s just not obvious. You can calculate that, but what I’m saying is people aren’t too good with numbers. And we’re constantly manipulated because of that. Mainly to buy something, but also in others departments too.

    • E.g. try to do 5 minutes of intensive daily exercises, and bam! It’s over half an hour a week! Which is ⅓ of those who do three 30-minutes sessions a week. Try ten minutes a day, and it’s over an hour a week! Try fifteen minutes a day, and not many people do more sport than you!

    Throughout my life, I saw countless examples of how small numbers unfold into something quite big. But mainly with money, and how recklessly they are spent.

  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.detoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•TV remotes should have an easy-to-find (by touch) "volume toggle" button that toggles between two volume settings.
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    1 month ago

    I have this for Kodi as a shortcut for iOS. You can connect via ssh if you allow ssh in settings.

    My command is:

    curl -u login:password —header “Content-Type: application/json” —request POST —data ‘{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”, “method”: “Application.SetVolume”, “params”: {“volume”: Rounded Number}, “id”: 1}’ http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

    My exact command is a bit different, it takes the current volume of my iPhone / iPad multiplies that by 100 (as iOS volume is between 0 and 1, while Kodi’s from 0 to 100) and sends that volume to the HTPC. But it’s a nice idea, and there are various options to make it. I think I’d just do two buttons.

    So you can take that code and change Rounded Number to actual volume you need.

  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.detoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Would you leave russia in my place?
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    2 months ago

    Which countries do you mean? In Ukraine more likely you won’t be welcome, but even that can be different if you’d learn the history (not the bullshit you’re fed in Russia), culture, and language. Baltics won’t like you, I guess, but again, if you won’t push ‘great’ Russian culture (like three writers over three centuries) on them, you’d be fine. At some point, you’d have to understand that this is precisely nobody likes Russians. If you’re open to the world and don’t mind embracing diversity, languages and cultures, you’d be ok. Bonus, much easier to a girl, if you’re a girl. However, a friend in Stockholm was very suspicious of his Russian girlfriend, thinking she could be with him purely based on things not really related to the relationships. Which is, well, understandable.

    Also, you might move different direction, like Asia. I think people mostly aren’t in the context of the war, and unless you’re pushing them into Russian, I believe you’d be fine. Especially if you’d be open about you not supporting the country of your origin, but being afraid to stand against the regime. Leaving, you’re weakening Russia, which is good for everyone, even Russians. Russia must lose the war to become a country (hopefully countries, plural) that won’t be a threat to everyone. Otherwise, it would be even worse for everyone.