Onomatopoeia
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- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 11 hours ago:
Umm, gonna answer as an American, for clarity: many schools across the US have language classes of all sorts. Every niece/nephew I know across multiple states could study French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Italian, etc, etc. Chinese is one of many (typically Mandarin).
It’s very common in US public schools, and has increased significantly over the last 50 years.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 11 hours ago:
Why? Because I can’t, like I said.
No one has to justify themselves. You asked, I said no. The end.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 12 hours ago:
I don’t care if I’m rude to someone who’s trying to scam me, or in this case started being inconsiderate themselves.
Stephen Covey discusses this in Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. He’s asked if it’s OK to lie to someone. He answers by posing a scenario where being honest gets you killed, but using a harmless lie you aren’t.
I highly recommend reading the book.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 12 hours ago:
I take your point, and in general agree with it. We should try to help.
Hoever, someone approaches like that and my radar is going off. Sorry, my safety comes first, so I’m just going to say “No thanks”, every time, because we all know this person is trying to scam someone.
Someone once told me “don’t let them use your principles against you”, which is exactly what this scammer is doing.
There’s a world of difference between helping a stranger and allowing yourself to be pulled into a potentially risky situation.
This is the same reason I never pick up hitch hikers (I have in certain areas/circumstances).
Though I have no problem helping someone on the side of the road. I’ve helped random people carry stuff out of the store to their car - by offering to help them.
These are different situations which you can assess in the moment.
- Comment on Classification need with Tailscale, remote access, and local access. 12 hours ago:
Just verifying, after enabling subnet routing, did you create the routes (it’s in the docs for subnet router).
I have the same problem you do - for some reason TS will “steal” the route, even when correctly configured.
- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 3 days ago:
Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn’t, which I didn’t know).
As per my other comment - 8 drives or 1 drive, same idle power for desktop hardware. My actual NAS uses about 1/8 the power at idle for 5 drives.
- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 3 days ago:
Power isn’t from drives, if your OS spins them down (as any NAS solution should).
- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 3 days ago:
Wow, QNAPS don’t spin down disks? Geez, what a crappy design choice. Thanks for that tidbit, I was considering one for my next NAS.
- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 3 days ago:
In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn’t necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.
I have an old desktop setup as NAS - with 2 drives or eight drives, idle power draw is virtually the same, about 100w, regardless of the OS (Windows, Linux, UnRAID, Proxmox).
I also have an old consumer NAS, with five 4TB drives, and it idles under 20w (I think last I checked it was ~15w… I need to check it again and write that down).
Two very similar systems, one designed to be a NAS, the other a desktop. It really comes down to the motherboard design and capabilities.
And don’t think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.
- Comment on A noob question about VPSs and bandwidth 4 days ago:
FYI, Tailscale has the Funnel feature, so you can access your TS network without a client. Check it out.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 4 days ago:
If you’re self hosting, why use anything Google?
I don’t use Google apps, my calendar apps aren’t even on Play, and don’t use any Google processes.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Why would one be willing to sink hours!
I think you misunderstand the word “self” :
noun plural selves a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one’s own self.
a person’s nature, character, etc.: his better self.
personal interest. Philosophy. the ego; that which knows, remembers, desires, suffers, etc., as contrasted with that known, remembered, etc. the uniting principle, as a soul, underlying all subjective experience
Sounds to me like you’re more interested in the ego portion of self.
I’ve spent years doing things for myself, my friends, my family, not from ego, but because I believe the things I’ve done are important (either to me or to my friends/family), and that I’m the person that can do those things.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 1 week ago:
We already have synch issues with a single heart (things like arrythmias). I’m not sure two hearts in a mammal would even work, given the increase in distance for signaling - seems a lot of opportunity for error.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 1 week ago:
But if the nodes are connected, it’s still a single pump.
You’re merely choosing to redefine the terms. The nodes are part of the heart as a system - remove the nodes and well, the pump no longer pumps.
Your argument is like saying you can split a multi-cylinder automotive engine in half, leave the ignition system in place, and you have 2 engines.
No, you have one engine split in two, with it’s electrical timing system still determining how each cylinder maintains the exact same timing as before.
(Automotive engines are essentially air pumps with very specific timining mechanisms, as each cylinder’s output affects other cylinders, akin to the timing in a heart).
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 1 week ago:
And even a singular heart can have some weirdness when it’s own timing signals find alternate paths, like in some arrythmias.
I can only imagine the chaos of trying to keep signals synchronized between two hearts.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 week ago:
Is English a second language for you? (Serious question, not being snarky). Would help with how to frame an answer.
With “He died” - the word “died” is a verb (it’s what he did), it’s the action that takes place. It’s functionally (though not literally) equivalent to saying “He fell”.
With “He’s dead”, the verb is “is” - “He is (dead)”, describing a state of being/existence. “Dead” functions as an adverb (I think, English class was a long time ago), modifying “is”, with the information that he exists, just no longer as a living being.
“He is”, while not obvious, is a functionally correct/complete sentence (just ask Descartes).
Hope that helps and I request corrections/clarifications from grammarians and language boffins.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 week ago:
Is English a second language for you? (Serious question, not being snarky). Would help with how to frame an answer.
With “He died” - the word “died” is a verb (it’s what he did), it’s the action that takes place. It’s functionally (though not literally) equivalent to saying “He fell”.
With “He’s dead”, the verb is “is” - “He is (dead)”, describing a state of being/existence. “Dead” functions as an adverb (I think, English class was a long time ago), modifying “is”, with the information that he exists, just no longer as a living being.
“He is”, while not obvious, is a functionally correct/complete sentence (just ask Descartes).
Hope that helps and I request corrections/clarifications from grammarians and language boffins.
- Comment on I designed and made a thing! 1 week ago:
Is ABS problematic in sun? I wouldn’t think it was, since it’s been used for decades in the automotive world on exposed stuff (I have a 90’s motorcycle with a fair bit of exposed ABS and it’s surprisingly fine).
Maybe the auto world has additives for stability?
- Comment on How does one use an electric toothbrush? 1 week ago:
Even for the ones that vibrate, eg Philips Sonicare. It does the work for you, just move the brush back and forth.
- Comment on How does one use an electric toothbrush? 1 week ago:
That is incorrect, for Philips Sonicare anyway.
Each brand is different.
- Comment on How does one use an electric toothbrush? 1 week ago:
You use it according to the instructions. Each brand is different.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 week ago:
Yea, gotta be something odd with your setup.
Currently I have one phone (of several) thats syncing en excess of 10,000 files, some only on Wifi (with 3 access points), some wifi/cell data.
ST knows the state of a file, so a disconnect should have no effect. If you’re getting corrupted files, I wonder if something else is going on which may also affect another sync tool.
Try Resilio for the same folders, see if you have the se problem (disable aybthing of course, otherwise conflicting edits will cause file corruption).
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 week ago:
Syncthing runs encrypted anyway.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 week ago:
I’ve not had files get corrupted, that’s strange, for sure.
Some options (but it really depends on what you’re trying to do):
Resilio Sync (cross-platform, battery eater on mobile, but has a useful feature - Selective Sync)
FolderSync on Android (can also be battery intense)
Native tools and scheduling on Linux and Windows.
Maybe a review of the setup is in order, what your devices are, what you’re trying to do. Sync may not be the tool for what you’re trying to do.
I use a combination of tools for different jobs and devices.
Generally, all files on mobile are synced to home using Syncthing-Fork. For example, on Android I have a sync job(“folder”) in ST for every root folder on the device. These get synced to home depending on conditions (e.g. DCIM syncs over any network, any power condition, so I don’t lose photos, while Backups and Download only sync on power over wifi, since they’re big and not critical).
Between desktop OS’s I largely use OS-specific tools, because I don’t really need sync there, but file copy and comparison on a schedule.
After 10 years and probably 1TB+ of sync, I haven’t lost any files via ST. Currently have 5 phones running jobs back to a server. I’ve even moved Syncthing from one server to another with no issues. With how ST works, I think file corruption is highly unlikely - it even handles in-use files safely.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I despise reading a book on a screen. Ebooks are inferior to physical books from a typical usage standpoint.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 2 weeks ago:
There’s a vast difference though. You’re acting like we’re Luddites or something, when there’s already a concrete example of the problems you’re promoting.
Yes, we have to tinker with AI to understand it. But your approach is to shove it into everything when we don’t fucking want it in fucking everything.
Ffs can you be any more dismissive and denigrating by comparing us to luddites?
And, I’m probably mot much younger than you, and I can call bullshit on your claims. Nothing from 4+ decades ago compares to the Cloud and AI concerns, by orders of magnitude.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 2 weeks ago:
Yea, that’s a lot of ambiguity.
“Doesn’t work”. Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it’s a multi-device sync tool.
For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it’s Syncthing, for iOS it’s Möbius.
I’ve installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn’t worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 2 weeks ago:
An alternative to Syncthing is Resilio Sync. I use both, for different purposes.
Resilio is a battery eater on mobile, but it is a bit more consistent than Syncthing (though after 10+ years and probably terabytes of sync, it’s not like ST is problematic).
RS offers Selective Sync, so I don’t have to sync an entire folder, but can pick a file to sync “right now”. This is really useful for my media folder (~2.5 TB), since I don’t have that kind of free space on my phone. From anywhere I can fire up RS on my phone and grab whatever movie I want (or any file from my laptop, other phones etc, because all those files are synced to my server using Syncthing).
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 2 weeks ago:
The Fork dev forked it years ago, well before the original dev stopped because of Play rules (which I really don’t get).
Anyway, I’ve used Fork for years now, it “just works”, plus moved all the config into each sync pair/folder.
- Comment on My two cent about emails servers field. Over a two decades... 2 weeks ago:
Encrypted messaging is unrelated to phone numbers. That’s an issue of using apps like WhatsApp (which I refuse to use), and a beef I have with Signal (part of why I really don’t trust them).
Apps have no need of your telephone number, not that it isn’t hard to find anyway.