tiredofsametab
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Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 1 day ago:
I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.
The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 2 days ago:
I was in a big city recently and had business by their BYD dealership. I walked in as I had never seen any of the cars in person. Two of the models they had had physical controls (both the low(er?)-end ones). If I had planned on buying, that would have ruled 2/3 of what they had out. One complaint about my current vehicle is that it has touchscreen exclusively for all the HVAC controls (I have music controls on the wheel). I'm used to my older cars from (my an '83, '86, '95, '97, and '03 in order of model year) that I could adjust anything without taking my eyes off the road. I don't mind ALSO having a tablet for navigation and the like, but want my main controls to all be physical.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 days ago:
We already do in colloquial Japanese.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 5 days ago:
I worked in the MMO industry and played a lot of them, including ones I didn't want to (and some that never saw the light of day or folded almost immediately). The last one I kept playing was Rift: Planes of Telara and, when they did an overhaul of stuff, I couldn't be bothered to learn all the new stuff and just quit. That was probably 15ish years ago at this point. It also kinda ruined a lot of gaming for me for years. I do play games again now, and I do sometimes feel the itch for an MMO, but I haven't played one again.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 3 weeks ago:
- an absence of quick-time events (I hate those things in cut-scenes, parry systems, etc.)
- a mode that allows the player to destroy the environment, NPCs, etc. including, when on, making the game unable to be completed potentially. I think having that be a toggle will still allow people to relive older RPGs where you could easily ruin your life without knowing for hours.
- Off-the-wall weapons. I think Blood 2 had a few and even halflife 2
- Counting beyond 2, speaking of the above.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 4 weeks ago:
Assume that this is an apocalyptic Jew before rabbinic judaeism. That should frame thinks a bit better. The problem, at least as I understand it, is people doing commerce, particularly for a profit, in a sacred space. I do t think the money was the problem in and of itself, but rather the execution and motive. In another story, biblical Jesus tells someone of wealth and power that what he needs to do is give all of that up and he was quite miffed (in a very tldr telling)
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 5 weeks ago:
For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?
Which the other one? Within English itself, the same letter can be pronounced a number of ways. It's like when people want to "fix" English spelling, they always assume it's going to be their dialect that wins.
- Comment on green salad fingers 1 month ago:
Maybe hematite? I seem to remember saying that about hematite when I was young and the whole neopagan and new age stuff had a moment.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
First, I start moving people to hotel rooms...
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 2 months ago:
I think a/c is mostly (entirely?) a north-american naming convention. It's been "aircon" in the other places I've lived in traveled.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 3 months ago:
English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer 'a' for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn't phonemic in English).
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 3 months ago:
Raych?
- Comment on Trying (and failing) to receive IBP beacons on an SDR 3 months ago:
I now have a random wire antenna ~16m long (though not straight and the very ends wind around the structure I'm using to hold it up which I'm sure is not ideal), a ~4m counterpoise-ish-thing, a 9:1 balun, and cable to the SDR.
I've gotten wefax (though in negative and spotty, so still some figuring out to do). Still no IBP beacons at all, though.
I have fldigi working to a degree using soundcard as input. No hits using a regex of the beacons' callsigns (including the one here in Japan) on any frequency I've tried. Not sure why that is yet.
- Comment on You are stardust. 3 months ago:
My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 3 months ago:
Yup! It's dumb. Bonus one: one could get sued by posting on social media a pic/vid that shows someone cheating and they get caught. It's profoundly stupid
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 3 months ago:
In Japan, a person can get sued for leaving an honest, negative review. One has to be careful with wording to avoid that completely (i.e. making sure that it's clearly stated that the content is a personal opinion (as opposed to an accusation, I guess?)). Some people still do write them and some get scary take-down notices (which may or may not be real or enforceable). As far as I know, someone could leave a low rating on like a star-based system or whatever and be fine, but I am not a lawyer.
- Comment on Trying (and failing) to receive IBP beacons on an SDR 3 months ago:
So far no luck, but I only seem to get flights when they are going to/from the nearest airport to places south of me; everyone else is going around. I'm not sure how far the range is meant to be. I can very faintly see something on the frequency, but Dump1090 isn't catching anything.
I have some parts coming today to try a ~20m random wire antenna. I got 2x20m copper wire in case I need to do a counterpoise on the other side (which seems to be like 1/4 length (so 5m) of wire?).
- Comment on Trying (and failing) to receive IBP beacons on an SDR 3 months ago:
Thanks very much. I had a feeling antenna size was at least part of the problem there. I appreciate the help and tools. Thanks!
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- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 months ago:
My wife and I are almost 10 years apart. We met right before her 30th birthday, I was also once the younger partner when I was 20 and my then-gf was 34. That failed for a number of reasons, but I don't think age was one of them. With legal, consenting adults, whatever works for you is fine, I think.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).
I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 3 months ago:
I'm old enough to have been through this in IT (that and leapseconds) and it's what my mind first jumped to (well, other than enshitification).