PlexSheep

@PlexSheep@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes, breaking the Alltag (everyday life) can lead to what I call “spark of inspiration”. It’s hard to describe, but it’s when you suddenly think diffrently about things, come up with especially new and interesting, maybe also stupid new ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I already love it. It’s a passion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently making my bachelor in Cybersecurity. Can confirm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest: the deeper you go into the hole, the more things you discover that can be used to identify you. At some point you need to become a Cybersecurity expert or cut your internet connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does .: come from / what does it mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to know. I’m not a native English speaker. I was going for the equivalent of the German “z.B.” - “zum Beispiel”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does .: come from / what does it mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally, it’s just abbreviation with a double colon afterwards.

  Instead of

  In example:

  I.e.:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s a different use case. It’s math, not everyday written language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we just used UTC people on Europe could sleep from 23:00 to 7:00, people from Japan could sleep from 15:00 to 22:00 and so on. There would be no need to “localize” time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good comment. Thanks!

  Isn’t the second defined by light traveling a specific distance in vacuum?

  To add to that, I wish we all just used UTC. Time zones are useless, we could all just adjust to the universal time in local schedules.

  Also: english could be renamed to common and it would make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Time is not metric

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know the Japanese use it aswell. I learned 午後 and 午前 as vocab at least. (Am and pm)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would eating raw human brains make you high?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That wikipedia article reads like an a try in the sco wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just manually blocked the pout with ublock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cannibalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not any more than drinking human urine or nibbling fingernails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does salty water taste so bad when salt food tastes so good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the first few sips. Afterwards it becomes meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A megameters is 1.000.000 meters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany, studying Cybersecurity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a labour-friendly car company?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a German, our car companies are still shady. One word: Abgasskandal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Megameters are sometimes used, that’s not true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can really recommend Wanikani, mainly focused on learning kanji.

  For grammar: the Genki books and online explanations like tokini Andi.

  Everything else is Anki.

  Yes this is a lot. I’m currently doing wanikani only because of time issues, but that’s what I found pretty effective for me. じゃね！

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS to update Windows every 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re toxic. Windows is trash, but treating others bad means you’re a bad person, regardless of which OS they use. Why do I even need to say this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Windows 11 decent yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about what software you install. Big commercial projects are ok, and anything that offers an MSI installer works too. But it gets really weird once you want to install something that does not offer a dedicated installer.

  Instead of every program needing their own installer, there should be a central installer that can install most software.

  On my Linux machines, installing things is a matter of a single command. The program downloads, installs, integrates the software of my choosing without me having to search the web for some installer (that could also be malware). If the thing I want only offers an executable, that works too, as I just put it in /use/local/bin.

  Another thing is usage in the terminal. On windows, pretty much every program has its own folder. That sucks, because the terminal gets a list of executables depending on the PATH variable. That means I end up manually adding A LOT of folders to the PATH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Windows 11 decent yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We browsing is a bad example. We browsing just works on every OS. Games have gotten better of course, but it’s still not at the real it just works level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Windows 11 decent yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the windows shenanigans start at installing new things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Windows 11 decent yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agreed with the guy you answered, then I read your comment and I must admit that you’re right.

  I need to use windows at work and hate it every couple minutes, but it’s simply true that I have to tinker around a lot with my Linux machines. I have to tinker more with my windows machine, but that’s because I really dislike the windows way and want to do things like I do on my Linux systems.

  I am still committed to the idea that Gnu/Linux is a vastly superior system compared to windows, especially so for devs, but it isn’t always easy.

  The viewpoint of just “using” a PC is something I’ve mostly lost as it seems.

  Is windows really “easier” for non technical people? Or are they just used to it and switching would be too much effort?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They also took in source code covered by the GPL. The issue is still on going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other day I heard a friend talking about how "the moon's gravity affects our internal organs." This sounds like bull, but is it? And if so, how would I correct their misinformation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that logic not extend to all mass in the universe, regardless of observability?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an open-source/not corporate-owned alternative for Google Docs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but it does not run as a document server, so you can’t Selfhost it and connect it with you next loud instance to gain a cloud based office application.

  That’s as far as I know, would be cool if that was possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you find relevant technical information online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When doing technical things, I find the best source to always be the provided documentation. For example, when using an external crate in Rust, docs.rs or when coding a Django Webapp the official Django documentation.

  When starting out, these often contain examples or guides/tutorials.

  When that does not help, it goes back to putting relevant keywords into the search engine and hoping for the best.