[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)

In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi

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Pharmacy Chunky Boi (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

Same cat folded its hand

This is a cat that lives in a local pharmacy in Hong Kong. Fat.

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Hypr Squid! (lemmy.world)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28506880

Decided to actually put in effort and tried to dotfile with Hyprland and Waybar. It turned out pretty well!

If you think the wallpaper looks disconnected, that's because I actually have a diagonal monitor setup.

dotfiles: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/dotfiles

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Hypr Squid! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28506880

Decided to actually put in effort and tried to dotfile with Hyprland and Waybar. It turned out pretty well!

If you think the wallpaper looks disconnected, that's because I actually have a diagonal monitor setup.

dotfiles: https://github.com/North-West-Wind/dotfiles

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Afternoon City (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

This was taken on March 12, 2024, on a little hill in Shatin, Hong Kong.

I'm a university student and the schedule isn't always the best, so I often go "hiking" during 2-hour breaks because the campus is built on the hill.

It was a sunny day and I walked up slope to a higher class residential area (outside campus). I saw this awesome view on a turn. This is one of my favorite photos from hiking.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I am technically not a robot.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: In Chinese, the Milky Way is called Silver River (銀河系)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

If you are gonna downvote, say something.

I can't tell if you're downvoting because you saw the word "blockchain", or you really love it.

I'm using quotes in the title, because I suspect a major amount of people use the word "blockchain" loosely to refer to other related things. If you are willing to, please provide a definition of what you mean by "blockchain" as well.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 131 points 7 months ago

They were so smart that they went back into the water and don't have to ever deal with capitalism

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago

Not only that. They also censor illegal use of drugs, and therefore the first episode of Detective Conan gets funny.

Recall the scene where he got fed the drugs. Now imagine that tube of drugs pixelated.

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This is my first ever Rust program.

The motivation of this is to create a soundboard with global hotkey support on Wayland, because Soundux wouldn't add it :<
That's why this soundboard is structurally very similar to Soundux.

Here's a screenshot:

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I recently bought a Corsair HS55 Wireless Headset. They stated it supports Dolby 7.1, IF you use the iCue software, which doesn't work on Linux.

Using pavucontrol, I can change the profile between Analog Stereo Output, Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output and Digital Surround 5.1 (IEC958/AC3) Output, but the Analog one is the only one that works. The other 2 just results in broken audio. There's not even a 7.1 option.

I don't have high hope about this, and I expected it to not work when I bought it, but it would be nice if anyone has some ideas.

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I'm satisfied with mine and I use it everywhere. How about you?

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ghost orb rule (lemmy.world)
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Here are 3 examples:
Fried egg, fried rice, fried chicken

All these "fry" are different. If you were to use the "fry" in fried rice to fry an egg, you'd get scrambled egg. Fried chicken is done by submerging it in oil, which you won't do with fried egg or fried rice.

This post is made from the perspective of a Cantonese/Chinese speaker. We have different words for these different types of "fry" (煎, 炒, 炸 respectively)

(Turns out I did post it in the wrong sub and I didn't realize, and now I feel very stupid. Photon UI has once again screwed me over. Got mad for no reason.)

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 228 points 11 months ago

You don't download shell scripts from github for windows. You download batch scripts and exes from random file hosting sites, and they don't even fix your problem.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

We don't like being average

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

I'm a Hongkonger and often need to type in Chinese. While I can use input methods like Cangjie or Quick, I much prefer handwriting to keep in mind how to write the characters in a digital age.

So far, I have only seen open source keyboards without handwriting support. Does any of them exist?

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

I don't even take pictures

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

We are here. Right here at Lemmy

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

Every 1 minute, 3L of water gets heated by 50K. With a specific heat capacity of 4200 J / kg / C and density of 1 g / mL, it takes 3 x 4200 x 50 = 630000J per minute.

With a rate of 4.0 x 10^4 J / g for the heater, we can get the rate of combustion with 630000 / 40000 = 15.75 g per minute.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

People had multiple accounts because servers were unstable. Now that stability has increased we're just abandoning the alts.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 113 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're very close! I'll make some edits.

1  My life over here is terrible.
2  Work environment is not very good (yes you're correct), benefits are few
3  But don't need to worry, every day has only about 10 people getting heavily injured,
4  and I am very careful.
5  We opened a small store, business is not bad.
6  Although I am not very familiar with English, I can still sometimes 
7  (This line is adding a word to the previous line)
8  understand what the white people (we meant westerners) are saying. (Line 6 to 8 are parts of the same sentence)
9  Hope I can get some fame here! I will work hard here, and
10 will be careful with my health
11 Are you (plural) still good?
12 Very miss you (plural), wish we can meet again

(I am a Hongkonger, speaking Cantonese since the day I was born. The other translations using translation software aren't accurate because there is an added character at line 7.)

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago

Fewer people, fewer idiots. I'm glad that people here are actually sane.

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