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

I imagined it in a cartoon-ish fashion, so I think I can actually draw it out.

drawing

  • Red ball
  • Male
  • Like Google's default profile picture, without facial features, except he's in gray and has a neck
  • My single hand can surround more than half of it in a cross section view, so about 12cm in diameter
  • Rectangular table, about 5:2, I didn't imagine the material, but it's plain brown, so I guess wood?

Additionally, the ball rolls parallel to the long edge of the table, and falls off the short edge. The person also have legs.

I already had these in my mind before being asked.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

Furrier transform

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week 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.

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

Hongkonger moment

I'm seeing so many posts about the hurricane meanwhile we get hit by multiple typhoons every year.

For our tropical cyclone hazard system, most people don't have to work under typhoon warning signal no. 8, but only if it happens before you get to work.

There used to be a joke about "Lee's Forcefield", where the observatory would often NOT put up no. 8 until after the stock market starts for the day, meaning most people have to work.

Therefore yes, you're going to work.

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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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 227 points 3 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

We don't like being average

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 5 months ago

I don't even take pictures

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submitted 5 months ago by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have 2 physical output devices, say "speakers" and "headphones", and I frequently switch between them.

I also have a script that creates 2 virtual sinks for voice call and game by loading module-combine-sink twice on "speakers" and "headphones".

It works, but it's annoying that every time I want to switch device, I also need to mute the other one.

Ideally, I want to use module-remap-sink instead, remapping the 2 virtual sinks to the default one. This is where I'm stuck. What do I put in for master?

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Alt text: A planned driving route on Google Maps, crossing the Wan Chai district in 1 minute.

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submitted 7 months ago by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

For a few months now, Pipewire has been acting in weird ways. Before I upgraded to Plasma 6, after a screen blank (not suspend) no media can be played. For example, YouTube player is in the loading state for a long time, eventually playing without sound, VLC doesn't start for a few minutes.

I have to restart the Pipewire Systemd service to fix it. This restart process takes much longer than usual (<1 seconds). Sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes.

Now with Plasma 6, it also does the same after the initial login. I'm guessing this is because Plasma ignores some KWIN_X11_* env var?

However, if I restart the Pipewire service prior to playing any media after login or screen blank, it takes <1 seconds and everything plays correctly.

This seems to be the problem with the HDMI audio only, as switching to the USB headphones (before screen blanks) prevents this from happening.

How should I start troubleshooting this? What other details should I provide?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I'm working on a presentation about the Fediverse, and would like to end the presentation with a slogan. Any ideas?

Edit: I probably should've specified more stuff. This is an informative presentation, not persuasive, and I don't plan to get into the enshittification. Ideally I don't want to include any corporations.

Edit 2: My title is "The Future is Everywhere"

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by NorthWestWind@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Matters are not evenly distributed.

Edit: lol this is as controversial as I expected

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

We are here. Right here at Lemmy

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 103 points 9 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

I'm using the windows phone user agent solution. It loads the old version of YouTube and is much faster besides the lack of anti adblock

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

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