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adiwan: I know the history of the term "Jaywalking" however I can not help myself not to think of a bluejay walking across the street instead.
adiwan's status on Monday, 15-Jun-26 06:41:48 UTC
I know the history of the term "Jaywalking" however I can not help myself not to think of a bluejay walking across the street instead.
adiwan: I feel a sudden wave of nostalgia thinking about my first *proper* mp3 player, the Creative Zen Micro with 4GB 1.8'' HDD. I had a stupid USB-Stick with 128MB before and it was crap. My Creative Zen Micro couldn't be turned on and it was a sad day 20 years ago. I have too much music to consider using anything like that again without having to transcode everything to 128kb/s for a decent music selection. Apparently none survived as I can't find any working on ebay as all I can find are marked as junk or for parts. After that I had an iPod Touch 2G with 16GB that got a broken headphone jack and trying to repair it the display broke. Wouldn't want to use that again because of iTunes.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 14-Jun-26 21:23:33 UTC
I feel a sudden wave of nostalgia thinking about my first *proper* mp3 player, the Creative Zen Micro with 4GB 1.8'' HDD. I had a stupid USB-Stick with 128MB before and it was crap. My Creative Zen Micro couldn't be turned on and it was a sad day 20 years ago. I have too much music to consider using anything like that again without having to transcode everything to 128kb/s for a decent music selection. Apparently none survived as I can't find any working on ebay as all I can find are marked as junk or for parts. After that I had an iPod Touch 2G with 16GB that got a broken headphone jack and trying to repair it the display broke. Wouldn't want to use that again because of iTunes.
adiwan: I need to get all the old music I always had. I'm seriously missing the SNES music from StarFox (StarWing), especially the Corneria stage music. Somehow the SNES sound chip is still unmatched. The Amiga is close but not the same.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 14-Jun-26 20:18:56 UTC
I need to get all the old music I always had. I'm seriously missing the SNES music from StarFox (StarWing), especially the Corneria stage music. Somehow the SNES sound chip is still unmatched. The Amiga is close but not the same.
adiwan: @scribus I went back to Slay The Spire 2 and unlocked the last bit. After that I have a gaping abyss full of backlog games. I own console games I have never even tried. The biggest road block is that I have to set up the consoles in the first place as all of them are in the boxes from my move into my current home.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 11-Jun-26 06:58:59 UTC
@scribus I went back to Slay The Spire 2 and unlocked the last bit. After that I have a gaping abyss full of backlog games. I own console games I have never even tried. The biggest road block is that I have to set up the consoles in the first place as all of them are in the boxes from my move into my current home.
adiwan: Played more Mina The Hollower. I went full on AVGN despite the accessibility options. I'm so furious I can't sleep.
adiwan's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 23:02:22 UTC
Played more Mina The Hollower. I went full on AVGN despite the accessibility options. I'm so furious I can't sleep.
adiwan: @scribus It's a dick move then that achievements (feats) are disabled when those, frankly speaking, accessibility options are enabled. I really liked Shovel Knight and it was a properly tough game. Not too hard but challenging, and the mechanics are not unfair. I don't have the same quality experience with Mina the Hollower.
adiwan's status on Monday, 08-Jun-26 09:17:13 UTC
@scribus It's a dick move then that achievements (feats) are disabled when those, frankly speaking, accessibility options are enabled. I really liked Shovel Knight and it was a properly tough game. Not too hard but challenging, and the mechanics are not unfair. I don't have the same quality experience with Mina the Hollower.
adiwan: I am playing Mina The Hollower and I'm infuriated by the controls. The "sticky" direction controls are causing so many problems that made me run into enemies and fall into pits and losing all my currency within minutes. I want to like the game more but it's fighting me as a player. The flying enemies and the high HP enemies aren't helping either.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 07-Jun-26 20:38:18 UTC
I am playing Mina The Hollower and I'm infuriated by the controls. The "sticky" direction controls are causing so many problems that made me run into enemies and fall into pits and losing all my currency within minutes. I want to like the game more but it's fighting me as a player. The flying enemies and the high HP enemies aren't helping either.
adiwan: @zeldatra To me I don't have any emotional relationship to Tupac and his music and his real life person. I don't have any clue to what's the point of that. Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One was in a way essential to the universe of the film and can be in a way excused to be resurrected (tough uncannily). In this case it's a completely new story that is not even in the same decade in which Tupac even lived.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 06-Jun-26 15:59:19 UTC
@zeldatra To me I don't have any emotional relationship to Tupac and his music and his real life person. I don't have any clue to what's the point of that. Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One was in a way essential to the universe of the film and can be in a way excused to be resurrected (tough uncannily). In this case it's a completely new story that is not even in the same decade in which Tupac even lived.
adiwan: @scribus Ah. I'm generally more disappointed that "sorbet" ice cream is not more common and flavors like orange, pineapple, and sweet woodruff are not more common. I'm sick seeing chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and cherry.
adiwan's status on Friday, 05-Jun-26 04:42:31 UTC
@scribus Ah. I'm generally more disappointed that "sorbet" ice cream is not more common and flavors like orange, pineapple, and sweet woodruff are not more common. I'm sick seeing chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and cherry.
adiwan: Never had Ben & Jerry's ice cream. If I had it I don't remember. Either way: when I see it in the store I think about trying one tiny pack but the price is high enough to lose my interest and curiosity.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 22:15:41 UTC
Never had Ben & Jerry's ice cream. If I had it I don't remember. Either way: when I see it in the store I think about trying one tiny pack but the price is high enough to lose my interest and curiosity.
adiwan: It's not been very long but I feel the lack of Steven Colbert's Late Show. Usually I wake up at 6AM and his monologue was usually the start of my day.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 04-Jun-26 10:31:20 UTC
It's not been very long but I feel the lack of Steven Colbert's Late Show. Usually I wake up at 6AM and his monologue was usually the start of my day.
adiwan: @scribus I know! It's like a kick in the groin into my bank account. The leadership in Canada has stupid high demands in profit and we haven't reached them 7 years in a row. Also a ton of people here don't have a billable project, which is also not a good standpoint to ask for more.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-26 13:48:02 UTC
@scribus I know! It's like a kick in the groin into my bank account. The leadership in Canada has stupid high demands in profit and we haven't reached them 7 years in a row. Also a ton of people here don't have a billable project, which is also not a good standpoint to ask for more.
adiwan: grape yeah. My raise of my yearly wage is effectively 150€. The economy is batcaveed.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-26 11:19:15 UTC
apple yeah. My raise of my yearly wage is effectively 150€. The economy is Potato Knishesed.
adiwan: For Turkish restaurants it's Pide month
adiwan's status on Monday, 01-Jun-26 07:09:23 UTC
adiwan: @scribus One of the episodes was a backstory episode that shows how Benson got the position of the manager of the park. So your remark checks out to some extend.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 31-May-26 20:17:09 UTC
@scribus One of the episodes was a backstory episode that shows how Benson got the position of the manager of the park. So your remark checks out to some extend.
adiwan: Woah. New Regular Show episodes.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 30-May-26 19:39:19 UTC
adiwan: @scribus The university parties are more lit than ever
adiwan's status on Saturday, 30-May-26 10:39:40 UTC
@scribus The university parties are more lit than ever
adiwan: Soldering Iron - Soddering Eye Ron. Somehow "soldering" is the Frenchest word in English where they choose to not speak out essential letters of the word. I mean next to aluminium.
adiwan's status on Friday, 29-May-26 17:05:02 UTC
Soldering Iron - Soddering Eye Ron. Somehow "soldering" is the Frenchest word in English where they choose to not speak out essential letters of the word. I mean next to aluminium.
adiwan: GOAT by Sony is pretty decent. It's a sports movie at its core, but still quite enjoyable. The best part is the animation. I'm pretty "eh" on the music but it's fine.
adiwan's status on Monday, 25-May-26 16:12:29 UTC
GOAT by Sony is pretty decent. It's a sports movie at its core, but still quite enjoyable. The best part is the animation. I'm pretty "eh" on the music but it's fine.
adiwan: @scribus Sounds quite the reason to cancel the session. My last week's session was cancelled because one of our group is a teacher and had to correct this year's final exams in computer science and mathematics and had to do twice the load because a teacher is ill for almost half a year.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 23-May-26 08:14:53 UTC
@scribus Sounds quite the reason to cancel the session. My last week's session was cancelled because one of our group is a teacher and had to correct this year's final exams in computer science and mathematics and had to do twice the load because a teacher is ill for almost half a year.
adiwan: Garden birthday parties in mid May are weird. Barely warm enough to be outside during the day but it gets cold very fast. I had to bail out at 21:00 because I was freezing. I even had two pairs of socks on for the extra insulation for the feet and yet they hurt from the cold. To be fair: I was there for 6 hours (day temperature 15°C, current 8°C at 22:00).
adiwan's status on Saturday, 16-May-26 20:11:25 UTC
Garden birthday parties in mid May are weird. Barely warm enough to be outside during the day but it gets cold very fast. I had to bail out at 21:00 because I was freezing. I even had two pairs of socks on for the extra insulation for the feet and yet they hurt from the cold. To be fair: I was there for 6 hours (day temperature 15°C, current 8°C at 22:00).
adiwan: @thelastgherkin A friend of mine is a teacher at a school. She is very much annoyed of the originality and repetitiveness to the point that she is actively avoiding these digits and trying hard not to sigh in exasperation (especially in light of the poor performance of her pupils). She told me once that any time it happens the children of one class practically flip out. Not even Pavlov could predict this kind of reflex.
adiwan's status on Friday, 15-May-26 19:21:33 UTC
@thelastgherkin A friend of mine is a teacher at a school. She is very much annoyed of the originality and repetitiveness to the point that she is actively avoiding these digits and trying hard not to sigh in exasperation (especially in light of the poor performance of her pupils). She told me once that any time it happens the children of one class practically flip out. Not even Pavlov could predict this kind of reflex.
adiwan: The animated Stranger Things series is awfully flat. The writing is annoyingly referential and uninspired, and the knowledge that it doesn't fit into the main series makes it disappointing at best. I don't mind the animation style. The characters act also very out of place. It's an odd piece that is hard to take it as a stand-alone thing.
adiwan's status on Friday, 15-May-26 19:15:29 UTC
The animated Stranger Things series is awfully flat. The writing is annoyingly referential and uninspired, and the knowledge that it doesn't fit into the main series makes it disappointing at best. I don't mind the animation style. The characters act also very out of place. It's an odd piece that is hard to take it as a stand-alone thing.
adiwan: @scribus I walked multiple times into the low-hanging ceiling lamp from the previous owner in my current home. I cannot fathom having anything than low profile ceiling lamps. A ceiling fan is for me a death sentence that would lead to my decapitation or to severe brain damage.
adiwan's status on Friday, 15-May-26 13:23:54 UTC
@scribus I walked multiple times into the low-hanging ceiling lamp from the previous owner in my current home. I cannot fathom having anything than low profile ceiling lamps. A ceiling fan is for me a death sentence that would lead to my decapitation or to severe brain damage.
adiwan: I'm shocked that those cash registers run on Windows and get a horrible touch UI slapped onto them. I feel pity that the cashier's most crucial tool is stuck in the past. The UI has a block of function keys that are never changing and have the flair of a classic 80's cash register with hardware keys. The touch screen and PC can offer a so much better experience with context/state sensitive controls.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 13-May-26 15:36:19 UTC
I'm shocked that those cash registers run on Windows and get a horrible touch UI slapped onto them. I feel pity that the cashier's most crucial tool is stuck in the past. The UI has a block of function keys that are never changing and have the flair of a classic 80's cash register with hardware keys. The touch screen and PC can offer a so much better experience with context/state sensitive controls.
adiwan: I'm going to do IT support for the cash register system of a drug store for the next three months. Not the work I'm hired for but it's a customer retention opportunity for my company. I will process the incoming tickets and restart the cash register PCs for most of the time. Of course there are various problems but it boils down to restarting everything as the first problem fixing step. Handheld barcode scanner isn't scanning: restart the PC. The monitor isn't displaying: restart the PC.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 13-May-26 15:24:37 UTC
I'm going to do IT support for the cash register system of a drug store for the next three months. Not the work I'm hired for but it's a customer retention opportunity for my company. I will process the incoming tickets and restart the cash register PCs for most of the time. Of course there are various problems but it boils down to restarting everything as the first problem fixing step. Handheld barcode scanner isn't scanning: restart the PC. The monitor isn't displaying: restart the PC.
adiwan: @scribus I watched the trailer afterwards on Youtube and it was quite the opposite reaction. I was more leaning towards that the trailer was doing a misfavor to the movie.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 10-May-26 05:04:07 UTC
@scribus I watched the trailer afterwards on Youtube and it was quite the opposite reaction. I was more leaning towards that the trailer was doing a misfavor to the movie.
adiwan: Watched "Hoppers". A criminally under-advertised film. It's good but it lays a little bit heavy on the preachy side but it's fine. Fun movie. If "Turning Red" is your jam it'll probably too.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 09-May-26 10:16:27 UTC
Watched "Hoppers". A criminally under-advertised film. It's good but it lays a little bit heavy on the preachy side but it's fine. Fun movie. If "Turning Red" is your jam it'll probably too.
adiwan: @zeldatra There was an informal document for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein People gave other a signature to vouch that they didn't commit any crimes or weren't part of the Nazi regime. It was not perfect but it was a part of building trust in that broken society.
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 06-May-26 08:46:55 UTC
@zeldatra There was an informal document for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persilschein People gave other a signature to vouch that they didn't commit any crimes or weren't part of the Nazi regime. It was not perfect but it was a part of building trust in that broken society.
adiwan: @scribus Yeah. The soil is pretty compacted due to walking on it and quite clay-y. I spent 10 euro bucks for a bag of this seed. If it won't work due to my own incompetency forgetting to water it in the next weeks it'll be not a huge loss.
adiwan's status on Tuesday, 05-May-26 19:45:30 UTC
@scribus Yeah. The soil is pretty compacted due to walking on it and quite clay-y. I spent 10 euro bucks for a bag of this seed. If it won't work due to my own incompetency forgetting to water it in the next weeks it'll be not a huge loss.
adiwan: The grass doesn't grow very well. My neighbor has replaced his with artificial plastic grass. I seeded some clovers where the grass refuses to get a hold. I prepared the soil with extra potent "cannabis soil", added some fertilizer, and tried to mix it as well as I could. After spreading the clover seed I watered everything thoroughly. I hope the rain the next days will be enough that I don't have to pay for the water keeping the soil wet.
adiwan's status on Monday, 04-May-26 15:25:27 UTC
The grass doesn't grow very well. My neighbor has replaced his with artificial plastic grass. I seeded some clovers where the grass refuses to get a hold. I prepared the soil with extra potent "cannabis soil", added some fertilizer, and tried to mix it as well as I could. After spreading the clover seed I watered everything thoroughly. I hope the rain the next days will be enough that I don't have to pay for the water keeping the soil wet.
adiwan: Today I planted everything I planned for, 20 gherkin plants and 26 beanstalk plants. I have a few backup plants on my windowsill but they'll go soon to my neighbor. Also I have 8 cayenne chili and two unknown chili plants from the super market. I have also 6 salads but this time I'll be extreme cautious not growing them too old. The carrots I started look so pathetic that I will not continue growing them. However the two dozen radishes I grow look fine and are surviving better this year than the ones I grew last year. I bought seeds for broccoli and kohlrabi and a few other things but I think I'm done. Maybe next year. I maximized the current available space.
adiwan's status on Sunday, 03-May-26 19:41:56 UTC
Today I planted everything I planned for, 20 gherkin plants and 26 beanstalk plants. I have a few backup plants on my windowsill but they'll go soon to my neighbor. Also I have 8 cayenne chili and two unknown chili plants from the super market. I have also 6 salads but this time I'll be extreme cautious not growing them too old. The carrots I started look so pathetic that I will not continue growing them. However the two dozen radishes I grow look fine and are surviving better this year than the ones I grew last year. I bought seeds for broccoli and kohlrabi and a few other things but I think I'm done. Maybe next year. I maximized the current available space.
adiwan: Was cycling today and went to a flea market. Didn't mind the cycling but the skin between my legs are quite irritated. 18km is not nothing when the denim jeans is rubbing almost constantly against the skin.
adiwan's status on Friday, 01-May-26 12:28:51 UTC
Was cycling today and went to a flea market. Didn't mind the cycling but the skin between my legs are quite irritated. 18km is not nothing when the denim jeans is rubbing almost constantly against the skin.
adiwan: I wonder if there is a kind of money laundering using AI tokens and selling the respective accounts that hold the accounts.
adiwan's status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-26 17:49:13 UTC
I wonder if there is a kind of money laundering using AI tokens and selling the respective accounts that hold the accounts.
adiwan: @scribus I used a felt pen like thing that had a liquid that destroyed the ink color (only blue ink) and the other side of the pen had a regular felt pen to write over the part as new ink would be erased on that spot. We called it "Tintenkiller" - "Ink killer" (the normal word is "Tintenlöscher" - "Ink eraser").
adiwan's status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-26 04:06:01 UTC
@scribus I used a felt pen like thing that had a liquid that destroyed the ink color (only blue ink) and the other side of the pen had a regular felt pen to write over the part as new ink would be erased on that spot. We called it "Tintenkiller" - "Ink killer" (the normal word is "Tintenlöscher" - "Ink eraser").
adiwan: @scribus I am glad not having to use fountain pens. From grade 3 to 10 I had to use fountain pens with cartridges, just standard Lamy and Pelikan pens. My sweaty hands were always covered with ink because the ink didn't dry fast enough or just pickup by my sweat. Also the ink eraser smells are nasty. At home I have only the cheapest BIC ball pens and Kuru Toga mechanical pencils.
adiwan's status on Monday, 27-Apr-26 17:04:02 UTC
@scribus I am glad not having to use fountain pens. From grade 3 to 10 I had to use fountain pens with cartridges, just standard Lamy and Pelikan pens. My sweaty hands were always covered with ink because the ink didn't dry fast enough or just pickup by my sweat. Also the ink eraser smells are nasty. At home I have only the cheapest BIC ball pens and Kuru Toga mechanical pencils.
adiwan: Return to Obra Dinn soundtrack slaps.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 25-Apr-26 20:55:35 UTC
adiwan: Was 3D-modeling a replacement part for 3D-printing and I fell into the trap of not incorporating draft angles that are common in injection-molded parts. These angles were important for fitment with the rest. 1° is not much but essential.
adiwan's status on Thursday, 23-Apr-26 20:09:50 UTC
Was 3D-modeling a replacement part for 3D-printing and I fell into the trap of not incorporating draft angles that are common in injection-molded parts. These angles were important for fitment with the rest. 1° is not much but essential.
adiwan: @derpityhooves It's been years I've seen the series. You have a treasure trove of content to enjoy. Later it gets also pretty mixed but still quite solid. Once you've seen it all (FIM episodes, films, Equestria Girls spin-off, Pony Life), I also highly recommend the comics. They aren't in canon or at least very questionable in that regard because they contradict in some points, however once you get over these details and accept as its own thing there are plenty of good stories to enjoy (and a few atrocious blunders with their own train wreck quality and entertainment value).
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-26 20:41:43 UTC
@derpityhooves It's been years I've seen the series. You have a treasure trove of content to enjoy. Later it gets also pretty mixed but still quite solid. Once you've seen it all (FIM episodes, films, Equestria Girls spin-off, Pony Life), I also highly recommend the comics. They aren't in canon or at least very questionable in that regard because they contradict in some points, however once you get over these details and accept as its own thing there are plenty of good stories to enjoy (and a few atrocious blunders with their own train wreck quality and entertainment value).
adiwan: Watched the leaked Avatar movie. [sp]Abg fbbb onq, ubjrire dhvgr synjrq. Gur navzngvba vf snagnfgvp, ohg gur cybg zbirf gbb snfg sbe vgf bja fnxr. Gur tnnat vf onpx gbtrgure ohg gurve vagrenpgvba jvgu rnpu bgure vf funyybj. Gur obt fgnaqneq ivyynva qbrfa'g uryc rvgure. Fnqyl vg'f n 6/10 sbe zr.[/sp]
adiwan's status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-26 17:57:16 UTC
Watched the leaked Avatar movie. Not sooo bad, however quite flawed. The animation is fantastic, but the plot moves too fast for its own sake. The gaang is back together but their interaction with each other is shallow. The bog standard villain doesn't help either. Sadly it's a 6/10 for me.
adiwan: Hopefully final tomato plant count: 58 29x Black Prince 3x Marmande 4x Arancia 2x Jolie Cœur 2x Roma 4x Black Krim 4x Choco Previa 3x Golden Queen 1x OSU (Oregon State University) Blue 4x Malina 2x Adora
adiwan's status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-26 16:06:21 UTC
Hopefully final tomato plant count: 58 29x Black Prince 3x Marmande 4x Arancia 2x Jolie Cœur 2x Roma 4x Black Krim 4x Choco Previa 3x Golden Queen 1x OSU (Oregon State University) Blue 4x Malina 2x Adora
adiwan: I think 20 solar-powered LED garden lights are enough. I have some on my garden porch so I don't crash into my tomatoes and it is basically as bright as my neighbor's LED strip light, slightly exaggerating. Also I have one in my bathroom at the window. For what's worth (1€ a piece) they are quite bright and shine a long time, approximately 5-6 hours. I wonder if I can use one to power a micro controller with it. Not sure what to do with outside but surely I'm going to find a use for it.
adiwan's status on Saturday, 18-Apr-26 20:53:02 UTC
I think 20 solar-powered LED garden lights are enough. I have some on my garden porch so I don't crash into my tomatoes and it is basically as bright as my neighbor's LED strip light, slightly exaggerating. Also I have one in my bathroom at the window. For what's worth (1€ a piece) they are quite bright and shine a long time, approximately 5-6 hours. I wonder if I can use one to power a micro controller with it. Not sure what to do with outside but surely I'm going to find a use for it.
adiwan: @scribus If life goes down the crapper it's appropriate to use toilet paper as a fitting metaphor.
adiwan's status on Friday, 10-Apr-26 18:12:44 UTC
@scribus If life goes down the crapper it's appropriate to use toilet paper as a fitting metaphor.
adiwan: @scribus This title sounds like a title a 8-year-old would choose who has been around teenagers and trying to be edgy and cool, and failing so due to not knowing anything in life and due to strict parents not knowing curse words as well.
adiwan's status on Monday, 06-Apr-26 07:30:25 UTC
@scribus This title sounds like a title a 8-year-old would choose who has been around teenagers and trying to be edgy and cool, and failing so due to not knowing anything in life and due to strict parents not knowing curse words as well.
adiwan: @scribus No. Never had any romantic relationship. It's most likely the trajectory the world is heading towards to and the general financial problems and life dissatisfaction.
adiwan's status on Friday, 03-Apr-26 17:51:00 UTC
@scribus No. Never had any romantic relationship. It's most likely the trajectory the world is heading towards to and the general financial problems and life dissatisfaction.
adiwan: Drinking about 2l of caffeinated beverages like tea is probably not the cause.
adiwan's status on Friday, 03-Apr-26 17:24:48 UTC
Drinking about 2l of caffeinated beverages like tea is probably not the cause.
adiwan: @scribus How can my sleep get any worse than it's right now?
adiwan's status on Friday, 03-Apr-26 17:08:16 UTC
@scribus How can my sleep get any worse than it's right now?
adiwan: Sometimes I ponder what if I were drinking alcohol and question if it would make the world more bearable. As I am not drinking any I guess I will continue to suffer unnumbered.
adiwan's status on Friday, 03-Apr-26 10:04:55 UTC
Sometimes I ponder what if I were drinking alcohol and question if it would make the world more bearable. As I am not drinking any I guess I will continue to suffer unnumbered.