cabhan 3 days ago • 100%
I would +1 this. I'm completely bald, and almost never leave the house without a hat, even in summer. It's also important protection against sunburn :).
For something comfortable in the summer, I personally often go for brimmed hiking hats. A few that I like:
cabhan 1 week ago • 100%
Yeah, absolutely. My watch is getting quite old, so I was waiting for the Fenix 8 before I decided what to do, but at least for me, it's definitely not worth the price. I'm most likely going to end up getting a Fenix 7 instead now, and maybe wait a bit to see if they end up discounting it to get rid of old inventory.
cabhan 2 months ago • 100%
I'm working on some outdated memories, but IIRC:
Germany allows dual citizenship now, but used to not allow it in most cases. In those cases, if you applied for German citizenship, you had to express that you were willing to give up your old citizenship. Once you were granted citizenship, you had a certain amount of time (two years?) to show a certificate that you renounced your old citizenship. If you didn't, your German citizenship would be revoked.
cabhan 2 months ago • 100%
The only one I really remember is Trogdor, but in order to keep it in my heart, I am a proud owner of Trogdor!!: The Boardgame
cabhan 2 months ago • 100%
I finished Dave the Diver a few weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it. For me, it hit this sweet spot of "Remember where everything is and grind the same thing over and over" without getting boring.
cabhan 2 months ago • 100%
TIL. Thank you!
cabhan 2 months ago • 100%
Thanks for that link! That does seem very similar to what I read about in Machi Koro 2, and I think we will definitely try it the next time we play.
I just played a round of Machi Koro with a friend, and at a certain point, he was far behind. He didn't have many buildings that grant money on other people's turns, and the rest of us had also purchased a lot more red buildings than him. I'm looking for ideas of house rules that make help provide some sort of catch-up mechanism if you're far behind. Do any of you have any tips? If it matters, we usually play with the Harbor expansion, but are willing to play without it as well. We're already considering it because of how extreme the Tuna Boat can be.
cabhan 3 months ago • 100%
I bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution for 2.99€ and I've been enjoying it. I've always heard good things about the series, but never tried it before. Definitely feeling that Cyberpunk had some inspiration from Deus Ex.
I also bought Firewatch for 4.99€ and beat it in a day. I wasn't spoiled about the story, but I had read a bit about it. At the end of the day, I'm glad I played it, but I'm not sure that I would necessarily recommend it.
Hi all! I have a Venue Sq, and I've been thinking of purchasing a new watch for quite some time. I've been mostly leaning towards a Fenix 7, since it has some more sport features, and has no microphone (the Venue 3 has a microphone, which I wouldn't use and don't really trust). However, the Fenix 7 was announced in January 2022, and I'm wondering if there will be either Fenix 8 or at least a discount on the Fenix 7 sometime soon, so I'm hesitant to buy one now. When are new watches usually announced? Any thoughts on whether it makes sense to wait?
I do not know if it's true for all countries, but at least the USA and the UK require your passport to be signed to be valid. And I know that when I fly, I sometimes get checked if it is signed. Is there a practical reason for this? Does the signature get checked against anything? Or is it simply that the law says a passport must be signed to be valid, so there you go? I googled around a bit, but only found resources on how to sign, but not why it needs to be signed. Thank you Internet hive mind!
cabhan 5 months ago • 100%
Have you watched the show? The game is not for me, horrorness being a part of the reason, but the show was very well done.
cabhan 5 months ago • 100%
My basic approach is: Esc
works like in normal evil-mode
, and takes me into vterm-copy-mode
as well. Without doing that, I have C-w C-w
remapped to move to another window, so I can switch to another window for all the rest of my keybindings. And I have C-Esc
mapped to send Esc
into the terminal itself.
I'm using evil-collection
for the basic bindings, and I have my own custom stuff here: https://github.com/bricka/emacs.d/blob/main/init.el#L1054-L1073
Edit: Forgot C-Esc
cabhan 6 months ago • 100%
This immediately made me think of Scythe, and sure enough, he did the art. Fantastic.
Ich habe vor einem Monat Miso wegen einer Idee gekauft, aber habe es nicht benutzt. Jetzt habe viel Miso, aber ich weiß nicht, was ich kochen soll. Ich habe schon zweimal Miso Auberginen gemacht, aber der Misoschicht ist viel zu stark...ich liebe salzig und umami, aber es ist einfach zu viel. Habt ihr irgendwelche tolle vegane oder vegetarische Ideen, wo der Miso ein bisschen weniger stark ist? Danke!
As far as I am aware, grazing animals like cows or sheep poop in the same meadows where they eat grass, but presumably don't have any problems eating the grass and pooping in the same space. But if humans would eat vegetables that they had pooped on, my understanding is that we would get sick. Why? Am I incorrect that grazing animals poop where they eat? Are their stomachs more resistant to whatever makes it dangerous? Thank you!
cabhan 7 months ago • 100%
Depending on the complexity, there's also abbrev-mode
: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
I do like a lot of meat alternatives, but I was at a restaurant a while back where they had a non-Beyond Meat veggie burger. And it was super good! I feel like it's becoming a lost art, though :(.
My dad is the opposite: he wants every restaurant to only offer Beyond Meat burgers. He loves them.
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
Ein Freund von mir hat Zombie Teenz Evolution mit seiner 7-Jähriger Tochter gespielt, und sie hat es genossen. Es gibt auch Zombie Kidz Evolution, das auf jüngere Kinder abgezielt werden soll.
Die zwei sind Legacy Spiele, was heißt, dass man es mehrmals spielt, und neue Fähigkeiten oder Charactere entdeckt, oder das Brett irgendwie ändert, zB mit neuen Stickern, die Orte ändern.
Zombie Kidz: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256952/zombie-kidz-evolution
Zombie Teenz: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/310448/zombie-teenz-evolution
Hallo Leute! Ich versuche anzufangen, als Tanzlehrer als Nebenjob zu arbeiten. Ich plane ziemlich wenig zu verdienen (weniger als 1000€ im Jahr), und ich suche einem:r Steuerberater:in, von wem ich Beratung bekommen kann, was ich machen muss. Ich habe Lohi kontaktiert, aber sie bieten nur Lohnsteuererklärungen an. Kann jemand mir einen:r Steuerberater:in empehlen? Vielen Dank!
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
When I was starting to learn German, I found it quite intimidating, but once I started having a grasp of the language, I found it actually pretty easy. The trick is just being able to recognize the subwords. Take a word like Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung: once you know Arbeit and Schein, it already starts being easier to see the meaning.
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
Interessant: Ich habe immer an diese Situation gedschty als jemand der die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft beantragen will. Aber ich glaube du hast Recht und es wird ermöglichen, dass Deutsche im Ausland auch einen ausländischen Pass beantragen dürfen, ohne die deutsche Staatsbürgeeschaft zu verlieren.
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
Ja, das ist natürlich eine echte Sorge von mir. Ich habe irgendetwas gelesen, dass irgendjemand wollte, dass es in der Zukunft möglich sein soll, die Staatsbürgerschaft von Eingebürgererten wieder wegzunehmen. Aber ich glaube das wurde abgelehnt.
I was reading this article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and saw this quote: > Diesen Freitag verabschiedet der Bundestag ein neues Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht, es soll die Einbürgerung erleichtern. Statt nach acht Jahren können Einwanderer künftig nach fünf Jahren einbürgern, bei besonderen Leistungen schon nach drei. Auch der Doppelpass wird erlaubt, nach jahrzehntelangem Kampf. Wer dauerhaft bleibt und sich anstrengt, soll das volle Wahlrecht bekommen und dazugehören. Das ist der Plan. I've already passed my Citizenship Exam and am ready to go!
cabhan 8 months ago • 100%
Have you ever read the book Elantris? It sounds very not fun.
cabhan 9 months ago • 100%
There's a fork of Openboard that is trying to update it, but AFAIK, it's not published anywhere yet: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard
If any of you are at the Chaos Communication Congress, we're having an impromptu Emacs and Org mode meetup today at 16:00 (in 40 minutes). Maybe see some of you there :)
cabhan 9 months ago • 100%
I wish this was exaggerated, but it isn't at all. Every time I try to learn Haskell, I end up in some tutorial: "You know how you sometimes need to represent eigenvectors in an n-dimensional plane with isotonically theoretical pulsarfunctions? Haskell types make that easy!"
cabhan 10 months ago • 100%
For what it's worth, you can replace xi
with just s
or c
cabhan 10 months ago • 85%
I started off this year with Go, and after the first three days, I was so happy to switch to Rust for today. It's one of my absolute favorite programming languages, but I never use it at work, so it's one of my joys of Advent of Code.
cabhan 10 months ago • 100%
Thank you for sharing this. I also wrote a regular expression with \d|eno|owt
and so on, and I was not so proud of myself :). Good to know I wasn't the only one :).
cabhan 10 months ago • 100%
As a follow up, I've been playing with Elpaca, and they do indeed have a changelog. You can run elpaca-fetch-all
and see all of the new commits for each package.
An English post is below. --- Ich hoffe es ist erlaubt: Mein schottischer Tanzverein bietet am 18.11 einen Ceilidh im Wirtshaus im Hirschgarten an. Ein Ceilidh ist eine schottische Tanzparty, und wir werden ganz viele Tänze machen, die für alle geeignet sind. Alle Tänze werden gezeigt und erklärt, und es gibt auch die Möglichkeit, eine schöne Whiskyflasche zu gewinnen. Falls jemand Fragen hat, sag einfach Bescheid. Und vielleicht sehen wir ein paar von euch dort! --- I hope this allowed here: my Scottish dance Verein is hosting a ceilidh in the Wirtshaus in Hirschgarten on the 18th of November. A ceilidh is a Scottish dance party, and we will do lots of dancing, which is appropriate for everyone: no experience necessary. All dances will be shown and explained, and there will even be the chance to win a nice bottle of whisky. If anyone has questions, just say so :). And maybe we'll see some of you there!
Hello folks! I'm using `straight.el` for my package management, but one thing that I'm missing is some sort of easy way to see what's changed, when I do a `straight-pull-all`. Ideally, I could see which packages that I explicitly have a dependency on have changed, and see either a changelog or a list of commits. Does anyone know if something like this already exists? Thanks!
cabhan 12 months ago • 100%
I'm still playing BG3: I've just recently started Act 3, and I am still loving the game, though I'm finding it harder to stay focused at this point. I'm also starting to think about how to play a more evil character in my next playthrough without being a total asshole, but we'll see how that comes along.
cabhan 12 months ago • 100%
I never really thought of it as science fiction (see her MaddAdam series for something more SF-y), but I love the book and think it does a great job of extrapolating from various political trends into where parts of the "western world" could end up going.
I'm also not surprised it's a candidate for being banned, either from people who think it paints religion or conservativsm in a negative light, or people who think it might make anyone under 18 uncomfortable. Is it appropriate for 5 year olds? Probably not. 16 year olds? Seems reasonable to me.
cabhan 12 months ago • 100%
I'm still working my way through Baldurs Gate 3: I guess I'm around the middle of Act 2. I am still loving the game :).
cabhan 12 months ago • 100%
I think "bad" would be the wrong word. I usually describe it as "weird". And it feels a bit smushed together somehow: lots of different things that don't really fit that well together, in my opinion.
It may well be worth reading, but as the first entry on a list of best science fiction and fantasy, it feels out of place to me.
cabhan 12 months ago • 100%
I've read schockingly few of the ones on the list, and from what I know, I feel torn. Some I'm happy to see: NK Jemisin is a great author, and although I haven't read Exhaltation by Ted Chiang, everything I've read of his has been incredible.
On the other hand, seeing Perdidio Street Station as the first entry really threw me for a loop. The book is totally fine, but it is extremely weird, and I definitely don't see it as a must-read.
Edit: typo
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Hah, I do know what twerking is, but I never associated it with this phrase. A follow-up: are you actually touching the ground? What body part is touching the ground?
Please forgive me...I'm over 30 and was never a clubber. In a number of songs, women "get low". In "Low": > Shawty got low low low low low low low low In "Belly Dancer", they drop down and touch the ground; > Hey, ladies drop it down, just want to see you touch the ground > > ... > > You ain't even gotta drop down if you want to What activity is being described here? What are these women doing?
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
In our first game of Clank Legacy, we thought that as long as you died above the Line of No Return, or whatever it's called, you got points, regardless of whether you had an artifact or not. This had...implications for some of the story choices that we made.
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Ja, ich habe Krabat vergessen. Das habe ich schon gelesen, nachdem ich den ASP Album gehört habe :)
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Ich habe gestern mit Die Haartepichknüpfer angefangen und ich bin total hooked. Vielen Dank für die Empfehlung!
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Klingt wie eine gute Empfehlung! Ich lese normalerweise auf meinem Tolino, aber Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher war als "normales" Buch großartig...ich vermute, dass Die 13 1/2 Leben auch besser nicht auf dem Tolino ist.
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Momo habe ich schon gelesen und großartig gefunden. Ich habe irgendwann mit Die Elfen angefangen, aber ich war nicht "hooked"...vielleicht soll ich es nochmal probieren...
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
In Austria, some things like ground beef are ordered in decagrams. My wife used to get confused responses when she tried that in Germany :).
Hallo alle! Ich versuche mein Deutsch zu verbessern, und obwohl ich mehr oder weniger fließend sprechen kann (zwischen C1/C2), ich lese selten Bücher auf Deutsch. Also ich suche nach Empfehlungen! Und nachdem ich ein paar...weniger tolle Übersetzungen gelesen habe, würde ich gern ein paar Bücher lesen, die von einem deutschsprachigen Autor auf Deutsch geschrieben wurden. Ich lese hauptsächlich Science Fiction und Fantasie, aber ich mag auch andere gute Geschichten. Leider habe ich keine Erfolg mit Markus Heitz gehabt, also lieber nichts von ihm. Ein paar englische Bücher, die ich gut gefunden habe: - Alles von Alastair Reynolds - Alles von Brandon Sanderson - N.K. Jemisin - Octavia Butler Ich habe nicht zu viele deutschsprachige Bücher für Erwachsener gelesen, aber ein paar die ich genossen habe sind: - Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher - Der Schwarm Könnte jemand hier mir etwas empfehlen?
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
I watched a few slightly older shows recently: Killjoys, which I really couldn't get into, and now Dark Matter. I'm finding it a bit cliched, but I like it so far.
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
I use simplyTel and am pretty happy: https://www.simplytel.de/
Also, I feel way out of touch. I have 3 GB and very rarely reach the limit.
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
I've been using it at work, where my work email is in Gmail. I find it a good desktop email client, though even with its redesign, some things show their age. I also find that if you're using Google for your mail, there is still some stuff lacking. I blame Google more for that than Thunderbird though :).
So in short, I call it good enough (I like it way better than Apple's Mail and Calendar programs), but it is still bas a ways to go to be great.
cabhan 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks! I found the instructions here, which don't seem too hard: https://blog.voip.ms/voip-on-cell-phones-ios-and-android/
But otherwise, VoIP.ms looks pretty much like what I'm looking for. It also seems super super cheap for my needs (keep a phone number alive, make a few calls or SMSes per year).
Hi all! I'm looking for a service where I can port my phone number, and then make and receive phone calls and SMS, all over data, not cell service. My particular use case is that I live in Germany, but I still have a US phone number, and occasionally need to receive SMSes or phone calls on that number. I am aware that Google Voice offers this service, but as you can probably guess given that I'm here, I am unwilling to use it :). I saw JMP here: https://lemmy.world/post/1033514, but TBH, I don't think that it will give me the experience that I'm looking for, given that it seems to translate everything back to generic Jabber. Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! I have decided to go with VoIP.ms: I tested it today, and am working on transferring my number to them now.
So, yesterday I broke my dominant arm. Yay! For the next 6 weeks, I have a cast, and at least for now, I can't use my right hand or arm at all (I am typing this with my left hand). I'm looking for suggestions what I can play. Some thoughts: 1. On PC, of couse 2. Can be played only with the keyboard 3. No time limits or need to respond quickly (e.g. many RTSes) 4. I like puzzle games, RPGs, and good storytelling. I want to like sim games, but haven't yet found one that I love. 5. Nothing too difficult Here's a link to my Steam profile, if that helps: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198028619119/games/?tab=all Thank you all for any advice!
Like it says, I took the Einbürgerungstest this past weekend. The questions are a mix of things that feel pretty obvious (which war lasted from 1939-1945) and things that require memorization (Which chancellor was responsible for the Ostverträge?). In a lot of ways, it feels like another language exam: if you understand German well enough to understand the questions, you can probably pass. We officially had an hour, but I was done within 8 minutes, and I wasn't the first :). One step closer to citizenship!