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It is my personal nightmare. I want to write custom css to customize my Homeassistant. Only to find out every single thing is in a shadow root and I cannot write css to adress what I want to change. WHICH WOULD BE REALLY SIMPLE IF I CAN WRITE PLAIN OLD CSS.

I can't believe how extremely mad and frustraded I became when I found out - writing this out fills me with rage.


Reset. Start work with a 30m walk 'going to work' and end it with a 30m walk. Free one hour exercise when you sit/stand all day.


Grab a local dog or two and you have a side hussle or at least can help a neighbor


Shields have the best upscalers and will always be the better option for media


It is the reason why I have Windows tablets not Android ones. I know there are OS updates. And once they are dead I have options for Linux tablets now.


Windows 8 stopped receiving updates in January last year, which killed my Surface for me.


couldn't you install/upgrade win10 ( and possibly win11 ) on it?

Last time I checked you could totally use drivers built for windows 7 on a win 10 OS.


Yeah there isn't anything about the Homelab really.


Not to put down Arslans work, but for me the best part of homelab is doing much with very little resources and this post is kinda opposite.


From the experience of my one man big web project with 12 languages I had a hard time setting up a search that ignores things like éê from other languages in postgres while mariadb innodb just ignores it.


When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger).

My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20 years later.

I keep fucking up numbers as german numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty instead of one-hundred-fifty-five and too many of my thoughts are in english.

There is a small movement trying to make both acceptable

https://zwanzigeins.jetzt/


> German numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty instead of one-hundred-fifty-five and too many of my thoughts are in english

Both are fine in the UK, though the "five-and-fifty" form is somewhat old fashioned. My Grandmother used to say numbers like that, especially for time. I refer you also to "Sing a Song of Sixpence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence


Perhaps in some regions, but in general asking "is this the stop for the eight-and-sixty bus?" would confuse most British people.

I've only even seen the Germanic number ordering in poetry.


I agree, and it is an unusual turn of phrase these days, but I think it's the scenario here that would be confusing. The number 68 bus is a label rather than a quantity, which makes a difference.


HTTP ERROR 503 Service Unavailable

Maybe this one of those sites that don't let you view them from outside their intended region, but I'd use 403 for that, so I assume it just got hugged


Funny side note google translate maims that large first line translating it (correctly but also incorrectly) as "Also twenty-one and not just twenty-one!". Just a funny note where the translation is content correct but not context correct.


Would you have recommendations for an English speaker trying to learn German? Where do I go to find anime with good German subtitles? Or, maybe even a German dub?


Netflix should have plenty? Anime seems like a weird choice.

I would suggest the German public broadcast channels on Youtube with subtitles instead of Anime.

https://www.youtube.com/@Handwerkskunst/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ARDRoomTour


proxer.me is a prominent German anime/manga community (needs login for seeing episodes). German-language stuff is typically licensed and needs to be watched elsewhere though.


> german numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty

So are Dutch numbers.


That's funny I thought you were going to say it helped you learn Japanese.


I have stopped after 3 years. My brother never stopped and can now. My sister also started years ago and can speak/read/understand a lot.


Yeah my native language is afrikaans which also has the 4 and 20 for 24 vibe. For me the difficulty is was with times tables strangely enough, as long after I started thinking primarily in English I was still doing times tables in afrikaans


And then they redesign everything every time. W8, W10, W11 - W11 is the biggest offender with changing the context menu. The only positive thing I can say about Windows these days is it does work really really really well with touchscreen input.


imho as a surface pro user who doesn't use the keyboard cover, that's a significant overstatement.

it's much, much better than it used to be, but there are so many inconsistencies and annoyances that I would be hard pressed to recommend it. selecting text is painful. the on-screen keyboard is decent but swipe input won't register half the time and it routinely fails to open when it should or stay closed when it shouldn't.

with a pen, it's extremely picky with tap inputs. if the pen tip moves even a mm after touching, it's registered as a mouse drag, and unlike with mice there's no way to adjust the sensitivity or register a deadzone. handwriting to text is ok, but its constantly shifting interface regularly leads to errors and gestures like striking out or replacing a letter rarely works on the first (or even third) try.

with both pen and osk, text prediction / spell correct is utterly moronic. often reaching for unusual words or proper names instead of a more common word.

I will give them credit for getting to this point and I'm sure many of the inconsistencies come from having to support a wide variety of apps and backwards compatibility. regardless tho, it will be a long while yet before it's usable as a touchscreen-primary OS, let alone "really good".


There was a big downgrade I forgot about.

On W10 you can use the full keyboard layout and undock it to move it where you want. On W11 this changed and once you undock the full keyboard layout it becomes a different layout. This has bitten me quite a bit as some fullscreen applications will disappear behind the keyboard.

Also it is impossible to turn off text prediction on the keyboard. I don't want and need it so it blocks screen space.

Surface Go 3.


> The only positive thing I can say about Windows these days is it does work really really really well with touchscreen input.

This was always the point, wasn't it? MS wanted Windows to compete more closely with the iPad with the Surface - it just turned out that only parts of what they tried were good (the Metro style turned into Fluent).

I've been using Windows since 98 and I frankly feel like the current UX is at a high point. It's responsive, thoughtfully laid-out, and supports modern stuff like omnisearch (I have configured my Start Menu to NOT give me Bing results) and multiple desktops.

The enshittification is a real shame because I've been really enjoying the changes.


I've had no issues for personal use. Be it Fedora or Fedora Server. When I ran into issues the logs often come with a solution.


Because they are a discord user. And don't have a forum account. In todays world forums can also be a pain as looking at picture attachments most of the time require accounts.


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