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Fukuyama residents warned not to touch cat after chemical tank fall in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I thought we have phased out hexavalent chromium from almost 20 years ago?? Am I missing something...

Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

In Indonesian, there's an idiom "guru kencing berdiri, murid kencing berlari" which literally translates to teacher pee standing, students pee running. Meaning that students/followers learn not only good examples but the bad as well, and will one day be better at it than their predecessors.

Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Poilievre in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Not a Canadian - I keep seeing people ridiculing the Conservative party here on Lemmy, but I saw on wikipedia that they are currently leading the polls?

Trudeau is not popular as well, if I'm not mistaken. I know an older Canadian who hates Trudeau with passion and praises Poilievre...

Is this similar to Trump's populism strat? What is it that the conservatives are promising to be that popular?

Edit: thanks all for the explanation, I wish the best for you guys

Visiting my hometown and feeling a bit sad in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Hey dude, similar experience here.

I grew up a minority, and went to study abroad where my ethnicity is the majority, then stayed for work. People would assume I'm local by my appearance, and as long as I don't have to speak, I'm blending in. I visit home quite often, once in one or two years, but every time, the feeling of being an outsider grows. I haven't been contacting most of my friends for a while, and my personal values have changed. As you said, parents are ageing, streets are different, and the empty lots I used to play in have been built.

Even though I said I feel more welcome in my current residence, being a foreigner means some landlords don't let me rent their apartment, and some banking services aren't open for me. Can't buy properties either.

I feel like an outsider anywhere I go, and I come from a country with stupidly weak passport. Can't have multiple nationalities either.

But I'll visit home often, and spend more time with my family. Time flies and things change too quickly, it'll be good to celebrate what little we have.

The Senate just voted 72-11 to kill Sanders resolution to have the State Department report Israel's human rights abuses against Palestinians in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There are literally 72 senators who voted against calling it a genocide dude... But everything is the president's fault, eh?

Happy new year of the Linux Desktop! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

This is for real the Linux desktop year for me, went through the switch just before the new year. Had to reinstall a couple times but no big deal, and I get to learn as well.

Not sure if out-of-the-box distros are now that user friendly yet or not, but I remember getting Ubuntu running several years ago was frustrating (no sound, bad sound quality etc) and now running EOS was pretty smooth. Pretty sure something like Mint will be user friendly enough for the general population.

2024 soon! What are you proud of in 2023 and what do you hope to do in 2024? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I have been running half marathons in 2023, and though there's no speed improvement, the last race I didn't feel much pain and the recovery was much shorter. This is notable for me because I injured my ACL 10 years ago, and now my knee is better than ever since then.

I'll have to train more though, sub 2 hrs half marathon is still so far away 😅

Pilk in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's actually pretty good! I made it several times when I was a kid. It will curdle a little bit though...

Separate drive for games while dual booting? (OSes - Games - Data) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So the article from valve is to support those who use NTFS anyway, but if I'm formatting the lib drive as BTRFS, it should be buttery smooth? (Probably not that smooth but gotta make the pun)

Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely look into this!

'Parasite' actor Lee Sun-kyun found dead in apparent suicide amid drug probe in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

It's like that in most of East Asia (and Southeast as well). I don't know what will turn that around, Thailand's cannabis legalization was the only hope but that is also at risk of being taken back.

Separate drive for games while dual booting? (OSes - Games - Data) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I see, you're probably right...I remember trying mounting ext4 drive on Windows and couldn't get it to work. I'll probably experiment a little with NTFS, maybe the devs have worked it out? But I'll keep your warning in mind. Thanks for the input!

Separate drive for games while dual booting? (OSes - Games - Data) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I see...that could probably affect a shared steam library I guess? I'm aiming to use almost exclusively though, wish me luck!

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Separate drive for games while dual booting? (OSes - Games - Data) (lemmy.world)
 

Hello Linux community,

I'm getting a 2TB pcie gen 4 SSD to replace a 1TB gen 3 SSD.

I'm going to start dual booting Linux (looking at Endeavouros because vibes), because it seems that sooner rather than later, Windows will be enshittified. I'm a beginner though in using Linux, only had a bit experience with Raspbian on a raspberry pi for a personal data server. I'm looking to game mainly on Linux, and slowly phase out Windows, eventually only for specific uses if any.

So the plan is: 2TB gen 4 - Win & Linux + general software (productivity, CAD, coding, etc.) 1TB gen 3 - Game library 2TB SATA HDD - Data, long term storage

So my goal to separate the game library is not for performance, but rather to utilize the available hardware, and organization.

Is there any downside to doing this? Are there known issues with Proton and Wine with this config? NVDIA GPU if that's relevant.

If you guys have experience or any input please help a dude out.

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I got a new job! Happy, excited, and anxious. (lemmy.world)
 

Hey lemmy, I just want to share that I'm getting a new job!

I'm located in East Asia, in a country that is not really recognized as a country (easy guess isn't it?). But I'm actually from South East Asia.

So after getting a bachelor's degree in mechE, I work in a local manufacturing company, supplying the Auto industry. The company's making pretty good money and probably has a pretty bright future, but the management and mindset is so...Asian.

Cheap. Everyone works overtime, managers get verbally abusive at times. Our laptops are old enough to go to middle or high school. The ERP (enterprise resource planning) software has 5s+ lag every page refresh, and is limited to 40 users at a time (for 150+ employees at the office).

I'm making about +45% national minimum wage, which is not bad, but considering that I'm their best English speaker, I work 1 hour more everyday (without pay) , taking over technical meetings with customers (other engineers don't really speak English), it's pretty low.

Then, about 2 years in, I started to look for a new job, but as usual, it's hard and involves a lot of ghosting.

Then I saw a chat in Linkedin, from a headhunter offering 60% more base pay for the same job title as my current job! I knew I'm being underpaid, but I didn't think it was by that much.

I was looking for a full engineering role though, so I ignored that HH, but then another HH approached me and I did several interviews, and BAM! They want to give me an offer, and it was almost 85% more than my current. AND it's 20% more than what I asked them! Maybe I have a habit to undervalue myself, and this company refuses to use that against me.

So I told my manager I'm quitting, he was calm and collected, but I can see a little bit of shock. He said he's "confident that he can give me a 30% raise", and I had to refuse him three times in that conversation. I was so nervous that I barely can form proper sentences, especially that we're conversing in my 3rd language. My colleagues have been very nice to me, and very appreciative, but not the company. Honestly, I was also heartbroken to leave.

So I'll start in a couple months, will have to relocate to another city 300km away, I'll have to find a new place to rent. Will have to adapt to a new city and build a whole new routine. I'll travel a lot on weekends because my GF still lives in my current city.

I'm excited about all the possibilities, and anxious about the expectations.

And speaking of expectation, the head of a department in the new company will travel from Europe HQ for 2 weeks to orient me, a buddy also will also be temporarily relocated to accompany me later on, for a longer period. Is this even the norm in big international companies? Is this a European thing? Excited but I'm starting to fear the extent of their expectation.

And I'm super worried if this doesn't work out. My exit from the current company hasn't finalized yet, and I haven't signed a new rent. I will have to get a new work permit as well...

Anyway, it's interesting how a path opened up for me in a bizarre way. Like, I wasn't seeking them out and except for my preparation for the interviews, it felt almost "easy" (the feeling is most probably biased because the effort was in the past and now I'm looking at the result).

So... a new journey ahead, and I hope it works out well for those who's struggling right now.

That's all folks! Have a great day y'all!

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