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someguy3 , to science in Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus?

Chinese calendar?

TootSweet , to science in Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus?

I don’t know of any books I can recommend, but I’d definitely be down for 13 months with one being short. We could do 12 months of 30 days each plus a 13th month of 5 (or on leap years 6) days.

As far as anything that exists today, there is the Unix Timestamp which is defined as the number of seconds since (the entirely arbitrary time of) midnight January 1st 1970 UTC. Of course, “1970” only makes sense in the context of the Gregorian calendar which still has to do with the birth of Jesus. So, it’s not exactly what you’re looking for. But maybe it’s at least more removed from “the birth of Jesus” than the Gregorian calendar we all generally use.

I guess if you’re interested in this stuff, you might be interested in learning about ISO-8601, a standard way of representing dates/times in text. And also the concept of “leap seconds” and things like Leap Smearing.

There’s also a great short story about someone trying to explain to an alien with no familarity with earth how our calendar works, but I’m having trouble finding it now. I’ll edit this post with a link if I can find it.

ShrimpCurler ,

Why would you have 30 days in those months? I’m a fan of having exactly 4 weeks each month (28 days), across 13 months. Then every month is the same. If the 1st is on a Monday, then the 1st of every month will always be a Monday. You just need to add a leap week in every now and again.

HubertManne ,

just reduce the week to 6 days and every month is exactly 5 weeks

HubertManne ,

Id rather intersped the days as out of month days. 4 for the equinoxes and solsti but not sure where to put the fifth although I lean toward an extra one after the winter solsctice as the new year.

catloaf , to android in Flickboard or 8Vim, which "Fast Typing" Keyboard should I try to learn?

I’ve never felt the need for such a thing, but why limit yourself to just one? Just try both and see if they work for you.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted , to linux_gaming in Gaming on Linux is great!
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Do you have an AMD or Nvidia? Because I’ve heard that even though it’s gotten better in the last year, Nvidias are still evidently a pain in the ASS on pretty much any Linux distro.

LifeCoffeeGaming ,

I’m on a 3060 on popOS and I’ve literally had one driver issue I had to rollback in the year I’ve been daily driving it.

InternetUser2012 ,

I tried a few other distros, and popos just works. The only minor issue I’ve had is after days of playing some games, it will start to freeze up for a second or two every second or two. If I log out and in, it’s fine again for a while.

cyborganism ,

I have an Nvidia card and it’s going great. I don’t know what people with trouble are doing to encounter problems because I’ve been using nothing but Nvidia cards since the early 2000s with Linux and I’ve never had issues.

CaptDust ,

I’ve had a 1070, 3060 and now 4080 on the same install. No problems here expect when the 3060 malfunctioned - replicated with windows. Some distros though can be nvidia horror stories because they don’t ship updates fast enough, I use arch nvidia-dkms btw

Enragedzeus ,

I’m running the latest Fedora on plasma with a 4080. My only issue is the main screen on steam looks like white noise from a tv in 1990, outside of that though I have had no issues

scrubbles OP ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Only issue I’ve had beyond installing drivers is steam big picture. Gamescope does not play nice with Nvidia, everything else is great

Venator , to nostupidquestions in How do you drive in Cyberpunk???

In addition to the other advice, also turn your graphics down, it seems like the keyboard steering smoothing happens on a frame by frame basis and just doesn’t work well generally, but the lower your framerate is, the worse it gets.

Or just use the metro/fast travel 😅

lord_ryvan ,

Cars suck, use metro

I wish I had that luxury IRL

toomanypancakes , to asklemmy in What's the hardest you've ever hit your head on something or something hit yours?
@toomanypancakes@lemmy.world avatar

When I was in elementary school there was a kid that kept bullying me. One day I was walking home with my older brother, and the jerk was chucking rocks at us. We both kind of ignored him until he pelted me in the side of the head, leaving a nasty ass welt. My brother chased him down after that, picked him up, and threw the jerk and his skateboard across the road. I didn’t get fucked with again, and later on in high school the guy apologized to me.

I don’t really talk to my brother anymore after he pulled a gun on my friend he was dating, but I’ll always remember the time he defended the fuck out of me.

remotelove , to asklemmy in What rule or rules would you add to the ten commandments of web etiquette?
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  1. Thou shalt not lay with OPs mother.
InternetCitizen2 ,

Good news everyone

GBU_28 , to science_memes in Caption this.
chemical_cutthroat , to greentext in It's the little things that matter
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Everyone gets so bent out of shape when something isn’t Anti-American. If this had read:

wake up

still not Amer*can

day improves noticably (sic)

You’d all be dunking your crumpets in your tea and flicking your bean to the monarchy.

rtxn ,

Unironically yes, and I’m not even British.

neidu2 , to asklemmy in What rule or rules would you add to the ten commandments of web etiquette?
  1. The above are mostly just guidelines. Above else, be chill.
nokturne213 ,

Be excellent to each other.

darkpanda , to asklemmy in Have you been stolen from?

I had a car broken into, but there wasn’t anything worth taking, so they slashed a tire on their way out. Luckily they left enough clear fingerprints that they were actually ID’d and had to pay for my slashed tire. They had broken into several cars in the area and I guess their fingerprints on my window was their undoing.

Frankly it was more insulting that they didn’t think any of my stuff was worth taking. :/

teawrecks , to youshouldknow in YSK that you can run your own Twitch alternative with Owncast.

I’m glad this exists, but as viewers go up, the bandwidth requirements for the streamer are just too large for one person to deal with unless they’re a corporation with ad profits to pay for it.

I suspect for this to be usable at large scale it will need to be bittorrent based.

ozoned OP ,

I don’t personally agree. Again, I’ve had 70+ connections open at one time and when I estimated the cost of bandwidth, I wouldn’t even hit my monthly budget that Hetzner gives me for “free”. But Owncast has S3 and CDN support built in if you really need to handle something like that.

teawrecks ,

At what bitrate? I’m thinking about the big streamers with tens of thousands of viewers at once, most watching in 1080+.

I’m not really familiar with the capabilities of CDNs when it comes to live streams, but that could be good enough.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted , (edited ) to asklemmy in Books - Do you prefer Paperback or Hardcover?
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: It depends. To own? Definitely a hardback. They last longer. To borrow (i.e. from the library)? Paperback for sure. (Often) easier to read imo.

casino ,

I assume you mean that you prefer owning hardcovers?

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yes, I mistyped. Lol. Thanks for the correction. It is now fixed. :)

catloaf , to games in Preserving Classic GI Media

Pull everything you can and put it on archive.org.

Kattiydid , to asklemmy in Why is music so loud in restaurants? (Serious)

I have ADHD and I find I have lots of difficulties with auditory processing in high noise floor situations. Also got my hearing checked because I couldn’t understand people in loud spaces. Turns out ADHD brains just don’t handle processing all that noise well. If I understand it correctly it’s because we need to process everything at the same level instead of some things being easy to leave on autopilot. Might not be your case but it sounded familiar so, that’s my two bits.

JimmyBigSausage OP ,

Wow this sounds so familiar. I need to learn more. Any resources you could recommend?

Mothra ,
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I’m on the same camp as you and also undiagnosed. I’ve suspected some form of autism but didn’t think ADHD could be my thing

Kattiydid ,

screening.mhanational.org/screening-tools/adhd/This seems like a useful test to me for getting a better idea if you should talk to a psychiatrist or not. It’s ups and downs getting diagnosed, especially as an adult. I had one psychiatrist give me their full test and questionnaire and decided I was borderline but wouldn’t diagnose me or prescribe anything, (I was already on a med that helped but not any of the controlled ones) The next psychiatrist I went to a few years later didn’t even have me do the test, we had an in person appointment, (which I was late to) and after we’d talked for about 20 minutes I asked “so, when do we schedule the ADHD assessment?” He said “Oh, no, we don’t need to do one, you very clearly have ADHD.” XD Honestly though I learned more about it from the experiences of people on social media who had it than I ever learned from a doctor. I’d start with searching ADHD hashtags and see if you resonate with other people’s experiences.

JimmyBigSausage OP ,

Thank you.

xpinchx ,

Since you mentioned you got your hearing checked and everything is okay… Auditory Processing Disorder is a pretty common neurodivergence with a lot of overlap with ADHD/OCD/depression/anxiety/et al. It’s common with any or all of the others, but it shows up in neurotypical people too.

I’m ADHD and have APD as well :)

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