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user224 , 11 months ago

WHY IS THE BOTTLE CLOSED? IT’S MEANT TO BE OPEN!!

For those wondering, it’s most likely from unixstickers.com

user224 , 11 months ago

Sorry, I don’t know. But I wonder how those apps work. It’s not like you’re always typing or moving the mouse. Sometimes you need to take time to think something through. And sometimes you might just be moving the mouse in circle while on phone call.

user224 , 11 months ago

^thanks^

user224 , 11 months ago

Why is it a 0 second video instead of image?

Anyway, about the < 5:
During pregnancy, HIV can pass through the placenta and infect the fetus.

During labor and delivery, the baby may be exposed to the virus from a woman’s blood and other fluids. When a woman goes into labor, the amniotic sac breaks (her water breaks). Once this occurs, the risk of transmitting HIV to the baby increases. Most babies who get HIV become infected around the time of delivery.

Breastfeeding also can transmit the virus to the baby.

Source

user224 , 11 months ago

less, I don’t remember what distro it was, but there wasn’t less. There was more though.

user224 , 11 months ago

You can’t bee too paranoid with companies trying to profit off of every small bit of information they can gather about you and sell though.

user224 , 11 months ago

Oh no! That could be a start of something.

user224 , 11 months ago

3 months.

user224 , 11 months ago

I wonder what they’ll name it if they ever come to Slovakia or Czech republic. “Z-Points” are personal pick-up points of the Packeta delivery service.

user224 , 11 months ago

I usually put them into the post as embedded gif. Also a direct link for compatibility.

user224 , 11 months ago

What should we call it then, when that comes? How about “Real Artificial Intelligence”. I think R.A.I. sounds like a cool name.

user224 , 11 months ago

Biology - Green
Math - Purple
Physics - Blue
History - Brown
English - Red
Chemistry - White

user224 , 11 months ago

Well, you can quickly search up some information. I don’t remember what it was, but I remember that once in middle school teacher said something I wasn’t quite sure about, but also I wouldn’t ask if I wasn’t more sure. So I looked it up, seeing that I was right, I asked if it rather wasn’t meant to be that other thing, he checked too and indeed he was wrong.

Also, my mind often wanders off. And it may happen that I suddenly can’t remember something. Could just be some word I could look up on my phone in less than a minute. Option B: Keep thinking about it till the rest of the class. I can’t stop thinking about that until I either remember or find it.

Next, spine. I am currently in high school. Phones are allowed here. Any time. So, I utilized my scanner and digitized one 500 or so page book I couldn’t find on the internet, and then used it as PDF instead of a physical book. It is less likely that I would forget my phone. I wish schools would have options for e-ink tablets instead of having to carry many heavy physical books. That used to be problem mostly in elementary school and middle school. Same goes for note taking.

Obviously, the last example can be easily solved by modernization.

Fast talking teachers. I can’t write that fast. I mean, I can, but then I can’t decipher my handwriting, which is already hard anyway. Voice recorder is a quick solution. Obviously, it is easier to look through notes than audio, but IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE A REPLACEMENT FOR NOTES, just a help.

But do take that with a pinch of salt. Especially in elementary school, I used to be one of those weird kids who greatly preferred being liked by the teacher over having friends. So even though I had a phone at the time, I never used it during classes because teachers disliked it.

But at least during breaks it should be allowed. Otherwise kids will find much more dangerous ways to entertain themselves.

user224 , 11 months ago

I mean, comparing class with active kids throwing stuff around and ones just sitting and playing on their phones, I’d take the second. Cyber bullying may be hard to detect though, but it’s not like schools care either way.

user224 , 11 months ago

This does seem like a pretty good idea.

user224 , 11 months ago

To be honest, sometimes I may just stare at black screen if I have low battery just to avoid talking with people. It serves the same purpose as headphones, just a bit worse.

user224 , 11 months ago

You can add Slovakia to the list until 9th grade. Then goes secondary school, you couldn’t really apply it there.

user224 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Heh, “Motivate”, sounds mostly impossible. At least with some subjects. But maybe there could be some improvements. Here’s some of my dumb and likely useless thoughts:

1. If it’s in your competence, allow phones during breaks. I believe that could make classes without them much easier.
2. Fresh air: Helps alot. I don’t know why some teachers absolutely hate open windows. All you can do on those classes is try to not fall asleep with your heart pounding.
3. Allow water during classes: Similar to above, dehydration helps no one.
4. Engage with students: Try to have conversations with them, give them questions, let them give questions to you (on topic). I’ve had a few teachers that would just do 45 minute monotone monologues.
5. If possible, give some demonstration or real life use examples. This works well especially with chemistry and physics.
6. Positive and negative points: For example, 5 pluses may be A, and 5 minuses F. I prefer the system where pluses and minuses null out each other, otherwise a plus may make your grades worse, leading to lack of activity. Someone not paying attention or not knowing answer to questions, minus. Someone being positively active during classes, answering questions, plus. You can decide what makes plus and what minus and how many are needed for the grade.
7. Quick activities (like optional tests): Math teachers did this since elementary school. Teachers would give a math problem and some time to solve it. First x students to solve it correctly got a good grade, others could get pluses. For example, first 3 students to solve a math problem within 15 minutes get A, the next students get a plus. Those who did nothing get nothing. Like a small optional exam. It makes it worth being prepared. Just don’t make the window too small, like “First student to solve this within 5 minutes gets A, next ones get nothing”, because most will just give up.
8. Announce exams in advance: This gives students time to study before each exam. The likelihood that someone will study AFTER a surprise exam is quite low.
9. Give option to re-do an exam: Got a bad grade? Don’t give up yet. Put in some more effort to get a better grade. I’ve seen different approaches on this. Sometimes it would replace previous grade, sometimes you’d just get another. Sometimes unconditionally, sometimes only if it’s better. I’d choose a second grade conditionally. If it replaced the grade, you wouldn’t see as many studying for first exam, relying on “fixing it later”. Conditionally because if there’s a chance of getting worse grade, I may just as well not try, just in case.
10. Movies or shows: Applies to foreign language classes. If it catches their interest, they may not even realize they’re learning. You could occasionally do that as a reward. Reward = motivation. Tip: Subtitles may be helpful. The problem with this is finding something universally interesting.
11. Try to not treat the whole class as 1 person: Punishing whole class for actions of 1 student will make YOU more disliked than that student.
12. Respect: I don’t know how you could do this. But some teachers may gain respect among students. I believe this is more valuable than using power. But again, no idea what you could do for that.
13. Outside?: My middle school geography teacher did her classes outside during summer. Nothing changed about those classes, it was just outside. Better environment.
14. Minimize homework: Homework is one good way to absolutely hate a subject. This could be partially replaced with optional projects. If it’s optional, it doesn’t feel as bad anymore.
15. Ask students for feedback: There’s a small chance you may get some useful answers.

But you probably can’t do much past trying to be nice. Biggest problem is the extra unnecessary information being taught, but if you can’t determine what precisely will be useful in the future, you can’t know what to omit. Missing knowledge is probably worse.

Edit: Fixed some typos

user224 , 11 months ago

It’s not like I am thinking about it to not forget what I wanted to remember. It’s that it will keep bugging me until I remember.

user224 , 11 months ago

but if you’re watching Overwatch

You can just take away their phone in that case, no?
Not sure about OP, but my point is that phones can be useful. But if they’re clearly not…

user224 , 11 months ago

I am sorry. I don’t know why. I just felt like I should have apologized to you. Sorry.

user224 , 11 months ago

Plenty, yes. If someone revealed they’re a girl aged 13-16, they’d get flooded with DMs asking for nudes. And dick pics. Always many of such screenshots around.

user224 , 11 months ago

first one to ring pays the bill

Always eating for free 😁
Always eating for free 🥲

user224 , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

1. Using phone while driving is much bigger issue.
2. This phone issue has never affected me personally. I am defending OP and others.
3. I am not talking about using the phone all the time for some stupid thing. It gives you access to a lot of information when needed.

Also if you trust kids with making life changing decisions, this is unfair.

Also sorry if I sounded as you described. I only started carrying the phone with me since I was 15. I was too worried about breaking it (it’s not cheap thing). That makes finding positive points (that would apply to younger kids) a bit harder.

Edit: Also, don’t be worried, I would almost never voice my opinions in real life.

user224 , 11 months ago

I owe you $5.

user224 , 11 months ago

Slovakia here. The school is kinda crap. 2 times each week the whole day is subject called “Professional training”, but we almost never do anything at all in there. Whole 2 days of nothing, I am being serious. It’s basically just for attendance, and even that just partially. If you arrive 4 hours late, the teacher will sign you off as if you were there the whole day.

I hope it changes this year. I hope.

Also, math teacher allows us to listen to music during exams. That was her idea, actually.

But we have also integrated the phones into the process. Teachers send us notes we’re meant to work with during classes, on our phones. Likewise we do exams on our phones. Adapt and overcome. This is already high school though. Only the first hear of high school is mandatory, now I am here because I want to study, not because I have to. I could leave anytime if I wished to do that.

user224 , 11 months ago

You can just disallow phones during classes.

user224 , 11 months ago

I am not talking about unrestricted access either. It depends on age, but they could always just ask the teacher if they’re allowed to look up something. And also I don’t see how disallowing phones during breaks helps education. It’s meant to be a break.

user224 , 11 months ago

I was rather referring to having nobody who would text/call me, besides my carrier, of course. But also that means I won’t end up in restaurant with someone.

user224 , 11 months ago

Nice reply. You made me reconsider that part about phones during breaks.

It is too late for me, but I believe it is for the better. If I made friends with the kind of classmates I always had, I believe they would have bad influence on me. For example, last year the class’ main character, 17 at the time, found someone’s shoes in locker room, unattended. He decided to piss into them. Also popular is weed, vaping, alcohol, making mess in places like McDonald’s (like mixing a burger with cola and spilling it all over the table…), damaging school property on purpose, etc…

While not friends, I do have good memories about some teachers that will last. My elementary school teacher was quite nice. She would always listen if I wanted to talk about something, even if it was relatively nonsense. If I found something interesting, I was always hyped to tell her. Basically like a mom should be.
In middle school, my physics, chemistry and math teachers were nice.
You could always have some conversation with physics teacher, whether school related or not. He always kept happy mood, at least on the outside.
The math teacher did similarly, but I also appreciate how hard he tried to get us to learn at least something. He got to the point where he shown us the exact questions that were to be on exam. It didn’t help. Now I feel quite sad about him, you could sometimes see him on the verge of crying. Especially during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. He tried hard to make math more interesting.
Chemistry teacher was also nice. I could talk with him about problems I had at home. Being able to tell about your problems to someone is nice. Also, when the COVID-19 lockdown came, we had online learning. I didn’t have internet access, and only got an old laptop with broken keyboard from neighbor and I didn’t have money for a replacement keyboard. It really surprised me, but he gave me money to fix that laptop. I don’t know if he also intended that, but it made me feel like I had to put more effort into studying. I won’t forget that.

Most of my high school teachers are nice though. Actually there’s just 1 I don’t like. That is a nice change since till high school it was just the 4 aforementioned that I liked.

user224 , 11 months ago

Well, at least you gave them a chance. Thank you.

user224 , 11 months ago

And I’ve also seen that they just had to put them down because that’s a requirement when they cannot prove if the animals might be suffering, which is hard to do with brain implants.

Same kind of source.

user224 , 11 months ago

Can confirm. I had a 2007 laptop (Compal FL90) with far worse specs. Core 2 Duo T7100 (I upgraded it to T7500, small difference), Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT, 4GB DDR2 RAM (previously 3GB). Then I replaced the original 80GB Fujitsu HDD made in September 2006 for a cheap SSD. Damn. I started using that laptop most of the time. It felt way faster than my main laptop (with SMR HDD).

I got extra 2 years out of it before it died. I really miss that laptop.

Edit: I ran Linux Mint Cinnamon and Windows 11 on it. Yes, 11.

user224 , 11 months ago

1. I was taking it to school. I didn’t really have to worry much about this laptop. I got it for free, it wasn’t worth too much, and it was an indestructible brick.
2. Storage size. I needed more storage in my main laptop while 128GB was enough for this one.
3. Reliability. This was SSD from AliExpress (XrayDisk). Not reliable enough for a main machine. And indeed, 2 years later and it has corrupted sectors.
4. Ease of replacement. This old laptop only required unscrewing 1 screw to replace the HDD. Originally it would be 4, but they were missing along with HDD caddy. Meanwhile checking video on how to open my main laptop… I’d probably tear some wires, break the plastic and also destroy the rubber feet which are somehow quite expensive.

user224 , 11 months ago

I see you tried to make strike through text. You’re missing one more pair of the… damn, can’t remember what it’s called. The home symbol.

strikethrough ~~strikethrough~~

Edit: Tilde

user224 , 11 months ago

Nothing too crazy, bus information table running Linux Mint:
https://i.imgur.com/EmNolXA.jpg

Some of them (run) Windows. You can identify those based on:
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                               Unhandled exception               |    X   |          |
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  An unhandled exception occured in TFT_LCD.exe                                      |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  Exception = System.AccessViolationException                                        |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  Messagr = Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often               |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  an indication that other memory is corrupt.                                        |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|                                                                                     |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  FullText = System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write             |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  protected memory.  This is often an indication that other memeory is               |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  corrupt.                                                                           |
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">|  ...                                                                                |
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:::

user224 , 11 months ago

That’s weird. What kind of router doesn’t have either web interface or ssh/telnet for configuration…^?^

user224 , 11 months ago

I tried seeding with my data. Typically I get around 1Mbps during the day. Also being behind CG-NAT doesn’t help it (can’t open ports). So far I only managed to get one torrent above 1.0 ratio, but it took quite a while.

So my guess is that even if you tried, you possibly wouldn’t be that successful anyway. Also many popular torrents already have fast seedboxes competing, so your slow unconnectable network won’t see much demand anyway.

user224 , 11 months ago

On my phone music takes up 14.95GB for 1,132 songs which on average is around 13.5MB per song. Great majority of it is 320K MP3s, but it is all over the place. The worst one is 32K AAC, and the best one is 24-bit 96kHz FLAC.

user224 , 11 months ago

Oh, hell. Opus is totally awesome.

user224 , 11 months ago

Maybe not really the cheapest. I’ve got that for fun and it sounds awful. There’s a lot of static noise. But hey, for 60¢ with free shipping…

user224 , 11 months ago

Yes, I believe those images are removable easily. I am pretty sure I’ve read somewhere about purging such orphaned images, but I am not sure where that was.

user224 , 11 months ago

I don’t know if it fits, but congrats, you’ve just reached the end of the internet. There’s nothing more to see.

user224 , 11 months ago

You beat me by 30 seconds.

user224 , 11 months ago

I got one like that in 2018. Since then I had 2 phones, and I paid attention to make sure there is a headphone jack.

user224 , 11 months ago

Also when connected, they may show battery percentage on your phone. But the ones I had didn’t really understand percentage.
100% = full
90% = half discharged
80% = consider recharging
70% = dead in a few minutes

user224 , 11 months ago

I have once owned wireless earbuds. It was cool to have free head, but I was too lazy to keep recharging them like every week or so. They finally died. Or at least the case did. I have replaced the charging chip in it, but it only extended the lifespan by a few weeks. It’s now unable to charge both earbuds at once. Still, better than self-heating short-circuited case.

I just don’t like them overall. Battery, latency, audio cuts after a bit of silence (power saving), and at the end, more waste.

I still use Bluetooth audio, but differently. With my laptop. When working on laptop, I have my earphones connected to it. But it is more convenient to play music on my phone, so I connect my phone to laptop for audio as well. In fact, I feel like the sound card in my laptop sounds a bit better than my phone, and with laptop I can use aptX HD.

user224 , 11 months ago

Nope. Just what comes integrated. I don’t have extra money for that stuff. I don’t even have a desktop, and I am not sure if there are any good USB sound cards.