bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago

Totals for the Ukraine war are around half a million deaths and 2 million injured until now. So around 350 deaths/1400 injuries per day

Citation needed. I've seens lot of different reports, none with that break down. Russia doesn't care about soldiers so many injured turn into dead when a good doctor could save their life. Also Russia is using soldiers in stupid ways resulting in a lot higher death/injury ratio than you would expect in a normal war. However in the end I've never seen a source for the whole dead/injuried breakdown that is more reliable than "someone on an internet forum said it".

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

the US cannot bomb Iran into wanting a different government

The US doesn't need to do that though. Iran killed 30,000 people in January for wanting a different government.

I don't see how the current attacks will help the many who are left in Iran who want a different government, but that is a different issue.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Anytime the weather is right Ukraine kills a lot of people.

Russia is recruiting 1000 new victims every day last I heard (since then I've seen reports that it is harder to get them - but I haven't seen reports of how many they are getting - if anyone with knowledge has updated information I'd like to know), so it will be a lot more than 200 days even if Ukraine can continue.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 21 hours ago

Sure, just install FreeBSD (or any other unix link OS) and don't install a GUI. There are plenty of command line and terminal programs that still work great.

You can also use a GUI with hotkeys (including Windows if you must), but you will find a lot of things are not easy without a mouse. It can be done, but often not easy. If you use a open source desktop be prepared to fix a lot of bugs in this area for your chosen desktop and programs (please do - we all benefit)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 21 hours ago

Yes, but more because you think of the blind who can't see a GUI than anything it does for your coding skills.

Vi/Emacs/modern IDE - all of them work about the same. You need to learn your tools, but since your speed to do input isn't the limitation hotkeys vs mouse is rarely a limit so long as you no the basic shortcuts of your editor.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 21 hours ago

Some computers didn't even have a keyboard, just a set of toggle switches used to set memory directly.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't like coffee, so I picked slow news day when the report was how coffee was bad for you and never again read news about coffee.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

You should try it - some people report various health benefits. Others report no effect. (and half from both groups are looking at what they care about and ignoring other evidence) Your doctors may have guidance on how it affects you.

I'm only asking for a 2 week trial. Then evaluate if it is worth going longer or not.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

For sticker sheets you want a straight through paper path - this often means feed sheets one at a time, and catch them out the back instead of letting them to to the paper tray.

Stickers meant for printing in printers generally will work with a normal feed though, so if you don't mind opening your printer you can take a chance and normally be okay.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

I hear that once in a while, but so far it seems to be mostly haters have to take everything to the extreme vs a real problem. Still things could change.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

There is nobody else on earth who agrees with me 100% on morality. (Jesus isn't on earth, and I only agree with him because of a commitment to change if he says something). Other than you might not be a Christian and thus have a different religious figure the above applies to you to. as such you have no choice about consuming something from immoral people.

the question is when does some immorality become so bad you reject someone because of it even though the thing I question otherwise has nothing to do with the moral issue.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Just make sure you don't get too many significant digets in your answer and so get the wrong answer.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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