lattrommi

joined 2 years ago
[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You're already doing better than me by making this post, keep up the good work!

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

As someone with a lisp who tends to turn 's' and 'z' sounds into a 'th' sound, i will respectfully disagree that it is a cool combination. it hurts me a little that i can't always say words properly but i suppose i could always ask a doctor to aneththetithe me.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

defenestratafenestra isn't a real word but i use it to tell people i stopped using Windows and switched to Linux.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i feel the same way about pneumonoultramicroscopicsyllacovolcanoconiosis. it's fun to say!

it's not considered a real word anymore (and from what i gather, never really was a real word, in the opinion of the english nerds who decide such things) but i learned how to say it, dammit! i can't unlearn that!

i might have even learned how to spell it correctly. i didn't check the spelling as i wrote it in this comment but i also don't think it matters if i incorrectly spell a word that isn't really a word. so... yeah...

anyways, it was possibly used as a complicated version of what was known as 'black lung' disease, which coal miners in the appalacians contracted from inhaling silica dusts, for anyone curious.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Destroy my credit again.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

My cat Chili could relate.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I haven't done it much personally but it's easy, prepend the page name with a colon.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you want online or offline? Both? Need online for somethings but not all? The answers however, will only unlock more quests... Oops, I mean they will lead to more questions. Do you want to self host everything or do you need to use cloud storage? Would cloud storage be for sync and back up data for yourself, or will other people need access?

What I'm asking, to put it a different way, is what are you world building for? a novel you are writing? a campaign setting for a tabletop role playing game? Are you making a MMORPG, with its own in-game wikipedia with a group of friends or alone? Trick question, you can't do the last one alone. it would have to be called a ORPG)

Offline, with just you making the world, Zim. The interface is fairly customizable, although might seen tricky at first if you are unfamiliar with GTK and Gnome or programming in general. However, I have no usable programming skills. I can't even program the clock on my microwave. Okay, I can but I'm too lazy.

For me, a severely ADHD person, it makes it easy to organize... everything. A picture might show it better than I can describe:

I know, a screenshot of a wall of text. Not cool of me. I hope it works and the image shows or this wont make much sense from here on.

To break it down, I have the preferences dialogue open, it's on the plugins menu, you can see many are self explanatory. if you know how, you can write your own plugins. i do not know how.

However, i do know how to write simple bash commands, which can be added as custom tools and set to hotkeys. I can timestamp in EST or UTC for logging purposes with a push of a button. Your imagination is the limit! Well, plus the limitations of bash and your computer/tablet/cellphone/etc and probably like a dozen other things.

That preferences menu is open on top of a page in my notebook. The silly magician stuff. It can be ignored (and might not make sense) it is sample text. To the left, you can see my notebook, sorted by subject in my own arbitrary way. The current page is selected, the 'magic' page in the 'written' chapter.

Also I've not had problems with Joplin (which I've read is not FOSS, it does not save as .txt files) which has an Android specific App (Zim does not) but I haven't played with it enough to give a valid opinion.

Zim and Joplin both work on Windows and Linux, both can be cloud synced, like with google drive or dropbox, if you use those (I do not, I use Zim offline, except for backups). If security is a concern, Zim does not encrypt, it's .txt files. Joplin I believe does. If you backup to cloud, Joplin would be safer from theft I think. I could be wrong. theft meaning your intellectual property, i.e. possibly being intercepted and viewed online by evil hackers, possibly even copied and published under their name. I do not worry about this. I would be honored if someone tried to publish my crap without permission.

My use case is personal organizer and mind map and many other things, including a 'almost D&D' campaign setting for a TTRPG, a novel I'll never publish, pictures of things I know I'll forget... oh yeah, that reminds me, in my linked image, on the right, there's a table of contents (ToC), which gets automatically generated if you use the Header tag, for easier in-page navigation of long pages. Next to the ToC tab there's 'Attachments', this page has none. You can attach files to pages, like pdf's, images, graphs, etc and link to them from other pages in the notebook.

The only problems I've had, are likely my own fault for messing with the theme and config files a bunch. This got long. Hope it helps.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

is that three or a visual representation of two? either way, i'm in.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

idk, i'll just grab from the pile...

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'll bet a testicle this was done in GIMP

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I can't afford eggs right now but what i usually did was immediately hard boil half of them, eat two of those and put the rest back in the carton. the hard boiled half always stayed on the right half of the carton, because with the layout of my kitchen, that is the side closer to my oven, so i would know which half are hard boiled.

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