Partially. I recently wanted to type 𰻝𰻝面 but my keyboard didn’t suggest 𰻝 even when I tried biang or biang biang. The is that there are several characters with the same syllable and then I still have to know which character is the correct one. And even though there are so many the still sometimes have several meanings. For example in Chinese the character 面 means noodle or flour or side or face (maybe even more). And I still can only sometimes infer the sound from the character. If someone were to ask me I’d ditch Kanji in Japanese and only us Romaji. Unlike English the sounds are actually standardized and it would make writing more compatible with a lot of countries. I’d also accept Hiragana or Katakana. But only one of them. I’d also start a writing reform in English so that the spoken and the written English fit together better.

Yes I find them hard and also not a very good writing system. Especially in Japanese where you have four writing systems. Drawing pictograms means I have to learn a spoken word, a pictogram (or worse pictogram combination) and a meaning for both. I know that English isn’t always written as it is spoken but for the most part it is. Even if I only hear a word I can have a guess at how it’s written and from the writing I have an idea how it might be spoken.

I know. I was just talking about the amount of data that is available that is hard to reproduce in the FOSS world.

The biggest problem is scale. You need enough people to use it to even be remotely useful. Google has the movement data for so many phones that the can detect traffic problem only through the phones moving more slowly. Then there is waze where people actively add data. Even if there was an app that had the same functionality you wouldn’t get any benefit if you are the only in a 100km radius.

I honestly didn’t find authentik very complicated. You can be up and running pretty much after starting it. I used docker to run it.

I decided on KDE when I did my final switch to Linux a while ago and I am very happy. They came such a long way since I first used it and I prefer their direction over GNOME’s. KDE is very configurable and by now incredibly stable.

A bit sad for me that I won’t be playing the next Horizon game. Oh well. Enough other games to play. Maybe I’ll buy the latest god of war game if the price comes down enough. I’m patient.

Even without that it it’s better. For one gas plants have a high efficiency. On the other hand even if you have efficiency gains you still have no VOCs, much faster heating and no open flame. Gas loses a lot of heat by it just flowing up the sides of the pot. Induction literally heats up the bottom of your pot with magnets. Yes there are transmission losses. But it’s really amazingly fast. I can make my steel wok glow red in about 10-15 seconds seconds if I use the boost program on my stove. And it is not even a fancy stove.

For reference it looks pretty much like this:

I can’t agree. I can keep my pots ripping hot or barely simmering. And without delay apart from the heat retention of the pan. If I set to 2-3 I can let stuff simmer for hours with little risk of burning. I think most people have just not used a proper induction stove top. And mine wasn’t even very expensive.

Not at all. My wok is a simple steel wok. Cost about 20 bucks. No coating no bells no whistles. But perfect for induction. It loses heat quickly but thats what you want for real stir fry. You have imidiate control over the heat on the wok.

Induction is so much better anyways. And I don’t mean that induction plate that costs a few bucks and you plug into an outlet. I mean a real stove. My pans are hot in seconds. My wok starts glowing in 10 to 15 seconds. So much faster and better than using an open flame. And safer with all the fire and VOCs and such.

Luckily it is not a finite resource.

I have used powershell on windows and Linux and I really like that the data that is moved through a pipe is encapsulated in objects. But in the end I stuck with zsh.