I’ve been using Linux for so long i’d almost forgotten Windows does that. Just calling it “Documents” and not having to worry about a space in the file path breaking things is so much easier.

MyFucking Hearing Aids™

I don’t always like the smell. I work as a line cook and sometimes have to handle hard boiled eggs that come pre-cooked in bags. They always smell strongly of sulphur when i open a bag and it’s put me off eggs a bit, especially boiled eggs.

Fried eggs are fine. If they have a smell i can’t tell over the spices and butter i cook them in. They don’t taste especially good to me but they’re easy protein that i can cook in the morning for breakfast. They don’t taste bad either, but i only very rarely eat eggs on their own with no other foods.

You can try to not use a search engnie at all, but the Web relies a lot on them. If that’s really what you want, you’re limited to surfing. Go to a site, follow links, and hope you get where you need to go. Surfing is great for finding things you didn’t know you were looking for, and not so great for finding particular things you need information on. For that, either try whatever libraries you have access to or cave and use a search engine.

There are plenty of search engines that aren’t Google. Some don’t use the same search index (big list of web pages that it shows you when you search stuff). I currently use Qwant as my primary engine, and before that i used Startpage. I’m also fond of Marginalia when a big, normal engine isn’t giving me helpful results.

Or you can ask people, like you said. Forums, chatrooms, whatever Lemmy is, maybe email somebody if you think they know stuff about whatever field you’re interested in. Or you could sit down in a coffee shop with a sign that says “Tell me about electrical engineering” or whatever it is you want to know, and see how that goes.

Wikipedia is good, if you don’t mind that it has a search bar with an index consisting of its own pages. You shouldn’t trust everything you read there, but every good article (and most bad ones) cites sources, and you can follow those citations.

Things were mostly broken (i couldn’t get fluxbox to start) until i used tasksel to install Cinnamon so i could use a browser to look some stuff up (i only have one computer). I removed Cinnamon but whatever it left behind fixed my system enough that i’m now typing this in LibreWolf with not too many weird graphical issues. Some stuff doesn’t work at all yet, like my laptop’s function keys for things like brightness and volume.

So all in all, better than i thought this might go.

Thank you for that last bit. “Just do it” out to be the advice i needed.

That has occurred to me. My current computer has enough storage (assuming i don’t lose hundreds of GBs to system log files like i did back in Mint) and i already have dependencies from several DEs from when i was trying some out and didn’t know how to fully uninstall the ones i don’t want.

The former redirects to the latter. Any reason that’s better than DuckDuckGo lite? The main difference i see is that the lite version relies less on CSS so i can use it in basically any browser.

Nope, that doesn’t remove anything. 0 upgrading, installing, removing, or not upgrading.

One thing i’d like feedback about sooner than later: You can hover over a cell in the chart to get that sound’s name (currently just the plosives). (How) should that be capitalized?

The code part is already messy, compared to any other piece of HTML i’ve written. Yeah, it’ll be messy. It’s far from done, but it’s finally done enough to share more publicly than i have before.

If the diacritic spam gets to be too much for stuff in the chart, i’ll just add new Unicode characters as letters. I’m already planning to do that for some of the PoAs missing from official charts.

I hadn’t thought before about the limits of what can be nasalized but it’s not too hard to see that many sounds can be. I’m not the International Phonetic Association so i can do whatever i need or want to with my notation if the IPA isn’t good for something. If i come up with a better way to indicate stuff like this, especially using just Unicode, i’ll at least mention it as an alternative notation.

I already know i’ll have to add my own modifiers for things like articulating in the side of the mouth (move your tongue left or right and make some phones) or with the tongue rolled (a voiced rolled linguo-exo-labial fricative sounds a lot like blowing over the top of a bottle). And more beside as it comes up or people tell me about it.

The vowel chart probably will rely a lot on diacritics because i don’t want to map out every part of it with different, individual letters. Especially for how divisible it is, there’s always something between [i̞] and [i̞̞] and [i̞̞̞].

Huh?

Do you have a timeline of all your stories?

Happy to help. I think i found the first three after asking for fonts here.

I don’t find new fonts often, but i went looking for some nice monospaced ones not long ago and found Toren Mono, Drafting* Mono, and Monaspace (Xenon).

Of the three Monaspace is my favorite because of how it handles very wide or narrow letters like MmWw, liIj. If a wide letter is next to a narrow one, the wide one takes up more space at the expense of the narrow one that would normally have a hard time filling the full width. It makes the font prettier and easier to read, while still being fixed width.

I also recently remembered Pelagiad when i saw it on the cover of Mark Rosenfelder’s Language Construction Kit and wondered how he got the rights to publish a book in the similar Magic Cards font.

Not that i’ve ever heard as a resident of Kansas. But “je ne sais quoi” doesn’t come up in my life often.

It had not occurred to me to see if the game was already logging stuff.

That works, thanks. I thought at first it didn’t but apparently there’s not normally as much stuff printed to the terminal as i expected.

Fascinating! It didn’t occur to me that they’d have to stand up on two legs to hold a number, but i guess that does make sense just like it’s hard to hold an object in my hands when i’m also trying to hold a number.

This post did take me a minute to find, but i figured it would be a good place to ask you questions about the Lonely Galaxy. And i have it bookmarked now.

AdNauseam might be worth a look, though my understanding is that it’s a bit worse than uBO for privacy. I quite like uMatrix. It lets you block CSS, JS, frames, cookies, and other stuff from specific domains on specific domains or globally. I also use Firefox Multi-Account Containers with Temporary Containers to give most tabs their own separate folders for cookies and such.