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@ NorthWestWind @lemmy.world

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I play stuff, I draw stuff, I code stuff.

Your Hong Kong Splatoon 3 ☂️ Brella main and vector artist who also studies Computer Science. Occasionally play games other than Splatoon. Can probably help your math homework too.

  • Gentoo experience?

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  • All Gentoo users remember the pain of compiling QtWebEngine ;)

    I used to run Gentoo on my old computer. Installing it was quite the experience. That was where I learnt about most of how Linux works thanks to the wiki.

    I heard compiling your own packages with use flags can improve performance, but honestly it was not worth it for the compile time.

    When I switched to my new PC, the Nvidia GPU doesn't work and I could not figure out why. I also don't have the time at that moment so I installed Endeavour instead, which I'm still using.

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • Not exactly sense, but my brain's processing. I can easily pick out the melody of only 1 instrument in music. It's like Fourier transform but on instrument level.

  • Can I get a computer science degree, certs,or education without ever touching Windows?

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  • I'm in my 4th undergrad year of majoring CS, and I have never had to use Windows once.

    All courses that require their special programs have Linux versions or are cross-platform due to them using languages like Java, like LogicSim, RISC-V, Ocaml, SQL Workbench, etc. Some courses even exclusively use Linux.

    The closest thing I have to use Windows for would be .docx documents, but even that is handled by LibreOffice.

    Of course, it depends on the institute.

  • One media player to rule them all

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  • sad ffmpeg noises

  • Source for beginner harmonica songs

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  • I assume you can read music notes (the tadpoles) since you mentioned it. If so try finding sheet music you like on Musescore (the website) and download them with Librescore (proprietary). Then you can open the .mscz file in Musescore (the program) and transpose it to your harmonica's key.

    Alternatively, if you can process notes to your key on the fly in your head, you don't even need to download and transpose the sheet.

    The sheet music doesn't need to be for harmonica. Don't care too much about all the instruments you'll see. Look for the melody and improvise base on your skill level.

    -fellow tremolo harmonica owner

  • send me an email rule

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  • Unfortunately I did not think of that while posting, and I don't want to just expose everyone's email without their consents so nope :<

  • You have an unlimited budget to make the worlds first tactical umbrella. What does your umbrella do?

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  • It has a detachable canopy that can stabilize and move on its own for 5-6 seconds

  • The humanity

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  • Worse, you need to wash it now

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Good brag👍

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Hong Kong. I live there. There are a few of us here and there, but outside of the c/hongkong I've seen like 2.

  • Oh god oh fuck

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  • Black Widow

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  • New excuse for not thinking before posting

  • Most technologies continue to improve with innovation, like WiFi. What is a technology that was nearly perfect upon conception?

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  • Microwave oven. It sort of just...appeared, and the design didn't change much.

  • How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?

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  • Ayyy fellow Canto speaker on the same boat

    I don't really watch anime but I want to read Japanese text. I'm currently 2 months in following the Tofugu guide. I spent about a week on memorizing Hiragana and Katakana, and have been grinding Kanjis and vocabularies on Anki since then. At some point I also read the Japanese sentence structure guide from 8020japanese out of curiosity. This combination allows me to learn Japanese much faster at my own rate than pre-designed methods like Duolingo.

    Since I'm a native Cantonese speaker, learning Kanji is rather trivial, so I mostly spend my time learning both Onyomi (Chinese pronunciation) and Kunyomi (Japanese pronunciation).

    I am at a point where I can read some simple sentences and guess some words base on Kanji (for example はじめる means "start" on my Japanese Wii), but I definitely still have a long way to go before I can do anything fluent. If you watch a decent amount of anime, chances are you can probably learn faster than me.

  • Winner winner!

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  • Doh!

  • Have you ever made money online?

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  • CurseForge shares a slice of their ad revenue with creators, so getting money simply depends on how many people visited your page. Even if a mod is unpopular, you still get a minuscule amount of money.

    I should mention that you get paid in "points", and these points can be used to redeem money. For example, every 100 points = 5 USD.

  • Have you ever made money online?

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  • I wrote some Minecraft mods and uploaded them to CurseForge. I still get about 5 USD every week. It used to be every 3 to 4 days but I seldomly upload new stuff now. For reference, my projects have 1.6M total downloads combined, 2k weekly.

    It's nowhere near enough for sustaining life, but it's like pocket money for me to buy games and renew my domain.

  • Happy 34th Birthday!

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  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    NorthWestWind @lemmy.world

    You can drive for 1 minute in Hong Kong and cross a district. Your mind cannot comprehend this.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    NorthWestWind @lemmy.world

    Pipewire freezes after initial login or screen blank

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    NorthWestWind @lemmy.world

    How do you pick your games?

  • Software Gore @lemmy.world
    NorthWestWind @lemmy.world

    Stolen from wetdry.world