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NorthWestWind

I code stuff. I draw stuff.

I'm a Hongkonger 🇭🇰 If you're a westerner coming here because you're arguing with me about something in HK/China/Asia, I forgive you for your misunderstandings.

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Have you ever been experienced a natural disaster? If so, which one?
  • Multiple tropical cyclones every year. They don't really do anything harmful, so we're all chill about them.

  • Penguin rule
  • 鵝 -> 我鳥 (me bird)

  • Share Your Stories of Accidents and Annoyances..
  • That's right. It should not have the problem. That's why this is confusing.

  • Share Your Stories of Accidents and Annoyances..
  • A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.

    Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.

    I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.

    I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don't know what went wrong.

  • I really want to like Lemmy
  • No, but how interested are you in HK politics?

  • I really want to like Lemmy
  • US Politics is the one thing we you all have in common.

  • Void?
  • There are so many posts every time I open the app I get void-flooded

  • Please take my job!
  • That's the training process. After that you can just run it with a single GPU, in a few seconds.

  • Why do you hate "blockchain"?
  • The phrasing is intentional. I do just want to see the reasons of hating it, and I think despite the downvotes, it's working.

  • Why do you hate "blockchain"?
  • This is an assumption I made from observing users on Lemmy. I want to further understand their reasoning, and therefore put the assumption in the question.

  • Why do you hate "blockchain"?
  • This is why I asked this question. I suspected a lot of people are just hating the economic abuse instead of the technology itself.

    Like people are downvoting because they saw the word "blockchain" (I'm guessing. Downvoters tell me why)

  • Why do you hate "blockchain"?

    If you are gonna downvote, say something.

    I can't tell if you're downvoting because you saw the word "blockchain", or you really love it.

    I'm using quotes in the title, because I suspect a major amount of people use the word "blockchain" loosely to refer to other related things. If you are willing to, please provide a definition of what you mean by "blockchain" as well.

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    Where is he?!
  • Don't save that guy who took the money

  • Those outside of the US, what's the big news going on in your country currently?
  • A protestor from a few years ago got sentenced to 10 years in prison, as well as some others with shorter periods (still a few years).

  • Don't!
  • Being fooled IS the mistake

  • It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking
  • May as well combine words with the same pronunciation into one word and call it Simplified English (/s)

    Honestly tho, this is one of the features of Simplified Chinese, which created the infamous "fuck vegetables" (干菜类).

    It's meant to say "dried vegetables" (乾菜類 in TC), but 乾→干. Meanwhile, there exists 幹→干 as well, which means "fuck".

    fuck vegetables

  • What is the longest you've been awake without sleep? When and why did you do it?
  • 25h for doing a 100% "speedrun" of Paper Mario: The Origami King 5 years ago.

    I was the first one to ever do it so I can say I'm a former world record holder :p

  • Scotch eggs are just premature chicken nuggets.
  • Milk can be fried. I don't see why eggs can't.

    Fried milk

  • Possessed

    https://youtu.be/UmcvlWWHxMI

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    A Magical Dream

    Alt: Integrelle (an inkling girl) dreaming of flying on a broomstick with her best friend Summatia (another inkling girl).

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    Brella Counter!

    Putting the URL here because I want to upload the image instead: https://brella.northwestw.in

    This is a random site I have made that counts the amount of Brella players I have encountered. The idea actually came from @ExperiencersInternational@lemmy.world in my Twitch suggestion box.

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    I made a TUI soundboard in Rust! (cls)

    github.com GitHub - North-West-Wind/cls: Command-Line Soundboard

    Command-Line Soundboard. Contribute to North-West-Wind/cls development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - North-West-Wind/cls: Command-Line Soundboard

    This is my first ever Rust program.

    The motivation of this is to create a soundboard with global hotkey support on Wayland, because Soundux wouldn't add it :< That's why this soundboard is structurally very similar to Soundux.

    Here's a screenshot: !

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    Someone please pick me up for the HK Splatoon 3 Championship

    ;▵;

    I lack friends who play this game, but I wanna play in an official tourney! To save you from clicking into the article link, you need to be a permanent resident of HK and be in HK to participate.

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    Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

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    Summatia's Fried Rice

    I kept typing "friend rice"

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    Rainy Day

    https://youtu.be/3e1vRmFIMDM

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    Drizzle Season!

    My seasonal icon change for Drizzle Season 2024!

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    Octopus Card!

    Octopus card is a real thing in Hong Kong. Here's mine :)

    !

    SVG of this art: https://gist.github.com/North-West-Wind/3915098456f3eff7bc11be5e857c977c

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    Corsair HS55 Wireless Dolby 7.1 on Linux?

    I recently bought a Corsair HS55 Wireless Headset. They stated it supports Dolby 7.1, IF you use the iCue software, which doesn't work on Linux.

    Using pavucontrol, I can change the profile between Analog Stereo Output, Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output and Digital Surround 5.1 (IEC958/AC3) Output, but the Analog one is the only one that works. The other 2 just results in broken audio. There's not even a 7.1 option.

    I don't have high hope about this, and I expected it to not work when I bought it, but it would be nice if anyone has some ideas.

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    Splatoon Unofficial Banner!

    Summatia and Integrelle (2 inkling girls) in a newscaster setup, with Summatia yelling into the microphone and Integrelle trying to stop her.

    A jellyfish is very worried about them breaking things.

    Behind them is a monitor, showing breaking news in Wet-Dry World.

    Crafted with the ideas from the idea post! This isn't necessarily the final version, so feedback from ANYONE are welcomed! If you have any, please do post them here!

    SVG available on GitHub Gist

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    Are you happy with your username?

    I'm satisfied with mine and I use it everywhere. How about you?

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    Birthday

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    ghost orb rule

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    Paper Puppet Show

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    I want your banner ideas!

    I did the banner for this community 4 months ago, and I think the time has come to make one for @splatoon@wetdry.world !

    This time around, I want everyone to suggest something, instead of me crafting it up from scratch, so please leave your suggestions here for Summatia! She'll take your order!

    I should also mention your suggestions need not be the "main" thing. What I want are some little details, or background elements you'd like to see in the banner.

    (This is kind of what a local HK restaurant waiter looks like)

    (Thanks to Experiencer for poking me about this every now and then)

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    Cold Drink

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    "Fry" is an ambiguous word in English

    Here are 3 examples: Fried egg, fried rice, fried chicken

    All these "fry" are different. If you were to use the "fry" in fried rice to fry an egg, you'd get scrambled egg. Fried chicken is done by submerging it in oil, which you won't do with fried egg or fried rice.

    This post is made from the perspective of a Cantonese/Chinese speaker. We have different words for these different types of "fry" (煎, 炒, 炸 respectively)

    (Turns out I did post it in the wrong sub and I didn't realize, and now I feel very stupid. Photon UI has once again screwed me over. Got mad for no reason.)

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