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🐧 Linux, product and the art of essence // Dedoimedo
｢ In 2010-ish era, with mechanical disks, I was able to achieve 15-second boot times, and as little as 8.5 seconds with SSD. In that second article, you will see an almost 100% variation in results among different Ubuntu flavors, as it happens. In 2025-26, "modern" distros boot in 15-plus seconds on NVMe storage. The software bloat managed to annul the 5-25x improvements in hardware in this period. Wonderful ｣
#rant incoming. TV ads for cars in the UK. We drive on the left here, like several other countries, but adverts always show left hand drive models swooping around mainland European mountain roads and powering through foreign cities. At the end there's a footnote, 'the model shown may not be available in the UK '. SO STOP BROADCASTING IT HERE THEN. You make £m selling cars here, you can afford to make your ads suit the local market.
#rant incoming. TV ads for cars in the UK. We drive on the left here, like several other countries, but adverts always show left hand drive models swooping around mainland European mountain roads and powering through foreign cities. At the end there's a footnote, 'the model shown may not be available in the UK '. SO STOP BROADCASTING IT HERE THEN. You make £m selling cars here, you can afford to make your ads suit the local market.
So, I ordered a pair of CrocsJp sandals a few weeks ago to use them as indoor slippers during my stay here.
The pair I received was a wrong size, W7, not 23cm, and was way too big. So, I wrote that I received a wrong size pair on the review which they prompted. (I doubt they posted my polite, honest and truthful review. lol)
They reached out by email (for a damage control?), so I replied with what they asked, the item no, size on the sandal, etc. with photos.
They replied back, insisting W7 is 23cm, which clearly is NOT. I know my shoe size. I’ve always worn 23cm or W6. I’m a bit miffed that they don’t admit or correct their mistake. (I wasn’t returning it or asking for the money back.🙄) But hey, I doubt anyone is ordering their stuff, and I otter have known better. My bad. Never again.
I am so sick and tired of the word 'beats' in music.
It is so genre/generationally narrow as a descriptor that its borderline insulting to the vast majority of people outside those specific genres who still write 'songs' and are songwriters.
outside of the narrow set of genres where 'beats' is normal parlance, everyone is writing songs and are song writers.
None of the ADHD self report surveys I've seen appears to have done in consultation with a reasonable number of actual ADHDers representing the entire spectrum of symptoms and co-morbidities.
It's long occurred to me that asking a person with issues relating to memory how frequently they forget things is only going to get somewhat reliable answers when the person has decided to designate the subject as a compelling topic of interest.
But even if a person does manage to diligently note down their symptoms for a sufficient amount of time, having been a certain way their whole life, how are they supposed to know what "rarely", "sometimes" and "often" mean?
Sure, these things are mostly used as a basis for a conversation with a doctor, but a good doctor can be a rare privilege these days.
Despite concerns*, I do think it would be nice to have better, open licence (like PHQ-9 vs GAD-7), tools for self-diagnosis and more consistent diagnoses.
* Screening tools can lead some people to be denied the care they need because their symptoms don't fit a typical pattern, their symptoms are masked, etc (this is a whole different rant).
None of the ADHD self report surveys I've seen appears to have done in consultation with a reasonable number of actual ADHDers representing the entire spectrum of symptoms and co-morbidities.
It's long occurred to me that asking a person with issues relating to memory how frequently they forget things is only going to get somewhat reliable answers when the person has decided to designate the subject as a compelling topic of interest.
But even if a person does manage to diligently note down their symptoms for a sufficient amount of time, having been a certain way their whole life, how are they supposed to know what "rarely", "sometimes" and "often" mean?
Sure, these things are mostly used as a basis for a conversation with a doctor, but a good doctor can be a rare privilege these days.
Despite concerns*, I do think it would be nice to have better, open licence (like PHQ-9 vs GAD-7), tools for self-diagnosis and more consistent diagnoses.
* Screening tools can lead some people to be denied the care they need because their symptoms don't fit a typical pattern, their symptoms are masked, etc (this is a whole different rant).
So, here’s a useful Japanese word: “迷惑” (めいわく)[meiwaku]
It means bothersome, annoying, inconvenient, etc.
Meiwaku Mail is a spam email.
Meiwaku denwa means spam call.
You get the gist.
These days, the fashion trend for women’s clothes in Japan is “meiwaku fashion” — otterly inconvenient and annoying that the sleeves are too long or too tight, and the jacket (even t-shirt) length is too short. Designers seem to ignore practicality these days. 🙄
