toot.wales is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
We are the Open Social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

Administered by:

Server stats:

609
active users

#iguess

2 posts1 participant2 posts today

Small language note from my Legend of Zang Hai watch: at one point there's a small joke/riposte over the name Zhinu because why would you name your kid with Nu which stands for 'slave', but apparently it also means young child.

Reading elsewhere this isn't just a fictional point but an actual mandarin bit, so that's cool that's 20 seconds of dialogue that just encapsulated a key point of grief between Malay and Indonesian speakers lmao (in Malay budak is very straightforwardly a child; in Indonesian that's a foot servant or slave more than the other meaning. But no Malay speaker who's not used to Indonesian would even guess the word they'd actually use, which is bocil)


#zhz #lozh #linguistics #Malay #Indonesian #Malaysia #mandarin #I-guess

So I was just switching between the zen browser (firefox based) window and the firefox window, reorganizing my tabs while the YouTube music web app running in a separate firefox runtime was playing music and as I was switching to my Obsidian (electron app) window I decided to open VS Code (electron app) and then

guess what happened

'Memory usage: 100% 16 GB/16 GB, Swap usage: 100% 4 GB/4 GB'

only a second later and my computer completely froze up

I barely managed to close VS Code and prevent the whole system from crashing

What has this world come to if 20 gigabytes are not enoigh for an operating system and 5 programs.


#electron #fuck-anyone-without-32-gigs-of-ram #i-guess
Continued thread

12.08.2024 What about writing is challenging for you?

How do I phrase it...
____________________

"I have thought a trillion billion, more than stars in the sky,
people, worlds, gadgets, places, foods or any lie,
felt all a human can feel, more than a human can take, and asked "why?",
everything that can be or can't be, in a blink of an eye,
yet here I am, stuck to the vessel language, slow as a tongue or worse letters written that I string together, with my hands, I try..."
---- Anna Saultron, 12.08.2024
____________________

My mind jumps so many times a minute, I always bad In focusing on a long task. I'm in some sort neuro divergent but the exact thing slips my grasp, I can't focus long one day but hyper focus another, I have a bad resilience & constantly try to improve myself, best in an instant, if you give me a task I'm determined to clear I try to do it so good that people in 20 years will talk about it...
It's exhausting.

#wordweavers 12.08.2024 #writing #aboutMe #IGuess

This has to count as one of the more amusing things I've read in the last week: Mothership Investigates: Why is there a place in South Africa also called Singapore? And why is there no info on it anywhere? - mothership.sg/2023/03/singapor

The context being Mothership is like one of those BuzzFeed-type sites but for Singapore, and even more underresourced. So the amount of remote investigation this guy did is honestly, impressive. I'm still cackling.

mothership.sgMothership Investigates: Why is there a place in South Africa also called S'pore? And why is there no info on it anywhere?There’s no readily available information about the size, location, or even photos of the place.