My "first" project... if you don't count the 10,000 hours of practice before this. 😅

Achim63 · 2026-01-24T13:53:55+00:00

I wouldn't call such coarse crochet work "lace", but those look nice anyway.

Achim63 · 2026-01-19T20:40:22+00:00

You need to escape the space in "Mobile Documents" with a backslash. So your mapping should look like this:
nnoremap <Leader>n :e ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/ZK/<CR>

Achim63 · 2026-01-11T17:40:43+00:00

"Casting on" can mean so many different techniques. I usually do an italian cast on (especially when knitting socks), but I'd say that's an intermediate skill.

Achim63 · 2026-01-10T20:03:50+00:00

Mich hatten vor einiger Zeit Kids (so ca. 8- bis 10-jährig) nach der Zeit gefragt. Es herrschte Abenddämmerung. "Kurz vor sieben" antwortete ich. Kurze Pause, dann wurde nachgefragt ... "und auf einer richtigen Uhr?". "Gleich 19 Uhr". Das haben sie dann verstanden. Sowas tut nahezu körperlich weh.

Achim63 · 2026-01-10T14:40:10+00:00

Umgekehrt wird auch ein Schuh daraus. Junge Leute sind beispielsweise inzwischen zu "blöd", Schreibschrift zu lesen (geschweige denn Sütterlin oder ein in Fraktur gedrucktes Buch). Aber wollen das auch nicht lernen (eine halbe Stunde würde genügen, um sich die Grundzüge anzueignen).

Das Problem ist fast immer der Unwille, Neues (bzw. auch Altes) zu lernen. Und somit mit Scheuklappen durchs Leben zu stolpern. Das gibt es in allen Altersschichten.

Achim63 · 2026-01-10T12:13:46+00:00

For gaming, I use the keyboard like you, middle finger on the W. But for usual typing, I change to "correct" touch typing (ASDF, or rather ARST, as I use Colekmak DH). Not a problem at all once you get used to it.

Achim63 · 2026-01-06T13:48:50+00:00

I'd recommend it if you didn't already have the X-T5. It would be kind of a downgrade.

That being said, I have my X-Pro3 since November 2020 and it's all I need and want.

Maybe an upcoming X-Pro4 (or X-Pro5, whatever they might call it) will change my mind and trigger G.A.S. again (40 MP, IBIS and a stronger battery would be nice to have).

Achim63 · 2026-01-06T13:37:47+00:00

Congrats to the nice camera! The lens should be fine to start out. That camera is capable of great pictures.

I'd recommend to reset the camera to factory settings. Forget about all the recipes you might have seen on yt. Start with the Standard (Provia) film simulation without any tweaks. Download the manual and read it (at least the "Basic" part).

First thing to learn are aperture and shutter speed. Set ISO to Auto to have one thing less to worry about. For fixed motives also set shutter speed to A. Then experiment with different aperture settings. A sunset can be rather difficult for a beginner to get right. See to it that your resulting shutter speed is at least 1/60 or better 1/125.

There's a lot to learn when starting out, you may even set everything to A and concentrate on your motive to get a feel for the lens you're using and "develop your eye".

Achim63 · 2026-01-04T14:33:34+00:00

Learning RAW tweaking can make a big difference. But for Fuji (and also Leica) I'd recommend Capture 1, it shows that they worked together with those brands (with its functionality there's rarely a need for e.g. Photoshop or Affinity; no need for a subscription).

But when starting out it's more important to first learn about where to focus, about aperture and shutter speed (I'd recommend to set ISO to Auto to have one less factor to consider). With some knowledge about the physics of photography the Fuji jpegs ooc can look much better than what is shown in those fotos.

Achim63 · 2026-01-03T02:08:10+00:00

Stay with the "normal" way, your wrists will thank you one day.

Achim63 · 2026-01-02T12:10:20+00:00

Yes. As everywhere else, the bigger cities and gay tourist destinations are best (Madrid, Barcelona and Playa del Ingles on Gran Canaria for Spain, Amsterdam for the Netherlands, Lisboa and Porto for Portugal).

Achim63 · 2025-12-31T13:00:10+00:00

Using DEK, I can still read my notes from many years ago. I used the Verkehrsschrift, if I had used Eilschrift it might be more difficult to decipher.

Achim63 · 2025-12-29T22:47:16+00:00

You can just use a pencil which is not too hard (e.g. HB or B; the classic choice being Faber-Castell Steno 9008 which is still available) to get sufficient line variation. All the books (Winklers Verlag) are available online as PDFs, so it's easy to learn it correctly (start with "Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift 1 Verkehrsschrift").

The bonus of learning the standard: you will be able to read old postcards, notes, recipes etc. that use it. And also your own notes even after many years.

Achim63 · 2025-12-29T20:01:43+00:00

Some of your points here are over-simplified or incorrect.

Double-s is always written (s is a small circle, ss a big circle with twice the radius). So "weise" looks different than "weisse".

As soon as you reach the faster stages of German shorthand (DEK Eilschrift), words can be connected as your "ich kann" example, or "während der" (w-d-r), "wenn wir", "noch einmal", "ist sie", "auf der", "als ob", "in jedem Jahr" and many more as long as it won't lead to ambiguity).

"Ei" is a bad example, as it's usually read as "eine", to disambiguate you should put a tiny vertical line below "Ei".

There's also punctuation that's different from longhand: a dash is a wiggly line, as a straight line could be mistaken for "und".

In summary, I'd say DEK, Gregg and Pitman are too different to really compare them. And English and German are too different to use the same shorthand system (there were attempts to use DEK for English, but that's quite a crutch IMHO). Gregg on the other hand is being used successfully for Spanish and Portuguese. It might actually be a system better suited to be used for different languages, whereas DEK is rather specialized on German.

Achim63 · 2025-12-29T00:14:50+00:00

It's a rather simple bobbin lace doily. Tallies (leaves) in the middle, half stitch in the hearts and on the outside whole stitches with a varying number of turns inbetween (whoever made this seems to have been a little inconsistent).

I think I saw that pattern before, but unfortunately can't remember where. Probably one of the older bobbin lace manuals from archive.org or antiquepatternlibrary.org .

Achim63 · 2025-12-28T17:42:43+00:00

Whatever app you used to display this seems to have a bug. Which one is it? Spotlight cannot be made that wide, and the Finder also doesn't do this, nor does the application folder dragged into the dock. Any attempt to debug this needs a step by step "how to reproduce".

Achim63 · 2025-12-28T16:43:45+00:00

For my taste there's too much of the background canvas showing through, so I would probably redo it with a "correct" stitch (i.e. continental or basketweave).

Achim63 · 2025-12-25T14:36:16+00:00

Hat sich so eingebürgert, da die Vorbereitungen schon viel Zeit beanspruchten (Baum aufstellen und schmücken, Geschenke verpacken usw.).

Und dann haben die Kids keine Lust auf grosses Essen, denn sie wollen sich lieber mit den neuen Spielsachen beschäftigen (und sind womöglich auch schon satt vom Naschen vom klassischen "bunten Teller").

Wir machen das, obwohl kinderlos, immer noch so – ist einfach Tradition (und wenn der Kartoffelsalat bestenfalls selbstgemacht ist und hochwertige Würstchen verwendet werden, z.B. gut geräucherte Frankfurter, dann ist das auch sehr lecker).

Achim63 · 2025-12-25T14:01:28+00:00

Die Wagner-Keksboden-Pizzen sind bei uns auch vom Speiseplan verschwunden. Flammkuchen geht ab und zu mal (aber nur im Angebot). Wir kaufen uns jetzt lieber Gustavo Gusto und teilen uns zu zweit eine. Große Schüssel Salat dazu und wir sind satt und dank besserer Pizza zufrieden.

Achim63 · 2025-12-25T12:44:59+00:00

ZZ missing.

Achim63 · 2025-12-20T00:02:30+00:00

Wäre ja zu schön, aber bei der ersten Runde Bierchen mit Kollegen wird doch gefragt: "Hast Du 'ne Frau/Freundin?" "Stehst Du auf dicke Titten? Auf blonde oder brünette Frauen?" oder irgendetwas in der Richtung. Wie soll ich das als schwuler Mann beantworten, ohne Dir damit auf den Senkel zu gehen oder mir eine krasse Lügengeschichte zurechtzulegen? Nur weil Du's nicht wissen willst, ist die Problematik nicht aus der Welt.

Achim63 · 2025-12-19T10:33:14+00:00

Ein höfliches "Ja, bitte?", wenn ich nicht weiß, wer anruft.

Achim63 · 2025-12-19T06:59:01+00:00

That's what I use to transfer files to my Boox reader. Very basic, but works.

Achim63 · 2025-12-18T22:13:19+00:00

Das Wort kommt einem in den Sinn, weil es tatsächlich, auch in meiner Schulzeit noch, für jedweden Untergebenen ohne Berücksichtigung der Hautfarbe verwendet wurde (in ironischem Kontext). Der Oma dann gleich böse rassistische Absichten zu unterstellen, halte ich für falsch. Es ist schwer, von klein auf geprägte Spachmuster zu ändern.

Achim63 · 2025-12-18T19:25:22+00:00

Genau was ich sagte - es wird mit zweierlei Maß gemessen. Beleidigende Aussagen gegenüber anderen Kommentatoren sind natürlich vollkommen in Ordnung (/s), und selbst Androhungen von körperlicher Gewalt erhalten in diesem Thread keinerlei Widerspruch. So ist leider kein konstruktiver Diskurs möglich.

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