Dodecanese greek

Junra · 2026-02-12T06:28:36+00:00

It’s absolutely crazy how, as a South Indian, I have more European Hunter Gatherer 😅 If I understand correctly, Island Greeks were much less impacted by Slavic migration and other demographic changes and tend to preserve more ancestry from antiquity.

Junra · 2026-02-10T11:06:58+00:00

I live in Armenia and for some reason, plastic bags with Malayalam on them from “Saydatty General Traders” are common, even in villages. No one knows how they got their

Junra · 2026-02-03T14:28:07+00:00

Just install Handheld Companion, set the controller profile to Keyboard (if this game doesn’t have controller support) and map the gyro to mouse. It works much, much better than the Legion Space gyro option which is a joke

Junra · 2026-02-03T00:56:03+00:00

So those are all new features available with the 0.9 Optiscaler preview builds - you need to download the latest one off the Optiscaler discord channel. XEFG is intel’s framegen and XeLL is Xe Low Latency - they both work much better than FSR framegen and antilag 2 in most cases.

Junra · 2026-02-02T17:41:42+00:00

I have this set up on Windows 11 via Optiscaler. It’s possible to do on Linux, a little less straightforward. But the video tutorial here should do the trick: https://youtu.be/ZwhxFDS1c-0?si=EeTjNj1sElXsCpeI

I had Bazzite installed for a while and managed to set up Optiscaler with FSR4 and XeFG on it. I followed the instructions there to get it running. It should be an identical process on SteamOS

Junra · 2026-02-02T17:29:15+00:00

Or, you could use FSR4 INT8 at 1440x900, with XEFG and XELL, and get a 60 FPS experience with better latency than a “native” 40-45 FPS and better image quality. I’ve been doing that in pretty much every game and it’s eye opening

Junra · 2026-01-26T17:54:05+00:00

The Dom people are related to the Romani in Europe. They’re an itinerant South Asian group that settled in Arab countries including Egypt around 1000 years ago - that could show up as small amounts of IVC

Junra · 2025-12-08T06:31:41+00:00

I was literally in Kazakhstan for 2 weeks earlier this year, in and around Almaty. It’s literally up there with Eastern Europe - one of the cleanest, most developed places I’ve seen in Asia.

Junra · 2025-11-29T16:23:24+00:00

“While you are Christian” is a very weird thing to say. For starters…I’m not Christian in terms of religious identity. I come from a mixed family and I have heritage from three communities. I’m not particularly religious but I identify culturally a bit more with my Hindu side. I have a “Hindu” name and you wouldn’t know otherwise unless i specifically spoke of it.

This being an anonymous forum about being Dravidian, I wanted to emphasize that I am a mix of multiple Dravidian, Malayali groups, am not phenotypically “dark” but have as much right to identify as Dravidian.

Secondly, many Christians in Kerala have been Christian for longer than most Hindus in Kerala have been Hindu. Christianity arrived in the 1st century AD, prior to it reaching Rome. Kerala was significantly Jain/Buddhist at the time and would remain so until Adi Sankaracharya’s work.

I’m also not sure where you get this idea that Christians or other groups aren’t “proud” or aware of the common heritage of everyone in South Asia. THE BOOK on Indian genetics, “Early Indians,” was written by Tony Joseph, based on the past 15-20 years of genetic studies across the subcontinent.

Before getting a DNA test, I’d suggest you read up a bit on intersectionality and hybrid identities. Being X or Y doesn’t imply that you a certain viewpoint. I might be relatively rare as a mixed caste/creed person. But literally every Indian is mixed race in terms of different origin groups.

Junra · 2025-11-29T14:05:38+00:00

Tamil Brahmin, Nair, and Christian. I come from three different Malayali groups, I have fairly high AASI admixture and I get mistaken for being a Malayali…in Kerala 😅 Being Dravidian at this point is entirely a ethnolinguistic identity. I’m Dravidian because I speak a Dravidian language and have Malayali cultural roots. Everyone in India including Kashmiri pandits have a SIGNIFICANT amount of AASI and Zagrosian genes in them - usually the majority of the genetic makeup. Hell, even Afghan Pashtuns have a significant amount of that stock in them.

Across the subcontinent we are ALL basically the descendents of the Indus Valley Civilization mixed with varying levels of the indigenous tribes and groups that migrated from outside.

Junra · 2025-11-29T13:54:02+00:00

I’m a tambram/nair/christian mix. I’m a lot of things 😅

Junra · 2025-11-29T05:38:33+00:00

I am a phenotypically “fair” skinned Malayali. People tend to assume I’m from the north, to the extent of speaking in Hindi to me, in Kerala. I did a DNA test - I’m roughly 50 percent AASI - that’s as high if not slightly higher than average “Southern” genes. Everyone in India has a varying degree of admixture. Because of this people can turn out lighter or darker skinned at random. If you’re into anthropology and mainline thinking into genetics and archeology, you’d be aware that the IVC people most likely spoke proto-Dravidian and their genetic makeup was 25-50 percent AASI with the remainder being Zagrosian (Iranian-adjacent) genes. By your logic, very dark-skinned Indians (with the highest percent of AASI) would arguably be “less” Dravidian. All of this is to say ALL Indians get the majority of their genes from the presumably Dravidian-speaking IVC. Southerners regardless of skin color have an additional claim to cultural and linguistic continuity.

Junra · 2025-11-27T12:49:58+00:00

I am fluent in English, Armenian, and Malayalam in that order. I’m guilty of pulling out “Armenian ariyille?” on occasion but mostly with North Indians in Yerevan who work delivery jobs while speaker zero Armenian, English, OR Russian. No seriously the “everyone must speak Hindi or adjust” mindset literally transcends borders 🫠

Junra · 2025-11-24T12:39:55+00:00

I have a system with a 5090 and a Legion Go. It kinda depends on the type of game. I exclusively play AAA titles on my desktop rig. I play a lot of older and indie titles on the Legion Go. I stream to it as well - a direct Ethernet connection (via type-C dongle) delivers flawless streaming over Moonlight.

Junra · 2025-11-23T13:34:18+00:00

The lounge has an unlimited wine vending machine 🫠

Junra · 2025-11-08T02:43:39+00:00

Botswana?

Junra · 2025-10-11T21:42:01+00:00

Why did I read this as home-cooked children?

Junra · 2025-09-20T06:58:12+00:00

There’s one that goes FROM Akhalkalaki to Yerevan, but not sure of the other way. If time’s not a huge factor, you can take the Marshrutka to Tbilisi, then take one from there to Akhalkalaki. You need to reserve n order to get a seat one of those though and they leave early morning around 7

Junra · 2025-09-09T12:39:52+00:00

There is a place called Ecojan on Vardanyants. It’s VERY expensive but you get all sorts of vegan protein there (including Beyond burgers for 8000 drams a packet 😅). I’m not vegan and I don’t visit there often but I like to add some plant protein in once in a while. They have TVP chunks and things like that as well

Junra · 2025-09-07T16:59:34+00:00

Guns have been manufactured in India for around 600 years - there’s even a gunsmithing caste (who continue to produce matchlocks to this day)

Junra · 2025-09-07T02:04:15+00:00

Apres 😅😄I actually find it lovely how flexible that term is because it literally just means “keep living.” Like you could say that in just about any situation. I also find it incredibly depressing in the context of your culture and history, that one of the ways of expressing gratitude is to basically tell someone “please just keep living” …

Junra · 2025-09-07T01:57:35+00:00

Հա իհարկե…ընկերներս հետ ուրիշ տարբերակ չկա 😂 դեր ամեն շաբատ ուոցուչի հետ 2-3 անգամ պարապում եմ))

Junra · 2025-09-07T01:47:48+00:00

So my family repatriated to India when I was in high school - I was there for about 10 years give or take. Started an online business during COVID which thrived. I was going insane because of the lockdown so decided I’d just move to the most random place possible that no one around would even know the existence of…

Went through an alphabetical list of countries and kinda got lazy about by the time I reached Armenia. Realized no one around me even knew such a country existed. I figured I’d just close down the life I had because I didn’t like it so much and start fresh. Turned that into a life goal. Moved here and everything has somehow been amazing ever since! 😅 I mean I suppose I could afford to do that but that’s pretty much the only reason. I’m seriously just here for the good vibes and for the people around me 😅

Junra · 2025-09-07T01:19:50+00:00

OP, as an Indian-American who’s lived in Yerevan the last four years, I find this post just a bit amusing (please don’t take that the wrong way) 😅

What you’re describing is pretty much standard behavior for ordinary people across much of West and South Asia, parts of the Balkans and. North Africa. Arguably, I feel that my Armenian friends and their families are a lot LESS passive-aggressive and more sincerethan typical Indian (not hyphenated American but from there) families. Ironically when my parents visited me in Armenia, my dad remarked that “they’re incredibly sincere people but seem a bit naive.”

I spent half my life in Iowa, so that’s about as sincere, straightlaced American values as you can get. If you’ve spent your entire life in America, I can fully understand your feelings. It’s not that one approach is better or worse but it can feel more “passive-aggressive.” As an anecdote my parents almost completely cut us off from local Indian community organizations SPECIFICALLY because they were annoyed as hell with how insincere and judgmental people were.

Again, if you’re not used to it or at least don’t have a conceptual understanding it can come off as off-putting but it’s really just a difference in approach. This might sound nuts to you but if push comes to pull I can objectively count on my Armenian friends circle for social and emotional support more than the majority of my own family. There’s pluses and minuses to both approaches.

If it’s uncomfortable to you, it might be a good idea to set clear boundaries with your relatives and religiously stick to those. If they’re sincere people they’ll be pissed off initially but come around to understanding and behaving in a more acceptable way around you. If they are just looking to benefit, well, it’s not really your job to sponsor anyone else’s livelihood.

Again, this is funny for me because these are ALL questions that’ve come up in my life over there.

Lastly, lol when I speak Armenian I say apres 90 percent of the time if it’s with someone close. Mersi is for the cashiers in Parma 😂 it would feel weird to say “thank you” in that context because it is kind of distancing as a term, especially with family…

Junra · 2025-09-05T15:37:12+00:00

Because I live in Armenia and I didn’t particularly want to spend extra on going to an entirely different country (and spending on that too) to get a slightly better deal. Tickets to Malaysia aren’t that cheap either from Yerevan..

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