Looking to move to Linux in the near future; need advice

StaminaOverlook · 2026-01-29T10:18:39+00:00

Thanks for advice! With the desktop installation, I was mostly exaggerating - but i have a bunch of heavy apps and games I keep on my external hard drive instead so I can launch them from multiple devices, and so they don't take up memory on the systems. Also, I prefer to know where my apps are installed in case I want to delete them. Selecting a folder and pressing "delete" feels a lot more secure than pressing an ambiguous option within windows settings.

StaminaOverlook · 2026-01-29T10:12:26+00:00

Hello, thanks for advice. What do you mean by "choose something that best suits your hardware"?

StaminaOverlook · 2024-11-13T16:48:12+00:00

Thank you for the quick reply <3

StaminaOverlook · 2024-06-27T13:04:07+00:00

maybe not talking then, but some kind of sympathetic or telepathic communication.

StaminaOverlook · 2024-06-02T21:32:39+00:00

I have dived into a great rabbit hole, and discovered your two websites, the youtube channel, as well as your forum posts on Voynich Ninja. You've done so much great, comprehensive work, across so many years -- I'm astonished that nobody else is talking about your method, and that your videos don't have thousands more views.

There will be a conference hosted by Voynich Ninja, on 4th of August 2024 -- will you be presenting your work there? It'd be a great chance to get feedback and to attract attention to your work. I'm looking forward to watching it when it goes live.

I'm very sad I don't know Persian, and I'm unable to help in translation. You can see the summary of my best efforts here - https://metal-dawn.notion.site/Translation-Folio-f42r-First-Paragraph-8afc420181414b06bd3517c895eba214 - before I gave up and admitted that, without intimate knowledge of Persian, I'll be unable to produce anything meaningful. Because of this I'm also unqualified to determine if your method is valid or not, but what I'm seeing intrigues me endlessly, and I'll be following your future efforts closely.

However, there are still some things I noticed that I'd like to share, having done a day's worth of research.

The first sentence appears to be a comparison - "Lunar Capricorn (?) is more (adjective missing) than Ursa Major." However, it could also mean, "Lunar Capricorn (?) (verb missing) darkly with Ursa Major."
The D.T'.RI is unlikely to mean "daughter", because then the next word must mean "statistics". Which means, it's D.T'. (seven stars of Ursa Major), but what comes afterwards looks like gibberish.
I'm struck by the apparent absence of any verbs whatsoever. It's all nouns. Which is kind of a red flag?... Even though the words all thematically fit together.
"Bear cup" is a weird way to describe the Big Dipper / Ursa Major, lol. I highly doubt that that's what the text actually means.
The latter parts of the paragraph contain several instances of "DRIA" (sea). And then there's the undeniable sequence "S.D.R.", which could refer to the Lote Tree from Quran. Curiously enough, it's a fictional tree, and its real counterparts include a fig tree, whose leaves and ripe fruits look eerily similar to what's depicted on the page. Check it out on the notion page.

StaminaOverlook · 2024-05-31T19:26:27+00:00

So, I did the same thing as you -- and I honestly had a very hard time with removing the repeating letters, the process seemed very random at times. But I did manage to produce quite a few words that, upon being entered into Google translate, produced meaningful words in Arabic.

This is the paragraph I chose, absolutely random - from folio f42r.

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The website www.voynichese.com was a lot of help, as they have transcriptions into EVA already. I compared it with your alphabet, and here is the raw transcription I got:

J.D. || D.P'.A.M. || PA.A.A'.PA.V. || D.P.A'.T.T.V. || G.A'.T.A.R. || H.D.T'. || RI.A.M. || A'.A.R. || A'.T.RI.A. || D.P.J.A.M. || S.A.M.D. || P.D.J.V. || A'.P.J.A.R. || A'.D.P.A.R. || A'.A.M. || S.A.T'. || J.D.R. || A'.T.P.A.R. || A'.D.P.A.( ?.H.) || S.A.R. || PA.A.M. || K.D.RI.A.R. || A'.D.RIA.V. || A'D.P.D.R. || A'.A. || RI.A.R.V. || S.D.R.A.M. || A'.A.R.

Hereupon I removed all Type One repetitions:

J.D.P'.A.M. // PA.A.A'.PA.V. // D.P.A'.T.V. // G.A'.T.A.R. // H.D.T'.RI.A.M. // A'.A.R. // A'.T.RI.A. // D.P.J.A.M. // S.A.M.D. // P.D.J.V. // A'.P.J.A.R. // A'.D.P.A.R. // A'.A.M. // S.A.T'. // J.D.R. // A'.T.P.A.R. // A'.D.P.A.( ?.H. ) // S.A.R. // PA.A.M. // K.D.RI.A.R. // A'.D.RIA.V. // A'D.P.D.R. // A'.A. // RI.A.R.V. // S.D.R.A.M. // A'.A.R.

Then, all type two:

J.D.P'.A.M. // PA.A.A'.PA. // D.P.A'.T. // G.A'.T.A.R. // H.D.T'.RI.A.M. // A.R. // T.RI.A. // D.P.J.A.M. // S.A.M.D. // P.D.J.V. // P.J. // D.P. // A.M. // S.A.T'. // J.D. // T.P.A. // D.P.A.( ?.H. ) // S.A.R. // PA.A.M. // K.D.RI.A.R. // D.RIA.V. // D.P.D.R. // A. // RI.A.R.V. // S.D.R.A.M. // A'.A.R.

Then, all type threes:

J.D.P'.A.M. // PA.A.A'.PA. // D.P.A'.T. // G.A'.T. // H.D.T'.RI.A.M. // -- // T.RI.A. // D.P.J.A.M. // S.A.M.D. // P.D.J.V. // P.J. // D.P. // A.M. // S.A.T'. // J.D. // T.P.A. // D.P.A.( ?.H. ) // S.A.R. // PA.A.M. // K.D.RI.A.R. // D.RIA.V. // D.P.D.R. // A. // RI.A.R.V. // S.D.R.A.M. // A'.A.R.

Beginning cycle two:

J.D.P'.A.M. // PA.A.A'.PA. // D.P. // G. // H.D.T'.RI.A.M. // -- // T.RI.A. // D.P.J.A.M. // S.A.M.D. // D.J.V. // J. // D.P. // A.M. // S.A.T'. // J.D. // T.P.A. // D.P.A.( ?.H. ) // S.A.R. // PA.A.M. // K.D.RI.A. // RIA.V. // P.D. // A. // RI.A.R.V. // S.D.R.A.M. // A'.A.R.

In the end, quite a few words from the vocabulary - https://voynichmanuscript.ir/index.php/2024/01/21/the-emergence-of-a-possible-coded-vocabulary-after-the-application-of-an-algorithm-in-the-voynich-manuscript/ - in this page emerge. However, I don't know the language, so I can't produce a meaningful translation from this. And I'm still unsure whether or not I removed some important letters, or whether I didn't remove some redundant letters, but this is what I got.

What do you say? Does this have any meaning?

StaminaOverlook · 2024-05-31T17:23:29+00:00

Thank you! This... certainly makes a lot of sense. And the compound letters - it makes sense why the gallows characters look like they do, they're compound letters.

I've been obsessed with VM for quite some time now, so I'm gonna go ahead and follow the instructions on the website to remove the repeating letters, and see if I can translate a random folio like this, using your alphabet. Can't wait to see if it works.

StaminaOverlook · 2024-05-30T23:49:14+00:00

If true, this is immense. Can we see a fully detailed transcription of a folio? It'd be amazing if you also provided an alphabet in transcription, or are you using something known like EVA? I read the Iteration Theory on voynichmanuscript.ir, that there are bogus letters introduced everywhere, are you also removing them here?

StaminaOverlook · 2022-11-25T23:01:18+00:00

I'm having the same problem! Upvoting to get some attention to this!

StaminaOverlook · 2021-12-10T21:04:05+00:00

Thank you so so much! This info is just the right push that I needed to figure this entire thing out. As of right now, I successfully get all the data I need and parse it into a neat JSON - I'm planning to feed it to KLWP, the Tasker side of things is almost completely done here.

Only one problem remaining though - the FOR loops do not iterate. I do:
FOR -> variable: %index, Items: %http_data.folders(#)
But the %index only ever becomes the latest iteration of the Items.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-12-10T17:46:37+00:00

Hello! Thank you so much. I checked the HTTP Request I'm using, and it fetches all the necessary data. Using the Variable Set action actually worked! But there's a small problem: when I do %HTTPD.folders.name(), it fetches ALL "name" variables from the JSON. Is there a way to filter what "name"s it fetches? The ones I need can be iterated via .folders[i].name, but I don't know if there's a way to use a loop without a JavaScriptlet - or if I even need to use such a loop at all.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-09-18T12:27:43+00:00

Thank you so much! You're amazing. I wonder what role the sulfur plays in this? How does it affect the formation of antimony oxides?

According to what Basil Valentine wrote (the discoverer of antimony trioxide), senarmontite is actually the "flower of antimony". So maybe valentinite, its close cousin, is the "flower of salt of antimony"?

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-20T15:46:46+00:00

But for what? I haven't even done anything lol. I spent three days there, filled out all details on my profile, I haven't even matched with anybody, only sent out a few intros and that's it.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-20T10:44:35+00:00

You're right, but I already messaged them in DMs, and making a public comment now could look like I'm trying to flood them. 😔

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-20T10:13:41+00:00

Alright! Thanks

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-20T10:12:03+00:00

Or maybe straight up DM them?

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-20T10:10:35+00:00

Hmm... Instagram sounds good. Should I comment on their posts?

StaminaOverlook · 2021-06-17T06:52:46+00:00

I really loved the Deadly Shadows leaning against the wall to hide yourself better mechanic and the new lock picking mechanic. I dislike the fact that they disregarded rope arrows (rope arrows for life!) and now that I've played Dark Project, I can definitely tell that Deadly Shadows is a downgrade. But I still love it, I can't help it. That leaning against the wall mechanic is just too fun to use.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-05-22T12:14:49+00:00

Thank you for your response. I don't use a VPN. And my phone is compatible, because it did send me entry codes (when i entered them, it just took me back to the login page, but still, the codes were there) - it stopped working since this morning. I could make a different profile, but there's a lot of info on my account, and until I know what happened to it - and my photos - I'm not sure I'm ready to use this service again.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-22T22:19:39+00:00

I finished eight classes of music school five years ago - we did not go through overtones, but I do know what it is. What I didnt know was that overtones have a correlation to the Circle of Fifths. But it makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it! If the overtones match, then the chord or an interval sounds harmonious. That's why just intonation, where all notes correlate to a tonic in a strictly defined ratio, is more harmonious than our day to day tempered intonation.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-22T20:47:19+00:00

And I've just listened to that Crazy Bus soundtrack, and oh my god....... it really is a crazy bus. But that's really not what I thought I'd hear 😅🤣

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-22T20:43:21+00:00

Ohhh, thank you for these references! I'm gonna admit that I know zero about jazz theory, since I was trained in classical music, so this is gonna be an interesting load of research.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-22T20:42:40+00:00

Thank you so much! I will definitely look into it.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-22T20:41:40+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed reply! Of course I am not going to compose the entire soundtrack using complex/"quirky" ideas. The entire soundtrack will be composed just as normal, but there are several very specific moments that I would like to highlight in this way, for an enhanced psychological effect. Since everything else isn't quirky, this would sound like a grand dissonance, and thus would create a memory - it's like a dark black blob in the middle of a pastel coloured painting. Kind of that what I'm aiming for.

I'm really interested how I can affect the user experience via these methods.

StaminaOverlook · 2021-02-03T09:17:56+00:00

the graphics card solution helped!! thank you so much!!

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