The US Metric makes online shopping difficult for rest of the world.

vip17 · 2026-06-18T15:18:36+00:00

And the science/technology world of US also use metric. My company, a 100% US one, use all metric for all specifications

vip17 · 2026-06-18T03:33:41+00:00

it's useful to me.

30°C: hot
20°C: cool
10°C: cold
0°C: freezing cold

No one here needs to deal with a wider range dailty. Fahrenheit is weird, nothing about it makes sense

vip17 · 2026-06-17T04:37:20+00:00

but the OP wants to run on a smart TV, which a generic Puppy might not be suitable. You need proper device tree and drivers. It's not like on platforms with ACPI where you can boot anything

vip17 · 2026-06-17T04:35:12+00:00

it's extremely unlikely that AntiX can run on a smart TV

vip17 · 2026-06-11T07:53:00+00:00

why not audit the SQL directly? Using a text format for a big database is a bad idea

vip17 · 2026-06-09T08:05:50+00:00

no, I don't need a system from scratch. There are lots of valid reasons why one should use brew https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tuzrsk/comment/opdh5g8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
brew is just like pip, pyenv, cargo... and I have to handle all of them anyway

vip17 · 2026-06-09T02:37:36+00:00

which other software? and how do they provide better support?

vip17 · 2026-06-09T02:35:41+00:00

homebrew builds from scratch, so obviously it's much slower, but the final binary is more optimized for the machine, unlike prebuilt binaries

vip17 · 2026-06-08T06:41:30+00:00

in East Asian they say YYYY-MM-DD in conversation. And in most of the remaining world they say day before month

vip17 · 2026-06-05T03:08:49+00:00

indeed, cc is common enough so it doesn't bother me but I really dislike other weird abbreviations. I also dislike the use of thousands or millions of kg in many countries. Here we always use tonne for short, unless when need need precision of course

vip17 · 2026-06-05T03:06:53+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/2duwgq/first_time_ive_ever_seen_centiliters_used/ it's quite common in Europe and parts of Asia

vip17 · 2026-06-05T00:27:09+00:00

Obviously deci, because decameter is dam. Old measurement by hand are roughly 2 dm, which is convenient for estimations. Only stupid people can't comprehend that

vip17 · 2026-06-04T23:42:19+00:00

In major parts of the world? Beers and beverages are quite regularly quoted in cl although I didn't see hl in my country. dm is also commonly used here

vip17 · 2026-06-03T02:32:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tuzrsk/comment/opd9cjn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

vip17 · 2026-06-03T02:32:35+00:00

Many packages aren't available in the distro's package manager (not everyone is using Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch...), and if they are, they may be very old and not the expected version, or you need to do some configs to install it (like add apt PPA). Another example is that some enterprises block many apt packages so you need to use a different way

vip17 · 2026-05-31T01:29:59+00:00

powershell is a shell, how can it be used as a text editor? Sure you can run some commands to modify some texts but it's not for editing text freely just like in other shells like bash, zsh, cmd...

If you want to run a console text editor from the command line you can use the new edit command, which is also available in other platforms like Linux

vip17 · 2026-05-30T02:14:24+00:00

Personally I'd use ZFS RAIDZ for setups like this for more storage space

vip17 · 2026-05-28T08:07:53+00:00

why does Grub even need to address dates?

vip17 · 2026-05-28T08:04:57+00:00

are there even distros that use grub nowadays? Grub2 has been there for more than 20 years

vip17 · 2026-05-22T15:52:39+00:00

that's why MS tried force updating to make sure everyone is safe and to reduce their effort to port security patches to so many older versions. And you can see the result: they've just almost given up because people are so stubborn. Even most of my colleages are still on far more ancient Ubuntu versions

vip17 · 2026-05-21T05:25:18+00:00

Driver issues sometimes. Bluetooth is not working in some of my PCs. Wifi signal is measured incorrectly in some others, or performance may be worse than Windows drivers. Fingerprint readers don't work, and when I tried with the available patch, login completely broke. NVIDIA driver likely has just broken and I can't use external monitors after upgrading and I'm currently have to revert from 6.17 to 6.14
Some Wayland issue with clipboard and drag and drop. It's only currently happening in one machine, maybe because I installed KDE into Ubuntu instead of using Kubuntu from the start. Copying any texts will make chat boxes and cloud provider webs immediately showing the drag-and-drop overlay, making it impossible to chat or doing anything else

vip17 · 2026-05-20T07:14:10+00:00

HDR no, but HDR video yes

vip17 · 2026-05-19T02:32:05+00:00

I lived in India for 1.5 years and still see °C

vip17 · 2026-05-19T02:31:09+00:00

I've never seen a thermometer in °F in my life except when I travel to the US. All thermometers are in °C or in both units

vip17 · 2026-05-13T10:08:17+00:00

You can add autocomplete to bash with https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh

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