Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it

I mean, Arch has the Arch Wiki which is very good. (I use Arch, btw.) 😸

I’m surprised Mint is giving you trouble. Where you doing something… risky? Or maybe the hardware you’re running isn’t very compatible?

Otherwise, a distro like VanillaOS (or any immutable distro) might be able to keep your system more stable.

I really hope the US will at some point adopt the objectively better metric system!

Me too. I’m trying! 🤝

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

Now that I think about it, I think I own a carpenter’s measuring tape. Maybe that’s why they don’t call out cm.

Also just to be clear, my measuring tape is definitely not a standard tape you can buy at a local hardware store. It took some effort for me to find a metric-only measuring tape.

centimeters is probably the most common in households

I’m curious, where are you from? In the US, I’d say we think of centimeters as a pseudo-inch, so I think I understand why people would gravitate to centimeters here.

But do other countries use centimeters as much? I’m especially curious about really metric countries like Japan or (who else?) France? Germany? I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada or UK use centimeters.

Related: centimetres or millimetres

It’s great that the units are linked like this. I actually had to use this once. I didn’t have a container to measure out 1liter of water, but I did have a kitchen scale that could measure 1,000 grams! 🙌🏽

The biggest lesson in my own journey and seeing a lot of people online talk about trying to do the conversion is that people get overly concerned with precision when first making the switch.

YES! I think this is because they’re converting back to imperial units. You can always tell when someone was thinking in imperial because the metric units are like 17.4C or 8.12mm or 98.7km/h. For sure, things don’t need to be that precise. When I convert either way I always convert to a nice number. 100 km/h -> 60mi/h

It’s just like translating language, you don’t translate the literal words of a sentence, you translate the overall idea.

never used measuring cups … We use cans

Sure, yeah, that’s what I meant. Some physical artifact I can use to measure liquid in ml.

https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/204600175_-messbecher-935000-0-5-liter-bruchsicher-huenersdorff.html

These look perfect! Thanks!

A good base is knowing milli is a thousandth and kilo is a 1000

YES! I feel like a common pitfall people run into is trying to bust out all sorts of fancy prefixes, deka, hecto, centi, deci, etc and then people get overwhelmed by all of that.

The most common prefixes are kilo 1000x or milli 1/1000. That’s all you should focus on.

The next order of measurment is just ±10^x

There’s a strong possibility that I’m just dumb, but this used to trip me up at first. Especially if I was on the spot: 1250mm to m, go! Uh, 125.0? Uh, 12.50?! Uh, 1.250! Yeah!

Or 1.5L to mL, go! Uh, 150mL? Uh, 1500mL! Yeah!

Also, realizing that the most popular prefixes are either kilo 1000x or milli 1/1000 helped. For example, cm don’t seem very common, like dimensions are almost always in mm.

I heard someone say once, the metric system is better by a thousand.

yard

Except in US handegg, do people still use yards? It sounds old-timey to me now. Normally, I either hear people talk in feet or miles, but never yards. Even in school (California), I vaguely remember hearing “X yard dash” when I was a little kid, but that definitely changed to “X meter dash” as I got older.

YES! Do it brother! 👏 I’m US born and raised and I’ve voluntarily switched to metric a while ago. Metric is actually more intuitive to me now.

I started with just memorizing all the conversions but that’s literally just adding another step.

Personally, I think this is a mistake. What worked for me was to start building reference points in metric directly. No conversions.

• yes: “Oh, it’s nice outside. What temperature is it? 20C, great. I’ll remember I like 20C.”
• no: “I like 70F, what’s that in Celsius?”
• yes: “Wow. That’s long board. How long is it? 2m, great. I’ll remember 2m is long.”
• no: “What’s 6ft to meters?”

Don’t ask, “What’s this in metric?” just ask directly “How long/fast/heavy/hot is this thing?”

You need to get out there and start measuring and experiencing stuff. Measure parts of your body to build more reference points. For example, I know from the floor to my waist is about 1m, from the tip of my index finger to the first bend line is about 2.5cm. My weight is about 65kg. Normal body temperature is about 37C, but 38C and above is a fever. My mom’s house is about 30km away.

Switching temperature to C is pretty easy, that’s a good start. Here are some other tools that may help.

• meter only tape measure (I love this tape measure) measure the length of everything
• gram only kitchen scale measure the weight of all your food
• newton-meter only torque wrench tighten all the bolts

Also, did you know Amazon US limits the products available to us? But you can break out and shop from Amazon Japan, for example, and get products that aren’t available from Amazon US. I’ve found that Amazon Japan has way more metric-only options than other places.

I really like buying metric only tools because:

• it removes the possibility of relapse, forcing you to build new reference points
• it removes the possibility of other people messing with the units
• it removes clutter from the UI, making it easier to use

Eventually, you could switch your car too, but I wouldn’t recommend you do that right now. After a few months, you’ll start getting the hang of metric more. It really doesn’t take that long to adjust.

P.S. Does anyone know where I could get some metric-only measuring cups cans, containers, vessels?

Depends on your major, I guess.

My university’s CS program basically required GNU+Linux (as I’ve recently took to calling it). It was great actually.

Hopefully you don’t have to use Photoshop, anon.

Sucks bro. What domains does addy.io hand out? Is it all like foo@addy.io or do they have different ones with .io TLD?

We definitely need to get more people running NOT @gmail.com. Thank you for your service. 🫡

we’ve seemingly been duped into working for free to increase the company valuation and therefore shareholders’ capital – with the possible intention of selling the company or otherwise monetizing the project.

Ah, are they considering a rugpull?

Cool! Maybe I should give them another shot. I definitely like the idea.

I tried using Privacy a few years ago, but 1. a lot of websites block Privacy’s prepaid debit card numbers and 2. I ran into a spending limit.

But, the ease of use was nice. Not sure if things have changed since then.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!!

Yeah, it definitely feels out of place.

On the other hand… it is kinda nice that tasks and notes are offered in WebDAV because I don’t have to maintain yet another service for each of those.

If I weren’t the one maintaining these instances, then sure I’d say launch one service for calendars, one for tasks, and one for notes.

My use case is I want to write text and I want that text to be synced from my phone and laptop. I want to deploy the minimum number of services. I don’t care about any text editor features as long as I can write text and read it.

I’ve already deployed Radicale and I’d rather not have to maintain anything else.

I realize I can deploy something else just for notes, but I really don’t want to maintain something else.

FUTO specifically allows you to derive value from a project like this:

You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application.

You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

Yes, it’s a different set of value than Open Source™ gives you. Again, they’re not claiming to provide the same value as Open Source™. (They’re also not trying to replace Open Source™.) Yes, it’s not the value that you want. Yes, that’s by design.

Do you also think, what’s the point of Google Search, Windows, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, etc if you can’t derive any “value” from it, where “value” means Open Source™ value? Those apps are still insanely valuable to users, even if they don’t get Open Source™ value from them.