smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 56 points 5 months ago (34 children)

I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...

Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?

Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Alright, thanks for the recommendation (seriously)!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Definitely planned for next time. This time we went south to Fukuoka (already very few tourists) and rented a car back to Tokyo, staying in smaller towns. Highly recommend.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

Oh wow, awesome!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

Hard disagree. I'm watching Voyager for the first time right now. ~24 episodes per season, 7 seasons. You could remove a shitton of episodes from it to keep the basic plot of "Ship stranded far away. Get ship home." intact, but there are very few episodes you might be able to remove without taking something from the characters. And that's what's missing in modern series (including Trek) in my opinion; characters are either cardboard cutouts or have "arcs" that are more akin to whiplash. As a result I just don't care about these people. You also cannot really fix this with "just" better writing, because it'll still need to be rushed.

I do have a fulltime job, and hobbies, and friends that I spend time with. So I'm maybe averaging a single episode per day, and it's been and continues to be such a comfort that these characters stay with me, have time to breathe and develop, and get the space they need for the writers and actors to find their groove and make the characters something unique. I do not want to give that up again in favor of.... what? Getting fancy visuals and being done with a show after a week?

I'm permanently done with Marvel/StarWars/NewTrek. Next up are rewatches of DS9 and Next Generation.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for your sacrifice :D

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

While I don't like it, it's not hidden either:

https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html

There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it's just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined... Eh...

(Stirling also has something similar)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

True. Especially the more "popular" temples are only open during regular hours, though.

In any case, I don't doubt that you can have lots of fun and have the city for yourself at early hours!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Prisoner Of War:

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Why not open a PR to make it configurable? The maintainer is super active and friendly.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah but then most of the things people come to Kyoto for a closed.

Not saying I disagree.

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