Lvxferre [he/him]

I get woken up a lot in select evenings, right after i’ve gone to sleep, by inconsiderate people.

Gotta love this sort of inconsiderate people… /s

I hear ya. Sometimes the same happens to me, the whole day except at late night. (“Inconsiderate people” in my case includes the neighbour who owns a dog, who LARPs as a rooster, waking the neighbourhood up. She’s just barking by the way, 6AM now, still translating stuff.)

I tried noise-cancelling phones once. I hated them. To the point I’d rather deal with the noise.

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She was eating homemade food because she was refusing the fodder, and a bit too thin. Now she’s eating the fodder as usual. Why? Who knows. Either way she’s constantly begging the homemade food too.

And for attention. If I don’t slap her butt 24/7 she’s asking me to be pet. And to open the glass doors, because she needs to step on the wet floor of my inner patio* instead of going straight from the kitchen to the dining room. (All three are connected to each other, mind you.)

And she woke me up yesterday hissing. Because Frieda was sleeping on me, and she thinks my room is her personal and private room.

*dunno how to call it in English. It’s a small area with open sky access, but between walls.

My sleep schedule is notoriously messy (e.g. 3AM here, and I’m translating stuff), so it neither drains me nor it gives me dopamine. But it helps me a wee bit because of the silence, I guess.

In addition to what the OP said: you aren’t really part of a community until you speak the language they do, because language is a huge part of what gives people a sense of belonging. Someone who speaks only Castilian might be able to “survive” in Catalonia just fine, but they won’t “live” there, it’s like they’re living elsewhere.

I’ve been watching the second season of Shin’ya Shokudō aka Midnight Diners. Kind of forced, I’m translating it for my mum, she loves the series. But it’s cool.

Or rather, re-translating the English translation. Not the first time I do this. I never learn; it takes a lot of effort, it’s a bit outside my comfort zone as translator, but if it’ll make her smile, so be it. I just hope it doesn’t turn out meaningfully better than the subs I found on the internet for the first season… otherwise I’ll be doing those too.

Since a circle is a polygon with infinite sides: yes. All of them.

Only if you’ve downloaded enough RAM to run it.

Neither. Or rather, without?

Some people have two wolves within. I have two chimps instead, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They devour my dreams.

So… You just make the ramen and dump the contents of a tin of sardines

Yup, pretty much. The canned sardines in tomato sauce are already cooked, so you simply remove the bones, cut them into pieces, heat them up (sauce included) and mix them with the already cooked noodles.

How do you cook liver for polenta?

Cut the liver into stripes. Season it with salt, black pepper, garlic, and smoked paprika. Then sauté it on high fire, and add some already prepared tomato sauce (store bought or homemade). Then serve it over the polenta.

Note: the polenta I used in my uni times was instant polenta (made with pre-cooked cornmeal, it gets ready after 15min), but it works well with traditional polenta too.

I also like it pan-fried. And I also hate the mess in the kitchen afterwards. But if there’s something even worse, it’s to deep-fry chicken liver, I tried it once and… well, the oil spills on my arms were not fun.

The one between the areas currently controlled by Mexico and USA. If you connect it to the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Lakes… you know, Hormuz stops being a problem.

What if you connected the Great Lakes, Pacific, Atlantic, and Rio Grande all together? That would also solve the issue.

Sorry, I just noticed your post was 20d old.

Ramen with sardines, okay. That’s new for me

Her joke is that it’s one of the cheapest meals you can have here, but if you call it “seafood pasta” it looks like you’re preparing something extra fancy and expensive. As weird as it sounds it actually works, though, you’re paying the equivalent of 2~3 euros for a meal for two.

In my uni times I did some weird mixes like this, for a similar reason. Like instant polenta with beef liver.

No, but “mein chou” is German+French for “my sweetheart”.

Source: I’m drunk, I just made this up.

1. Legumes! I’m not even joking. My body handles really poorly beans, peanuts, plenty soy derivatives, and lentils; I really want to eat this sort of stuff without feeling physical pain.
2. Seafood. And by “seafood” I don’t mean sardines*; gimme calamari, oysters, stuff like this. It makes more sense than steak in my situation, a kilogram of calamari costs ~twice a kilogram of a good beef cut where I live.
3. Say “cheese”!

*I have a cousin who often jokes about preparing “massa com frutos do mar” (seafood pasta). Her dish in question is cheap lamen noodles with sardines. It’s actually tasty, though.

Yup. RAM prices have been soaring, then SSD prices… I’m predicting HDDs will be the next. So I wanted to avoid being left in a situation where my only HDD goes the way of the dodo, and I’m forced to pay premium for a new one.

Specially given I’ve been archiving anime, movies, music, manga, games, and books like a madman. And sharing them across my local network. So I actually need a bit more storage; my current HDD is 50% full.

So, I’ve been looking for a new one for literal months. You know the drill: visit hardware site, “is it cheap yet?”, get disappointed, flush, repeat. The e-shop I got it from is a big shop so it’s safe (…I hope), but not specialised on computer parts, so I think they’re clueless on the actual price of the goods. For contrast I found the same model elsewhere for prices like, R$2200, R$2600, even R$3800 (c’mon, that’s 650 euros!)

Power draw is 5.74W when idle, 9.07W when active. I got this info from the manufacturer’s site, Toshiba; check page 14. I’m a wee bit worried about the noise (the “server” in question is the computer in my bedroom I’m writing this from), but I think it should be fine.

Don’t worry about the questions :D

I’m upgrading the last piece of my desktop of Theseus¹: the hard disk! Old 2TB one stays, but now I got a 10TB one to go alongside it. I got it relatively cheap², predicted to arrive next week.

And oh, I’m drinking some stolen beer. That also makes me smile. Until the owner notices the missing can, and rants about it until I buy her another.

1. To avoid this problem when naming my computers (my household appliances and electronics have names), I usually change the name based on the CPU. Current machine is called Tiberis.
2. 1700 reals, or roughly 290 euros. Given 1/3 of the price is from taxes, and hardware can be rather expensive in Brazil, I consider it a win. Plus I can’t exactly rely on my old hard disk any more, so far I saw no signs of failure but the little guy is old, plus I’m predicting electronics to get more expensive in the near future.

The cards are way better (less likely to get stolen/lost), but I kind of miss using those coin-like… voucher-tokens-whatever.

Not posting a picture of mine because it’s extremely eroded, plus I’ve been posting it in social media as a curiosity, but I got one of these:

That “weird coin” used to be a bus ticket in my city, Curitiba, in the 90s. You’d insert it into a turnstile inside the bus to get access to the seats. Nowadays they got replaced with electronic cards.

A bit frustrated, to be honest.

It’s always a bloody chore to extract meaningful pieces of info from my mum, and so far I had to do it this week multiple times: asking her if my sis is going to dine with us tomorrow or lunch with us Sunday, which bills she wants me to pay (she has a bit of a hard time with online payment), which dishes she wants me to prepare, stuff like this.

It could be worse, I guess. At least I didn’t need to ask her directions.

And speaking about old ladies, my 17yo cat has also been extra annoying. Kika decided to rummage my recyclables bin, as if it was a toybox. For the sake of an empty cigs pack. And then went “MEEERRRRWWWOOOON MEEEWWWWRRROOWWWN” = “I finds hunts!”, three o’clock of the morning, in one of the few days my sleep schedule was normal. Then the other day she decided to hop onto my bed, found Siegfrieda (the other cat) sleeping on my belly, and picked a fight with her. Over me.

All dogs are gold. At least in spirit!