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  • Idk why the original considered Czech names "czad", they're quite unremarkable:

    ♙ Foot soldier
    ♖ Tower
    ♔ King
    ♕ Lady (not Queen because that would start with the same letter as King)
    ♗ Archer
    ♘ Cavalryman (sometimes also Horse but that also starts with K)

    (Pěšec, věž, král, královna dáma, střelec, jezdec/kůň.)

  • Surprisingly many seem to be in real color: white, pink, red, orange, maybe brown, probably green, and yellow. (The well-known Neptune image is false color; Hubble deep-field is IR but that is redshifted so IDK, may be "real" color too.) Too bad white, pink and red are Earth's atmospheric phenomena, of which only the aurora is really space-related, and green is just a satellite photo. Still, within NASA's scope I guess.

  • I mean, a wireless keyboard only has to send so little data and uses so little power (if not backlit) that even RFID is viable for it unless you need to move it a lot.

    Also, connecting PC peripherals wirelessly was the original idea for Bluetooth in 1996, although that drew too much power from their batteries to be really viable before BLE.

  • On Slavic layouts, the right Alt key (AltGr) lets us type symbols like [, ], {, }, &, @, #, ×, ÷, , đ since 0-9 is for diacritical letters by default and numbers with Shift. Still, Czech Windows users mostly use Alt codes, which is a point of friction when switching to Linux. But there, I'm happy with how I can customize the AltGr and the new AltGr+Shift layers with curly quotes, em dash, nbsp, hair space, arrows, middle dot, pi (π), pretty pi (𝛑), mu, Omega etc. My Compose key is RCtrl.

  • Who are you, a service employee? In our country, office workers' shifts are 7-15 and factory workers' 6-14, plus 14-22 and 22-6 in two/three-shift operations. The workday opening hours of small businesses are approximately:

    • Convenience shops: 6-7 to 18-21 (overwhelmingly run by the Vietnamese minority)
    • Pubs: 10-16 to 20-24
    • Bakeries: 6 to 15-16
    • Clothes stores, jewelry etc.: 8-10 to 16-18 (closest to a "9-5")
    • Hairdressers, massage parlors: by appointment, usually 10-20

    People who ever work after 16:00 are a minority.

  • All bricks are blocks but definitely not vice-versa, and these certainly don't have the dimensions or material of a standard brick.

    I couldn't find what they were made of but the material is quite white to allow for painting, and reasonably dense. The point is to buy one, paint/draw/spray your message on it and place it within the structure, so they are obviously weatherproof. The proceeds go to care for mentally disabled people.

  • There are legitimate street events featuring bricks, such as Akce Cihla (Beneficial Brick)

    It's this June and only a 1-minute walk away from where I saw a cybertruck in Prague last month... Unrelated ofc

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