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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?

spends all day comparing fonts, instead of working

Damn you, Lemmy!!!!!

Yep. 200% agree. I still post questions on SO, but when I don't get any answers, then I have to go to Discord... :(

the whole XY Problem

lol. I hate this. Just answer the damn question or don't. I'm not asking you to validate if what I'm doing is weird or not. It's weird! I know! That's none of your business. Just answer the damn question or don't. Simple as.

get closed as a duplicate of the similar post

I've definitely had this happen to be before. It's annoying.

What I do in that case is proactively say:

I'm facing problem X. I've tried searching for solutions. I found post X2 and X3 that are similar, but my problem is actually different because of Y.

Sometimes it helps.

Also, if you see people being assholes you can report them. There's a flag for "unfriendly or unkind". I've definitely used that before.

Even without LLMs, it’s possible StackOverflow would have eventually faded into irrelevance

Yeah, exactly. A lot of groups have a Discord :( or other forums where people ask questions. I know I've had to ask questions on Svelte's Discord :( for example. And I think even once on some YouTube influencer's Slack...

Sucks cuz both of those places are silos and my questions and answers are forever lost.

Music

I've been using Navidrome for a while now and it's been great!

Same thought! I tried a NAS once and it was just a slower, more locked down version of a regular server I could build myself.

I'm not sure I fully understand the point of a NAS. I guess, is it supposed to be an off-the-shelf server for non technical people?

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. 🫡

YES! Nextcloud is actually kinda good. I was skeptical for a long time, but I've changed my mind recently.

If you don't want to self-host (I'm not there yet, it seemed like a pain at first glance), then there are 2 online hosting providers that I've used recently.

• nubo.coop fully manages Nextcloud for you, you just use it as a normal SaaS
• northmail.ca also Nextcloud as a service, same as Nubo

Nubo is in Europe, while Northmail is in Canada.

They both offer email, notes, calendars, contacts, cloud file storage. Nubo also offers a tasks app, while Northmail doesn't yet.

I'm in the US, so Nubo was a little slow for me. I've been using Northmail for about 1 week now. Northmail's Nextcloud instance is faster for me. Northmail also uses a way more recent version of Nextcloud. Nubo's Nextcloud is pretty old. Northmail is also offering 100GB for $0.99 CAD per month, which is way more than Nubo.

I had to move off Nubo because my bank doesn't do international wires.

If Northmail adds Nextcloud Tasks, then I will have everything I want from Northmail!

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

How do updates work with WOW computers? Or does the software just never get updated? Or do you just update the computer for him every now and then? What distro is this using underneath?

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.

Brother! 🍻

😆😂🤣 Uuuuhh... Aaaah... I normally generate a random password and use it as my username for most services. Like even my bank.

This is because I've realized the username is mostly useless and is just a handle for my account. It doesn't matter to me if my username is jsmith, meow123, or kekxbek. In fact, it's easier if I don't have to come up with something novel or cool. Either way it goes in my password manager, so it's not like I have to even remember it.

I'm a real boy. I promise. Not a malicious bot.

Although... If I were a malicious bot, that's exactly what I would say! 😲

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!!