The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@tangerineaxle

I’m missing the goal of a ear magnet.

This should explain…not as good as @miststlkr but still worth a read anyway

Tragus Implants and You (but also me)

I’ve been putting off making my first install because it felt like I didn’t really have a use case yet and I had a lot to learn before it was viable, but then I saw Rich Lee’s magnets, and then Vicarious’ setup, and I knew I had to have them. That said, I’m a little daunted by what doesn’t quite seem to be working and was wondering if anyone has had any real success with amplifiers yet. The problems seem to be: -Middling fidelity. That’s kind of unfortunate, but it is what it is. The fact is th…

[Satur9]

@tangerineaxle

I think I’m missing the goal of a ear magnet

If you have a magnet in your tragus it acts as one half of a speaker, the other half is a coil you wear somewhere on your body like a necklace and it transmits sounds wirelessly while an observer is none the wiser.

[tangerineaxle]

Brilliant.

[anon3825968]

I don’t have much faith in humanity in the best of times, but I lost whatever I still had today. My laptop got stolen today in my hospital room. What rotter steals shit in hospitals, really… If I was a thief, places like that would be off limit.

I mean I knew it happens, but it hits home when it happens to you and the last thing you need is go to a computer store, reinstall an OS, restore a backup - and in my case, learn to type on a fucking Finnish keyboard.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@anon3825968

What rotter steals shit in hospitals, really

You spelled CUNT incorrectly

@anon3825968

learn to type on a fucking Finnish keyboard.

What a coincidence, look what I saw less than 5 mins ago

[anon3825968]

Hehe yes. The Finns don’t invent words when they don¨t need to.

Here’s another bit of fun Finnish: learn to count to 100. Fast-forward to start the headeache

Counting in Finnish

[Pilgrimsmaster]

Haha, well is is efficient, for a little while…

then it gets ridiculous

So long they cropped it off the screen

[anon3825968]

To be fair, that’s the schoolbook form. Nobody says “kaksikymmentä” here but “kaks-kyt”,

And about the word MAA (ground): add -ILMA (air) and you¨ve got MAAILMA which means “world”. Makes sense: the ground below and the air above is the entire world. Clever eh?

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@anon3825968

Clever eh?

Yep, simple and effective

[Zwack]

Finnish isn’t the only language to do this with numbers. French has the wonderful quatre-vingts while Scottish Gaelic has an even more obvious x and ten.

English isn’t even that different.

Sixty-one. Seventy-three. Ninety-nine.

[Eriequiet]

Any chance it was security or something?
If I wasn’t planning to be ditching apple soon due to their snooping thru phones ( which apparently they’ve been doing for years it recently came to light)

I would be playing with air tags, I’ve seen some people split the casings and make them even smaller and sneak them inside things

[NiamhAstra]

Took a photo of my flexClass earlier in the flexClass channel. Just thought to try a Titan too!

Here’s another of the flexClass to save you having to go look

[amal]

@Backpackingvet

Just chew a piece of peppermint gun.

That’ll do it hahah

[NiamhAstra]

And a xSIID and flexEM

[anon3825968]

Someone just slipped into the room and helped themselves to the black laptop bag in the cupboard. Could be staff or some random dude passing by. There is no security: it’s a hospital. My mom had a bunch of cash swiped in similar circumstances when she was in the theater getting her first knee prosthesis years ago. But that was in Belgium. I expected better from the Finns. Seems as though thieves will be thieving regardless of their nationality…

Joke’s on them though: they inherited an 8 year old el-cheapo no-brand Chinese laptop with a Belgian French layout keyboard and an encrypted root partition. What bothers me is, it was still working like a champ for what I used it for. I’m not a demanding users, but they’ll probably ditch it when they see how fast it goes. It was my little buddy laptop that refused to die and I know it’ll end up in a landfill for zero good reason. I’m incredibly sad about that.

And I had gotten used to the weirdo Belgian French keyboard layout, that I could type on without looking. Now I’m back to hunting and pecking on this alien Finnish layout keyboard, which is also unconventional to boot, being a laptop keyboard. Or so my neighbor says: he’s a Finnish computer engineer and he can’t make head or tail of the damn keyboard either.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

Sounds like you are in the market for an “el cheapo” but decent Linux Laptop with the choice of either ISO or ANSI Keyboard Variants

Pinebook Pro

[Zwack]

The hospital chain I work for does have security, but the number of patients and family that are around normally makes it unlikely that just any random thief is going to stick out.

I am sorry that you lost your laptop though.

[anon3825968]

Yeah well, I needed a replacement quickly. So I picked whatever was on sale at the local computer store.

Also, each time I buy another machine in another country, I’m faced with either choosing to stick a bunch of stickers over the keys and using the US layout, or learning whatever country layout there is. Since I’m too lazy to do the former, I invariably end up doing the latter

[anon3825968]

@Zwack

I am sorry that you lost your laptop though.

Well, shit happens. I guess the upside is that I’ll finally learn to type on the local weirdo keyboards. It’s actually high time I did that for work.

[Zwack]

Out of stock for the foreseeable future due to the global chip shortage.