Notices by Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social), page 2

@makuharigaijin @codewiz @benoit
+1 on all.. I was also hesitating as it's 2 days in a row - but this is just around the corner, in cycling/walking range, to good to pass by. Also some really great folks at tlug, and we had no nomikai in a while.

#Tokyo Linux Users Group has a nomikai on Friday the 9th:
https://www.tlug.jp/wiki/Meetings:2023:06

TIL: Japanese people with 70+ years who complain loudly are "a thing" here in Japan. You might think now "this guy down the road here also complains all the time..", but it's on a different level in Japan.

1) Customers are here considered like a god
2) Old people have high status/respect
3) The brain changes in a way which affects judgement and opens the door to overreacting

I guess in a few years we also see this more in Europe.
Like 'Hikikomori', people living at home/disconnect of society.

If you look for details: シルバークレーマー, literally "silver claimer" is the phrase here for elderly, complaining people.

Gotta love what these guys did here with Kanji:

麺 means noodles, this first store replaced the right radical of the Kanji with noodles - still perfectly recognizable.
届 means to deliver/make a present, the store morphed it to a present and spells that Kanji "gifuto" (gift/present)
市 means market, this stall sells fruit so they morphed the Kanji into an apple

( via @hananoaki , thanks for spotting these!)

@codewiz Exactly, looking up something offline/on paper is so much harder than content which is online.
The kindle epaper readers had an ok lookup already since years (kanji to hiragana, at least), but paper is a different story.

@codewiz That's my issue with real literary in Japanese.. needs to be interesting enough to keep me going, but also use enough familiar terms which I already know to not constantly have me lookup things.

The new school year starts these days in Japan, which just has released the mask rules: pupils are free to not wear masks.

The pupils think this:
- only 5% plan to not wear a mask, 68% will wear mask, the rest decide depending on the others
- Reason for continuing to wear mask: 35% with "just don't want to show my plain face", 20% because of Corona, 18% because it helps with hay fever

Source: https://www.nippon.com/ja/japan-data/h01639/

#justinjapan
The trash bin in this bathroom of a restaurant is featuring.. a chicken.

The sign explains: this chicken somehow did choose this place, and lays one egg every day. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

(via: https://twitter.com/_hi34_/status/1637336673653751809 )

For the first time I saw hikers with "teru teru bōzu" attached to their backpacks, talisman to keep rain away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_teru_b%C5%8Dzu

@dropbear42
Does it count as positive if I say "it can only get better"?

Joke aside, Plasma is nice, and still my first recommendation for example for my parents or others coming from Mac. I like it much more than Gno'we can remove this one button here'me. :)

(All my own opinion, not my employers)
@codewiz

@codewiz I recognized that I did not use so many bells and whistles from KDE.. and I do not miss upgrade to new major KDE versions and seeing things breaking which worked before. Sway has the functionality I need, does it fast, and is not in the way. :)

Granted, getting sway with the input methods to run initially was not easy either, see my rants on Mastodon. But now all works nicely.

@codewiz
fcitx5/mozc/sway right now.
Gnome is better integrated with ibus I would think (if it plays a role at all), as our devs are mostly working on ibus and Gnome is our default.
Technically, also ibus/mozc or ibus/kkc would work now for me on sway.

You should know ~2000 Kanji - how to input these with a normal keyboard?
An attempt to explain how Japanese input works:
https://blog.fluxcoil.net/posts/2023/02/japanese-keyboard-input/

@laubblaeser Right. I had 26 in mind too, looked at a reference which was old and seen 23 there. Thanks for the hint!

Full cherry bloom for Tokyo area predicted for March 29th, starbucks kicks off this years Sakura collection:
https://www.starbucks.co.jp/press_release/pr2023-4829.php

So true..
Also, don't miss the alt-text of the picture.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/directions

So as 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, I guess even donating it so the company which fetches 1t co2 from the air for 800-900$ would be more useful than giving the money to offset providers..
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

@codewiz
Running sway here, with all features I need:
Suspend works nicely, reconnecting Bluetooth headset, mounting usb sticks - but the pieces involved are mostly independent of sway.
I'm back on fcitx for Japanese input, but also the long standing bug for ibus got solved recently. Not using HiDPI, would not be surprised if Xorg did better there. Also no comment on remembering monitor layouts, I'm mostly on one and occasionally on 2.

My notes are on https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/software/sway .
@suprjami @src

@suprjami Nice one!
After many years on Windowmaker, I was on KDE for some months, and while I still like it I realized that I actually want less hand-holding (monitor config, etc - I'm happy to do that myself with xrandr). Happy with #sway at the moment.

I would be curious about a session in the company (or a Linux user group) where people show each other with which environments and configs they settled.