Yesterday'schicken wings seemed a little overcooked, so I cooked the second batch for “only” 8 hours instead of 20.
Surprise: there was much less juice, only about 300 g instead of 800 g. And they
were marginally less inclined to disintegrate. So today I ate a nasi lemak with one wing from each batch.
But despite the long cooking, they still didn't fall off the bone. What else can I do?
I've investigated this irritating increase in CAPTCHAs. It happens on FreeBSD with either firefox or chromium, but not
on distress (Microsoft) with firefox. Are they maybe tracking browsers that
haven't been updated recently?
Another day spent catching up (reducing my mail inbox size), with only moderate success. I
still have messages months old (over 2 years in one case) that I really need to answer.
Instead I made an equally half-hearted attempt to complete the installation of the
new lagoon.lemis.com for Yvonne. The next step was
X, particularly the Nvidia driver. lagoon has an ancient
GeForce GT 710 card, but it does the job for Yvonne. How do I set up a second machine with the same
card? Simple, as it turns out: I have a second one, though it has a sticker on the fan
housing saying “noisy”.
And so it was. The fan is clearly sticking, and it took a couple of attempts after power-up
for it to run at all. And the nvidia-driver-440 no longer exists, so I
tried nvidia-driver-470. And to my surprise it Just Worked.
Next step? Procrastinate. But I need to set the machine so that it comes up automatically
(/erc/gettytab and /etc/ttys. And in passing, since lagune (the new
machine) was hibernated, I needed to wake it. That's simple enough, maybe: it's already
in /etc/ethers as disdain. Well, at least on hydra. That's another
file that needs to be NFS mounted across the network. And once again I get the message
“/usr/local/libexec/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server”, which I
need to fix in /usr/local/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config.
Yes. Well, they can get one from the library network. But inappropriately for a library,
they lose information. Both Yvonne's and my login details are no longer valid, and attempts
to reset a password don't produce the promised email.
We've seen this before. They let cards expire and don't even bother to inform you of the fact. And
somehow their web site is as broken as ever. Mañana.
Interesting question in the German Quora: “Is it true
that the words for “whale” and “cat” are the same in Ukrainian?”
Simple answer: no. “Whale” is “кит”, cat is “кішка”. But that reflects the sex of the cat:
in German, it's „Katze“, feminine. A male cat is кіт. So we're looking at the
pronunciation of the letters и and і. And that seems more complicated than I
thought. In the process, came up with the following sites that may help with pronunciation:
What a choice. Well, no. easypronunciation wants a subscription and doesn't do
Ukrainian anyway, uni-halle has a very limited range of offerings, and babla doesn't play nicely with ad blockers,
so I didn't try.
In principle that's fine. But Stefan Speck, who has a particularly good understanding of languages, comes up with
the possible pronunciation [кɨт] for кит.
Why is this all so difficult? Even 60 years ago I had difficulty getting my mouth round [ɨ]
(ы).
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