Yeah, Reaper is surprising! It’s in the Arch repos and Flathub.

I would have been happy if I had to build it from source or download a random deb from their website. But, damn. It’s on Linux and easily installable!

It’s great that the units are linked like this. I actually had to use this once. I didn’t have a container to measure out 1liter of water, but I did have a kitchen scale that could measure 1,000 grams! 🙌🏽

The biggest lesson in my own journey and seeing a lot of people online talk about trying to do the conversion is that people get overly concerned with precision when first making the switch.

YES! I think this is because they’re converting back to imperial units. You can always tell when someone was thinking in imperial because the metric units are like 17.4C or 8.12mm or 98.7km/h. For sure, things don’t need to be that precise. When I convert either way I always convert to a nice number. 100 km/h -> 60mi/h

It’s just like translating language, you don’t translate the literal words of a sentence, you translate the overall idea.

never used measuring cups … We use cans

Sure, yeah, that’s what I meant. Some physical artifact I can use to measure liquid in ml.

https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/204600175_-messbecher-935000-0-5-liter-bruchsicher-huenersdorff.html

These look perfect! Thanks!

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?

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.

And I love how you glossed over all of that to get a little bit hurt at me. …

Sorry, the reason I glossed over that is because I didn’t want to get involved in that conversation. I was just trying to get the conversation back on topic. I don’t endorse the personal attacks.

So what if google also benefits?

Why are we ok with workers not getting paid for their labor? Would you still work at your job if they didn’t pay you? These companies aren’t small shops, they’re huge giants that in some cases are destroying countries. They’ll be ok if they have to share a tiny fraction of their obscene wealth with regular people.

TCP, SSL, and thousands of standard technology. Should those be charged as well?

That’s a great question. I’m not really sure actually. Btw, I don’t think Open Source™ should go away. I do think there could be a middle ground though. There should be more nuance than just 0% give away or 100% give away.

Even small utilities can contribute to people learning and adapting. … It’s such a boogy man at the cost of other people learning and benefiting from what you’ve done the same way you benfit from others.

I think you may be confusing Source Available with Closed Source. Source Available licenses don’t stop regular people from creating a community, contributing, learning, adapting, improving software. They do stop companies from making money off of your work though.

People believing in community built and owned software

Btw, I’m not arguing against this. I believe Open Source™ is valuable and has its place. This post isn’t about Open Source™, despite most people on this thread trying to label the FUTO license as Open Source™ and then getting mad because it’s not actually Open Source™ even though FUTO isn’t claiming to be Open Source™. This is something else.

The main thing I’m thinking about is how to prevent Google, Facebook, etc from extracting huge amounts of wealth from small devs who get nothing in return. The obvious answer has been to release an app as closed source. That blocks out Big Tech AND users. Source Available licenses might be a third option to block out Big Tech, but not regular users.

I didn’t even realize you could install OpenOffice anymore… it’s doesn’t seem available in the Arch repos. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apache_OpenOffice

Oh, wow. TIL https://www.openoffice.org/

community contributions to the codebase, assuming that was an objective

I don’t think that’s the main objective of the FUTO license. I believe the main objective is to incentivize developers to create great software that respects individual users and fights back against the big tech oligarchy.

But that implies that for commercial users – like a corporation – they’ll have to negotiate a separate license

Yep. That’s the point.

they can buy their way into any sort of license terms they want, and the normie user can’t complain.

I don’t quite see the issue here. Can you explain a little more? A third-party would just get a license to sell the software, not to develop it.

trust that Futo Holdings won’t do something reprehensible with the copyrights, be it licensing to certain hostile countries or whatever.

Isn’t this currently possible with Open Source™? Like the whole point of Open Source™ is that anyone can use the software for anything, right? ICE probably uses Linux now to manage people in internment camps in the US. If anything, wouldn’t the FUTO license be better for potentially preventing this?

would corporations even want to contribute? … CorpA’s contributions are available for CorpB to use, but CorpB has zero obligation to ever contribute a line of code which CorpA could later benefit from

Isn’t this exactly the case in Open Source™? Google may contribute something to Linux, but my company will never contribute anything. Seems like Google is ok with my company benefiting from their work.

you don’t care that much about the AGPL clauses (e.g. because your app isn’t a server).

I’ve been thinking about this recently… Let’s say you develop some local CLI. You think it’s not a server, so you license as GPL.

Later someone comes and offers your CLI as SaSS. They write the server piece that just calls your local CLI on their server and pipes the input and output between the user.

So… should you always prefer AGPL over GPL?

I just sold my Framework 13 after daily driving it for a year. The HiDPI display bugs and workarounds just got too annoying.

I went back to my old Dell XPS 13 9310 and I’m loving it.

I might be having this issue. When I update an item the UI doesn’t get updated. However, if I refresh the UI by searching for something else, then go back to my updated item, I see the new values.

It’s really annoying.

I installed via pacman.

The whole workflow and philosophy of sourcehut is so different than GitHub though. I think a lot more people would be interested in GitHub, but federated.

There’s also this which some people may care about.

Forgejo is implementing federation

Interesting!

This was my failure.

I don’t have problems with high DPI … only problems I’ve come across is … I DID have scaling problems with Wayland

This is exactly my point. You did have problems with high DPI. You had to fix some random config and avoid Wayland.

I don’t want to deal with this. I want to be able to use whatever software I want and have it work with minimal or no extra “fixing”. I value this over slightly neater pixels.