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  • noob404noob404 Member

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    I did reply to that asking if the VPS would let you run another process when the manager was showing a task was in progress.
    On RackNerd for example with solusvm, once they add your custom iso, it's as easy as just choosing it as the first boot option and using the browser based VNC to install

  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    Yep me. Alpine Linux on RN vps

  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    Anyone from the gang here playing minecraft?

    minecraft is the domain of the younger generation. IMO

    Makes us sound ancient. And I guess we are :(

    Minecraft bedrock is, yeah.
    But Minecraft java, especially with mods is great imo!

  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    One day I'll try to install arch Linux on a RN vps lol

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    Anyone from the gang here playing minecraft?

    minecraft is the domain of the younger generation. IMO

    Makes us sound ancient. And I guess we are :(

    Minecraft bedrock is, yeah.
    But Minecraft java, especially with mods is great imo!

    Too afraid to say this, but, I have never played Minecraft in my life.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @BasToTheMax said:
    One day I'll try to install arch Linux on a RN vps lol

    That should be relatively easy with the custom ISP option right. I remember you installed alpine last year while we were all on the thread, right?

    Thanked by 1BasToTheMax
  • crusecruse Member

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  • ralfralf Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

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  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    Anyone from the gang here playing minecraft?

    minecraft is the domain of the younger generation. IMO

    Makes us sound ancient. And I guess we are :(

    Minecraft bedrock is, yeah.
    But Minecraft java, especially with mods is great imo!

    Too afraid to say this, but, I have never played Minecraft in my life.

    Yeah not everyone plays it xD

  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    One day I'll try to install arch Linux on a RN vps lol

    That should be relatively easy with the custom ISP option right. I remember you installed alpine last year while we were all on the thread, right?

    Yeah. Should not be that hard.
    And yeah I installed alpine on my vps. I still have and use it to this day!

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    Anyone from the gang here playing minecraft?

    minecraft is the domain of the younger generation. IMO

    Makes us sound ancient. And I guess we are :(

    Minecraft bedrock is, yeah.
    But Minecraft java, especially with mods is great imo!

    Too afraid to say this, but, I have never played Minecraft in my life.

    Yeah not everyone plays it xD

    I'd like to try it sometime when I am free. Has always intrigued me.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

    BTW, what is dorra?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    One day I'll try to install arch Linux on a RN vps lol

    That should be relatively easy with the custom ISP option right. I remember you installed alpine last year while we were all on the thread, right?

    Yeah. Should not be that hard.
    And yeah I installed alpine on my vps. I still have and use it to this day!

    I love the idle resource usage on Alpine. It's great for almost every project. Takes some time to get used to the apk app manager though.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    Guys, if you own a GPU, take good care of it. Was just reading this - https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pe7ht9/just_a_warning_if_your_planning_to_buy_a_zotac/

    Zotac from what I heard has been bad at customer service, but, we are not far away from a time when more GPU manufacturers would resort to dirty tactics to deny warranty service and RMA in order to cash on the inflated GPU VRAM prices which is predicted to go ffull swing by next year.

  • iiskyiisky Member

    Hello, I would like to double the bandwidth.
    Invoice #4357887852
    Thanks!

  • bchotbchot Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    she didn't love it, i can say that

  • ralfralf Member
    edited December 2025

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

    BTW, what is dorra?

    Sorry, it's a cheap and somewhat racist joke.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/and/l/_by_Japanese_speakers

    There's a similar effect in many Asian languages as many don't have a sound equivalent to the English r, so there's the stereotype of mixing up l and r completely. If you try to make both l and r sounds in English and switch between them, you'll realise that all you're doing is moving the tongue up to touch the roof of the mouth (l) or down so that it doesn't block airflow (r).

    The English r sound is actually quite unusual and very unlike most languages even in the west, and the r in English is closer to a vowel than a consonant, apart from when it's between two other vowels (were it's more like a partially formed f sound). It's very different to say a French r (where the tongue is touching the back of the mouth and the top) and the two Spanish r sounds (both of which the tongue is right at the front of the mouth, either touching the gums or the top teeth).

  • bchotbchot Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    I did reply to that asking if the VPS would let you run another process when the manager was showing a task was in progress.
    On RackNerd for example with solusvm, once they add your custom iso, it's as easy as just choosing it as the first boot option and using the browser based VNC to install

    oh thanks. somehow i missed it. currently nothing is available there, just performing task and any other tab or page says "cannot do nothing while performing task". so i gotta wait for admin to fix it for me, i guess. then try again something else..

  • bchotbchot Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    I did reply to that asking if the VPS would let you run another process when the manager was showing a task was in progress.
    On RackNerd for example with solusvm, once they add your custom iso, it's as easy as just choosing it as the first boot option and using the browser based VNC to install

    yeah i see it now. RackNerd is much better than others. i can say that for sure. this one is a panel i've only seen once on a Turkish provider..

  • bchotbchot Member

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    Anyone from the gang here playing minecraft?

    minecraft is the domain of the younger generation. IMO

    Makes us sound ancient. And I guess we are :(

    Minecraft bedrock is, yeah.
    But Minecraft java, especially with mods is great imo!

    Too afraid to say this, but, I have never played Minecraft in my life.

    i tried, but as it turns out - didn't get it and stopped. on xbox when had monthly subscription to the whole library, so tried it for "free"...

    Thanked by 1BasToTheMax
  • bchotbchot Member

    @BasToTheMax said:
    One day I'll try to install arch Linux on a RN vps lol

    so what's the better way? does it depend on what options are available via dash? i added u24 iso, then tried to install it via dash, server is not available anymore. when i get debian 13 back, what is the next step to install ubuntu24?

    if i did VNC, it would probably lose connection on any reboot, right? is using rescue the way to do it? admin said words "mount the iso", i understand it means mounting it/making available while server is running, right?

    they say ubuntu will be available in or next month. which now is this month just started.. could be late january/february for all i can see.. i am not comfortable with idling VPS, it has to do good work..

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  • bchotbchot Member
    edited December 2025

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

    BTW, what is dorra?

    Asians (well mostly related to Japanese people) have hard times pronouncing L as it is, so they usually replace it with R. it is very prominent in that amazing anime DEATH NOTE, where many characters were named with 1 letter, for specific reasons.. anyways, main character name was L, and of course everyone called him R.. I watched it long ago with subtitles.

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  • noob404noob404 Member

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    she didn't love it, i can say that

    No doubt :lol:

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

    BTW, what is dorra?

    Sorry, it's a cheap and somewhat racist joke.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/and/l/_by_Japanese_speakers

    There's a similar effect in many Asian languages as many don't have a sound equivalent to the English r, so there's the stereotype of mixing up l and r completely. If you try to make both l and r sounds in English and switch between them, you'll realise that all you're doing is moving the tongue up to touch the roof of the mouth (l) or down so that it doesn't block airflow (r).

    The English r sound is actually quite unusual and very unlike most languages even in the west, and the r in English is closer to a vowel than a consonant, apart from when it's between two other vowels (were it's more like a partially formed f sound). It's very different to say a French r (where the tongue is touching the back of the mouth and the top) and the two Spanish r sounds (both of which the tongue is right at the front of the mouth, either touching the gums or the top teeth).

    Oh! Haven't heard about this slur.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    I did reply to that asking if the VPS would let you run another process when the manager was showing a task was in progress.
    On RackNerd for example with solusvm, once they add your custom iso, it's as easy as just choosing it as the first boot option and using the browser based VNC to install

    oh thanks. somehow i missed it. currently nothing is available there, just performing task and any other tab or page says "cannot do nothing while performing task". so i gotta wait for admin to fix it for me, i guess. then try again something else..

    Are you able to access the BIOS settings and set the boot drive? Or, how do they expect you to boot from the ISO?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    anyone ever installed linux OS from ISO on a remote VPS?

    i asked earlier but maybe post was too long so got ignorrrred..

    I did reply to that asking if the VPS would let you run another process when the manager was showing a task was in progress.
    On RackNerd for example with solusvm, once they add your custom iso, it's as easy as just choosing it as the first boot option and using the browser based VNC to install

    yeah i see it now. RackNerd is much better than others. i can say that for sure. this one is a panel i've only seen once on a Turkish provider..

    Oh I see. Yes, solusvm that RackNerd uses is pretty user friendly and even installations and reinstallations are super quick.

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  • noob404noob404 Member

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    Probably "5 dorra long time"

    BTW, what is dorra?

    Asians (well mostly related to Japanese people) have hard times pronouncing L as it is, so they usually replace it with R. it is very prominent in that amazing anime DEATH NOTE, where many characters were named with 1 letter, for specific reasons.. anyways, main character name was L, and of course everyone called him R.. I watched it long ago with subtitles.

    Oh got it. Kinda like "your phone is linging"

  • bchotbchot Member

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @ralf said:

    @noob404 said:
    I didn't wanna offend you or Brits in general. I just meant that I heard Scandinavian schools are known to teach their kids 2-3 languages including Latin, Spanish, etc. as a part of their curriculum. It's news to me that even British schools do that, which is good.

    As I alluded to in the other post, I think a lot of it comes down to consumption of media.

    In France and Germany, most movies and TV shows are dubbed into their language, but for most of the smaller countries it's not worth the cost of doing that for a relatively small audience and so shows are just broadcast in their original language, which is often English. So you get kids just watching cartoons for hours on end, and learn in much the same way as an English kid would get half their language exposure. I think that's why countries with smallish populations are disproportionally better at other languages, because they've always been exposed to multiple languages since very young ages, even if they only actually need to speak one at home or school.

    But yeah, Brits in general don't have that. Everything is in English and there's no reason to learn anything else, and so people just don't care enough to put in the time unless they happen to particularly like languages. Most people just do the minimum required to pass the exam at school and then never use it again.

    Even for me - I did 6 years of French and 5 of Latin, and I'm only slightly better at French than the other languages because I also used to read the newspaper and French novels for fun. But as an adult, I didn't travel to France very often, so didn't practice much and so over time my "French muscle" has withered away.

    Actually, I remember one funny experience asking for a can of Coke in French in Brussels (which is French and Flemish speaking). Obviously he thought my French accent was so bad, he thought I must be Flemish and replied in Flemish. It was similar enough to German that I understood what he said and in the moment didn't really occur to me that it wasn't German, so I just replied to him in German and left. It was only a couple of minutes later that I realised what a weird interaction that'd been.

    Oh yah, I somehow forget that Taiwan, as a country also speaks Chinese variants. I was curious to know if any Southeast Asian countries have specific areas inhabited by Chinese maybe where Chinese is more popular than the country's native language and culture. You know, kinda like how China Town exists in some countries.

    Hard to say. But certainly most ethnic groups everywhere tend to clump together when they're expats, just because life is easier speaking your own language to people with a similar mindset and world view of things. So, sure, I'd imagine there'd be Chinatowns everywhere you get many Chinese people, just as you get Irish bars all over the world wherever there's a group of Irish expats. Traditionally, a lot of expat neighbourhoods form due to the proximity to an authentic restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite foods that they might otherwise not have eaten for years.

    I came to know about Thai Chinese descendants from the movie - How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies. It's a good movie, but, Thai ads are brilliant

    I've never seen it but it sounds fun.

    Yah, that makes sense cause we were the fortunate ones. English movies were not dubbed on Tv here in India when I was a child. Moreover, subtitles weren't available. So, somewhere it did help me. The same happened with cartoons on Cartoon Network. So, we subconsciously were learning English due to lack of options.
    And yes, the observation of expats clustering around authentic restaurants pertaining to their culture too makes sense.
    BTW, whe you have time, just go trhough some Thai ads. They are the perfect mixture of extreme creativity and awesome comedy

    my wife is thai. she says thailand is losing its authenticity from too many white people moving and marrying and such.. on TV most successful actors and hosts/personalities are half-breeds. thailand is said to have healthcare one of the top in the world due to influx of whites.

    i like thai city names: BANG-COCK, PHUCK-IT..

    Lol! Phuket, the way it's pronounced is far from what you have given, but Bangkok seems like a prank someone played on Thailand, esp..given it's a tourist destination for mostly English speakers.

    hehe i made fun to/at my wife years ago saying "i bang cock, 1 dorra". =)

    Lol! And how did she respond to that? :lol:

    she didn't love it, i can say that

    No doubt :lol:

    well it's more of historical thing, Thailand was always full of and plagued by prostitution. then again Bangkok (and Thailand per-say) is one of the destinations for "Sex tours" where people from EU or USA go and fuck their way thru country (also Vietnam is "famous" for that).. plus Bangkok is full of lady boys, which technically is not a good or bad thing, but then they wanna get fucked and offer themselves to tourists like a bad advice.. and many other reasons.

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