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bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@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?

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.

i am SLURRRRR, i come from planet OMICRON PERSEI-8..

lielin523 · December 2025

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bchot · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

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.

i am SLURRRRR, i come from planet OMICRON PERSEI-8..

actually it's LRRRR .. not sure why i thought it was SLURRRR

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

BasToTheMax · December 2025

ok time to stream some minecraft!

XQPUUU · December 2025

@noob404 said:
Nobody online right now?

？

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@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?

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"

it's the L that is replaced with R, not the other way around. Japanese technically don't have sounds that are traditional English L and R, but they do have sounds that replace those in their speech, so when they say L it sounds very much like R.. it's hard to explain, it's a Japan thing.. like they said on Jersey Shore and in New Jersey in general - you wouldn't understand, it's a Jersey thing..

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@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?

she didn't love it, i can say that

No doubt

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.

Yah, imo, all that's fine. But, recently, some cases of child trafficking came out in public. Those I believe is the worst part of Thailand.

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

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.

i am SLURRRRR, i come from planet OMICRON PERSEI-8..

Guessing this isn't from our galaxy.

bchot · December 2025

@XQPUUU said:

@noob404 said:
Nobody online right now?

？

good question. way to participate in the conversation.

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

noob404 · December 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
ok time to stream some minecraft!

Good luck. Did you already start yesterday BTW I. Twitch?

noob404 · December 2025

@XQPUUU said:

@noob404 said:
Nobody online right now?

？

Was just looking for some people to hype the thread up.

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

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"

it's the L that is replaced with R, not the other way around. Japanese technically don't have sounds that are traditional English L and R, but they do have sounds that replace those in their speech, so when they say L it sounds very much like R.. it's hard to explain, it's a Japan thing.. like they said on Jersey Shore and in New Jersey in general - you wouldn't understand, it's a Jersey thing..

Oh, it's a recent ongoing viral meme thingy I saw recently, making fun of Asians. I don't condone it though.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-gCDBeJEM4k?si=Q7ax7q0-UfaeALmn

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

Hi.

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
Hi.

Hey Sara!

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
Hi.

Hey Sara!

Any mugs today?

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

it's a thing with offers on LET, didn't you know? quite often little to no support is included in price of the offers. so then support is "delayed" until there's nothing else to do, then they help those who bought VPS via LET. not everyone does it though.. like RackNerd for example.

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
Hi.

Hey Sara!

Any mugs today?

Not yet. Up for some hyping maybe?

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

it's a thing with offers on LET, didn't you know? quite often little to no support is included in price of the offers. so then support is "delayed" until there's nothing else to do, then they help those who bought VPS via LET. not everyone does it though.. like RackNerd for example.

Who we talking?

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

it's a thing with offers on LET, didn't you know? quite often little to no support is included in price of the offers. so then support is "delayed" until there's nothing else to do, then they help those who bought VPS via LET. not everyone does it though.. like RackNerd for example.

Pardon me. I haven't yet explored any deals other than RN atleast in the past year or so.

noob404 · December 2025

RACKNERD COFFEE MUG GIVEAWAY PLEASE !

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

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.

i am SLURRRRR, i come from planet OMICRON PERSEI-8..

Guessing this isn't from our galaxy.

it's Futurama, i thought you said you liked it.. probably forgot..

the fun part is pronouncing the second part of the planet name.. try.. if you don't see the joke, i can point it out

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
Hi.

Hey Sara!

Any mugs today?

Not yet. Up for some hyping maybe?

Maybe a bit later. Just checking in for a minute but gotta start preparing dinner soon.

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

it's a thing with offers on LET, didn't you know? quite often little to no support is included in price of the offers. so then support is "delayed" until there's nothing else to do, then they help those who bought VPS via LET. not everyone does it though.. like RackNerd for example.

Who we talking?

heartbeat-it..

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

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.

i am SLURRRRR, i come from planet OMICRON PERSEI-8..

Guessing this isn't from our galaxy.

it's Futurama, i thought you said you liked it.. probably forgot..

the fun part is pronouncing the second part of the planet name.. try.. if you don't see the joke, i can point it out

Oh, you prolly have someone else confused maybe dadev or pudlez. This is the first I am hearing of Futurama

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
Hi.

Hey Sara!

Any mugs today?

Not yet. Up for some hyping maybe?

Maybe a bit later. Just checking in for a minute but gotta start preparing dinner soon.

What's for dinner? If there is custard for dessert, ralf would love to join

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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?

i think i saw the boot option, but can't recall. right now nothing is accessible.. and it takes multiple days to get a reply on the ticket. so probably monday..

That's sad. Maybe try to get in touch with on LET if they are a provider here and see if they can move things along.

it's a thing with offers on LET, didn't you know? quite often little to no support is included in price of the offers. so then support is "delayed" until there's nothing else to do, then they help those who bought VPS via LET. not everyone does it though.. like RackNerd for example.

Who we talking?

heartbeat-it..

They not good?

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

I think I bought some of them this BF...

noob404 · December 2025

BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

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