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ralf · December 2025

@noob404 said:
My pinky on Dec 23

Why do you have a child's hand?

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

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@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

Lol, nah no desert today I think. Still figuring out what to make!

Would you like the hype squad help you decide? What are the options you are considering though?

Was thinking a quick rice dish or something....

Those are mostly a part of my daily intake. Try chicken biryani when you have time

Let me Google that.

It isn't a quick dish though.

Ye I guess, guess I'll have to add my own spin to it.

Prolly. But for best results follow recipe to a t

ralf · December 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:
My pinky on Dec 23

Why do you have a child's hand?

And more importantly, what happened to the other finger?

noob404 · December 2025

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:
My pinky on Dec 23

Why do you have a child's hand?

Google images
I was just showing the crooked pinky.
My hand is much more muscular (no it ain't )

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

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@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?

they only have debian 13, i wanted ubuntu, they said it'll be next month, although on the offer it said "debian 13 only, others will be next week", anyway, i have complications installing ubuntu24 myself, i tried and VPS has been "performing a task" for the past 14 hours.. and reply from support takes days.. so i am asking here now for advice on how to go about installing ubuntu when VPS is hopefully back and is equipped with Debian 13 once again. i never did install linux on a VPS other than a quick menu option. now i'll have to try ISO and mounting it and other things.. not sure.. maybe i will keep trying compiling the software i need on Debian 13, as at least it doesn't screw up the OS, or at least i can rebuild it via simple menu option in the dashboard. I need my Swedish VPS to work for me.. I bought the "doubled" one with 2GB RAM for €12.24, couldn't catch the €6.66 offer. as such, i am uncomfortable with it idling..

Oh I see, yeah that's a bitch. I wanted to use Ubuntu but have no problem running Debian for once.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

But yeah, could mount an image and it should work.

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

yeah was a great flic. very good.. back in the day.

noob404 · December 2025

@ralf said:

@ralf said:

@noob404 said:
My pinky on Dec 23

Why do you have a child's hand?

And more importantly, what happened to the other finger?

Just noticed that it's missing a thumb. Guess it was AI generated

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

Probably just on their node in Sweden. They had other distros in NL I think.

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
But yeah, could mount an image and it should work.

But do these providers give you access to BIOS settings?

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

yeah was a great flic. very good.. back in the day.

I loved it. Researched savant syndrome a lot after i watched the movie

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:

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@ralf said:

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@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

maybe.. i guess different words may be said differently.. i only noticed when L is replaced by R, not the other way around.

you know, it's like clash of cultures.. i saw these Asian-Americans making fun of how blacks here are offended by the n-word but call each other and everyone else that with no issues, so these Asian dudes did video where they call each other NINJA.. and then i think Irish dudes made a video where they called each other GINJA (as in ginger a.k.a. red head).. the stipulation here is that if you are of that race that's offended by some stereotypical word, you can still make fun of it among yourselves.. and such. racial stuff is very confusing to me.. i grew up in Soviet Union. racial tensions there were simply nonexistent. only in America was i instantly dipped into all this racial discrimination stuff..

In Malaysia, Mo Ang (red head) has long been a racist term for white people, specifically the Dutch. I always found that quite funny, as in the UK red hair is usually indicative of Scottish or Irish descent, and I've never associated it with the Dutch before I read about this.

noob404 · December 2025

@ralf said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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

maybe.. i guess different words may be said differently.. i only noticed when L is replaced by R, not the other way around.

you know, it's like clash of cultures.. i saw these Asian-Americans making fun of how blacks here are offended by the n-word but call each other and everyone else that with no issues, so these Asian dudes did video where they call each other NINJA.. and then i think Irish dudes made a video where they called each other GINJA (as in ginger a.k.a. red head).. the stipulation here is that if you are of that race that's offended by some stereotypical word, you can still make fun of it among yourselves.. and such. racial stuff is very confusing to me.. i grew up in Soviet Union. racial tensions there were simply nonexistent. only in America was i instantly dipped into all this racial discrimination stuff..

In Malaysia, Mo Ang (red head) has long been a racist term for white people, specifically the Dutch. I always found that quite funny, as in the UK red hair is usually indicative of Scottish or Irish descent, and I've never associated it with the Dutch before I read about this.

Learning a lot about cultures in the most unconventional way.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

Alright, got rice, chicken, some leftover beef, eggs, spices, maybe not all I want but that gonna be ok. Got some beans courgettes.

Everything I need to make something tasty.

See ya later!

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
Alright, got rice, chicken, some leftover beef, eggs, spices, maybe not all I want but that gonna be ok. Got some beans courgettes.

Everything I need to make something tasty.

See ya later!

See ya soon then. Happy cooking

bchot · December 2025

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

No.

You have to if you are into sci-fi mind-f kinda movies

I'll ad it to my watch list. When I'm in the mood for it I like them.

What's your most favourite sci-fi / mind f movie? Mine is still prolly Fight Club followed closely by Source code maybe

hehe HACKERS is my all time fav.. combines understated culture with young Jolie.. I saw it first when i was 15.. was really inspired..

has you seen "13th Floor"? or i also loved The 5th Element. Bruce in his prime and young Mila.. oof.. another great underrated movie by Luc Besson is DOBERMAN, very violent.. and of course the TAXI series - the best. those last 2 are not sci-fi tho

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@ralf said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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

maybe.. i guess different words may be said differently.. i only noticed when L is replaced by R, not the other way around.

you know, it's like clash of cultures.. i saw these Asian-Americans making fun of how blacks here are offended by the n-word but call each other and everyone else that with no issues, so these Asian dudes did video where they call each other NINJA.. and then i think Irish dudes made a video where they called each other GINJA (as in ginger a.k.a. red head).. the stipulation here is that if you are of that race that's offended by some stereotypical word, you can still make fun of it among yourselves.. and such. racial stuff is very confusing to me.. i grew up in Soviet Union. racial tensions there were simply nonexistent. only in America was i instantly dipped into all this racial discrimination stuff..

In Malaysia, Mo Ang (red head) has long been a racist term for white people, specifically the Dutch. I always found that quite funny, as in the UK red hair is usually indicative of Scottish or Irish descent, and I've never associated it with the Dutch before I read about this.

Yeah, not too many redheads here. I associate that with the Irish as well.

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

No.

You have to if you are into sci-fi mind-f kinda movies

I'll ad it to my watch list. When I'm in the mood for it I like them.

What's your most favourite sci-fi / mind f movie? Mine is still prolly Fight Club followed closely by Source code maybe

hehe HACKERS is my all time fav.. combines understated culture with young Jolie.. I saw it first when i was 15.. was really inspired..

has you seen "13th Floor"? or i also loved The 5th Element. Bruce in his prime and young Mila.. oof.. another great underrated movie by Luc Besson is DOBERMAN, very violent.. and of course the TAXI series - the best. those last 2 are not sci-fi tho

This one - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/?

Man so many great suggestions there. I havent seen or even heard about many of them. Just like my music, I also have very weird taste when it comes to movies as well

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

No.

You have to if you are into sci-fi mind-f kinda movies

I'll ad it to my watch list. When I'm in the mood for it I like them.

What's your most favourite sci-fi / mind f movie? Mine is still prolly Fight Club followed closely by Source code maybe

hehe HACKERS is my all time fav.. combines understated culture with young Jolie.. I saw it first when i was 15.. was really inspired..

has you seen "13th Floor"? or i also loved The 5th Element. Bruce in his prime and young Mila.. oof.. another great underrated movie by Luc Besson is DOBERMAN, very violent.. and of course the TAXI series - the best. those last 2 are not sci-fi tho

Yeah, I really like 13th floor. It came out the same month as the Matrix and so was completely overshadowed by it, but I've always like the plotline.

5th element... Yeah, "I'd like to take a photo... just for the archives" as well!

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@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

maybe.. i guess different words may be said differently.. i only noticed when L is replaced by R, not the other way around.

you know, it's like clash of cultures.. i saw these Asian-Americans making fun of how blacks here are offended by the n-word but call each other and everyone else that with no issues, so these Asian dudes did video where they call each other NINJA.. and then i think Irish dudes made a video where they called each other GINJA (as in ginger a.k.a. red head).. the stipulation here is that if you are of that race that's offended by some stereotypical word, you can still make fun of it among yourselves.. and such. racial stuff is very confusing to me.. i grew up in Soviet Union. racial tensions there were simply nonexistent. only in America was i instantly dipped into all this racial discrimination stuff..

In Malaysia, Mo Ang (red head) has long been a racist term for white people, specifically the Dutch. I always found that quite funny, as in the UK red hair is usually indicative of Scottish or Irish descent, and I've never associated it with the Dutch before I read about this.

Yeah, not too many redheads here. I associate that with the Irish as well.

What makes Irish people mostly natural redheads? Just genetics or do environmental factors have a play?

noob404 · December 2025

I also love those feel Good stories based on real to semi-real events like Goodwill hunting, gridiron gang, blindside etc.

bchot · December 2025

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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?

they only have debian 13, i wanted ubuntu, they said it'll be next month, although on the offer it said "debian 13 only, others will be next week", anyway, i have complications installing ubuntu24 myself, i tried and VPS has been "performing a task" for the past 14 hours.. and reply from support takes days.. so i am asking here now for advice on how to go about installing ubuntu when VPS is hopefully back and is equipped with Debian 13 once again. i never did install linux on a VPS other than a quick menu option. now i'll have to try ISO and mounting it and other things.. not sure.. maybe i will keep trying compiling the software i need on Debian 13, as at least it doesn't screw up the OS, or at least i can rebuild it via simple menu option in the dashboard. I need my Swedish VPS to work for me.. I bought the "doubled" one with 2GB RAM for €12.24, couldn't catch the €6.66 offer. as such, i am uncomfortable with it idling..

Oh I see, yeah that's a bitch. I wanted to use Ubuntu but have no problem running Debian for once.

the package i need was not included yet in Deb13 repositories, as it just came out a month or so ago, AFAIK. but it is in Ubuntu 24 which I am used to quite a bit.. Debian is generally a less "full-featured" Ubuntu, so i have no issues using it, like Debian 12 or 11. But only 13 is available now on those Swedish VPS.

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
But yeah, could mount an image and it should work.

this is the part i am unfamiliar with..

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

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@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?

they only have debian 13, i wanted ubuntu, they said it'll be next month, although on the offer it said "debian 13 only, others will be next week", anyway, i have complications installing ubuntu24 myself, i tried and VPS has been "performing a task" for the past 14 hours.. and reply from support takes days.. so i am asking here now for advice on how to go about installing ubuntu when VPS is hopefully back and is equipped with Debian 13 once again. i never did install linux on a VPS other than a quick menu option. now i'll have to try ISO and mounting it and other things.. not sure.. maybe i will keep trying compiling the software i need on Debian 13, as at least it doesn't screw up the OS, or at least i can rebuild it via simple menu option in the dashboard. I need my Swedish VPS to work for me.. I bought the "doubled" one with 2GB RAM for €12.24, couldn't catch the €6.66 offer. as such, i am uncomfortable with it idling..

Oh I see, yeah that's a bitch. I wanted to use Ubuntu but have no problem running Debian for once.

the package i need was not included yet in Deb13 repositories, as it just came out a month or so ago, AFAIK. but it is in Ubuntu 24 which I am used to quite a bit.. Debian is generally a less "full-featured" Ubuntu, so i have no issues using it, like Debian 12 or 11. But only 13 is available now on those Swedish VPS.

Oh now I understand why you couldn't directly go for Ubuntu 24

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
But yeah, could mount an image and it should work.

this is the part i am unfamiliar with..

Does the provider's faq or any other document provide details about the steps to mount iso drive?

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
Alright, got rice, chicken, some leftover beef, eggs, spices, maybe not all I want but that gonna be ok. Got some beans courgettes.

Everything I need to make something tasty.

See ya later!

LOL i bought some of those courgettes.. nice word.. like cougar.. cougar when referred to an older lady has a very interesting meaning.. like in Cougar Town tv show..

Pikuki · December 2025

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bchot · December 2025

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BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

No.

You have to if you are into sci-fi mind-f kinda movies

I'll ad it to my watch list. When I'm in the mood for it I like them.

What's your most favourite sci-fi / mind f movie? Mine is still prolly Fight Club followed closely by Source code maybe

hehe HACKERS is my all time fav.. combines understated culture with young Jolie.. I saw it first when i was 15.. was really inspired..

has you seen "13th Floor"? or i also loved The 5th Element. Bruce in his prime and young Mila.. oof.. another great underrated movie by Luc Besson is DOBERMAN, very violent.. and of course the TAXI series - the best. those last 2 are not sci-fi tho

This one - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/?

Man so many great suggestions there. I havent seen or even heard about many of them. Just like my music, I also have very weird taste when it comes to movies as well

yep that's the one. i mean, it has nothing on MR ROBOT, but it was still quite interesting. first attempts at computer related movies. and then came MATRIX and changed everything..

noob404 · December 2025

Can we hype for a mug giveaway maybe? Would be great to have a giveaway during this time period.

bchot · December 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:
BTW has anyone watched the movie K-Pax?

No.

You have to if you are into sci-fi mind-f kinda movies

I'll ad it to my watch list. When I'm in the mood for it I like them.

What's your most favourite sci-fi / mind f movie? Mine is still prolly Fight Club followed closely by Source code maybe

hehe HACKERS is my all time fav.. combines understated culture with young Jolie.. I saw it first when i was 15.. was really inspired..

has you seen "13th Floor"? or i also loved The 5th Element. Bruce in his prime and young Mila.. oof.. another great underrated movie by Luc Besson is DOBERMAN, very violent.. and of course the TAXI series - the best. those last 2 are not sci-fi tho

This one - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/?

Man so many great suggestions there. I havent seen or even heard about many of them. Just like my music, I also have very weird taste when it comes to movies as well

yep that's the one. i mean, it has nothing on MR ROBOT, but it was still quite interesting. first attempts at computer related movies. and then came MATRIX and changed everything..

and then Martix creators changed themselves.. Twin brothers became twin sisters.. OMG..

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