Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 46

#hongkong is doing great on the holidays front, we get Christian holidays and traditional Chinese holidays *and* Buddhist holidays.

So we have Easter this weekend, Ching Ming next Thursday and Buddha's Birthday the month after.

Also we have Labor Day on the original May First as declared by the Second International, not for Chinese reasons, but for British reasons. The Mainland gets the whole week off.

I learned in one of those threads that the US doesn't actually have the long weekend. Twelve states get Friday off and California gets Monday for un-Easter-related reasons, nobody gets both.

Sorry about the once-successful separation of Church and state.

@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I'm the "tail child", ten years younger than brother, thirteen years younger than sister. It felt like growing up with four parents!

Age difference between sis and me is the same as the age difference between her eldest and uncle Claes. 😊

So my siblings are solid X-ers and I'm a xennial.

Official #MurderDrones playlist has been updated and includes today's episode 7:

farside.link/invidious/playlis…

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHo…

We checked German, French, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Japanese audio too, in one key scene, just for fun (I only understand the German well enough). Voice acting is top notch, but the effects don't measure up to the English.

It's mind-bogglingly impressive how much effort an indie project like this is able to put into internationalization!

It was a stroke of luck that the English was missing and the German ended up the default fallback, because the German subtitles are by far the coolest and we never would have discovered that otherwise.

Other subtitles (we checked several) are plain text, but the German ones actually glitch when the speech glitches. Tibetan overlays will flicker in and out (you know, like in the eldritch "he comes" in that classic StackOverflow answer about parsing XML with regexes). Terrible for usability, but cool for effect.

Also the German subtitles are super detailed, translating things on-screen and even making jokes (in English‽) about things happening on-screen.

We went to bed early and got up super early, so we could watch the premiere of #MurderDrones episode 7.

There were no English subtitles, and lots of people speak with glitched voices, so the dialog was pretty hard to follow.

So we watched the episode without subtitles, and then we watched it with German subtitles and I filled kid in on some of the missing bits. The translation is pretty liberal though, so still couldn't be sure exactly what the English said.

Halfway through, we discovered that English subtitles had been added, so we started over again with English subtitles. 🤣

Ten years ago I subcontracted there and we were within walking distance, so we could have lunches together, that was nice.

Just after that there was another 10% layoff and I said you're safe, right, you've been there 30 years, and she said nobody is safe, some people who were there longer had to go.

The severance is pretty good though, if you're 60 you can get 70% of your salary until you're 65 and retirement kicks in.

Easter call with Sweden.

One of the friends of my siblings has become a grandparent. The last time I saw the mother of the grandchild she was three years old.

It was a stroke of added misfortune that I fumbled my phone storage right during tax season, but my backups on Delta saved me from scanning the physical receipts all over again.

Everything submitted to HR and now I can truly enjoy the long weekend.

I was planning to export @Delta Chat data from my backup phone, copy to some computer, copy to my reset phone, import ... but now it's as easy as just scanning a QR Code and the two phones will transfer account settings and keys over the LAN. Awesome!

#DeltaChat