sbeak

Some feedback:

As for Russia, I think some elements of the imperial flag should be used, but not its entirety, since it represents the monarchy who historically weren't all too kind to their people for most of their reign. Perhaps a new flag, with a France-like vertical tricolour, a mixture of the imperial colours (yellow, maybe black) and the modern colours (red, maybe blue) could be formed to represent remembering Russia's long past while also showing that they are stepping forward into the future.

I do think bringing the lion and sun flag would be great! It's a lion holding a blade with the sun rising from its back, how cool is that? The image hasn't loaded yet, but I do need to note that the flag should be the one without the crown, as that represents the authoritarian Shah. The crownless flag was actually adopted when the Shah was deposed for a democracy, but then the CIA had to muck everything up and depose Mossadegh to restore the U.S.-friendly Shah, and later you had the 1979 Islamic revolution and all that.

The Qasim flag does look really cool! No qualms about that one, I think it's simply better than the current flag.

As for the Chinese flag, I do think that the current flag is a little boring, but it's quite recognisable. However (speaking as somebody with Chinese ancestry), red is a lucky colour in Chinese culture, although the PRC officially defines the red on the flag to symbolise the communist struggle. I think a majorly red flag would be suitable for China, and additionally, the Qing flag represents the dynasty ruled by the Manchus rather than the majority Han Chinese, so I'm sure some people (particularly the older folk) would be upset by that. I personally enjoy the "five peoples" flag of the Beiyang republic, with five stripes representing the five major people groups of China, but since that specific iteration of China was plagued by corruption and all that, it's not a popular option.

In my opinion, I think a majorly red flag would be good, but maybe not the central star with the four stars surrounding it (it represents the people surrounding the party). Personally, I would go for a yellow/gold Chinese dragon in the centre going around in a circle (symbolising how long China has existed, the "foreverness" of Chinese identity), a star in the middle if communism sticks around, and maybe some lions on either side as well, since those are also very important in China? Actually, maybe it could be lions on one side (representing the spirit of the Chinese people) and a flower / maybe some leaves / another plant (representing the kind and respectful culture of the Chinese people). I think that would be neat!

In the case of Belarus, I think the white red white would look pretty neat! Recognisable and has some historical background to it. I feel it's a little bland though, maybe adding a third colour or some of the patterns would do it good?

It does look pretty neat! I don't like the empty three corners though, I feel like it isn't very space efficient.

I like the Maori flag more with the black and red and the fun swirl. Maybe they could do something like that?

As for me, I just use Syncthing between my devices so I have the same music files in my laptop and my phone. It works well as I don't often change out the music I listen to, and plus it's local files so no network required (good on an aeroplane, for example). I personally use an MPD client on my (Linux) laptop, while on Android I use Auxio (Lotus and Chocola are excellent too)

If that doesn't work for you, there is Jellyfin as well: Finamp for specifically music playback, Findroid for general Jellyfin use. Am not hosting Jellyfin currently so I don't have anything to add besides that, but do check out the docs if you need help setting up / maintaining it!

Just note that specific flag is that of the Australian Aborigines and I believe does not include the Torres Strait Islanders, so it does not encompass the entirety of the Australian Indigenous peoples.

Still a very cool flag though, I think having a mix of symbolism from it as well as other elements would be good to create a truly Aussie flag! Some green and gold in there maybe, possibly a boomerang (featured in many flag proposals and generally looks super cool), and the red sand would be an interesting combination.

That's still too many stars. Looks pretty neat though!

Canada seems as/more close to britain than Australia so it makes more sense to give a little Union Jack in the top left corner.

What is this blasphemy

We were all kids at one point in time

Lots of modern phones no longer come with an IR blaster, which is a bit stupid I think but corporations got to save cost somewhere (+ a billion other places in the device, manufacturing, production, etc.)

Awesome! How long did it take to design all that art, or are you using off the shelf stock graphics or something?

One day I want to learn German so I can understand them

having something consistent can reduce confusion among contributors, particularly for those who are translating pages between languages and
there are other reasons too, like making the instruction more concise

I believe this is because many languages will interpret that differently, and Wikipedia having contributors from around the world writing in different languages, decided that clockwise is a good universal instruction that is more difficult to mistranslate.

If the instructions were "left to right" and then "top to bottom", a bad translation might end up making it mean the top to bottom first and left go right last.

Reading order

In Arabic (and a few other languages too), things are read RTL, and plenty of Asian languages, at least traditionally, are read top to bottom first.

Doing it clockwise is seen as a more universal instruction I guess? And I don't think it's too hard to figure out. I might also be to make the instruction more concise!

It looks like this is more like three different messages that are worded a little weirdly, making it have a more confusing single meaning.

The barf emoji (where they used H1, by the way. Why, I have no idea) implies that they dislike either PaperWM or GNOME, likely the latter given that GNOME and KDE Plasma have a kind of holy war thing going on between its users, and this person (who uses Plasma) is the kind of person who has extreme opinions it looks like.

I wish them all the best , except if they're part of fascist open source, in which case, they can get bent.

This part is worded poorly, especially given the preceding barf emoji making you think it's a negative opinion for the whole comment. They are positive about Niri, but IF they turn out to be not very nice then they can "get bent" (whatever that means)

But then again, I have my KDE task manager so that it only shows tasks from the current screen on it, and even I sometimes find that disorientating.

And this bit is just talking about how they won't really take advantage of tiling WMs anyways given that windowed DEs are already "disorienting"

Even if this were the case though, life on Mars (or anywhere outside of Earth) would be a really cool discovery!

Or maybe you believe in the Great Filter hypothesis, and signs of life discovered on Mars implies that this filter may be ahead of humanity rather than behind it

I found the LearnLinuxTV tutorial on installing Nextcloud to be really good, and it's been running great! It's excellent if you want drive and has all the different other bits like notes, calendar, forms, office, etc.

However, you might also want to look at some other services too for specific tasks. I use Radicale for calendar, mostly because it was my first self-hosted service and I never bothered moving to the NC offering, but it's very simple to setup and works well for me. Etherpad is good if you want shareable MD notes (but isn't as great if you want private notes, for that local programs like Joplin, Marktext, and Markor are your best bet). For image hosting, Immich is always nice and has excellent mobile clients too (even on Linux mobile, you have the third-party Mimick!)

Note that in Chinese, the first character is the family name while the next ones are the given name. So "Youyou" would be the given name!

Naming customs in various places are very fun to learn. Did you know that in Iceland, the last name is the father's first name appended with "son" (male), "dottir" (female), or "bur" (non-binary)?

In Chinese, the first character (Tu) is the family name while the following character(s) are the given name (Youyou).

p.s. the "ou" sound in Chinese is pronounced more like an "o" rather than than an "ooh", so the joke doesn't really work (not quite, but it's close enough. I'm not very good at speaking Mandarin so take this with a slight grain of salt)

And of course, many forums are good too, but note that many of the bits could be outdated (always check the date of the posts and the version number!)

For me, the Linux community at the programming(dot)dev instance is very helpful!

Always check the relevant wikis. Yes, some of them aren't very well-written, but most are very good. Look at the wikis for your distro, the software you want to use, etc. Even if you don't use Arch, the ArchWiki is a very good source with steps that can apply for most distros!

You might also want to check out the channel "LearnLinuxTV", they make fantastic tutorials for setting up various distros and self-hosted services.

I will also recommend installing "tldr", which is basically manpages for dummies, showing you the essential commands and their parameters. "Tealdeer" is a Rust-based client for tldr that is available on Arch (unsure about other distro families)

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