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> Match Group, Inc. owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, UPWARD, Ship, and OurTime, totalling over 45 global dating companies

Looked like an interesting design concept for portability

Anyone have any recommendations where to buy some?
 
I see gymbros online suggesting it
 
example link about topic - https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/tongkat-ali-longjack-review

> Chalking the door is one of the Christian Epiphanytide traditions used to bless one's home.[1]
 
> Either on Twelfth Night (5 January), the twelfth day of Christmastide and eve of the feast of the Epiphany, or on Epiphany Day (6 January) itself, many Christians ... write on their doors or lintels with chalk in a pattern such as "20 ✝ C ✝ M ✝ B ✝ 23". The numbers in this example refer to the calendar year 2023 and the crosses to Christ. The letters C, M, and B stand for the traditional names of the Magi (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar), or alternatively for the Latin blessing Christus mansionem benedicat ('May Christ bless this house').[2] Another form, for Three Kings day, is to mark the door with "IIIK" (the Roman numeral three followed by "K" for "Kings").
 
> Chalking the door is done most commonly on Epiphany Day itself. However, it can be done on any day of the Epiphany season.[3] In some localities, the chalk used to write the Epiphanytide pattern is blessed by a Christian priest ... on Epiphany Day, then taken home to write the pattern.[4]
 
> The Christian custom of chalking the door has a biblical precedent as the Israelites in the Old Testament marked their doors in order to be saved from death ... Families also perform this act to represent the hospitality of the Holy Family to the Magi (and all Gentiles); it thus serves as a house blessing to invite the presence of God in one's home.[6][a]
 
via Wiki

Audio forwarding: https://github.com/rom1v/sndcpy

Criticism of him: https://novusordowatch.org/benedict-xvi/

Anyone made one of these or have an interest or tips on any adjustment to the suggested way to do it?

Apparently they're edible without people having to make coffee out of them by adding hot water:
 
There's estimated to be up to 4mg (?) caffeine per bean
 
Seems like for some people they might enjoy simply eating the beans rather than brewing up coffee if they're just trying to get a dose of caffeine

Haven't figured out or tested, posting beforehand:
 
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation
 
above based on: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/
 
https://numenvoice.com/
 
https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-speech-recognition-tools-open-source-software/
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
 
> post more?

Had this idea at some point but shelved it and didn't share (I don't think), but I saw someone else post about this elsewhere so I might as well amplify it and let it be out there for someone to do if they can make it happen.
 
So the simple question is if it's possible to design some kind of vehicle that a horse could power above that of a buggy or whatever.
 
Animal power has been a major source throughout history, and the bicycle has been a mechanical marvel. Could we put the two sources together for a high tech / low tech sustainable design?
 
Humans can bike maybe 15 mph, horses walk maybe 3 mph? So you could have a "bicycle buggy" that goes 15mph or more?
 
Another idea would be incorporating dogs as a lot of people have dogs - I see some people take their dog out for a walk and they allow them to pull them on a bicycle, so the dog powers the walk anyway.
 
In looking up this idea, I saw a comedy skit of a horse on a treadmill powering a car: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jyYUPv0rx0I
 
I don't know if horses can learn to pedal or if you'd need a treadmill design, but I'm just going to post the idea and see if anyone has thoughts on it.
 
Some other inspiration's been found on low / no tech magazine which had a post about horse-powered ferry boats: https://www.notechmagazine.com/2009/06/horse-powered-ferry-boat.html
 
Well, the idea's out there, any ideas on design?

Content packages they have available for download (and which can be viewed online with them): https://library.kiwix.org/
 
Being able to download all of Gutenberg's public domain books or Wikipedia are the classic Kiwix choices in my view
 
Partially related article: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/20/23413615/stack-overflow-offline-coding-copy-kiwix-prison-arctic
 
saw some new content was available for download since I posted on this last year, like openstreetmap's wiki, ifixit stuff, lowtechmagazine, etc.

On the one hand, I could see wrong answers being submitted and that being a problem, but maybe they could just mention that ChatGPT contributed to the answer? On the other hand, this could slow the generation of correct answers unnecessarily.
 
Thoughts?

So I guess the "elf on the shelf" tradition is that some parents have a little elf that moves around every day and kind of watches kids, like a Big Brother looking to see if they do something naughty, to report to "Santa"? I could see where this could be thought to be negative. I think sometimes kids should be "terrorized" and maybe this can be a good thing.
 
On the other hand, one mom thought maybe this idea could be tweaked so she decided to create the "kindness elves" that encourage kids to do good things, and watch and write little notes for good things they can do, rather than just spy on them to make sure they're not doing bad things. I thought the idea sounds wholesome and either or both elves might be a tradition for some parents.
 
What do you think of this "kindness elves" idea? (You can read more on the link)

What kind of data do you like to collect?
 
Any setup recommendations?
 
Favorite software to manage "hoards" (or collections)
 
Discuss?