Champo is Hindi, not Sanskrit.

I feel like most of these are intended to be more relatable than funny.

Why? So that shitty BRANDS can durr-hurr-hurr their way into free advertising?

Oops, thanks, I was watching it on my phone and grabbed the wrong link from Duckduckgo. I’ve corrected the link to point to their video.

Note that it is back up - I’m watching it on their channel on my phone right now.

Now that I’ve gotten home and played with it a bit, unfortunately, remote/presentation mode isn’t what she’s looking for, because it doesn’t work with her iPad Notes app the way she needs it to. It shows the entire iPad screen no matter what, instead of the portion she’s using for drawing/notes.

It turns out that on the Mac and Windows versions of Zoom, there’s an option in Advanced Settings that is specifically connecting an iPad through AirPlay. Unfortunately, as I’ve found out, this is a proprietary setting only allowed on the Mac and Windows versions, and specifically excluded from the Linux version. There’s just a blank space where the option usually would be.

Luckily, the notes app function she needs does work when using UxPlay, so that’s what we ultimately decided to go with, even though it’s a bit clunkier and laggier than connecting directly through Zoom.

Thanks for the help!

The PC has multiple monitors, a full-sized keyboard, and support for many windows on the screen, which makes it much easier to get work done while on a call, while the iPad is very convenient for drawing diagrams, etc. when on a call, much more so than the built in whiteboard.

So, she hosts the call on her computer so that she can do all of the multitasking she needs to during the meeting, and she connects her iPad so that she can draw and comment on precise diagrams in a way that isn’t really possible without the iPad.

From another comment it seems like she might just be missing the feature that’s usually there, but I wanted to be prepared with alternatives when I got home this evening just in case so that she’d be ready for work tomorrow no matter what.

Edit: See the OP - this is not the case. This is a proprietary function that is only available in the Mac and Windows version of Zoom, so it’s not present in the Linux version at all.

That looks like it should work. I can hopefully just mirror the iPad screen on UxPlay and then just capture that window in Zoom. Will try this evening and report back. Thanks!

Edit: This ended up being what we went with! Thanks again for the help! This community never ceases to amaze me with their willingness to help people get better with Linux! ^_^

Haha, it’s a fruit tree so it smokes similar to an applewood.

They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.

Honestly one of my favorite trees for exactly this reason.

It’s a good name in my humble opilion

Yes, I absolutely did miss that part somehow. I still think you’re being too hard on the guy, but the tone of my comment was out of line given that context. I apologize.

That’s just like Lemmy, ignoring years of hard work in pursuit of positive change because someone doesn’t pass the right ideological purity test.

How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

I also thought Louis’s choice of Clippy was a bit odd, but the fact that there is a symbol people can rally around at all is more important than the symbol itself in many ways.

Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.

Newclams can’t triforce

Fig. 7a. Resulting topography of a prototypical sphere-torus transformation.

Fig. 7b. Process and resulting topography of an elongation sphere-torus transformation.

“Fig. 1.2. Discovered portion of the skeleton of the previously unknown camelid ancestor”

Interestingly, Latin ursus and Greek arktos are cognates. Both come from the Proto-Indo-European word for “bear”, h₂ŕ̥tḱos.

This word is interesting in that it contains an example of what’s called (for various reasons) a “thorn cluster”. Certain words in PIE containing the cluster “tk”, for whatever reason, underwent metathesis (switching places) in most of the IE daughter languages. This is why the PIE word has a “tk”, but the Greek word has a “kt”.

This is one of the many reasons for thinking that the Anatolian branch of Indo-European (Hittite, Luvian, etc.) branched off from PIE first - the Hittite word for “bear”, ḫar-tág-ga-aš, still shows the PIE order of “t” and “k” (the Hittite double-g was probably something similar to a “k” in this environment, and what appears to be an intervening “a” is a shortcoming of Hittite’s cuneiform writing system), meaning that this family of languages branched off before the rest of the family underwent this shared change of “tk” to “kt”.

Another fun fact about the “bear” word is that all of Germanic has completely lost it. Instead, in prehistoric times they innovated a formation meaning “the brown one”, which is still reflected in Modern English bear.

This is thought to have been due to taboo avoidance. When you’re hunting the bear (or maybe when the bear is hunting you), you don’t want to actually say the true name of the animal, because that would either scare it away or bring it to you, whichever is worse under the circumstances. So, you instead call it “the brown one” so as not to draw its attention, and so, over time, the true word for “bear” in Germanic was completely lost.

A similar process may have happened with the source of one of the primary Slavic words for “bear”, medved <*medu-ed “honey-eater” (the first part cognate with English “mead”, and the second with “eat”).

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On the surface to a casual observer, sure, but once you spend any time with myth at all, you start seeing the powerful similarities and tropes shared between these age-old stories across the world, regardless of culture and what natural phenomena the individual stories happen to be about, and you realize that there’s something much more fundamental, universal, and human about myth than just “a bunch of allegorical stories about why the sun rises every morning”.

That’s the difference between studying a myth and studying myth. And that’s not a Christian take - it’s an anthropological point of view that places these stories in their proper context and realizes that they are expressions of a shared humanity.

It’s no coincidence that Tolkien’s work in philology and linguistics came precisely during the structuralist revolution that grew out of the anthropological linguistic work of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Shared human behaviors have local, contextual realizations, and individual myths are a reflection of that fact.

Just as those people did, Tolkien told myths which drew on the questions and experiences of his own time. That is allegorical, whether he liked the word or not.

I could not disagree more strongly. All works of art draw on experiences of the artist’s life, and to conclude that all art is therefore allegory is not just doing Tolkien a disservice, but allegory as well.

Allegory is a powerful tool, one of the most effective ways of speaking truth to power, and is one of the main reasons that bards and poets across the world throughout history have been so feared and respected by authorities.

As such, “allegory” is far too useful a term to water down to “any story that has any sort of meaning to it whatsoever”, and I think that doing so is a mistake.

That doesn’t mean that each reader can’t take whatever meaning is relevant to them from a work, of course, and I believe that Tolkien would certainly encourage this - it only means, specifically, that the ability of a reader to attempt to practice allegoresis does not entail that the work in question is necessarily therefore allegorical.

That is to say, you’re still conflating a story being allegorical with a story being meaningful.