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  • Finnish ones (some sayings here too):

    • “Ski into a spruce!” -> Get lost!
    • “So the forest answers as one calls into it” -> what comes around goes around
    • “If you reach for the spruce you’ll fall into the juniper” -> don’t bite more than you can chew
    • “to be like hit on the head with a piece of wood” -> to be baffled
    • “it went into the forest” -> something failed
    • “to have own cow in the ditch” -> to have their own hidden agenda behind a request or actions
    • “to throw the spoon into the corner” -> to die












  • I’m a long time Linux user and a programmer. What I love about it (besides privacy, non-pushiness etc.) is that I can pull pretty much whatever program or tool I need from package manager and that command-line lets me integrate many command line tools with graphical apps.

    Just yesterday I made a little script that pulls weather data from a “non-official” weather station that is closer to me and stores it in a csv-file, then I could bind a key combination to fire another script that plots and shows me that data. It’s just a few command line tools mashed together. A few days ago I wrote little scripts that control lighting in my house and I can bind keys to those as well… maybe that’s “tinkering” too but they’re small things that make my life a little bit better :) Is that impossible to do in Windows? No, but Linux has much less friction.