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But rocks are harder. Metal can bend where rocks would break.

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Are you a quantum particle? You can either know your location or your velocity but not both.

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Yes, one entity being able to reprogram one piece of tech definitely means another entity is able to reprogram every other piece of tech that is slightly related.

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When I think of all the shitty emails I've received from all over the food chain I'd say it doesn't matter. Getting your point across is much more important than imitating a specific culture.

And seriously, badly imitating some conventions is much much worse and insulting than using a phrase that might not be familiar to your audience.

https://swg-empire.de/pictrs/image/e4ea6221-5b31-4beb-ad09-b2e12ba600f0.jpeg

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I found that copying directories was much more convenient for this kind of experimentation, since I was usually already working in a filemanager anyways. And thanks to BTRFS's copy-on-write support it was also instantaneous and didn't take up any additional space. So in the end very similar to snapshots.

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Long COVID has crippled me so much that I literally don't have the energy to list everything.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Why don't you just get rid of NM? Like you said it's more intended for easy default cases.

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...

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I did get offended when, after a very successful date, I went to a shawarma place with her and we both had a super awesome shawarma with lots of meat. For the next date I made some pizza rolls with salami and she confessed that she actually doesn't eat meat.

I still tease her about that when I meet her nowadays.

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Like that monkey experiment where they put food on top of a ladder but every time someone tries to get the food everybody gets sprayed with cold water. When they stop trying to get food they take one monkey out and put a new one in who gets beaten up by the others when it tries to get the food. So they substitute in new monkeys until none of the originals are left but they still beat up anyone trying to get the food although they don't know why.

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Yeah, probably.

Anyways, let's eat some non-pig meat and chop off some foreskins!

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I don't even know how to properly configure it on my own instance. I thought I had configured it properly to handle large gifs, but then it still doesn't work sometimes for some random reason.

Doesn't make it easier that lemmy uses pictrs 4 when pictrs 5 is currently the stable version. But I have no idea if Lemmy can handle that.

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Spectator. Beholders are even more dangerous.

Reddit mirrors

I know it’s not popular and I’m typically against it but I was listening to a podcast and it made me think there are absolutely important communities that shouldn’t be on a centralised platform like Reddit. The contents of them are so important that it should be on the Open Social Web. I’m wondering if there is someone...

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https://lemmit.online mirrors Reddit. If a sub you want isn't mirrored yet you can request it at !requests

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You can comment if you want but that won't make it over to reddit. And likewise comments aren't mirrored over from reddit.

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NTFS can't handle Linux file permissions. It is not suited as a system drive.

And supposedly it can give you problems if you use it to store your Steam games. I never cared to test that, though.

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Just go with whatever is the default of your distribution.

That said I've come to love the automatic snapshots OpenSUSE gives me with BTRFS. I think they use snapper to automate that. It does a snapshot before and after every packet install, update or removal. And it has some system to delete snapshots that aren't needed anymore but it always keeps enough to give you peace of mind, especially when you're experimenting.

I should look into keeping some snapshots of my ~ as well. And I should implement that especially for my family.

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The heterosexual couple next door is so nice, though.

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The popular opinion is that it was easier for them to get up-to-date packages that way.

My opinion: It's just what the people working on the Deck were using at the time themselves.

Other reason might be that they had SteamOS 2 based on Debian and probably had some problems with it that they could solve on Arch more easily.

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Wasn't Volvo the company where some exec got run over when they wanted to demonstrate the automatic emergency stop feature? And all this after they gifted seatbelts to the world.

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I think it's interesting seeing people in the restroom. Like if it's just some number 1, conversation time. But if it's number 2, no eye contact, no words to be had. Like you're ashamed of your own poo baby. Be proud of that loaf bro... You made that with your own body.

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Dude, leave me alone when I'm peeing.

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You could append the chmod command with && but that's probably not what you wanted.

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Finally I have a reliable way of finding my magic stockmarket coin. Thank you kind stranger!

Why can't I see a specific post in [email protected] from lemmy.ml when the same post is visible on other instances? [SOLVED]

EDIT: After discussing this on Matrix, I believe the answer is in the mod logs. The author of the post in question was issued a temporary ban in another community on lemmy.ml, which I suspect is affecting the display of this user’s content across all of lemmy.ml even though the post in question is in a different community from...

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Probably due to language settings. I haven't looked but I guess that the post in question is set to a language not in your language list.

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At this point F-Droid works better than the Play Store in that regard.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Yeah, it's relatively new addition, at least the mode that doesn't require user interaction. I think it requires Android 12 or 13.

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Hmm, I've got F-Droid Basic installed. I think it was supposed to be the testbed for that functionality.

Or maybe it needs special permissions.

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You actually can connect a Steam Deck to another PC. Look for the DeckMTP plugin on Decky Loader.

MTP is the thing Android uses when you connect your phone to a PC. It should be possible to install on any PC. Don't know about Windows but there's probably a solution for that as well.

Don't know what happens when both devices have it. I'd suspect that they would both be able to access each other's drive.

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Yeah, that's why I don't have it installed. Sftp is more than enough. But that's not what OP was asking.

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Restarting Firefox usually fixes everything for me.

bjoern_tantau ,
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The standards are supposed to be the stable thing. If some part of GNOME advertises itself as following a specific standard then it should remain stable in following that standard.

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Git is already decentralised. Every github-like is interoperable with every other github-like. But just because something works together with many others doesn't makes it invulnerable to legal takedowns. Nintendo is a gaming company. They have no problems playing whack-a-mole, as demonstrated here.

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Trouble is that people want to continue working on it.

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I'm waiting for the survey to reach me on my Steam Deck running OpenSUSE. I wonder if they keep a special eye on Decks not running SteamOS.

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A little bit janky if I'm being honest, but I still prefer it. Like, I use four different types of on screen keyboard (Steam's for everyday stuff, Onboard when I need special keys, Maliit on the lock screen, unl0kr (which cannot handle the Deck's screen rotation yet) to decrypt the drive on boot).

For the installation I had to use the Gnome live image because it was the only one with a usable keyboard. So I guess that makes five different keyboards I used.

I had to do a lot of customisation to get it to a state I'm comfortable with. But on the plus side I don't have to fight against the system to do it. My main motivation was to get encryption working.

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I've recently made two posts about the keyboards and for the encryption there's a bug report about unl0kr in Bazzite where I added a comment. Unfortunately I don't have the energy for a more detailed writeup, but it should be enough to get you started.

The controller works out of the box as a mouse. You just need to have an on screen keyboard installed (or a real one attached via USB) to handle everything else. If you like Gnome that should actually work better out of the box than KDE.

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No. Nothing against KDE I just want to minimise all information leaving my computer. If something is bothering me I try to change it myself or make a bug report or feature request.

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Alkohol is the gateway drug. Socially accepted everywhere. It's normal as a recreational drug.

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My kids, 9 and 11, use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Mainly because that's what I use. They were with me when I set it up to choose a name for the computer, a username and a password (for their user and for the disc encryption).

I showed them how to configure wobbly windows (most important part) and how to use Discover to install games.

I installed Minecraft. I installed Steam (which has its own parental controls). I configured emails, Nextcloud and a password manager. I configured automatic updates.

I think that's about it.

They're responsible. They ask me for help if they need some. We educate them about people they meet online in Minecraft and other games. Works well so far.

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