[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ich dachte, daß der Reichstagbrand auch umstritten, wen aktuelles das Feuer entfacht.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Because it's always presented as being super-coffee, chemically. Good coffee is good coffee, but there's no universally great brewing method that always produces superior coffee. You can make bad pour-over, bad espresso, bad American, bad cold brew. But all Raktajino is apparently incredible and strong. I can make 8 shots of espresso, put it in a cup, and it'll taste strong and maybe give you heart palpitations by the time you finish it. But it won't be necessarily good. And it might not even taste as good as espresso made by James Hoffman.

The more I think about it, the more I think the key molecule in Raktajino isn't caffeine. It's probably something like amphetamines.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Considered, still an option.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Good point about the social engineering aspect.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yah, agreed. It isn't that kind of post.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not blindly.

Use your package manager to remove whatever you don't want. Your manager will either say, "can't do it, it's needed by X," or will say "removing this will ALSO remove X". If you want to keep X, then hit cancel. If you don't recognize or care about X, go ahead.

Package managers manage dependencies. This means it's hard to remove stuff that are needed by programs you care about - as long as you read what the manager is telling you. If you remove something and blindly hit accept without at least scanning what else will be removed, yeah. You can accidentally delete stuff you don't want to.

On linux, there's often little consequence. Even if you do accidentally remove Firefox, then just re-install it. You won't lose any personal data.

And most distributions simply won't let you remove packages such that you can't boot the system, or log in.

You want to keep your session manager, window manager, your kernel. Whatever you're using might let you remove the session manager, or DE; I doubt it'll let you remove your kernel, or systemd, or any of those core systems -- at least, not without a bunch of warnings.

My final comment: if you try to remove something and the package manager says that it'll need to remove a whole bunch of other things to do that... you might think twice. That's a package a lot of other things need.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I knew it! My all-dairy diet is not only perfectly healthy, but also best for the planet!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anyway, this is only relevant if you're writing only for yourself. It's your poor users who suffer for your expediency.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Das ist leader unser (USA) Reichstagbrand. 🙁

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

Trump's already not pro-gun. He passed some of the most significant "anti" gun legislation during his term. Thing is, he's a pathological liar, so it doesn't matter what comes out of his mouth. He'll stay on the "pro-gun" rhetoric, and when he's elected will enact more anti-gun legislation, especially now that he's been on the receiving end.

And it won't matter, because MAGA's gonna MAGA. He'll lose maybe a few truly 2A-focused people, but it won't matter because after 2024 there will be no more free elections in the US.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100%

Now, if stupid Lemmy had stupid emoji responses, I wouldn't have had to waste everyone's time with a stupid comment agreeing with you but otherwise contributing nothing.

Edit all y'all replying with emojis, ha fucking ha. You know that's not what I mean. Lemmy would be better if you could respond to comments and posts with emojis, like github. Even Reddit allows this, although it's monetized.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have been using a piantor built for me by beekeeb.com, and am enjoying the more agressive stagger than my previous Ergodox. However, my typing experience is being spoiled by how tight the key spacing is. I have large hands, and can span an octave on a full-size piano; the Piantor is downright cramped.

In looking for a possible replacement (the Kyria was my primary option, but I guess splitkb.com has entirely given up on selling pre-builts, and I don't solder), what should I be looking at for specs to get some wider spacing on the keys? Is it simply "key spacing?"

Most commercial keyboards are fine; my prior was an Ergodox and the spacing was fine. The Piantor supplies that - it might even be a touch too much, but it's still better than the tepid stagger on the Ergos.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What are the terms for language anachronisms?

I had a conversation about a year ago with someone about anachronisms in language. We both felt that there were terms for these things, but could neither recall nor find (via web search) satisfying answers. This came up again recently in a different discussion in a Lemmy community, and it's driving me a little nuts. Help me Linguistics-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.

So we have the term "skeumorphism," which refers to oramental anachronism. I may be using "anachronism" incorrectly, but it's the hammer I have. Skeumorphisms, in computers, refer to the graphical representations of things, but not the underlying concepts. There are similar linguistic anachronisms that I feel also have specific labels:

  • "disks" which are still in use, but are largely being replaced by solid-state, rectangular SSDs; but most people still call all persistent storage devices "disks."
  • "film" to refer to movies, regardless of the media (increasingly digital and having nothing to do with film).
  • "rice" to refer to the process of fancifying something, like computer desktops
  • "desktops" to refer to computer GUI window managing interfaces
  • "files" and "folders" in computers

Are these all the same category of things? Is there a term for them?

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Cancel install, or... ? (midwest.social)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A recent update to Droid-ify has improved the user experience in a confusing way.

This is the new package installation modal confirmation dialog.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

There was an owl hooting outside our house earlier, and it occurred to me that every other bird has a high-pitched call.

Ravens have a croak that could be considered low, but their loud call is a caw that's higher. I can't think of another bird with a call nearly as low as owls'.

Search engines are no help, mostly duplicates answering why they hoot. Why are owls' calls so much lower than other birds?

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Can commodity products detect which pixel you're looking at on a screen?

For a number of years, I've wanted a system that eliminates mouse pointer devices. In my imaginary system, there are hotkeys bound to left & right mouse clicks, and what gets clicked is whatever you're looking at.

When I've looked at this before, the tech field tends to suffer in granularity and/or physical limitations, like needing to limit gross head movements. Most products talk about what they can do, but avoid talking about their limitations. It can be hard to find out what devices are capable of - accuracy, working with corrective eyewear, speed, head movement, software (OS) support, etc. Many products are geared at research, leading me to believe the tech isn't there yet.

Anyone have, or used a device that would be able to replace a mouse?

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I got tired of pinentry popping up and interrupting whatever I was doing; I didn't find a solution elsewhere, so I wrote a little bash script to address this. This is designed for (poly|i3|way|...)bar users. The blog entry (no ads, no tracking) linked has the script verbatim, plus some rambling about the why and wherefore.

It's 22 lines of does-stuff; the rest is whitespace, comments, and instructions -- including a little blob example of using it with polybar.

A known issue is that it does occasionally pop up pinentry twice in a row when unlocking. I'm not surprised, and it has happened to me only once since I've been using it -- not enough for me to need to bother trying to address it. But I wanted to call it out.

It's not rocket science, but it took a bit of time to make sure it functioned correctly (enough), and hopefully it'll help someone else.

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Wall control panels (midwest.social)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

On Amzn, there are nicely framed, wall-mounted control panels for proprietary home automation systems. What are people using for HA? I'm leaning toward trying to wall mount tablets, but I'd need 3, and cost starts to factor in. Mounts are a problem; I want it to look as built in as possible, but most mounts aren't picture-frame style. The ones that I've found that are, are designed for specific tablets, and not the low end cheap ones. I don't have a 3D printer, so I'm limited to mounts I can buy.

I like some projects here I've seen using eInk - that's the ideal solution! Is there a source for pre-fab Android eInk wall mounted control panels, or are what I've seen bespoke projects?

I'm not opposed to gross wiring, and am not afraid of cutting holes in dry-wall... it's really the mounting that I'm stuck at. Android 7-10" tablets sufficient to run the UI would probably work, and I can probably even figure out wiring the charger, if I could just get some nice picture-frame style mounts.

What are your solutions that you think is pretty neat? Or products that I may have missed?

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I count 7 in mine.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I don't really trust any of the Lemmy apps I use on my phone, although I still vastly prefer them to web apps.

Is there a pinned post where users can comment about Reddit communities that have migrated to the Fediverse?

If not, should there be one and is this the appropriate community to host it?

As a refuge myself, I'm keeping an eye out for subs I used to enjoy which have moved.

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Suuuuper new to Lemmy, so apologies in advamce if this is a particularly stupid question. DDG has been no help.

I'm a member of midwest.social. I'd like to subscribe, and post to, a community (sub?) on another server. I know the other server is federated with midwest.social, because I can see other subs, and I know the sub on the foreign server (in this case, lemmy.ml), which I found with DDG.

So why can't I find the sub in Jerboa? I've searched by name, by name including server, by every combination of reference I can think of. !, #, @.

It's a technical sub, and I can't imagine it's been intentionally blocked. So I'm thinking that maybe Lemmy is whitelist-based? Do admins have to explicitly include subs from other instances? Or is there some magic that I've somehow missed about how to get to a federated sub that maybe nobody has yet accessed on the instance I've joined?

I found an old (1y) discussion about how to make Lemmy more accessible to new users. Someone offhand referenced this topic (accessing federated subs) needing more clarity, but with no explanation. A pointer to a how-to would be handy; maybe answers will help some future user when they find this post through whichever fad search engine privacy wonks are using in a couple of years.

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