honeyontoast

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I finally fell over. (self.rollerblading)
submitted 6 months ago by honeyontoast to c/rollerblading
 

I have been skating for about three weeks, doing two sessions a week. Sometimes indoors and sometimes outdoors with mixed results.

Today I was feeling really confident skating circles outdoors and got a little too cocky taking a sharp right turn and before I knew it I was on my bum.

I'd been afraid of falling since day one, so I'm actually really glad it happened. I fell, but more importantly I got back up and kept skating. I feel like the fear has been holding me back a bit, so now that it has happened I'm excited for the next session already.

Happy skating everyone!

[–] honeyontoast 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Britain doesn't use commas for decimal points, that's a mainland European thing.

[–] honeyontoast 7 points 9 months ago

If anything it'd probably annoy right wingers because it vocally blames humanity for environmental disaster.

[–] honeyontoast 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah I'm sure someone who doesn't think much could definitely watch the show and come away thinking vaccines are dangerous, but that's not the angle it pulls. It relies on there being only one vaccine manufacturer, that everybody takes it, and that nobody outside the scheme actually tests the vaccine.

Of course in the real world multiple companies manufacture the same vaccine and they're tested by numerous organisations, so it falls apart pretty quickly.

Still a good show though.

[–] honeyontoast 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You might be interested in Neocities. It's a hosting platform for personal websites and also includes a directory so you can find other people's.

[–] honeyontoast 1 points 9 months ago

Oat milk I think has the closest viscosity to dairy milk. I use it in tea and on cereal a lot. I think the only area it struggles is with baking, I'm guessing it's the fats (or lack of)

[–] honeyontoast 91 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I recently watched Utopia, British show about a super secret group putting naughty stuff in a vaccine.

Their plan hinged on every person being so afraid of a pandemic that everybody takes the vaccine. This was made pre COVID of course, because we now know that would never work.

[–] honeyontoast 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What it basically comes down to is there are several native languages in the United Kingdom - English, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots, Cornish and more - but only English is respected on the whole.

He's not even asking for every ticket to come in both languages, just to be sent one in Welsh when asked for. I think it should be a legal requirement to provide any document in any home language requested, personally.

[–] honeyontoast 3 points 9 months ago

That's why bandcamp is one of the few places I'll willingly spend money on digital media. DRM-free downloading in flac format? Yes please.

[–] honeyontoast 4 points 9 months ago

AdGuard Home, it's a DNS level ad blocker similar to PiHole

[–] honeyontoast 7 points 9 months ago

Had a very similar experience at the end of last year. Was sick of the bullshit all the providers were pulling and set up jellyfin.

Now running that on a pi so we've got our own streaming platform with movies and shows that you'd either need at least three separate services for or just outright won't find if you don't pirate.

[–] honeyontoast 1 points 9 months ago

I like it, but I'm not exactly a power user and the only other distros I've used are Ubuntu and mint. I think if you want a Debian based distro that's not tied to Ubuntu then Mx is a good choice. I know there's LMDE too but as far as I know that's only available with cinnamon, so Mx having KDE plasma is nice too.

There's the whole sysvinit Vs systemd but I don't have a dog in that fight and enabled systemd, which Mx makes very easy even though they advise against it.

[–] honeyontoast 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did the same thing in November with MX Linux. Haven't needed to boot into Windows once.

 

For reference I use MX Linux with Systemd enabled.

I'm pretty new to Linux and have been running this for around a month. Everything was perfectly fine until yesterday (7th) when, on booting, I saw a glimpse of the logon screen for a second and was then taken to a black screen with some white text that read "[7.300130]". Searching for this number doesn't bring up anything.

Eventually I found that I could get into a terminal here by pressing ALT+F1. I also found a lot of people suggesting that if you get past grub and then have a very similar problem (blank screen, flashing cursor rather than a number) then it could be graphics drivers so I uninstalled and reinstalled them to no avail.

Somewhat embarrassingly, the eventual solution was very simple. After I opened the terminal with ALT+F1 I could get back to the GUI with ALT+SHIFT+F7 and.. everything was fine.

Still though, whenever I boot now, I get a glimpse of the logon page, then the black screen with the number, and then doing the shortcuts above gets me back to the logon screen and after that everything is normal.

My first instinct is to say some update on the 6th must have caused this. I have checked /var/log/apt/history.log and I did run apt upgrade on the 6th but the only update was to mx-welcome which I don't think is relevant.

Although it's only a minor nuisance I would like to not have to do this every time I boot. Any idea what this is?

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