spacedancer

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[–] spacedancer 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like this will just accelerate warming even more, just even more concentrated. You're basically making smaller greenhouse effect situations instead of the entire planet.

[–] spacedancer 2 points 2 years ago

Federation works a little differently. Having said that, it's not too far from reddit either. For example on reddit, as a basketball fan, I visit r/nba often. But then there are also other subs like r/nbadiscussion, r/nbatalk, and other subs that have overlapping content as r/nba. That's the same case here, except they are on different instances rather than subreddits. You can do the same as what you do on reddit and subscribe to the most popular instance community and that's it. Eventually as time goes by, the most popular community will become the "default" so you won't really miss out on content. If you really have FOMO, then subscribe to all of them; same as what you would do on reddit; but obviously you don't do that right?

[–] spacedancer 2 points 2 years ago

We purposely moved into a 1-bedroom unit with an office/den. Rent is cheaper than a 2-bedroom but the office can easily be converted into an extra room for guests. The office has no windows though and has a glass sliding door. I can live without a window since I can just take breaks in the living room to get some natural light. I also like that the office is right next to the apartment door so I can immediately hear if anyone knocks or if a package is delivered.

[–] spacedancer 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

It's the first step of installation, making a bootable usb/CD. Most non-technical people can't be arsed to create a bootable drive, then go into the bios boot settings to run it. I haven't used Windows in a long time so I don't know how it's installed these days, but the fact that it comes installed out-of-the-box when people buy a computer lets them skip the first and biggest step to running linux, which is getting it installed in the first place.

Distros have come a long way that a Windows user trying Linux Mint can hit the ground running. It's no longer about the learning curve for USING linux, it's INSTALLING linux that's the problem.

[–] spacedancer 5 points 2 years ago

Yup, top for the last 6 or 12 hours is the best way to replicate the "front page" algorithm most people are accustomed to.

[–] spacedancer 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there are a ton of people with less than half a brain who still believe him anyway.

[–] spacedancer 46 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Sugar, especially in the US where it's literally added into everything. What's worse is the alternative (substitutes like aspartame) might also be a candidate and we just don't know it yet because enough time hasn't passed to study the long term effects. I try to take stevia as much as possible because it's more "natural", but only a few sugar-free products use it over aspartame. I read recently the WHO still considers aspartame as a carcinogen, but only in excessive amounts, like several glasses of soda a day.

[–] spacedancer 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. I'll test it out.

[–] spacedancer 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are tools out there that can create a bootable usb drive specifically with persistent storage. You can try Sardu (https://www.sarducd.it/sardu-multiboot-creator). I believe it has an option in the GUI to specifically enable persistent storage.

[–] spacedancer 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe Privacy Badger can get on this. I believe they block trackers like facebook by replacing widgets and other stuff that are embedded on pages. Not sure how they can do that for individual unknown trackers though.

[–] spacedancer 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, everything has to be a visual aid, when it's easier to just read one page of instructions.

[–] spacedancer 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The classic: AKG K240

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