whaleross

joined 1 year ago
[–] whaleross 6 points 3 weeks ago

Dude, get a dog. When dog is happy it is impossible to not feel that happiness too. It is so pure and beautiful. Dog is love.

[–] whaleross 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. Sour, salty and salmiak. Djungelvrål ftw.

[–] whaleross 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Rottenstick, Yetitrunk and Farfisa?

[–] whaleross 17 points 3 weeks ago

GNOME is pretty but KDE works.

"Works" as in does what I expect from a desktop without deciding over my head that I should rethink my forty years of accumulated desktop experience without any discernible benefit to it.

[–] whaleross 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In theory in a perfect world without scams or mistakes it could be useful but then again why would you need it in a perfect world.

[–] whaleross 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'd say in theory it could be used something like public records of proof for ownership of immaterial or intellectual property and the transfer thereof. Say the rights to music, writing, digital art and whatnot. Like the essence of NFT without the hyped up crypto bro speculation and pump'n'dump.

The difficulty would be to get it recognized as legally valid and the bigger difficulty that as there is no central authority there is also nobody being able to rectify fraud or user mistakes. If you implement central authority it's basically just any old list of transactions with some extra crud so then the question would be why even bother.

[–] whaleross 31 points 4 weeks ago

I read the explanation that Trump doesn't read but watches the telly and he is not building a cabinet but a cast. Bigger, louder and more exposure is better. Then it sort of makes sense.

[–] whaleross 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best of luck to you guys!

[–] whaleross 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ebba + Jimmy = Sant

[–] whaleross 38 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Interesting. It's like those data centers that ran on thousands of Xboxes

[–] whaleross 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apple had its current desktop environment for it's proprietary ecosystem built on BSD with their own twist while supercomputers are typically multiuser parallel computing beats, so I'd say it is really fucking surprising. Pretty and responsive desktop environments and breathtaking number crunchers are the polar opposites of a product. Fuck me, you'll find UNIX roots in Windows NT but my flabbers would be ghasted if Deep Blue had dropped a Blue Screen.

[–] whaleross 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I tried PopOS on my laptop but found it fucky so I tried Fedora KDE and it works. Too many steps Debian -> Ubuntu -> PopOS.

 

You know the type. High security, weeks or months of stakeout, sniper three blocks away...

The hitman sorta things I recall from the news are either planned and executed by national intelligence agents or some savage gunning and running from hired brutes, but never the variant with sophistication and private sector.

 

Heya. Swede with Finnish parents here. I understand "general" Finnish or at least follow the gist and I can sorta speak but my writing is terrible, hence this question in English.

I heard on the Swedish news a Sverigefinne use the term "kuivaa läppää" that I've never heard before.

Dry... flap?

I got it that it means approximately "unfunny" or "joke in bad taste", but my wonders - what kind of flap? And why is it dry?

I'm trying to keep my mental image clean but I'm struggling here.

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Julmust, påskmust, (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by whaleross to c/sweden
 
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Wine from sour quince (self.homebrewing)
 

I'm thinking of harvesting a local bush of Japanese quince (Chaenomeles Japonica) and make a small batch of fruit wine. Since they have a very strong citrus flavor, I'm thinking to lean in on it and make something like a very sour apertif.

I've made wines before but it was ages ago with good results, some fruit wines and kit wines, but nothing similar to this.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Should it be combined with some sweet fruits or raisin maybe? Any particular yeast better suited than others? Or some recipe idea as a starting point?

Cheers!

 

And why? Not an instrument you already play. Pick something else.

I'll start.

Saxophone, so I can climb the rooftops and play my neighbours some cheesy sax porn solos of the eighties.

 

Stand up stage show sort of thing ~~with a puppet~~ that is hilarious but also brings up some existential food for thoughts.

No, seriously. Check it out.

 
 

I'll start.

My then gf and I had a chihuahua that just happened to be the most tiny and most diva and most clever little dog I've ever met. Tiny, incredibly cute, extreme ego and confidence, a terrible piercing bark and had some wild mood swings on top. He'd go from cuddly to nuclear warfare in a second of something displeased him. He was the eldest and the leader of his little pack and he kept all of them wrapped right around his paw running a little dogmatic terror state. But he took his responsibilities seriously and was always up in front if there was a threat to them. Be it an angry German shepherd or a double parked electric scooter. Nobody messed with his pack - except for him, obviously.

Our little beast was very well aware of his cuteness, and his craving for adoration knew no end. He'd be walking down the street next to me, obviously refusing to yield for anyone, and as we pass some café tables, he'd throw himself flat on the ground, legs pointing in all directions. We called it that he did a doormat. The intent was to throw us under the bus as his keepers so that he'd maximize the aahs and oohs and attention went compliments from the people sitting in the café.

But this is just the backstory. He was vain, and we knew he was clever, but also of this is still learned behaviour with a previously verified outcome.

No, what really set it apart was that one time we were at home, the entire couch occupied by humans, dogs, and generally not him in particular. He was strutting around, being grumpy that others had taken his rightful seat, and nobody would disappear into nothingness for his approval. Not an uncommon thing, but he has plenty of other comfy spaces to be, communal and his very own. We know if we lift him up now, he'll try force some other dog down just because he wants space for himself, and we weren't having it. The other dogs were there first today and it's their right as much, so tough luck bud.

After some time, I notice him staring into the lights off bedroom. He looks at me, turns back to the bedroom and just keeps staring at it. I tell my gf that he is staring into the void and it seems to be staring back at him. We watch him as he keeps staring at nothing.

By now he is an old dog and has already shown signs of deterioration. I ask him what's up and he shows some signs of anxiety, tail down, tapping feet, mild whimper. I call for him, there's nothing there, come to daddy. No response. We figure he's lost it now, the creeping senility we've suspected is real.

So I keep talking to him, calming him, approach to turn on the lights and show him around that there is nothing there. He stands eagerly waiting, full focus on me as I come closer. Then - tail high, he runs as fast his tiny legs can carry his body, to the seat where I was sitting, barking at my gf to be picked up into the couch.

And it dawns on me. It was all a ruse! He came up with the clever plan to lure me away from his desired spot. If he acts anxious I'll get worried and get up, freeing up a vacancy on the couch, and then it's a fair race who gets it first. His smug posture standing in my seat was what gave it away. He was not anxious at all, he was not afraid, that I'm not anthropomorphizing but that he knew exactly what he was doing.

A multi step sequential plan with a clear goal in mind that he came up with from no be prior training. If that is not intelligence, I don't know what is.

 

Anybody got experience with low budget endoscopes? Like, €30 amazon ones without a screen, just a USB plug and/or wireless connection. Are they useful or just trash? Do they communicate by some common future proof standard or is it some dodgy Chinese app only?

I need it primarily to examine some wall interiors but secondarily it would be interesting to explore other parts of the house and the world.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by whaleross to c/listeningto
 

My Electrolux Pure A9 air purifier has been running daily for a couple of years and the fan has become noticeably whinier and grindier.

I've been looking for a service manual without luck, obviously Electrolux does not provide them.

Any advice how to lubricate the fan would be much appreciated!

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