qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 13 hours ago

You can have a lot of smart functionality and remain local-only (e.g., Home Assistant). All my smart devices are on their own VLAN with no Internet access


if something breaks it's not the cloud's fault, it's mine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 2 days ago

Our first was a girl. Second was a boy. Third will be a vasectomy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions. Linux has as many "parent" distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.

And we haven't even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). "Combinatorical explosion" maybe isn't the right phrase, but you get the idea


Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.

This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility


but it does mean that the "right way" to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn't the case with Windows.

(I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it's definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

I, read this like, William Shatner, in his, role as, captain, Kirk.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And many folks have headless setups


raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.

Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.

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