dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 2 hours ago:
Wait until you go even further south and every receptacle that can hold liquids is “kübel”.
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 8 hours ago:
The reason for this is that a lot less people care about planes in Europe when you have an amazing high speed rail network that bankrupts Airlines all over the region.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 9 hours ago:
I did not get an ad.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 6 days ago:
Which part of the celery? Only North America sticks to using the stalk only like it’s some miracle growth. Most European cuisine discarded stalk for centuries, using only the root for soups and stews as a staple. It wasn’t until fairly recently when celery stalk started seeing use in salads in Europe.
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 1 week ago:
This can happen if lettermail is exclusive to be delivered by the country’s postal services but the vendor is using a courier.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
The plates are limited to 2 letters only for the state/province. The reason Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck have their own province code is due to their provincial level city status retained from the middle ages.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Since at least 2006, possibly earlier.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
Just stay close to the border and slip through when they will start interring other Asians.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
Come up north.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. We could try both and see which one sticks.
- Comment on No parking pavement marker being right beside a parking slot 2 weeks ago:
That looks like a bike/moped lane with parking spots plopped into it.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes. More regulation for stuff barely understandable to boomer politicians.
I think we should eliminate profit incentives instead.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
When was the last complete societal collapse?
Gold is a good hedge against inflation. When was the last hyperinflation in your country?
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 3 weeks ago:
I can only tell you in dishwashers.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 weeks ago:
I thought the 250m was fake news?
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
Mixing sodium bicarbonate into water, even with just a teaspoon of acid like vinegar or lemon juice added, is still a good antacid.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
It’s not dumb in the sense that water that is not alkaline is not the same as water that is alkaline with some added acid.
In Eastern Europe the soft drink created by mixing sodium bicarbonate into water and then adding a tea spoon of lemon juice or vinegar to it was an oft used refreshment before the 80s.
- Comment on Anon has had enough 1 month ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Cope 1 month ago:
This needs a follow up panel of Turkish dude and French dude making out and blushing.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, now on GOG 1 month ago:
And this is why I got hooked on roguelites. Hades, Spelunky, FTL, Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire, Crypt of the Necro Dancer, Rogue Legacy, Dome Keeper, Runestone Keeper. There’s probably so much more out there.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I wanted to avoid recommending that exactly due to the period substitution.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
Amazing. Thanks for the info.
Any ideas on how I’d make dry cottage cheese out of it at home?
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
I somehow doubt you can do much with pasteurized and homogenized 1% milk.
There’s a reason that most dairy products in Europe are made from raw milk.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
The US and Canada are really anal about pasteurizing and homogenizing milk. It’s basically nearly impossible to buy any that isn’t. Most often it’s also just a reconstituted milk product instead. At the same time UHT is nearly unheard of.
If anything, OP should avoid shitty products in general, not because they’ve had this particular experience. Brand loyalty is stupid.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
Try an additional line feed after every line, or an asterisk before them
* like * this or like this
- Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games] 1 month ago:
What?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
You will likely have to enter the bios/uefi setup with Del, F12 or something similar during boot and then search for the secure boot option and turn it off. Alternatively you may need to just properly set up the boot sequence and target the drive you want to actually boot from as the first boot option in the list.
Did you already install Linux Mint on a drive and your computer is now refusing to boot from it? Or are you actually at the step where you’ve made a bootable usb with the live iso and that’s what is not booting?
Balena Etcher work pretty well on windows to create a bootable USB live iso.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
Tbh it actually doesn’t matter that much. There’s like a million different distros, but really there’s like 3 base distros (yes Linux nuts, this is an oversimplification) of Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Ubuntu has gotten a lot of hate lately for their choice of forced package manager, but it’s probably fine. It’ll matter way more to you what desktop environment you select. I’d recommend looking into Bazzite for gaming. It’s based on fedora and it has a bunch of gaming stuff built in, but also does great for anything else. It’s made to be the steamOS for anything not a steam deck. Go with KDE for a windows-like desktop experience.
The three base distros mentioned are ones that other distros use as their base
E.g.
Debian -> Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS!
Fedora -> Bazzite, Nobara
Arch -> EndeavourOS, Manjaro, CachyOS
While you can customize the base distros however you want, think of these derivate distros as various prebuilts.
Most distros come with a package manager that allows you to download (software) packages from a centralized repository. Similar to say Microsoft store. Ubuntu was dissed for Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu) forcing their own package manager into it, which had various issues, while there were already well established package managers available.
Desktop Environment (DE) is what you see on your screen. Various elements control how the task bar or app bar behaves or what it looks like, what windows are stylized like, and how they behave etc. For someone coming from Windows, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon DE or any distro with KDE will likely be most familiar experience, while those switching from MacOS, Gnome DE as the Fedora default is very similar.
Bazzite is a gaming focused distro based on Fedora.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
Those are likely shit games.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
There’s some information missing. What is saying “not bootable drive”? You should make a primary partition on the target drive.
Also, even if you don’t have tpm, you may have some sort of secure boot preventing non-windows drives from booting.