NeatNit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much lol, well put!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons yet. What they destroyed is essentially a factory that creates one of the key ingredients required for making nuclear weapons. It’s not a weapon yet, and it’s not explosive yet. Iran’s still a ways away from making that.

  I super highly recommend William Spaniel on YouTube. He hasn’t covered this bombing yet (I’m sure he will within a few hours), but a few days ago he did briefly go over the process of making nuclear bombs, you should check it out: youtu.be/XA1CQp_oJ90?t=480

  Either way it’s an amazing channel for understanding world affairs, I really can’t recommend it enough. Go watch any of his recent videos, they’re short and well worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another reason to love Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a line somewhere between “computers that teach you not to do that” and computers that prevent dire consequences when you make a human mistake. The “just don’t do that” policy is never enough. If there are no safeguards, at one point the mistake will be made.

  Even to highly trained astronauts: wehackthemoon.com/…/margaret-hamilton-her-daughte…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another reason to love Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Double edged sword. Applications asking if you want to save your stuff aren’t designed to annoy you, they’re designed to save you from the headache of losing your work.

  But I can see why you’d want the power button to be a “stronger signal” than clicking Shut Down in some menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize this isn’t serious but holy shit Prozac might have saved my life. Well, technically Prizma which is the same stuff. I went through so many unsuccessful depression treatments, Prizma is the only one that seems to be sticking. Sometimes the old stuff is just the best.

  Worth noting that all treatments were in conjunction with psychotherapy, I don’t think pills alone would have helped. And I also tried going without medication at all for a while, it wasn’t good either. Prizma really is the only thing that works for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no wrong way to stroke it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew someone would beat me to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just recently looked into Secure Boot and from my understanding it’s not a Microsoft lock-in. Many Linux distributions are signed with keys that are loaded by default, and advanced users can even add custom signatures to their computer so Secure Boot would accept them. The original fear around Secure Boot was legitimate, but by now we know the worst outcome of it didn’t come to pass.

  That said, I did disable it on my new PC because I think the chance of it causing issues is greater than the chance it will actually protect me from bootloader malware, and I’m willing to accept that risk and responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not an X, it’s a +. I will die on this hill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just put it on a timer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you complain, they say “idk man, every time I see the sign it’s correct”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really can’t explain more than I already have. If you want to learn more, Wikipedia is a great resource for this. The article I linked and other articles linked within it would be the place to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So just a website?

  Websites of all types are hosted by servers. These servers can run any kind of software they want in order to serve web pages to users. There are countless different options for server software (see just some of the options on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/…/Comparison_of_web_server_softw…), and they can run on different operating systems (Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, macos, …). Two servers can serve very similar or even identical websites but run completely different software, and similarly, two servers can use the same software but serve totally different websites.

  Basically it’s a free-for-all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to answer without some context. Got any examples for “formal website”?

  In the fediverse an “instance” is any server which is running the software in question. For example, fosstodon is an instance of Mastodon. mastodon.social is also an instance of Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting question I really hadn't thought about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they do it sometimes in media but I don’t know - nor do I want to know - if it’s common at all in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game trailers that alternate between short game scenes and text scenes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a visual novel or heavily menu- or dialog-based, there really isn’t anything more to show usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having used KeePass for a few years, syncing via a self-hosted SFTP server, I can’t recommend it for most people.

  • It’s too technical, especially if you want sync, but even if you don’t
  • Apps on different platforms don’t quite agree with each other in all ways, making syncing a bit annoying (particularly: how to associate a login with multiple URLs)
  • It can be hard to pick which app to use on each platform, other than Windows, because there’s no official/canonical best option (Mono has lots of drawbacks)

  I’ve switched to Bitwarden and I’m sticking with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I think it was just the web version of Lemmy. Weird choice by the Lemmy devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct - even if you include the (necessary) option of making up your own answer. If you pick a percentage at random, you have a 0% chance of picking 0%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you know the answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ©

  You had to show off, huh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to cylindrical plugs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does the majority of your post read like you don’t know these exist? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector

  They’re fine, but as you mentioned in the first paragraph, lack of a standard is their main drawback. You could find two power supplies with the exact same connector but different voltage and polarity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chameleons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that work? Colored e-ink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you kid, but there’s no shortage of steam games where steam (a launcher) updates the game’s launcher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So that's when I deleted my account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The word you’re thinking of is ‘user’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meteorology Gatekeeping⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this is two statements: one without the parentheses, and one where each parenthesized word replaces the word before it. This is a compact, but borderline unreadable way to write two statements with the same structure. I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trick OR Treat⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but what about Trick IMPLIES Treat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨caution it about what?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the text so weird… Is this AI generated? It’s gotta be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes it ends up being “between five and 15” which is psychotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  these amazing fears of engineering

  😱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxbowin'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooner or later they’re going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better known for other work⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

  Thanks, Wikipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does my beard grow back faster after shaving?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have been just an obvious spambot with no relevance, but that’s just a guess.