punkfungus

@punkfungus@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had two different arch based distros have issues when trying to update after long periods. I also had an Ubuntu server fail completely when doing a major version upgrade and had to restore it from backup. But then again I’ve also had no trouble updating an Ubuntu machine that was a couple years behind.

  I’m on Fedora now for my desktop and it’s been great so far, but I also do updates at least weekly. My advice would be if you expect to go months between updates your best choice is probably Debian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom Guides⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact about mushroom toxicity by contrast. Because the mushroom is only the reproductive organ of the organism, and you’re basically doing it a favour by picking it and spreading its spores everywhere, theres no evolutionary pressure for it to evolve toxicity to humans. So the compounds in mushrooms that are toxic to us likely exist for other purposes, and are only toxic to us by coincidence.

  For this reason the proportion of species of mushrooms that are safe vs. the number that are toxic is greater than with plants. Because plants have had selective pressure to evolve poisons that discourage or prevent herbivory. So if you walk into an unfamiliar forest and pick one plant and one mushroom to eat at random, it’s more likely the plant is the bigger danger.

  Of course I absolutely do not condone eating plants or fungi at random unless you intend to have a painful death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite true on the second part. It’s primarily Jatco CVTs that are reliability nightmares, and are what is used by Nissan. Subaru make their own CVTs which are widely regarded to be much more reliable.

  Pretty much the entire poor reputation of CVTs derives from those shitty Jatcos but the tech itself wasn’t the problem, it was the execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is the best social media⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I checked hexbear had something like 70% more total comments than lemmy.world despite only having a tiny fraction of the users. Sounds like bots to me