Spiracle

@Spiracle@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the community is so large that your post is immediately buried, it’s large enough for a subcommunity.

  However, most communities on the threadiverse are not that large. In that case, fragmenting the tiny communities even more just hides your post from the users who might be interested but are not subscribed to a niche subcommunity of a small community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen several different clips where he repeats the same "I’m a moron" spiel.

  While I have only watched what few clips came my way, I was under the impression that was the entire point of his podcast: Invite interesting* people, then validating them in discussion by agreeing to most of their takes regardless of how bizarre they are so that they freely speak of their topic.

  *wherein "interesting" is usually something from the categories of fringe beliefs (often conspiracies), drugs, culturally influential people, or experts on whatever is a big topic for his viewership at the time.

  Many of the experts are also those of the fringe belief kind.

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  Basically, if you take Rogan’s views significantly more seriously than the beliefs of your local meth head, you are doing it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do empty nesters deal with over cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Freeze leftovers. If food is too much, put 1-2 meals in a freezer-ready container, put it away. Eat it a few weeks/months later when you’re too lazy to cook.

  2. Measure ingredient amounts. Usually, I don’t bother, but if I don’t want leftovers, it’s necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternatives to bars that stay open late for folks that don't drink alcohol?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting.

  For me, Makerspace always made more sense. You go there to make something. Hacking, while not negative, always has the meaning of modifying existing things to me, which does not always apply.

  I hack together an item = I merge several items into one. I hack an item = I modify an item.
  Not a native speaker, so I’m unsure if that is the correct usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is RSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a big difference between paid and free readers? It seems weird for them to only list readers with monthly cost (+a browser).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS to update Windows every 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone made a website to compile them you might find, but here’s what I remember:

  • Putting the extraordinarily unstable test release of a package in their normal release. That package specifically included disclaimers that it was for testing only, not meant for any users, and it was very clearly not meant for general release for unsuspecting end-users.

  • Getting banned off the AUR (twice?) for DDOS-ing it due to their faulty code. As I recall, every machine queried the AUR for updates constantly, or something like that.

  • Breaking AUR dependencies because of holding back releases for a few weeks, which they regularly to improve safety. Basically, don’t use AUR on Manjaro.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS to update Windows every 3 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  no distro will make decisions that are even in the ballpark of insanity of those by big tech corps.

  Manjaro dev team enters the room.