Ooh, and now you can get the extra pathogens for free. Marvels of modern technology!

What’s the deal with that grate anyway? Never seen those in a sink before. Why is it there in the first place?

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Cool! What about silly minor annoyances in life? I have so many…

I’ve caused all sorts of destruction while moving furniture. My guess is, someone was moving a heavy bed made of steel. A hand slipped, the bed roller in an unexpected way and crashed into the wall.

What about the null rig where you have zero masts and sails?

It’s a risky investment.

It’s a numbers game. If you invest in 500 AI startups, but one of them becomes the next Saudi Aramco, Microsoft, or Meta, it will easily cover all the losses.

The AI startup gets money, and the new CEO gets to drive a Ferrari. That’s all that counts. Fulfilling the requests or needs of your clients is just an optional side quest.

Because money. As long as you have those two magic letters in your pitch deck, investors will just pour absurd amounts of money into your project.

China is already the world’s factory, so why not become the world’s battery factory too.

People seem to be interested in electric vehicles, so might as well. Once China is the number one EV manufacturer, battery manufacturer and solar panel manufacturer, it’s going to become as wealthy as Saudi Arabia and USA combined.

Good luck keeping up with that pace if your country still run on coal.

Oh. Is it for taste or something else?

During one assignment, I worked with a pretty interesting crew. Nearly everyone was really into booze, porn, fast cars and… well that’s about it. Most of them don’t really seem to have much going on in their lives. They’re rough, tough and they’ll get the job done, you know the type.

One of them wasn’t really close minded though. I told him about a local delicacy, and I described the taste as “a little bit weird”. He said that he’s into all sorts of weird stuff, and I have no doubt about that. He’s still an unsavory kind of guy, but at least he tries weird stuff when possible.

Anyway, telling a crew like this to join a D&D session might be a mixed bag. You should absolutely expect some bullying and childish behavior from some of them, but others might actually join anyway.

I would recommend spending that time on looking for a better job.

Sorting by scaled helps a little bit, but some communities just post soooo much that they drown out everything else. In order to fix that you would need “multireddits”, which don’t exist on Lemmy.

For the time being, I recommend making two accounts and using one exclusively for subscribing to the really busy communities. The other one could be used for everything else. It’s also an opportunity to try out a different instance.

If you find that one feed is getting dominated by a single community again, you may need to create a third account to manage your subscriptions appropriately.

I’ve been running Fedora on one of my computers fore years. It’s pretty good and stable, but there are lots of updates. I haven’t really bothered to tweak or update that much, which seems to be a bad combination for Fedora. I think this distro requires more maintenance than I’m willing to give it.

For example, updates used to work for a while, until one day they just didn’t any more. I fixed that, and things were ok for a little while, until another update broke the GUI again. Eventually, I just got tired of troubleshooting a basic thing like the update GUI, and stopped fixing it every year. I just ignored the GUI, and installed updates through the terminal instead. I just can’t be bothered to fix the GUI more often than maybe once every 5 years.

Eventually, I realized I don’t have the time or energy to do that much admin work for a computer that doesn’t matter that much. Had it been my primary computer, that wouldn’t have been a problem, but in this case it was. Recently, I switched to Debian. Let’s see how well that system handles the level of neglect I’ll be subjecting it to.

Besides, that computer doesn’t even require the latest versions, so why bother with Fedora. Debian should be new enough for my needs, and installing updates like few times a year should be fine.

Get an external hard drive case and pop an old disk in it. Install Rockstor on the pi, configure it and you have a NAS for backups or whatnot. I’ve heard it’s also possible to upgrade it to a personal cloud storage, but I haven’t gone quite that far.

Pro tip, just type =year(today())

Congratulations! How’s KDE running on Wayland?

When I got my current laptop, I chose Gnome because Wayland support was decent at the time and virtually no other desktop supported it. Later, a few others began supporting Wayland but I haven’t tried them.

I used KDE long ago with X11 and I loved it. I think I should give it another go, so that’s why I’m wondering. Is Wayland support ready yet?

Professional use is a whole different story, and I left it out because the previous message was getting a bit too long. 😃

If your work relies on a specific piece of Windows software, Linux probably won’t be good enough. Even if you can technically use that application through Wine or Proton, the work environment usually requires every feature to work as intended. If there’s weird behaviour that interferes with your work, it’s pretty clear that you can’t tolerate that. This can easily happen when your work involves using a computer to control a machine or to pull data from it. You may also need your computer to talk to other systems that expect you to use a client running on top of Windows.

However, many people need apps that were designed to run on a browser. That’s when you really begin to have options. Even MS Word and Excel kind of sort of work through a browser as long as you don’t intend to do anything even remotely advanced with them. Many people just need basic office applications, and in that context, Linux has been a viable option for many years already. Even though the docx->odt conversion is far from perfect, it’s usually good enough.

Many people also require specific functionality, but don’t really care which application actually provides it as long as the job gets done well enough. If that’s the case, Linux can usually provide an alternative. Don’t know about professional video production, but hobby videos can definitely be edited on Kdenlive. Same logic applies to Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape.