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What are your selfhosted recommendation to manage your bibliography ?

The government is offering advanced degrees; what do you study?

You can get any graduate degree, masters or Ph.D. in whatever you want. What do you choose?

Export a Gnome Boxes VM and make it "real"

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what is RSS?

I feel like I missed this part of internet school.

What's your favorite example of developer's foresight?

My favorite is in the Dawguard DLC for Skyrim. If you somehow get far enough into the DLC to enter the Soul Cairn and you didn’t do the main story quest where you kill your first dragon, you’ll get unique dialogue with a dragon you meet in the Soul Cairn. He calls you Dovahkiin, and you can ask him why he called you that, to...

Is this true?

Hello, smart people. Filling out an online form to volunteer for something, Firefox’s Facebook-fence icon appeared on the email field. Confused, I clicked on its question mark. On the next page, Mozilla wanted to sell me Firefox relay for $7/mo. (That’s their VPN + email masking + phone masking.) I used my yandex.ru email...

The huntress is completely hidden and will strike without hesitation.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9861580a-1c32-4a00-83ce-14f7be9a6a76.jpeg

[SOLVED] Linux app which downloads torrent from begginning to end and allows me to watch the torrent as I am downloading it.

You lovely people have given me a lot of great FOSS apps and I thank you for your suggestions...

A way to disable laugh tracks?

Hi there, do you know if there is a way to disable laugh tracks from sitcoms? I really would like to rewatch some shows like King of Queens but I can’t bear the constant laughing in the background. Cheers

Good local-only/local-first wifi thermostat?

I want to be able to control my thermostat from my phone, so I’m looking for recommendations for one that meets the following:...

A good sources on China

I keep on getting deflected off to like the western news sites for information about China and then it’s just the news site demonizing the country. I was just wondering coming from like a Marxist point of viewpoint figuring probably this would be the best place to look for some thing even probably neutral about China. Does...

Why don't app developers provide an option to disable caching or a self-cleaning cache feature (like in the Fedilab app)? Dutch

Most applications clog up the cache space on your device’s memory. You have to delete the cache manually which is not convenient. Fedilab is one of the few applications that has a self-cleaning cache function when exiting the application. Why don’t many other apps have a feature to disable caching or self-clear the cache?

How can i know whether a website is a part of the fediverse?

Is there an easy way to see if something is an instance or community on the fediverse, or ‘just’ a forum on the web? For instance, would it always be mentioned in a sidebar? I know there are lists of instances, but i am hoping for something easier. I might be overlooking something glaringly obvious, but i thought i would...

What’s worse, loud farts or rank farts?

Desktop computer freeze which blocks all the local network‽

I have assembled my desktop PC about 2 years ago. It’s fairly beefy (AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor, 128Go RAM, nVidia RTX 3080 Ti). It’s running debian stable....

I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation?

i cannot possibly express how much of a gigantic pain in the ass this is; it’s making more more slovenly than i want to be because it’s such an inconvenience to throw stuff away....

if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it?

Totally not a an AI asking this question.

The only difference between a humane and an inhumane death, is whether or not it leaves a mess.

A person can be killed instantly through many different means....

What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up?

I had been wanting to learn how to play the guitar for years, but laziness, i guess, kept me from it. I picked it up with moderate seriousness and am very greatful i did. I wish i would’ve started sooner.

Who are the worst types of people?

Help: Limited volume range on Google TV

I’m using a Sony BRAVIA TV equipped with Google TV. A Pioneer Elite home theater system is plugged in to the ARC-enabled HDMI port. When I try to adjust the volume with the TV remote, the receiver only changes the volume within a range that isn’t perfectly consistent; usually displaying around -45 dB at minimum to -30 dB at...

Voyager and Paramount Plus

I just started watching Voyager on Paramount Plus today, and noticed that the first two episodes, which are shown together, are presented as the appropriate 4:3 aspect ratio, but Episode 3 “Parallax” is presented in a distorted 16:9 or 16:10 format. I see no option to change this in Paramount Plus settings, and my Vizio TV...