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How can I help someone with a gambling problem?

My neighbour (40/m) (“N”) confided that his recently retired father (70/m) (“G”) has started going to the casino twice a day (all day but he comes home for dinner)....

Do you have any nostalgia?

Server box just died, recommendations for a new one?

My Intel NUC server just died (whenever it’s plugged in, it makes a buzzing noise, and the external power LED is off (the internal one is on tho)), so I need a new server box. Any recommendations?...

Baldur Gate 3 is must be what players experience in their heads when they do DnD.

Whats your favorite Star Trek season?

Not to be confused with favorite series. I think my favorite season is ENT sesson 4, which is funny because the series overall is def on the weaker end of the spectrum, and i dont think any particular episode of the fourth season is Star Treks very best, its just the season that has more good than bad episodes of any season of...

Today my friend is giving up smoking!

Not his first attempt, but I want to do whatever I can to encourage him to stay on the wagon this time. I don’t have any experience of this, so I’d appreciate any tips from those who have been there already....

Top games for emulator?

Got RetroArch setup and working, got a controller, got PS2, N64, SNES emulators currently but likely get all old systems at some point....

Should I go with a prebuilt or custom built NAS to get into self hosting?

Hey all, I’ve been doing a bunch of research on selfhosting the last few weeks as I’d love to lean on more open source projects for my daily productivity & entertainment. My main goal is to backup all my personal documents, photos, and videos (around 1tb so far over ~5 years, so not too demanding) and host a few services to...

Do other people ever have the experience of simulating yourself doing something in your head, and then doing it in real life exactly how you imagined it?

I’m thinking about sports as an example. I used to do fencing, and sometimes we would learn a new technique or I would imagine one to do, and I would imagine myself doing it, then it was almost like autopilot where my body would do it just how I imagined, like it was easy. It didn’t happen very often but when it did it felt...

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....

Is it possible to make a heat pump that cools down spaces ?

in python, how do i check if an user boolean input is true or false

to my knowledge, if you input any text it will return true and if you input nothing it will return false. if it’s possible without if statements, how do i check if they inputted ‘True’ or 'False (/ ‘1’ or ‘0’) when im doing ‘bool(input("Input True or False ")’.

Interested in learning more

Hello. I’ve been a window user from win95. I’d like to learn more about Linux but don’t know where to start. I had a brief intro when I was in highschool and recently I’ve been seeing more and more talk here on Lemmy. Mostly memes....

How to merge unallocated partition with primary linux partition

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Why do people look at sunsets?

I thought you could go blind looking at the sun....

To what extent is it okay to be wrong about things?

We live in an age of misinformation, but it’s not always on purpose. Sometimes we hear things or come to conclusions that end up becoming fact in our heads. Other times it can be malicious with intent to deceive or subvert. Sometimes it’s in the middle....

Is Graphene the only possible way to use google maps almost anonimously?

I’ve been proudly using Lineage OS with microg on my phone for a while now, and while it wasn’t ideal, it was good for my daily use....

So how fast do y'all think Starfield will get cracked when the early access goes live tonight?

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2+2=4 but what if 4 didn't exist?

Would you agree to algorithm-generated timelines if there were sufficient tools to check whether the timeline on an instance work as promised?

I think a big problem behind the reluctance of alternatives to the strictly chronical timeline on Mastodon is that people fear that too much power is taken out of their hands if they are introduced. But the fact is: it is already the case that we put a lot of trust in administrators to put the correct software in place. A...