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What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have?

We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.

Where does Lemmy store upvotes, downvotes, and replies?

Does ActivityPub send those to other instances, or does ActivityPub only send the original post and the rest (upvotes, downvotes, replies) are stored only on the original server where the post was made?

What rather very specific scenario do you really enjoy seeing in movies?

# Make sure it’s not too general, please!...

Why do we always consider cultures as inherently better than cults? Are there no exceptions to this?

This might sound like a question inspired by current events, but I’ve actually been thinking of this for a while and can give pointers to a few times I had asked this or talked about it....

Is Lemmy also censored by the government? Or can I just openly discuss anything against the government here?

Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 1st

Scary edition of the weekly thread 👻...

Do you use an anonymous network for downloading?

I2P support anonymous torrents...

What abstract names do you have for God?

Jocular ones are welcome too (and no doubt inevitable), but I’m looking more for “sensible” ones. Some examples:...

What are your plans for the weekend?

What is the cost of housing in your area?

I am desperate. Linux is not booting

SOLUTION BELOW...

What do you think some of the fediverse's primary stumbling blocks are?

For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what’s stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

What's got you happy this week?

Alright, you know what? I'll be switching.

Hello there. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I have an old laptop (something like 10 yo). It has an HDD, 4 gigs of DDR3, an i3 4th gen 1.7...

Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming?

Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again....

what should you have prepared beforehand in case you were to die?

Snapless Ubuntu

Not sure what others are doing to use Ubuntu (23.04) without snaps, but this is what I am doing:...

While technically POSSIBLE, how viable is it to run Adobe apps, especially Premiere and After Effects, on Linux

I’m keeping it broad by not specifying a distro. I’m just curious is this a real option for actual editing professionals? As far as I understand you can make it work by running under Wine, but I’m guessing this comes with significant drawbacks. I’m having trouble finding any information on both the current state of...

Distro recommendation for ease of use and up to date software

Note: I don’t know if I’m posting this in the right community, I joined Lemmy recently....

What does real-debrid do?

I was looking through the megathread and saw this real-debrid thing. I have heard this name some times so I read what it does but wasn’t able to understand it. If someone could explain it to me I would appreciate it....

Endeavour vs Manjaro

Is there anybody whose had experience with both?...

What do you prefer to selfhost?

I’ve been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don’t really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that’s relatively visible, but...

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