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python , to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?

Oh, definitely my vacuum cleaner. I have never changed the bag on that thing. And I dread the day that it will become necessary.

xmunk ,

Can you clarify… when you say “changed” do you mean emptied or replaced?

python ,

You can empty the bag without throwing it away?? I always thought those bags were supposed to be tossed as they are when they’re full :o

… I’ve done neither haha

ArtieShaw ,

Well that's terrifying.

My old vacuum bags were meant to be tossed, but I just emptied it and put it back because $.

bizarroland ,

You can definitely empty them and put them back, you just have to replace them when they tear otherwise all it's going to do is suck the dust up off your floor and blow it around inside your vacuum, contaminate your vacuum fan and motor and eventually render the vacuum cleaner inoperable and possibly flammable.

xmunk ,

Just to clarify something… having a full bag doesn’t mean it’ll explode in flames or anything like that (normally at least) - it just means your vacuum won’t vacuum… there’s no place for the dirt to go so the vacuum just lifts the dirt and spreads it across your floor.

You might as well just stop vacuuming.

ClassifiedPancake ,

There is very little to no suction when the bag is full. Have you ever checked if what you’re doing has any effect?

sugar_in_your_tea , to patientgamers in Gorogoa, video game equivalent of an LSD trip

Gorogoa rocks.

If you want something more trippy, here are a few puzzle games to try:

  • Bridge - MC Escher-esque, non-euclidian geometry
  • Manifold Garden - you change gravity
  • GNOG - “tactile” puzzle that’s really quite odd
  • Antichamber - non-euclidean geometry

Each of those are quite good, and a bit more of an “LSD-trip” than Gorogoa, and you can go further down the rabbit hole if you search for “psychadelic games” or similar.

HackerJoe ,

Also (now also on PC): Monument Valley 1 & 2: www.monumentvalleygame.com

wildncrazyguy138 , (edited ) to asklemmy in If AI is so rampent and used for evil purposes. Can we not use it for good purposes like creating a personalized JARVIS like in Iron Man? Would that not be better than using it for fake images?

Not going to go into details due to confidentiality, but I recently was involved in an initiative to utilize AI to scan education databases and identify students who may be at risk of dropping out, with the goal of having an early safety net for these folks. And also raising the schools retention rates, thus better outcomes overall.

So yes, AI can absolutely be used for good.

PetteriPano ,
@PetteriPano@lemmy.world avatar

I trained an ANN back in 2012 to trade bitcoin for me on mtgox. It performed quite a bit better than just HODLing until mtgox happened.

Now I live in a van down by the river.

CorrodedCranium , to asklemmy in People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

The reason of pirating things because you would be offline has mostly disappeared. Partially because mobile data has become more affordable but also because more subscription based apps give you some way to consume content offline.

Where I see this the most is with music. Outside of those who want FLAC quality I don’t know of a lot of people who pirate music anymore.

RmDebArc_5 , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it
@RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m currently on a atomic distro, so how I get my software from favorite to least favorite is this:

  1. Flatpak
  2. Appimage
  3. Fedora distrobox
  4. rpm-ostree
wonderfulvoltaire ,
@wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.world avatar

os-tree is slow as molasses

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.

Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.

MalReynolds ,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

As it should be, don’t do that.

Doctor, when I do this it hurts…

Also, you’re creating a disk image…

GravitySpoiled ,

Have you met nix?

possiblylinux127 ,

Nix is cool but also incredibly painful

LordWiggle , to technology in Unpopular Opinion: Xitter going bad is the best thing that ever happened to the Web
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

Unpopular opinion? I thought this was a popular opinion.

PlexSheep , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it

curl

Nomecks ,

|sudo bash

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

very smart much secure

Kusimulkku ,

I don’t remember what program it was, the dev explained it wasn’t available as flatpak because flatpaks are unsafe or something. Then the installation guide went “well anyway here’s curl | sudo bash.” Like, lmao. Talk about bad security practices.

superkret , (edited ) to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?

I have an old Soviet mechanical wristwatch that cost 3€ on an Eastern German flea market.
Compared to other watches it sounds like a Diesel tractor, the bezel rotates freely and the wristband pulls my arm hair out.
When I wear it, it’s too fast and when I don’t wear it, it’s too slow.

But I only wear it during the day and take it off at night, and that way it’s been keeping perfect time for 15 years.

Pechente , (edited )

I love this old soviet stuff. I’ve got an old Hasselblad camera clone from the Soviet Union. That thing is heavy as fuck and the metal shutter looks and sounds like you’re slamming a garage door. Operating this camera feels like riding a rusty bike on a muddy road and yet the pictures it takes are very decent.

Edit: Here’s a video of the shutter that I took ages ago. Also note how it jerks around the whole camera body despite me holding onto it.

superkret ,

I used to have an old Zenit ET. I loved that thing cause it had a small solar cell that powered the lightmeter (which was just an analog indicator moving over a scale).
So it needed no batteries.

When I moved to a new place I accidentally toppled an oak wood wardrobe which fell on the camera.
The wardrobe then had a hole in its back panel, the camera still worked fine.

catloaf , to selfhosted in Recommendations for running VMs on a headless server?

You want KVM.

But I’d check the performance on the NAS first. They’re not really built for VMs so you might be missing hardware features, but I’d check resource usage to see if you’re maxing anything out. And try reducing resolution, color depth, etc. to make it easier.

TedZanzibar OP ,

Well indeed, that’s why I want to move the VM off the NAS and onto something with some hardware acceleration. Are there any remote frontend options for KVM?

we_avoid_temptation ,

Virtual Machine Manager is what you’re looking for I think

scottmeme ,

Proxmox has a full webui with almost every feature you could want, except for some more advanced zfs features

just_another_person ,

Uhhhh, why?

catloaf ,

Why what?

just_another_person , (edited )

Why would this person want KVM? They don’t need anything a full VM provides, they’re just trying to run many services easily on a single host.

catloaf ,

They already have several VMs, containers, and want a full desktop on one. If it sounded like going down to one physical server would be appropriate, I would have recommended it. But condensing whatever they’ve got now would be a huge pain, especially if they find out it doesn’t work and they have to start over and go back to VMs and containers.

just_another_person ,

See your own answer for why that isn’t needed.

catloaf ,

It’s not needed because it’s currently mostly working for them? You’re going to need to use full sentences if you want to communicate, I’m afraid.

just_another_person ,

You altered, bruh? Read the response. No idea what you’re talking about.

Diplomjodler3 , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it

If you don’t compile from source, do you even Linux?

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

AUR changed my life

possiblylinux127 ,

Did someone’s script wipe out your tax returns?

299792458ms OP ,

Linux From Scratch user detected

Damage ,

Or Slackware

Diplomjodler3 ,

Ah … yeah … totally. I would never use some filthy peasant distro like Mint. No sir! Never never ever!

LustyArgonianMana , to memes in The real culprit behind all fascist movements
@LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world avatar

Behind the Nazis is what they learned from Trail of Tears and US antebellum slavery. Behind that, you get Rome.

It’s war. War is behind all fascism.

wesker , to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

When I was a kid, my grandmother bought me a Steve Urkel doll from a garage sale. It had a pull string and would repeat Urkelisms from the TV show. The thing severely creeped me out, and felt completely cursed. So I lit it on fire with gasoline, then buried it in a shoebox.

dessalines ,

You did the right thing 👍

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Did I do that?

Corno , to asklemmy in If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?

A SNES I have that is so old it has yellowed with age (The yellow color is due to oxidation of the plastic that was used). I don’t even know if it still works… 😭 The last game I played on it was Super Mario World and I experienced a corruption in which the screen went completely black and there was a rumbling sound in the background.

wesker ,
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The plastic on the SNES was some of the worst ever, when it came to UV discoloration. Though the SNES Jr. model specifically fairs pretty well, and has the additional benefit of being a 1CHIP model.

bizarroland ,

There is a treatment for that that involves like baking soda and aluminum foil and UV light. I think it's called retrobrite. Might be worth looking into but at the same time if you're going to do that you might have other repairs you would need to make on the machine.

wesker , (edited )
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Peroxide, heat, and UV light makes for a good combination.

But it’s not without risk, such as streaking or over-lightening. It also isn’t a permanent solution, but should buy you a good additional handful of years if the console is stored under optimal conditions.

I have used retrobriting on a few consoles, with decent results. I restored the plastic on a model 2 Japanese Sega Saturn this way, and it turned out gorgeous.

wesker , to linuxmemes in Snap out of it
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Compile from source.

Hupf ,
@Hupf@feddit.org avatar

Every February, I emerge qtwebengine to keep us warm.

MajorHavoc , (edited )

Lol. It’s not the groundhog we should be watching, then?

CameronDev , to asklemmy in What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?

Spaces

xmunk ,

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