Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift?
So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th
New week new games! Whatcha all been playing? I decided to finally finish paper Mario ttyd (emulated on dolphin). Almost done with it! Trying to beat bone tail on the 100 level dungeon rn…
Is it bad practice to run umount -a instead of specifying the directory to unmount?
#Is it bad practice to run umount -a instead of specifying the directory to unmount? I’ve always run umount -a to unmount my drive but i notice it unmounts a lot of other things. Is this bad?
Help updating to Fedora 40
Hello, I’ve installed Fedora 38 (KDE spin), about the time it came out and need a little help updating it....
Taking portraits with Iphone's FaceID
Pretty amazing results, actually
All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why?
All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Is it because of security concerns or spacing reasons?
Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning!
Weekly thread for any and all career, learning and general guidance questions. Thinking of taking a training or going for a cert? Wondering how to level up your career? Wondering what NOT to do? Got other questions? This is the time and place to ask!
NetworkManager makes me want to pull my hair out
I’m trying to set up a somewhat weird network configuration, three interfaces on a pi, an adhoc AP, a wireless lan, and a USB modem....
The PlayStation 2
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What’s not to love about this legendary system?...
What is the most horrifying thing you've seen on the internet that didn't involve gore?
Is it possible to safely torrent without a VPN?
Funds are limited at the moment and i’d rather not have a monthly subscription to worry about....
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...
Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime
How can I get OpenCL to work on Debian Bookworm with an AMD 7900 XTX?
I looked this up before buying the GPU, and I read that it should “just work” on Debian stable (Bookworm, 12). Well, it doesn’t “just work” for me. :(...
text clarity on windows is so good, can I get the same on linux?
I tried different font settings in the font settings and it didn’t improve much (font hinting, anti aliasing, custom DPI settings, different font size)...
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
Hi!...
You can post your questions/opinions related to PC gaming in this community
…this is how communities are made, otherwise we’re just a news aggregator where people randomly comment &forget
Were the [REDACTED] also a result of the Progenitors? DIS s5 spoilers
So, the plot in season five of Disco is hunting down clues left behind by scientists who uncovered the technology left behind by a precursor race of alien beings who panspermiad their genetics all over the galaxy, resulting in all your favourite humanoids, like humans, Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians, as seen in the TNG...
Once-in-a-lifetime meteor photo, captured by accident by Prasenjeet Yadav
Article on how the picture was made: petapixel.com/…/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-ph…...
What are the risks of installing Vanguard on a PC with dual boot?
tl;dr: Security concerns for my Linux partition, when running Vanguard on Windows?...
Reverse proxy
I have an openwrt router at home which also acts as my home server. It’s running a bunch of services using docker (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.)...
Cannot connect to my NAS after installing KUbuntu 24.04 LTS
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15050323...
Win10) BSOD while running certain games
(I know Linux is better than Windows, there’s a better time and place for that talk)...