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My school and high school never had us read any non-fiction books (only fiction)? Do you agree this is a problem and if so why or why not?

Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.

Any of you have a self-hosted AI "hub"? (e.g. for LLM, stable-diffusion, ...)

I’ve been looking into self-hosting LLMs or stable diffusion models using something like LocalAI and / or Ollama and LibreChat....

Thoughts on AI music?

With Suno AI making some passable music, is it welcome here?

Does having fur help or hinder animals like otters/beavers/polar bears when they swim about?

Who do/did you look up to most in life? What made them so memorable?

PSA: Release Notes for the upcoming "It's Chewsday, innit?" meme release

As of the July release, future memes will use “It’s Chewsday, systemd?”

Why is a 1930's German military march song (Erika) suddenly showing up all over my non-fediverse social media?

I'm glad we don't snuggle people as a greeting the way we snuggle animals.

Edit to clarify that by ‘snuggle’ i meant all pets, scritches, belly rube, squeezes, ass pats, questions about who’s the goodest, nicknaming, etc.

So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?

"Lagrange Point" — Star Trek: Discovery Episode Discussion

Episode Information...

cute cat next door

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Have you ever seen yourself on a CAPTCHA?

I just had this thought while filling out a form. It’s pretty unlikely that anybody has seen a picture of themselves riding a motorcycle on a CAPTCHA but it’s not impossible and would be pretty cool!

What's the most alarming thing you've done while drunk or high?

The point of racing is to spend the least amount of time doing something you enjoy.

What's the closest thing you have to a life story/occurrence that would be the kind of story they'd tell on Untold Stories of the ER?

What's the most alarming experience you've had with a stranger?

What was the worst time you had at a fun event (party, vacation, etc.)?

What would be the consequences of a smallsword wound to the belly?

I’m 20, I practice fencing. My height is 192 cm, I usually fence against shorter opponents. They often manage to drive their smallsword into my belly. That’s why I’m curious: what would it be like to get wounded into the belly by a real smallsword? How lethal would it be? How painful? How would I react?

I struggle with depression and alexithymia. How do I write with emotion?

I have to write a paper about a place/time that I have an emotional attachment to or a place that has shaped my sense of self. I haven’t really felt much of an attachment to anything for most of my life. Even if I did, I wouldn’t even know how to begin describing the nature or cause of that attachment. I chose to write about...

Opensuse TW install can’t see drive

Hi guys, after some thinking, finally decided to jump on the Linux train and chose Opensuse TW, mainly for nostalgic reasons. I have an Acer Predator PT315-52, and wanted to dual boot it for now, just for safety reasons. I’m sure you all heard that before. However, when I get to the partitioning part of the installation, there...

Controller Oriented Interface for linux?

I setup a micro PC with Ubuntu and plugged it into my TV for media streaming, and was just wondering if there was a way to optimize the experience for non KBM

Headphones

I’m trying to run Headphones via a Docker container on my Raspberry Pi 5, but things don’t seem to be going well. It’s like it brings the Pi down to its knees or something and all this despite the fact that it never appears to really start let alone finish the full scan. Anyone got any experience? Any tips? Anything I...