If I stop drinking does that decrease risk of cancer?
I’ve been drinking for 7 years. Typicall I’ve only drank 3-4 drinks a year. If I stop drinking now, would that help decrease chances of cancer? If it does will it take a long time?
Is it considered bad practice to expose selfhosted services on public internet?
I see a lot of people here uses some form of remote access tool (VPN/Tailscale) to access their home network when not at home. I can’t really do this because my phone (iOS) can only activate one VPN profile at a time, and I often need this for other stuff....
Reminder that Spock is due to have his Pon Farr a year from now in SNW
That is all.
"Definitive Extended Complete Deluxe Ultimate Special Edition"
https://abload.de/img/bullshit_editionlrcdx.jpg...
Basic fonts
What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?
How should I find a good hair cut?
I’m male 16, living in Iran for clarification. (English is not my first language so sorry for any mistakes)...
Is Lemmy still growing at a good rate?
I saw some stats on this months ago, especially after the initial explosion. I’m curious if the growth is still continuing at a good pace and also how everyone feels about the growth/activity within their communities.
How do I find communities on Lemmy?
Maybe it’s an instance thing, maybe it’s a Boost thing, but when I search for communities with the simple term “fitness” for example, I only get 5 results that have like, 30 members max....
Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions?
I swear every mobile site is absolute garbage that runs like ass on phones.
Robert Heinlein's idea of the perfect crowd control drug- would you take Happiness daily?
In Robert Heinlein’s novel “Farnham’s Freehold”, the protagonists accidentally end up in a very technologically advanced feudal society that depends on a drug called “Happiness” to control things and keep social classes rigidly separated. The hypothesis of this question: the drug is a pleasant tasting drink you take...
How hard is it to get food and water to soldiers during a war?
I was browsing the internet and I found this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WO0zSStdj8...
Eyes are freaky af
Just stared into a lemurs eyes for half a minute aparently (that felt like an hour) and it freaked me tf out. Since been staring into peoples eyes or animals eyes and its consistently weird and freaky no matter what. Also it feels like my conciousness is behind my eyes and maybe thats why they say eyes are the window to the...
Week 13 - Congratulations to MrJameGumb for their pic of the week.
@MrJameGumb original post may be found here: [OC] A Cat Shaped Hole in Reality I Found This Morning
Which is your favorite Lemmy app?
Journal keepers of Lemmy: Do you go back and re-read old entries?
It’s one of those things I’ve never talked about with other people, the most I’ve really been exposed to journal keeping in pop culture is Doug Funny. People don’t talk about their personal journals....
why do americans seem to always have thick necks in photographs?
Both men and women. Is it to do with the way they smile/pose for the camera or something? Seriously, I can almost tell someone is American by the way their neck looks in a photo
The last piece of the puzzle that is the tearing protocol just fell into place
This MR just got merged: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/…/19125...
Instance graveyard website
Is there a website that shows a list of dead instances and how long they were alive and why they died? I think that would be a cool website. It could be for Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, and everywhere else in the Fediverse!
People who work or study at night, how does it feel like?
Lightning McQueen is yesterday's Thomas the Tank Engine.
Both introduce the world to youngsters, but with different modes.
"Thank you For Your Service"... During the Revolutionary War!
I have a “baseball cap” style hat that I bought about 8 years ago and have rarely worn since....
Would there be interest and support in potentially building an art focused lemmy instance?
I’ve noticed a lot of people complain that niche communities aren’t really all that present here or are difficult to find. Having some consolidated in specific instances is very helpful for discovery as well as spreading the federation around....
Using radiotherapy to cure cancer which was caused by exposure to radioactive materials sounds a lot like homeopathy (except in this case it actually works)
favourite unknown artist?
under 5000 monthly listeners
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...