My boi Sydney.
I dont buy purebreds but him and his brother were given to my family and I took Sydney with me after i was moves out for a few years. Hes the best little idiot. He is a British gray shorthair. Very affectionate.
What's a great but uncommon comedy movie we should watch?
How to retain my evening optimism?
Sometimes when I stay up late doing something creative I end up getting this very comforting feeling about the future. A sort of certainty that everything will work out in the end and that luck happy coincidences will always be on my side. If I had this sort of confidence throughout the day, I would live a much more pleasant and...
What would your contribution be for a book put together to restart a a civilization?
The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?...
TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
Get in, loser. We're going CIVILIZING
Opinion: Distributions that only change non-system pre-installed software or desktop environment should instead be packages or scripts
The majority of Linux distributions out there seem to be over-engineering their method of distribution. They are not giving us a new distribution of Linux. They are giving us an existing distribution of Linux, but with a different distribution of non-system software (like a different desktop environment or configuration of it)...
TIL Press win + k to quickly connect to a bluetooth earphone in Windows 10
never again go to system tray bluetooth icon > show bluetooth device > connect
People who've been to a (regular) party, what do people do there?
By “party”, I mean a physical social gathering of people for the purposes of having fun. It may be used in a sentence as “I am throwing a party!” or “Let’s party!”....
How I accidentally wiped my server by having a typo in my Nextcloud docker config
So, I moved my nextcloud directory from a local SATA drive to a NFS mount from a nvme array on a 10G network...
How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults)
I went to college with this guy 10 years ago and I considered him a friend up until this year. Something changed in him, and he constantly needs to put me down and I don’t know how to handle it....
How to deal with annoying co-worker
So this dude is basically a 46 year old man child and I don’t wanna armchair diagnose people, but he’s probably on the spectrum....
Huawei anti-porn filter may be active non-Chinese devices. [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Crisis Averted....
System76 values and ethics (Opinion)
Please don’t flame me too bad, I understand that although privacy and libre software are important to many in the Linux community, my opinions may be outside the scope of consideration for some and I respect that....
Most people unconciously associate the pause symbol (Two vertical lines) as currently playing and the playing symbol (sideways triangle) as paused.
What a weird war this is
It's the gold rush over?
It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?
Is it too late to date for me?
Hi my fellow Lemmy users! It’s been a while since I used this platform and boy did I actually miss you all ❤️...
Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Just got around to watching it for the first time tonight. We had so many people tell us we’d love it and need to watch it, so it was high on our list. Great cast, and it won so many awards....
What do you all think of Mental Outlaw
Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.
What is the attraction to kids?
There has been a ton of CSAM and CP arrests in the US lately, especially from cops and teachers, along with at least one female teacher seducing boys as young as 12. I cannot understand the attraction to kids. Even teens. Do these people think they are having a relationship, or it is somehow okay to take away another human...
Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men?
Edit2: It’s a subjective perception I’m talking about. Are you offended? Why?...
Why nobody has been capable of designing a painless, ultra comfortable, daily usable bra?
Shouldn’t be that hard, right?
Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back....
YSK: you can use a flashlight to direct cockroachs in the direction you want.
Why YSK: If you’ve ever had cockroaches in your home, you would be familiar with the feeling of unease that comes when they escape your clutches while roaming freely within the crevices of your home and soiling your belongings along the way. Before that happens, you can use a flashlight to direct them to your ‘striking...