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mudeth , (edited ) to linux in Wondering if I should make multiple partitions or keep it as PopOS made it.

Feels like good practice to have /home mounted on a separate partition if you want to install a different distro or reinstall but I’ve never had to test the theory.

atlasraven31 ,

I’ve heard the same but I went with the defaults as a n00b. Ubuntu made me create a /swap and other sub directories.

pinchcramp ,
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Is the screenshot you posted from Ubuntu or Pop!_OS? Because partition 4 is a swap partition.

But I agree with mudeth, having a system partition and a dedicated /home one is a decent setup.

Quazatron ,
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This. For home use having a separate / and /home (and maybe a swap) formated as ext4 is solid and allows you to distro hop with ease. As you get more comfortable with Linux, you’ll learn about the luxury of LVM volumes and more exotic filesystems with compression and other features. What is important is to always keep fresh backups. BorgBackup is your friend, you can find a few graphical front ends for it to simplify things.

nan ,
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Works well for distrohopping too, I usually would rename my home to oldhome or something and then just move my files to the new one to prevent dotfiles from potentially causing issues.

Also beware Debian installer with a luks encrypted drive. Where most things will unlock a previously-encrypted drive and use it, Debian installer will (or would, it’s been a while) reformat the encryption before it confirms any potential partition layout changes and you can end up with an empty drive before you know it.

CAPSLOCKFTW ,

Just add a new user when you install a new distro, then you can have a fresh start. If you want to try your old one, just useradd you old user and try it out.

freeman ,

If you use something like btrfs you can use a single partition and just use sub volumes to achieve similar. Though it’s definately more complex.

LouNeko , to lemmyshitpost in My younger days
Lennvor ,

Is it, though?

LouNeko ,

Yes it is. I’ve played Warframe on console (native PC title). It has a cursor and shitty uneven menus. Which means, I don’t play Warframe on console anymore. War Thunder has the same problem but they allow you to use the PS4 controllers touchpad as a mouse, so its not that much of an issue.

Mowardz , to mildlyinfuriating in Some people truly believe the whole world exists just for them

you may not realize…that belongs to the main character

chairman , to news in This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

IMHO the graph is not misleading. It is telling the story that more people are dying due to heat related issues. But yes, you may be right, that the older population contributes to this more but this does not mislead in any way that more people of dying to due heat related issues…

Tramdan , to mildlyinfuriating in Some people truly believe the whole world exists just for them

Yes you can walk round it but could you get past with a pram?

WHATaDEMAGE ,

Stuff like this infuriates me when im walking with our twin pram…

scarabic ,

It’s mildly inconvenient but yes I would just walk around and budge the bike a few inches out of the way. It’s like carts at the grocery: if someone parks theirs blocking the lane you just shove it aside. With bikes and carts you can do this. People here are acting like this is a misplaced car that cannot be easily be moved aside.

kionite231 , to mildlyinfuriating in Some people truly believe the whole world exists just for them

Seeing this is normal where I live. 🙁

WolfhoundRO , to mildlyinfuriating in This

We need to create our own Pixel games on Lemmy. On every server. With blackjack and hookers

PurpleGameBoy , to mildlyinfuriating in Some people truly believe the whole world exists just for them
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I know this was in the Netherlands before I even saw the Dutch licenseplate lol. This is common practise, very annoying tho.

x4740N , (edited ) to mildlyinfuriating in Some people truly believe the whole world exists just for them
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At least you don’t have those rentable ebike or escooters parked on pathways blocking the way

damnYouSun ,

They’re not more or less in the way just because they’re electric.

I’ve never understood the hate for them. Sure people leave them in annoying places and inconsiderate with them but that’s not the scooters fault. Also it’s a very easy problem to solve if authorities could be bothered, if a scooter is found in the way then fine the last person to use it.

x4740N , to lemmyshitpost in How to inflate your foldable phone
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You don’t want a spicy pillow

over_clox OP ,

Hey, this isn’t a cooking or sleeping channel. You do you.

All jokes aside, this fella is right, you definitely don’t want a spicy pillow (swollen battery for those that don’t know).

DrNeurohax , to news in This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
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I'm 110% on board with global warming, but this graph is misleading.

The author needs to at least correct for population changes (heat deaths per X residents). Even better would be to account for changing demographics, like age and county. From this random stats website, it looks like there has been a dramatic increase in proportion of older residents since 1970. Old people are more likely to die, so more elders = more deaths.

If I wasn't about to head to bed, I might try to fix it, but.... sleep.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure there has been an increase in small plane crashes in AZ. The hot air is much thinner than most pilots are used to, so they tend to forget accounting for changes in thrust and climb rates. I'm pretty sure a couple happened in just the last few weeks.

oo1 ,

yeah, people lose so much credibility when they don't even control for simple easy things.

there will always be some confounding factors, but doing rate per population, is rarely hard - andneeded over decade comparisons.

demographic risk adjustment is more complex, so i'd not expect that. but if it is at least acknowledged, then the article is more credible and will get more (of my) attention.

media (and i guess their audience) seem to enjoy hype though . . .

oh shit this is the f.t. i used to think they were among the more credible journo's. pity.

tryptaminev ,

Then lets ask the other way round:

Shouldn’t we be doing more about increasing heat related deaths, even if it would be primarily caused by more people becoming vulnerable to it, or more people living in the zone that is dangerous?

DrNeurohax ,
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I agree. And shit like this makes me trust financial reporting in general. It's akin to not accounting for inflation in financial graphs.

And yes, the risk adjustment can be as complex as they want to make it, but when I clicked, I was expecting a study of some type. Probably my bias kicking in. My first thought was, "Are they kidding?" Then I saw it was from a news source and thought, "Oh, okay... no wait. Still, they know this is bad, right?"

Still gets those nummy clicks, I guess.

rob64 ,

And whenever you have a chart of historical data like this, you have to at least consider that an increase could be reflective of either improved diagnostic or record-keeping abilities.

dmmeyournudes ,

If we stop testing we will have 0 cases!

TheLowestStone ,
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Finally, someone gets it. We just need to ban thermometers.

DrNeurohax ,
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The libs are making us slaves to those damn thermomasters! They better not take away my freedom to boil off those 3 remaining brain cells!

Stovetop ,

AKA the conservative COVID strategy.

Dozzi92 ,
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More like you just died from old in 1970, versus acute heat stroke in 2023.

I say this being fully on board with the climate change. Charts like this serve little purpose when you don’t properly adjust for the myriad changes that have occured over the last half century. And before anyone says “you mean like global warming,” no, don’t account for that one, because that’s what we’re trying to see.

DrNeurohax ,
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Yeah, it can be as simple as the death certificates requiring only a primary cause of death.

Old man collapses from a heart attack while trying to change a tire on a hot desert road? Cause of death: heart attack. If more details are requested, they could probably get away with just claiming age-related health issues. The guy is dead, no foul play, the case is closed.

DrNeurohax ,
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Very much this, and especially over this period. More universal diagnostics, more emphasis on secondary causes and contributors, etc.

And it works the other way, too. Fewer people should die per capita based on faster EMS response times, better medicine, more urban living, etc.

The big one for me is age. I never really heard of people retiring to Arizona until the late 90s. It was always Florida before then. The over 50 crowd is 36% now vs 23% in 1970.

banditoitaliano ,

Hmm, but a big part of the problem here is that vulnerable places like Arizona are also those seeing such high population growth. I’m not sure correcting for that would make the graph “better”, it would just show something different.

DrNeurohax ,
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I'm not advocating for better or worse. In the end, the data shows what it shows. I'm just saying that there was essentially no "analysis", making any interpretation inappropriate.

Hey, more people should survive, thanks to newer medical treatments and more concentration of populations around cities.

On the flip side, there's a larger portion of the population that's older and from out of state.

In between there's the chance that the threat of heat-related health problems should be much diminished due to widespread access to air conditioning. But, that also means more people haven't had first hand experience with heat exhaustion/stroke, and don't realize how quickly things can go from kinda bad to dead.

IntrepidIceIgloo ,

rates. I’m pretty sure a couple happened in just the last few weeks.

I’ve heard of articles saying that global warming is already leading to more air turbulence and that it is only going to get much stronger by the mid century

DrNeurohax ,
@DrNeurohax@kbin.social avatar

Yes. Hot air is thinner, so there's less lift on aircraft wings. There's actually a conversion they're supposed to use that basically says, 'At this temp, treat the plane as if it's actually at this other, much higher, altitude."

Here's one of the recent videos I've seen mentioning it (around 5 min in they mention the "density altitude"). I'm not a pilot and just find the stuff interesting.

shandrakor ,

That was super informative, thank you.

saltesc ,

As an analyst, this pissed me off. There’s like an oath to never fudge, misrepresent, or be selective with data to manipulate the viewer. We collect raw data for the purest source of fact. It is a single source of truth.

Just a quick Google on one of the glaringly obvious misrepresentations in this graph, and AZ’s population in 1970 was 1.77M; it is now 7.36M. Displaying this graph more truthfully would still highlight increased temperatures impacting increased rate of death to heat, but not at all dramatically, so the creator has misrepresented. Then there’s a lot more to factor in for proper analysis. Healthcare rate with growth? Infrastructure for the same? Why just Arizona?

Climate change science has fact and figure on its side. There is not need to misrepresent it like deniers do. Doing so dilutes and damages the cause by denying the one thing it has, truth.

DrNeurohax ,
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Exactly. I stumbled across this report from the AZ Dept of Health which breaks it down into per 100k people and the data still supports the author's point. The report then goes on to divide up the population by age, residents vs visitors, county, etc.

Hell, the FT author could have just included a plot of the population growth, which was pretty linear. Not great, but better than nothing.

Grinds my gears.

DakkaDok ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/851a0dde-13c3-4267-8c32-bc9b9a2145c7.png

Here’s a version scaled by population (deaths per 100,000 residents). I’m no expert in this kind of thing, so I didn’t account for other factors, such as age groups. Also, the data I found using the source in the original graph only went up to 2021, and didn’t include 2017 for some reason.

DrNeurohax ,
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Yeah, that looks more reasonable. The original graph makes it look like there have been ~5x the number of deaths in the last few years compared to ~10 years ago. Adjusted for population growth, it's ~2-3x.

That's still really concerning and makes the point the article was making, while being much more accurate and defensible when scrutinized. Thanks for that!

Chriszz , to news in This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

We’re fucked bros

Ni , to news in This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.
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We desperately need regulation for people and workers in extreme temperatures. We'll be dealing with more and more of it as times goes on so the protections need to be in place.

Skunk ,

And regulations for less pavement, concrete etc and more green and trees to provide shade and cooler temperatures.

You can live in extreme temperatures, provided the infrastructures are built for that (ie. Ouarzazate in Morocco).

But with the US urban planning and all for cars policy it won’t happen before it’s too late.

Ni ,
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There was an interesting study done on a city hear me which said that the lack of trees and general built design of the area had made the city's temp go up by between 2-5C. Which is a big difference!

afraid_of_zombies ,

I am starting Guerrilla gardening club. You are welcome to join. No membership dues, no pledging, just starting planting

gAlienLifeform ,
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And regulations to provide for the humane resettlement of climate refugees

STRIKINGdebate2 ,
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Trees and green in the US southwest a pipedream tbh. The only way that could possibly be achieved is by siphoning off a ridiculous amount of water from another location. Call it as it is. The US Southwest isn’t built to sustain human life.

WhipperSnapper ,
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“Pheonix is a monument to man’s arrogance”, as King of the Hill said.

It’s one of those places I think about sometimes, wondering “do people really need to live everywhere”?

Malfeasant ,

There has been talk of diverting water from the Mississippi river (or was it the Missouri?) and somehow transporting it across the continental divide to the southwest. Terrible idea, I might be worried if it wasn’t so far outside the realm of possibility.

WhipperSnapper ,
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Aren’t all of the major waterways, or at least a good portion of them, facing water level challenges as is?

ButtonMcLemming , (edited )
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In my opinion, the only solution, although radical, would be to make motorists’ lives a living hell (charging for road or parking lot use, lowering speed limits to increasingly slow levels, removing on-street parking lots, prioritizing bicyles and buses, reducing bus fare prices, and converting excess parking lots to new neighborhoods) that public transport (i.e. metro and local commuter trains) and bicycle paths can be considered to reduce road traffic with the budget allocated to making new roads or maintaining currently existing ones allocated to improving the public transport system and even providing a bicycle route network that can allow us to follow in the Netherlands’ footsteps.

PatFussy , to news in This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

This graph also looks like the number of opioid deaths. I there is a jump of fentanyl deaths starting in 2010 and i wonder if this is related

Maajmaaj ,
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…how would literal heat death be related to some damn Fenty? Drugs ≠ fuckin heatstroke or severe burns, bruh.

mayo ,
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I looked up news articles after seeing the graph. Seems to be more about elderly and homeless. People touching knobs or falling on the concrete and receiving burns is a thing, but it’s trending way up. Like 83C concrete… crazy hot.

PatFussy ,

The only reason why i said opioid is that i wss thinking people who live on the streets who are one something dont feel shit. Elderly makes sense too.

GardensTale , to retrogaming in Recently picked up Chrono Trigger - Amazing Game!

I should really play this someday.

But for recommendations: have you played Golden Sun perhaps?

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