Does a clean PC run better than one with a lot of dust in it?
I am not a tech person, but I cleaned out my secondhand PC today, and it took hours with the sheer amount of dust accumulation. The fans were nearly overloaded with it!!...
How is Open Source project work paid?
Forgive me but this part of the open source and foss confuses me. If you code and release an open source and free piece of software like say, a robust video player such as VLC, how is that dev being paid?...
NSA and Ghidra
Do people trust Ghidra? How come it’s been developed by the NSA? From an outsider perspective, that sounds so weird!...
Why do sports have different names for their arbitrating officials?
Referee, umpire, official, judge, etc. Why are there different names rather than just one?
Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?
By “good” I mean code that is written professionally and concisely (and obviously works as intended). Apart from personal interest and understanding what the machine spits out, is there any legit reason anyone should learn advanced coding techniques? Specifically in an engineering perspective?...
Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?
On the one hand I like GOG because it has no DRM and has better prices (in my country) than Steam and I have the feeling that on the one hand it follows more the open source philosophy than Steam itself, but Steam has helped enormously to play Windows games on Linux, so I haven’t really made up my mind....
How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news?
How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way?
Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop?
If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized?
How do you join a different instance?
Anyone else get random cancellation emails from onlyfans?
Now, I never created an onlyfans account, but today I got two emails from them: one asking to confirm an email account, and one confirming its cancellation. Was that a hack going around or just bad luck on my end? I already changed passwords and everything, just wondering if anyone else had a problem like this.
How can I recreate my grandfathers voice?
I have several tapes (yes actual cassette tapes) of my grandfather reading a novel....
Layered encryption?
If we consider information to be safe if we encrypt it (e.g., text in a file, encrypted with modern strong encryption), would it be safer (as in harder to crack) if we then encrypted the encrypted file, and encrypted the encrypted^2 file, etc.? Is this what strong encryption already does behind the scenes?
Are there any good critical thinking courses online?
I’m interested in helping friends tell the difference between fact and fiction, truth and hearsay and general stuff like that that gives peace of mind that they can defend themselves from gaslighting, makes life easier to live, and harder to be taken advantage of by propaganda. Just a few examples....
How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is it just fiction?
(Win 10) Move all windows of a single programme to a different screen?
Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this?...
What are the differences between unsaturated, saturated, monosaturated, polysaturated, and transaturated fats?
And how are those differences relevant to our nutrition and diet?
With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?
If it is, I assume it’s measured in thousandths of a gram or something, but are we all nevertheless a wee bit heavier than we ought to be?
What kind of laptop should I get?
So, I’m planning on buying myself a (second-hand) laptop once I get the money. I’m nowhere near tech-savvy so it has to be easy to use, but also I want something that is built to last, as opposed to certain (looking at you, Apple) devices that are desinged to become unusable within a next couple of years....
what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care?
I have a problem with establishing boundaries....
Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance?
Car insurance is relatively simple. I shop around, telling them how much coverage I want. They request my driving history, and give me a quote. At any time, I can shop around and change insurance policies without any problems. Once it’s time to collect payment, it’s a relatively simple matter. What makes health insurance so...
If you feel like you're always being watched, can you really claim to have integrity?
How the fuck do you meet new people?
I just got out of a 10+ year relationship a couple months ago, rather suddenly and not of my own volition. I do not fault my former partner, she did what she felt she had to do to be happy. Unfortunately, turns out, I didn’t really have any friends of my own, I was just a hanger-on to her group. I have done a bad job of...