There was like 12 packet pastas @ 85 grams each, 12 cans of spaghetti and baked beans. A couple of other odds and ends. All piled on my front porch when I arrived home from work today. The postman must've been livid.
Plus, even when you do find what you’re looking for elsewhere, are Walmart, Target, and Home Depot really so benevolent? The odds of me finding what I need from a small locally owned business (at least in my area) are pretty slim.
RIYADH, July 18 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to buy Turkish drones, one of several lucrative contracts President Tayyip Erdogan secured for Turkey’s struggling economy as Ankara reaps the benefits of his recent diplomatic push to repair ties with Gulf Arab powers....
“That’s according to a Monday report from The Wall Street Journal. Given Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion late last year, the markdown would put the company’s current valuation at about $23 billion, based on Ark’s estimate.”
$23b is what it was actually valued before Musk crazily overpaid for it and took over.
Now, that estimate comes from an investor that financed part of that purchase (so they’re already suspect for paying double the odds back then) that still thinks there’s a great future ahead for Twitter under Musk - so it’s wildly optimistic.
The real value you could find someone paying for it would be more likely in the mid single digits.
So what goes into writting a book, can anyone do it, ive been wanting to do many things for a while but i think sense i was a kid i wanted to write a book or even a short story or something that i can publish. the thing is i have major dylexia, i tend to not plan things and instead write on the spot, also i have partiall ideas....
@minorninth I'm seconding NaNoWriMo. It helped me write two novels, and I got my whole family into it as well. Plus there's a very robust community around it that is full of help and support.
Also, the best book on writing I ever read was oddly enough by Stephen King (it's called On Writing). It's not long, it's a very easy read and I swear I learned more from that book than I did in college.
I was trying to be helpful and informative. I thought that by stating that I would not tell lies, that I would be giving you more accurate information.
“By lying about lying, I thought I would be telling the truth”.
This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It's amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade....
As a recent Rust convert, I chose Lemmy because I expect it to be the better platform in the long run, and maybe one day I’ll be able to help fix bugs myself. I also just like to support a Rust project and have no love for PHP. In fact, with all the good tools out there these days, it strikes me as odd to begin a project of this scale in PHP.
I just found about this distro, which is relatively new (2021). Its specificity is that it doesn’t features any GNU software by default, which I find interesting.
I have been running it for a while. It is mostly awesome.
A non-trivial amount of software assumes Glibc though and so you will have the odd hiccup because of MUSL. I think one of the goals of Chimera is to improve that situation.
Weird! Touch scrolling actually improves for me with the Wayland backend so that’s an odd issue indeed! There’s gotta be a trick to it, but I am unsure of what that is at the moment.
It’s odd, the words “employee” and “employees” gets used here pretty often, but Amazon itself goes through a lot of effort to have people as contractors. I know, employees of the contractor…but still. These gig jobs are just a great way to shift liability and evade responsibility by the company itself. “We tell you exactly what, where, and how you do everything you do…but you’re not one of us”
Do you not understand US-China tensions? Both countries fear each other, and someone who’ve lived in the US for practically their entire life suddenly wants to visit China? That’d definitely raise some alarms about a potential spy. Maybe nothing happens, maybe they falsely assume I’m a spy.
Same thing when I return to the US, those border agents are gonna ask me why I went to my China during these times of high tensions.
There are risks from both countries. Whereas if China was democratic and US-friendly, none of these would be an issue.
Do you know how many people in the US were falsely arrested? That’s in a democratic country. Think about those odds if it were an authoritarian one.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...
I have the opposite problem, I find windows or other OSes to be so full of stuff, (feature ritch) but lack low-level “i just wanna poke at this briefly” capability, the (possable) reason why most Raspberry Pis run Linux is because its so easy to address linking this thing to that one. Ive used linux so long that ive become used to
its tree mounting scheme /foo/mountpointFolder on /dev/disk/by-label/C drive where symlink resolves to /dev/sdc rather than a linear one C:/ on *internal concept* rather than a
(more...)in Linux’s model, the mount system defines the source to be any file with the specified filesystem data in it. The Mountpoint (target) can be any (usually empty for safety) folder.
symlinks on windows are discouraged so heavily. I looked it up and still don’t know how to make them. on Linux, its easy,
how todo ln -s filePath pathToNewLink or in a GUI file manager, right click find “new” submenu click item with a link as the icon and a name likw “link”,
it makes a thing that acts almost just like the thing its referencing. in a GUI file manager, you can navigate into a symlink where reference is . and not get anywhere to great confusion. on windows this odd support for but insistence on not using a “basic feature” is mind boggling.
linux with things like Fuse (Filesystem in userspace) allows literally anything and everything to be a filesystem, more non real folders to make a new user’s head spin.
(more...)virtual filesystems that have files and folders that are actually this OS construct that’s stored in RAM or a view of folders not representational of how their literally on disk. (Fuse filesystem reading and proxying your multimedia organizing it into folders by artists)
all of these things are about having flexible references and easy access to computer resources, On windows I find myself wondering why I cant open this text based file real quick without needing to go online and get some software that will specifically handle it.
there are very few APIs you can touch in an ELF program (think EXE for Linux) that you cant with a Bash script and relevant programs. I get on windows and all the EXEs have have even more cryptic names than linux and no help menu or offical e-book and are at the mercy of the internee’s answer (whats lsass.exe). it all makes me go, screw it! if I want to access the Raw C drive to do a non off the shelf task, I need to make it myself which means learning their programming framework.
I dunno, I guess the fact that I’ve never been very active on Twitter. I use it occasionally and reply to the odd thread, but I never even knew only fans bots was a thing there.
While I agree with revolution, I don’t think pursuing that is at odds with voting a certain way once a year. There’s already a movement to eliminate FPTP in the USA and it has been making real progress. This additional step is necessary (within the framework of voting) for the other two steps to work - the second step keeps getting undone.
Personally I’ve been pushing for this since the 2000 presidential election. It has indeed been painfully slow… But it does seem to be getting somewhere. Not to imply we shouldn’t be organizing outside of elections, too.
One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.
That’s fair. I used the mobile app, so this may differ for any other user access points. It kept trying to read data that I have already denied, like location and access to sms as two examples. It also kept crashing at odd places. I’m sure there was a pattern, but I didn’t stay long enough to extrapolate it. Now, I know that the network is useful. However, at least at the time, the app was garbage and I had had enough of the leaks (as per my firewall) it was causing on top of the already privacy invasive defaults. I don’t shame anyone for using it, nor do I think it’s “the devil” or whatever. However, I do think the UI for the mobile user at the time was absolutely unacceptable as the official app, and the fact that the mobile web page almost forced you onto the broken app was also unacceptable. As I only ever used it for one community, I didn’t spend much time to find an alternative (if one even exists), and maybe that part’s on me.
Ordered 20+ groceries from Amazon on Prime Day. Today my order arrived with each item packaged separately. (media.kbin.social)
No winner in Monday's Powerball drawing has the next jackpot approaching $1 billion (www.npr.org)
Saudi Arabia buys Turkish drones during Erdogan's visit (ghostarchive.org)
RIYADH, July 18 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to buy Turkish drones, one of several lucrative contracts President Tayyip Erdogan secured for Turkey’s struggling economy as Ankara reaps the benefits of his recent diplomatic push to repair ties with Gulf Arab powers....
Twitter's valuation has been slashed by 47% at Ark Invest since Elon Musk took over (markets.businessinsider.com)
Burnt out or jobless - meet China's 'full-time children' (www.bbc.co.uk)
What goes into writting books?
So what goes into writting a book, can anyone do it, ive been wanting to do many things for a while but i think sense i was a kid i wanted to write a book or even a short story or something that i can publish. the thing is i have major dylexia, i tend to not plan things and instead write on the spot, also i have partiall ideas....
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages (www.androidpolice.com)
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages::Shooting itself in the foot again
So after interrogating Google Bard, I asked it to summarize its own lies and misleading statements… (imgur.com)
YSK that a lot of common questions/complaints about Lemmy are presently answered by kbin (kbin.social)
This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It's amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade....
Chimera Linux (chimera-linux.org)
I just found about this distro, which is relatively new (2021). Its specificity is that it doesn’t features any GNU software by default, which I find interesting.
What are the main challenges in Linux adoption for New users, and how can it be addressed? (lemmy.ml)
Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online (www.vice.com)
Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online::undefined
What do you call this? (sopuli.xyz)
I say “Vahz” my other half says “Vayze.”
China youth unemployment hits high as recovery falters (www.bbc.co.uk)
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert (overengineer.dev)
I was looking for a new USB-c hub and came across this article. It’s an interesting write-up of what is on the inside of some popular options
Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...
Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default (mashable.com)
Florida ocean temperatures peak to almost 100 degrees amid heatwave: "You really can't cool off" (www.cbsnews.com)
Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord (www.theverge.com)
One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.
Any good alternatives to browsers?
I’ve just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.