How do you *effectively* prevent plaque/tartar forming on your teeth?
My teeth are in good health and I take good care of them, yet I always get this plaque buildup no matter what I try....
Lamb straight from a farm
On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!
How crucial texting is to modern dating
I am 23 and I am currently in the dating scene. I’ve had no success and I’ve had the fourth person lose all interest in between setting up the date and the long wait between the date. It typically goes match on dating site, set up date, try to get to know each other over snap and then interest lost. I do tend to respond...
Is there an Android phone with 3.5 mm audio jack, removable battery, SD slot and popup camera?
I care about them in that order. So if it doesn’t have popup camera I don’t care as much as if it doesn’t have audio jack.
If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.
Shoutout to Wizarr Devs for being open to create a lemmy community.
I was on their discord and saw that they were creating their subreddit and requested if they could also add a lemmy community. Dev was very open to take a look and will be opening a poll to see what instance they will create their community. For those who don’t know what Wizarr is, they are part of the arr family and help in...
Topics for a Linux intro course
Hello fellow Linux Lemmings!...
We need to stop memes about Trunp.
I was scrolling on Lemmy and I saw at least 5 Trump mug shot posts. It’s just annoying at this point.
When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?
Why do washing machines prevent opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends?
Most washing machines have a timer that prevents you from opening the hatch just after the washing cycle ends. Instad you must wait for the timer to go off, usually a minute or two, before you can open the hatch....
What is the most attractive non-physical characteristic someone can have?
What backup service do you use?
I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?
Elder Scrolls Online is free on Epic right now
Been playing this for the last few years. Helped me get through lockdown!...
Good printers?
Looking for a new printer. My new HP Inkjet is a piece of fucking garbage and I’m going to smash it to pieces in my driveway....
YSK if you can't log in, clearing your site data should help
Everyone got logged out after the recent site hack. For me, when I tried logging in once things were back up, it would tell me I logged in, but I’d actually stay logged out....
Do not Think!
This has been a while and I had a pro forma manager (actually, we switched roles now and then, sometimes he was my manager, sometimes i was his) who backed me every time and vice versa. We still are friends....
Arch Linux isn't up to date anymore
Arch Linux keeps falling behind in package updates, basic packages like gdb and LLVM are newer in Fedora then in Arch, and Bash is newer in DEBIAN then in Arch. Why have package updates fallen so far behind?
Why are techies so averse to funding the arts?
As the guilded age came to a close in the 1900s, railroad barons, industrialists and banking kingpins put money into the arts in order to launder their image and legacies. We see no such thing today. Why is that?...
Who is currently cracking Denuvo games?
I am editing a page on a wiki, and I don’t want to accidentally publish misinformation....
How to begin setting up a media center?
I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine....
In a world of conflict news stories are often overshadowed by breaking news. What’s a recent news story, good or bad, you feel went under the radar?
How can I spy on myself?
I'm curious to see what information I'm blasting out to the various services I depend on for internet (ISP, DNS, probably Cloudflare, etc.)....
Professors who grade the same exam dozens or hundreds of times probably experience semantic satiation (explained in the body of the post).
Semantic satiation happens when repeating word or a phrase over and over makes it temporarily lose its meaning. This was first written about in the psychological literature by Titchener, in case you search it online and find that name....
Can you filter out posts on Lemmy that are in languages other than one you speak?
I’m getting a lot of parts in languages I can’t read. Can I filter for just my native language?