Dave

Dave , 1 hour ago

Stardew Valley is casual, low stress, with heaps of content.

For quick few minutes I’ve recently been into Pirate Solitaire which is on F-Droid.

Dave , 47 minutes ago

If you’re not drenching it in home made cheese sauce, then you have given it a real try.

Dave , 46 minutes ago

Plus, salads can be calorie dense too!

Dave , 18 hours ago

I thought barometers were initially included to help with location. Air pressure isn’t just for weather, it also helps work out your altitude.

Dave , 2 days ago

Not OP, I couldn’t find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn’t watch the video, but this seems best described as a “plausible” explanation rather than a proven fact.

Dave , 2 days ago

This says there are fat naked mole rats, but it says their role is to connect to other naked mole rats communities by digging when the ground is soft from rain. That’s quite different from the claim that their role is to block the tunnels to stop them flooding.

Dave , 3 days ago

Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn’t have trolls and Russian bots, while I’m in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐

Dave , 3 days ago

The matrix one

Dave , 3 days ago

That’s honestly pretty amazing that you’ve been here a year and haven’t seen a troll! Though you’re on an instance with a very active and determined admin, there is definitely a difference in how much you see between instances because of how removals work.

Dave , 3 days ago

👋

Dave , 5 days ago

Yeah, it might be easy to install but you are also a beta tester of things that will be in more stable distros two years from now.

But with that said, I love Fedora, but with Gnome. I use Nobara for the gaming simplicity but with the vanilla Gnome spin. I’d recommend it to anyone, most Linux distros these days are pretty user friendly once installed.

Dave , 5 days ago

Beta is the wrong word, but there is quite a difference between in stability between Fedora and Debian.

Dave , 6 days ago

And here I was thinking it was: F U, yep.

Dave , 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that those 75 users are in an ecosystem with the 50k+ Lemmy/K/mbin users, along with users from Sublinks, Mastodon, Firefish, etc.

Dave , 13 days ago

Haha dumb autocorrect. Firefish is what I was trying to say.

Dave , 9 days ago

Huh, is there some drama I missed?

Dave , 14 days ago

GoG does DRM free, and not just old games. Not many new AAA because convincing a big company to sell their game DRM free is hard, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on there.

Dave , 14 days ago

Yeah, and lots of new popular indie games. Some recent oneish I’ve got are DREDGE, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. OK not super recent but not all the games are 20 years old or more. Even Skyrim Anniversary is on there.

Dave , 13 days ago

I’m playing BG3 on Linux on a laptop with integrated graphics, and I haven’t had any issues other than not being able to run it with graphics set to ultra (expected since there’s not graphics card).

Dave , 14 days ago

I never knew about it until now and I’ve used GIMP often enough, but if I was going to assign a keyboard shortcut, that makes sense. Ctrl +A select all. Ctrl + Shift + A select none.

Shift is the oppositer (reverser?). Tab goes to next field, Shift + Tab goes in reverse order. Ctrl + T open new tab in browser, Ctrl + Shift + T reopen last closed tab - OK that’s not exactly opposite but close enough.

Dave , 14 days ago

Calculator?

Dave , 14 days ago

DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.

Most people will use their internet company’s DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it’s blocked instead of to the website server.

More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.

ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites

Dave , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

You already have Jellyfin, maybe test out adding a music library and using Finamp or Fintunes to access it?

Dave , 19 days ago

Ah yes, thanks, edited. Using a new keyboard and the autocorrect is still learning.

Dave , 20 days ago

You’re not gonna grab some lactase pills with part of the cash, or spend that $15 on dairy free ice cream?

Dave , 20 days ago

Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).

My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don’t think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.

Dave , 20 days ago

Are you trying to make me feel old?

Dave , 20 days ago

Holy shit, TIL!

Dave , 20 days ago

Super impressive since we used to play Quake 2 all day on it!

Dave , 20 days ago

I mean I guess you are supposed to take it to your computer repair shop and tell them it won’t stop playing Für Elise, and the shop is supposed to recognise it as a failure of CPU fan signal. If it just beeped a few times on startup then people would ignore it, and if it beeped constantly then well maybe Für Elise is nicer.

Dave , 19 days ago

I don’t think those speakers are capable of voice. They can handle a few different beep tones and that’s about it. The song was not like listening to Spotify, it was played using beep tones.

Dave , 19 days ago

Ah shit the sheep thing! In fact, there were others I can’t remember. And I seem to remember somewhere along the line they went from fun to spam things walking around your screen trying to make you buy shit or maybe they were trying to scam you, I can’t remember but they weren’t fun anymore, and hard to get rid of.

Dave , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Bonzai buddy! Yes, that was one. Also I seem to recall naked women ones you couldn’t close.

I don’t remember grommit, but also I failed to find anything when trying to search it up. It shares its name with too many things.

Dave , 18 days ago

Haha evil! I love it!

Dave , 24 days ago

In addition to what others are saying, there is a lemmy for people that moved from r/blind: rblind.comIt has a small number of active users, but perhaps you might get some help there. You could perhaps ask in their main community, !main.

Dave , 24 days ago

I’m dumb, your account is on that instance 😆

I think here is a good place to ask as well, just wanted to make sure you were aware of that community in case it was helpful.

Dave , 25 days ago

And I think this video is talking about scrum implemented poorly. But admittedly that’s the only way I’ve seen it done 😐

Dave , 29 days ago

Unfortunately they don’t take requests for new subreddits anymore. In addition, they don’t mirror comments so in terms of answers to questions it’s probably not that helpful.

Dave , 29 days ago

Kbin still has that bug. Lemmy.world is actively throttling the number of activities it accepts from Kbin as if they don’t, they then federate these out to other servers and it impacts on the ability of those servers to keep up with the genuine Lemmy.world content.

Even with this throttling some are struggling to keep up.

Dave , 29 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I like the idea of Sublinks for this reason. They wanted to create a Lemmy alternative, but they are maintaining Lemmy API compatibility. That way they build one piece at a time. The Lemmy frontend Tesseract was forked from Photon, and then became the Sublinks front end. But it’s still also a Lemmy frontend because they work with the same API structure.

In addition, Lemmy apps all work with Sublinks as well.

This way, they could focus on just the backend component, and rely on Lemmy components for the other pieces until they are able to get everything in house. Though they have a plan to keep Lemmy API compatibility, so there will always be this big pile of apps and web frontends that can be used with both.

Dave , 29 days ago

The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.

If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.

Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.

Dave , 1 month ago

He was a former president. The prosecution would never have gone to trial without a watertight case.

Dave , 1 month ago

They never claimed that all published papers are science. They said if it’s not published, it’s definitely not science.

Then goes on to say that to qualify as science, here are some things it needs to have done. They don’t say that it has to be current and reproducible to be published, they say that if it’s not published then it’s not correct and reproducible. Those are different claims.

Dave , 1 month ago

It looks like if you enter an “Other” option, it adds it to the list for others to select. Some troll must have added the others you can see on the results page they are marked as “(Other)”.

Dave , 1 month ago

It looks like if you enter an “Other” option, it adds it to the list for others to select. Some troll must have added the others you can see on the results page they are marked as “(Other)”.

Dave , 1 month ago

There are lots of peertube instances. The issue is that YouTube uses ads to pay content creators, and so everyone puts their content on YouTube in the hope of becoming the next big thing.

Dave , 1 month ago

Yep, definitely. That’s the allure. From what I can tell, it’s likely there are tens of thousands of people making over $1m a year. However, there are hundreds of millions of people uploading videos.

Most people won’t make much at all, but if you don’t have the people at the top making millions then no one has any incentive, so those people are critical.

Dave , 1 month ago

Haha I searched this up, general consensus seems to be if you sip it from a spoon you’re eating it, if you do it straight from the bowl you’re drinking it. I guess it’s the same for milk?