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  • why do you even want to drink something that tastes like a tree in the first place?

    Fragrant herbal/woody flavors can be very refreshing. One of my favorite drinks on a hot day is spruce flavored sparkling water.

  • I re-watched the Exorcist recently. I found it scary, but in a different way from how people try to sell it.

    The head turning, the vomit, the spider walking, that was all shocking (and cool) but not scary.

    What I did find scary was all the science/medicine stuff. Doctors telling the mother that Reagan is faking it, or keeping her under sedation, or subjecting her to endless invasive tests. The real horror is the mother's realization that the material world cannot save her daughter. The horror of putting Reagan's life in the hands of faith.

    So I'd say that it works on several levels, where for some people, scary is "OMG, a monster face!" and for others scary is the incomprehensible.

  • Thanks for explaining. I appreciate that this is a proactive plan of action with clear goals and trigger events.

    I vote aye.

  • What is the practical definition of this blockade? I'm assuming that because the word "defederate" only appears once, in the context of Lemmy.world's actions, that this blockade is separate from defederation. If so, what does it actually mean? If this is actually a vote for defederation, I think that it should be more clear in the post.

  • Sleeping at work aside, I do really like the concept. As someone who sleeps face-down, that looks pretty cozy. If an airline ever replaced seats with something like that, I'd have no qualms about flying across the world and back.

  • I use it only as a reader, so can't comment on notes.

    As a reader, it's great. I love that the backlight has color temperature control, so I can adjust the white/red balance depending on the time of day.

    Koreader is pretty good software. It took some time to identify and configure my preferred settings. My only gripe is with "discoverability" of my library. Koreader has a very basic file selector, and I wish I could search titles, metadata, etc without needing another program (probably calibre?).

    Battery life is definitely not as good as your proprietary ereader. If I leave it suspended at 100% charge, the battery dies in 3-4 days if bluetooth and wifi is on, and maybe 7-8 if they're off. Meanwhile, my old nook could go several weeks without usage.

    My least favorite part is anything related to typing. The screen keyboard feels unresponsive at times, which is hard when you're typing passwords in a terminal session. For any shell work I connect to a TTY over USB, or I have a little bluetooth keyboard.

  • Bought a PineNote last year.

    A wonderful device! But it's pretty expensive ($400 before import duty) and required some hands-on terminal work to get set up properly.

    I knew what I was getting into though. As a Debian Linux e-reader, it was worth the effort and money.

  • Rule

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  • If serious: The breeding thing and this being SF suggests some strange subgroup from lesswrong/rationalism/TESCREAL or whatever they go by now.

  • My personal take: If I'm synthesizing historical information and recounting it in the current day, I would use their current name and pronouns. The person they are today (or died as) still did those things. It also gives space to recognize that, although they might not gave had the opportunity to be out as a trans person during those achievements, doesn't mean they didn't feel trans back then.

  • Oh cool.

    And can I also get a refund on the ~$17 tariff inspection fee charged by the shipping company? That fucking handout to a billion-dollar corporation who held my package hostage, just so they would fill out some paperwork? I'm getting it all back, right?

  • I've had my TinyMight for 6 years now, and the only thing I'd replace it with is a newer model where you can more easily unscrew the battery door.

    I see the G pen elite selling for $200 USD. I'd recommend to check out fuckcombustion.com to see what user reviews there are. There are plenty of vapes at that price point which look cool, but really aren't worth the money when compared to other options. And if you can't find many reviews on fuckcombustion, chances are it's really not worth your money.

    My personal recommendation: Get a vape which can be combined with a bong adapter. DHV through a bong is a sublime experience, even my friend who only eats edibles will make an exception when I pass him the TinyMight + Bong.

    Edit: Oh shit, the fuckcombustion forum is down? I hope it's not permanent.

  • how do you learn new things

    There is more to learning than just school.

    When you start a job, there are all kinds of things you will learn: New tools, how to work in a professional environment, new processes and techniques. Don't feel bad if you come back from work each day and don't feel like opening a book or some tutorial. You are absolutely still learning, even if you come home and can't stand the thought of touching a keyboard. I used to beat myself up about not coding in my free time or not studying new books, but starting a career involves so many more life changes than just "I get a paycheck now". It can take years before you feel motivated to learn again, and that's OK.

    I don't know what the work culture in Nepal is like, but if you're not running a 996 rat race, you'll eventually have the time (and money) for hobbies. I can't really stay motivated to learn something just for the sake of knowing, but I can keep with it if I care about the end goal. That's where hobbies help.

  • Different states have different laws, but many have faithless elector protections.

    A faithless elector is someone who, after being chosen for the electoral college, does not vote for the candidate that everyone expected. Since states have a wide latitude to select or reject electoral college representatives, they can pas laws saying "If you change your vote, we will cancel your vote and replace you". I would expect that this popular vote compact requires such protection.

  • I've had success with wayvnc, but that's because I use wlroots based wayland compositors. It doesn't work for GNOME or KDE.

    I suppose there's nothing to stop someone from having multiple compositors installed to the same host. One for meatspace interaction, and a wlroots based compositor for remote access.

  • Both revolutions came about in no small part due to terrible winter conditions.

    France had a terrible harvest in 1788 followed by a brutal winter where starving families had to choose between buying expensive bread or firewood.

    St Petersburg in winter of 1917 was miserably cold, and city dwellers queued for hours in outdoor bread lines while much of the available food was sent to war.

    It's not enough that people hate a government. If they still have faith that the system can work for them ("Just one new finance minister, and France will be saved", "If we can get rid of that damned Rasputin, the Tsar will wake up and hear our cries") they will give it a chance. Mass starvation has a way of breaking such faith, but it's obviously not the only thing that can.

    In the US, there's very much a mood among the anti-MAGA crowd that an election can still fix things.

  • For me, step 0 would be to travel to the Americas ~400CE and introduce various diseases that Europeans will bring. Maybe it would make me a bioterrorist time criminal, but the hope is that indigenous societies would have more immunity by the 1500s and not get destroyed by smallpox. Then they can mount a more effective and sutained resistance against European expeditions.

  • Maybe the real truth is that autism discovered Pluto

  • It looks more like a flatworm than a penis anyway.

  • Did someone ask for jank, dust, and cables?

  • weedtime @crazypeople.online

    My love language is cleaning the household glass

  • Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System @lemmy.ml

    How to disambiguate actors with the same name?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world

    I've become minorly obsessed with conditioning wood

  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio

    2m Moxon antenna for protesting

  • Rimworld @lemmy.world

    Getting scammed by a mystic shaman

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    Blog post where someone used Python quirks to evaluate false == true

  • Coffee @lemmy.world

    Espresso shot pullers: How long does your method take?

  • RPG @lemmy.ml

    Interested in running a Paranoia one-shot but concerned about the line between in-game and out-of-game consequences

  • Experienced Devs @programming.dev

    Update on my last post

  • What is this thing? @lemmy.world

    This shoebox thing near my furnace

  • Buttcoin @awful.systems

    My favorite new grift to read about: Definitely not illegal hedge funds

    protos.com /hyperliquid-lets-influencers-experience-blowing-up-a-fund/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Appropriate settings for a private matrix server

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

    If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?

  • transgender @lemmy.ml

    Agonizing: Stay or Go

  • Experienced Devs @programming.dev

    Our tooling saps my will to work

  • Ask UK @feddit.uk

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration

  • Trans @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration

  • transgender @lemmy.ml

    Tranarchy in the UK: Questions about GRC and immigration