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  • Why are you on Lemmy?

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  • Non-ideologically: the culture is measurably better. Here's why.

    • The Lemmy Algorithm. This is a big flaw with Reddit -- people have the attention span for the first ten comments, and then subcomment upvotes halve (with decent std. dev -- we aren't Zipf's Law devotees there) until invisibility. I don't think my Reddit comments are even seen, let alone replied to. But here, new comments have a chance.
    • The sense of "mineness". A lot of people see this place as "their own", so there's responsibility to raise your communities right, and another to interact (hence, variably lower hostility). I don't post much but I respond a lot to the people who comment in them, because I feel that it'd be nice to contribute to do my part and keep this place up.
    • At risk of sounding self-absorbed/elitist, the entry level helps culture too. People are here because they were dissatisfied with the state of other sites, then made a jump; this is a sieve that to an extent increases the standard of sorting by new. (This has limitations of course -- we still have extremists for example -- and it isn't necessarily advocating for Lemmy to never be mainstream.)

    e.g. that Draw a Duck post a while back is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities.

    (I admit: this is a paraphrased comment I made a few months ago)

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • No extension needed. Use a bookmarklet or the browser console; it's a oneliner anyway.

     js
        
/* Bookmarklets should be one line. */
javascript:
document
  .querySelector('video')
  .playbackRate = prompt("Speed") || 3

    No need for webdev skills either. COVID kids used bookmarklets all the time to screw with their Chromebooks.

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.

    YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more ("The thing is, like, if you're trying to do this, or this, do X first" -- predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.

    Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )

  • What do you really wish having a copy of?

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  • I wish I had a copy of a copy ability that copies copy abilities, just in case

  • You have a magic dollar that allows you to do one dollar's worth of anything. What are you doing with it?

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  • If you use the dollar to match the S&P500 beginning in 1928, you'd earn about 1(1.1)^96 = 9 thousand dollars. (w/ dividends)

    9k a day times 365 days a year is 3.2 million a year. Or you can invest THOSE EARNINGS into ETFs at the present day again -- by 5 years you'll have made 16 mil principal + 5.4 mil interest. At that rate, it'll take 35 years to be a billionaire.

    Oooooor you can just continually dunk the magic daily dollar in Bitcoins instead

  • Which keyboard app do you use on your phones? Do you enable clipboard history in it?

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  • I use FlorisBoard for pure functionality.

    • I've been working with an odd app where you type at length but the message gets eaten sometimes. So I follow up everything with instant hits of the select-all + copy buttons
    • I find the < and > arrows to navigate text much more ergonomic than holding on space to edge around, especially for long strings (webpage forms lol)
    • Private clipboard is a measurable peace of mind. Had a heart attack when a private SSH key got autosuggested on the stock keyboard. Not sure if it ever gets TLS transferred anywhere though, e.g. for autocorrect training.

    I do switch back to the stock keyboard for emoji search though.

  • Bodyguard time I mean rule

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  • My pigeon carrier wifi isn't even loading the image but I see the top of Ihwa's head. Therefore I upvote

  • Any good up-to-date Conky examples or alternatives?

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  • Conky? A window with stats on it?

    I'm pretty sure you can spin anything like the sort with ags. Takes some legwork though (bit of TypeScript or Lua). Then just set the layer to something near the bottom and put it on every monitor, skabing, shaboom.

  • If you were an intelligent sea creature who could not always rely on the sky to tell time (as is often the norm whilst out there), what would you use as a time reference if you wanted to measure time?

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  • 1. I came to talk: to humans on this thread. If I wanted to go on duck.ai, I'd be there.

    • Bullet.
    • Point.

    2. Clearly this text format: makes me unnaturally angry.

    • Sorry -- there's instant distrust.
    • Wait, dolphins track their heartbeat? No shot.

    3. It is important to stay: within ethical rules as dictated by your workspace or organization.

    • Safety.
    • Dolphins look at how long sediments fall in a shell? What??

  • What's your purpose of life?

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  • To be furiously myself.

    Of course there's "how do you define yourself" but I discover it every day and it changes spectrally every few weeks (it better) so my definition is wrong over and over again. And I'm right over and over again too. Am I drunk?

    It's hard to define in words, since words lose meaning and are imperfect when they leave your mouth.But I feel well-defined when I turn a gun game into a tea party. Or a tea party into a gun game.When I stay up wake to grab an extra bite of time, or when I do jack shit to stare at cool red cirrus clouds. I'm defined when I fuck up but bite my way up the wall into a standing position.When I write something down and look back at it later -- "wow, I was smart" or "wow, I was braindead" -- then do it again.Decorate my room, or make my lock screen pretty, or reanimate a useless skill.

    I'm only a little opinionated though. If I download a personality, that's still me. If I 180, that's still me. If I'm dead wrong and eat advice, that's still me.

    I'm not gonna carpe diem into a crime spree but my time is fucking mine so fuck everything (romantically/derogatorily)

  • Lemmings, how good or bad would you decribe your ability to remember things?

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  • I have the most minmaxed memory of anyone I know.

    I can't remember faces. Names. Barely remember people. Events? Psssh. My coats go missing. Jackets, hats, scarves, you bet I need to attach stuff to myself and keep a gruesomely detailed calendar.

    But in school, I could remember concepts really well. Not individual facts, mind you, but concepts. So I had to learn in this sort of concept-first way to "guess" what the individual facts were. I don't remember the name of the dinner I ate last night but I knew stats geometrically/sum-ly enough to re-guess the formulas I needed to know. History classes definitely got weird with this minmax though.

    Tbf I think this style is actually an emerging phenomenon. Salman Khan spoke of an "inventing math" type of learning, and 3 Blue 1 Brown and that one MIT prof forgot his name made a brilliant repetoire for geometrically/conceptually training linear algebra. Makes me wonder what pedagogy will be like in two or four decades. Hopeful c:

  • How can a layperson learn enough about the law to adapt to a police situation?

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  • Does the adage "know your rights" simply denote "self-identify then stfu then get a lawyer" -- and nothing else? If not, where can a layperson find the useful-to-knows? (Yes, look up local law, but it's basically all scholarly articles or superficial news reports)

    This part is the crux of my question

  • Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.

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  • A brave, vulnerably nuanced answer. Suspicious... what are you planning?

  • DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

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  • Sure, but GPL would prevent the Chrome tracking addons and other pleasant closed-source paraphernalia (the difference between Chrome and Chromium)

  • How can a layperson learn enough about the law to adapt to a police situation?

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  • Pot Brothers! That's the video I was thinking of.

    Stfu is widely best (better to do nothing than go negative), but there's the caveats of self-identification being necessary in some places, and drawing police hostility, isn't there? (e.g. oh, we're all nice and joyful? oh... no? nvm... hmm, I sense a traffic violation)

    I'm primarily concerned about that part. What if stfu lets me get framed or get a short end of a stick? How do I prepare? Is stfu the be all end all?

    Haven't seen the Regent one, I'll give that a watch.

  • The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying

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  • What percentage of scrutiny should we follow? [1]

    Eigenvector. [2]

    [1]: Reinhardt, W. (2012). On the trustworthiness of numbers. Cambridge University Press.

    [2]: Paper, M. (2022). Station of play, fifth of its variant. Antarctic Publishing. https://jstor.org/stable/12345-paywalled

  • Is there a working method to use argon2id with encrypted /boot?

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  • Can't Ventoy bypass secure boot with the shim thing? i.e. ENROLL_THIS_KEY_IN_MOKMANAGER.cer

    Or is secure boot just to ensure that "this kernel uki hasn't been tampered with"?

    Furthermore, if it's secure boot autounlocked by TPM, won't I have to password protect my bootloader too to avoid kernel parameter oopsies? (Lol changing kernel parameters right then and there reminds me of the windows utilman trick)

    The secure boot route seems fraught but perhaps I'm looking at it wrong

  • How do you organize your digital stuff?

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  • Organizing is one thing but it's better to reduce your brainpower-spending regardless of what you do.

    On Windows? Custom iconed folders and explorer bookmarks go a long way. Better than relying on Quick Access or whatever.

    On desktop Linux? Tools like fd and zoxide (z) save you as long as your directory names are consistent. Sticking to names-like-this reduces guesswork and you can skip around in seconds. (Saved me many a due date.)

    On Android, consult Indiana Jones. Your files are a treasure -- they're staying hidden

  • Microsoft Teams is dog shit

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  • Yeah, you're completely right. Microsoft Teams refers to multiple communications platforms, not just one. Wikipedia and Microsoft themselves made the same mistake as OP here. Hope you can help!

    ( ¬_¬)