It’s Sabrina Carpenter, so either the picture was staged for something specific or she already had her makeup done a while ago and is brushing her teeth for another reason (maybe finishing lunch?) and is gonna go back for touch-ups

completely ignore definitions 1a -> 1c

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What a weird, and incorrect, statement to make

Not necessarily my favorite nor something widespread, but it was always the legend/meme that my middle/high schools had a pool on the roof (it was a one story building lmfao)

I feel like “hamburger meat” implies the inclusion of seasoning whereas “ground beef” is literally just the meat

Ahhhh okay yeah that makes more sense.

Tbh i don’t get it either, unless you’re doing Olympic training why does it matter

If you’re asking why pay for an ebike to get less of a workout, i think the framing of the question is wrong: you get an ebike because less exercise vs a normal bike is still more exercise than driving

I feel like communities being particular is exactly why it should be federated. You can have your account on your instance with you and your friends, but connect to another instance dedicated to a community of hardcore pen enthusiasts with the same account, and no one has to worry about getting money somehow to support hosting all these communities in a single place :)

I also tried over the course of three days to make a stoat account and couldn’t get the verification email to go through.

It’s also centralized with no plans to include federation, so we’d be running from a burning ship to a smoking one

Few of us would have been told that it can change with age, that some of us aren’t born with one, or that it might totally disappear by the time we enter sexual maturity anyway. Or that a wide variety of activity can stretch or tear it, from exercise to masturbation to, yes, penetrative sex.

Emphasis mine, this is what I was taught in school

But this doesn’t mean there’s any validity to the idea that you can ascertain sexual activity with a hymen examination. One small study of 36 pregnant teenagers published in 2004, for example, found that medical staff were only able to make “definitive findings of penetration” in two cases. Another 2004 study found that 52% of sexually active adolescent girls interviewed had “no identifiable changes to the hymenal tissue”. A binary idea that either we are sexually active and have no visible hymen, or that we aren’t sexually active and do have one, is simply not accurate.

So TIL, it’s not actually a membrane and is not guaranteed to tear at some point. Really interesting read, and definitely an example of how women’s health research is just riddled with misinformation

I used jerboa for a while back in 2023, but ultimately I’ve settled on Connect. Its slightly different but still pretty similar to rif

RIP rif 😭 i hope one day the dev makes an apl for Lemmy (i know they pivoted to tildes)

Things that have worked for me:

• your bed is probably not level, i installed self leveling on mine ($30 but well worth it)

• if its adhesion, try a glue stick. It looks like a PEI sheet but that alone was not enough for me. My routine is: wash with soap and water, spray 90+% IPA (before bed is heated) and wipe with microfiber (paper towel leaves flakes behind), then apply gluestick before printing

• maybe check your bed is warm enough/preheat for longer to allow the whole bed to get to temp, though i doubt this is the case but it doesn’t hurt to try

• for your first layer: slower speed, higher nozzle temp, higher bed temp

How walled is it really though, it’s literally just a linux PC. SteamOS is the (arch-based) distro, and Valve is just a system integrator selling what are effectively pre built systems. Steam Machines are meant to have competitors selling their own systems with their own hardware choices.

This is no different than buying a gaming PC from Cyberpower, Alienware, Asus, etc except that the OS wouldn’t be windows.

Of course, as it stands there are no other competitors but that’s just because we’re in uncharted territory. If the steam machine sells well, then other integrators will make their own versions (like we saw with the Lenovo Legion & ROG Ally).

The idea that this is a “walled garden” when you can install any software you want, swap the OS, install cracked games, etc. is ridiculous. This kind of thinking is exactly why people think there’s too much infighting in the Linux community. Everyone talks about how they want Linux to become more mainstream and to dethrone windows. But when something like this comes around to actually do that, you all complain about how awful it is

Brutal, i worked in b4 consulting before. They had Macs but you basically had to know someone to fight for it on your behalf.

I feel your pain, i struggled with a dell craptop for years. I swear to god, those things are designed to be awful.

(Although, shortly before i left i saw the new ones they were handing out which had Ryzen CPUs and actually looked pretty decent, but idk how well they worked because i left obv)

Maybe this works for a small-medium business, but for large enterprises (i work for a massive tech company) it doesn’t work like that.

Corporate devices are bought through enterprise service agreements, which have to go through the lawyers as well as the procurement team. Although you could get a contract from Lenovo for the actual devices, a Linux distro would have no service agreement, so that would kill it right there (+ legal would probably flag the risk of malicious code being injected into the OS, i.e. xz). Ignoring thag, devices that are onboarded need to be able to fit into existing device management solutions (ABM/MDM, EDR, DLP, AD, etc etc).

And before any of that, there would be some survey that goes out to determine how many employees would realistically make the switch. For Linux, that number would likely be so low that the business teams would decide it isn’t worth a discussion because of low business impact & user desire (not to mention that now the IT teams also need to be skilled up to support it).

I couldn’t even get a FOSS browser extension approved to be installed on my device, much less spur a movement for adding a whole new set of devices to the corporate inventory.

(Editing to add, i did talk to the IT guy and he said he wished he could give me one because he wants one too lol)

Honestly, between the MBP and a similarly priced Dell as a company laptop, i choose the MBP.

The battery is better, the screen is better, performance is better, etc

Dell doesn’t know how to make a laptop & windows sucks ass. Macos is so locked down by default that all the restrictions on a company laptop don’t change the user experience all that much.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework. But we don’t live in an ideal world, so had to choose between the two worst possible options

I have never heard of this, but I just looked it up and I guess i know what I’ll be trying next time we’re in oyster season

I will report back when it is done

Fuck the hot sauce, all you need is some cocktail sauce (with horseradish, not that tame ketchup shit) and it’s good to go

try this

But, make a backup of your db beforehand. I don’t know how it would work when upgrading an existing database