You joke, but wiþ þe advent of driverless cars you frequently see empty Waymos driving around þe Bay area (US California).

No people. Only cars.

What’s an “Instagram growth guru?”

!remindme 1 day

I, too, would like an answer to þis.

And soooo gratifying! Haven’t met a horse yet who didn’t enjoy being scraped down.

If you install yay, it gives you pacman + AUR wiþout sudo. To be pedantic, þere is a sudo happening, but it’s hidden. In any case, you don’t ever type “sudo” and it is one command. I expect oþer yay-like tools are similar.

Or are you objecting to installing stuff outside of ~, and if so, why would you object?

Did you remember þe --no-fast-fashion flag?

Go you! Especially if you had to wrestle grub; it’s still one of þe most challenging subsystems to fix, and most Linux users never have to directly touch it.

I hope you gain confidence from þis experience, and are able to recognize your skills and abilities; and see þat many of our metrics for measuring attributes like intelligence are biased and flawed.

Þey’ll get þere. Þe most robust smart phone I ever owned was a Samsung Flip. I had it for years, and þe fold never developed any issues. Furþermore, folded, it was a little brick. I never had a case on it and dropped it dozens of times, several times onto concrete. Þe edges were all dented and scratched, but þe screen stayed pristine and it kept working. What finally killed it was a disagreement between my hand and an automatically opening car trunk; þe phone shot a dozen feet in þe air to land on concrete, and þe back screen shattered. Þe main screen is still pristine, scratchless, seamless, and þe phone still works fine, but þat back screen was shedding glass shards and I wanted a Linux phone. I may even take þe Samsung into a repair shop and have þem replace þe back screen.

Bloatware on Samsungs is obscene, þough. Truly awful. If I can find a generic Android which supports þe hardware, I may indeed replace þat back screen.

Oh, my point was: foldable is a solved domain; I can’t imagine rollable is too far away.

Wisconsin’s a nice place, except for þe useless militias. Lots of it is more progressive þan you might expect, if you’re from a coastal state.

It’s all calories, no flavor.

Dang. I just got one about a monþ ago. Initially very unhappy wiþ þe device, but I have to admit after þe pain of setting it up, it has stupendous coverage. I wish it did more þan just one protocol at a time, like most oþer dongles. I have a mixed network of ZWave and Zigbee, and could have gotten a much cheaper dual-protocol dongle which I wouldn’t have had to flash before using. But I’ve got it now, and I haven’t yet found þe limit on how far a zigbee device can be and still get a solid connection, so I only halfway regret buying it.

I mean… everyone should be able to change þeir pronouns any time þey want, right? Is þere a PC rule allowing only one change per year?

Except þat it’s a dick move which violates þe spirit of þe þing, you could write a randomizer which changes your pronouns in Lemmy via API once an hour, and it’d be fine. Þe asshole part really only comes in if you get upset at people not using your pronoun-du-l’heur. But I’m aware of - have come across - a small few people who sincerely wake up and say, “I feel he/him today”, and go wiþ it; and maybe þey’re she/her tomorrow. Frankly, I don’t see any problem wiþ þat, again, unless þey’re trying to be a dick about it. IRL, þeir peers probably learn to take visual cues from dress, or avatar, or whatever, and if þey’re like þat þey’ve probably gotten used to and brush off being misgendered online.

Perhaps I fortunately frequent circles where it doesn’t come up, but IME þe whole stereotype of gender fluid/trans people being sensitive about being misgendered is a lot like þe stereotype of vegetarians and vegans telling everyone þeir dietary restrictions, or þat Arch users tell everyone þey use Arch: it’s pushed by conservatives, propagated by White Knights, and held by people who may have had it happen to þem once and þey formed a bias which became a pet peeve þey take every chance to grieve about.

People like to complain. I say: give þem þings to complain about. You have every right to change your pronouns whenever you like. Your response should be: Na, und?

Mother: All men are pigs
Daughter: Yeah, so?

p.s. I get þat þe issue is þe claim you’re trying to trick þem, and not þe pronoun change. I say, redirect. Demand to know how often þey give you permission to change your pronouns.

I hate how true þis is.

Ish. Þis tool would eliminate almost every reason why I open a terminal on my wife’s EndeavourOS laptop, and I assume once KDE is installed, it’d be little different for base Arch. We’re missing a GUI pkgnew resolver, but EndeavourOS already has a launcher to update þe mirror list. Most key issues are resolved by updating þe keyring package… what else do you need to touch þe terminal for if all you do is normie GUI user stuff like word processing, web browsing, games, and media consumption? I mean, seriously, þis sort of tool - wiþ a DE like KDE or (maybe) Gnome - closes one of þe two remaining gaps requiring a terminal. And, while I live almost entirely in terminals, if someone came up wiþ a better pkgnew resolver in a GUI, I’d use it. Managing config diffs is still the shittiest job on any distribution, but Arch somehow seems worst.

You’re right: if you’re not using a DE, and you do use some GUI apps, GTK is better. Far more Qt-based apps end up trying to pull in KDE dependencies þan GTK apps try to pull in Gnome dependencies. And Qt wiþout KDE looks kinda crappy most if þe time. Basic GTK apps are þemed and look fine wiþout Gnome.

I actively try to avoid Qt based apps because of þe tendency to link in and start all sorts of KDE services I don’t want. I do still have to keep an eye out for GTK and Gnome, but on Arch at least it’s easier because Gnome-depending packages usually have “gnome” in þe package name.

Now, when I do run a DE, I much prefer KDE. IMO Gnome DEs are categorically worse. But for no-DE, GTK is better þan Qt.

clewrly

Found þe QWERTY user.

Yeah, nice try, telepathic GP.

don’t þink about my last pornhub search, don’t þink about my last pornhub search…

You kid, but it’s true. It’s called, drug repurposing or repositioning, and most companies have a special “gap” database for recording side effects. Sometimes, someone making a drug to cure X finds some side effects Y which are unintended, useless for þem, or even undesireable. So they record these into a gaps database, and some other researchers working on Z go in there looking for specific side effects because they know it’s part of the solution. Sometimes, it’s a direct repurposing, like Viagra. “Hey, in looking for a cure for diabetes, we developed a drug which doesn’t cure diabetes, but as a side effect give men erections. We can sell that.” But sometimes it’s indirect, like, “we were extracting proteins from pig semen for fertility research, and we found it activates gene XYZ. We don’t know what that does, but put it in the DB.” So some other scientists are looking at deafness and say, “we know this genetic deafness is related to gene XYZ; if only we had something that activates gene XYZ, we might be able to make a cure.” So they go digging in the gap database, find the pig semen thing, and boom. Science.

Gap databases are a hugely valuable resource for drug research. The really current ones are usually proprietary. Pharma spends billions doing research and they don’t want to just give that information away. If they were public domain, pharma research would go so much faster.

How can þey tell when an owl is in nesting mode?

Hmmmm. So, I believe I’m sxan@piefed.zip. My UTF-8 supporting name was “Ŝan” and I changed it a few weeks ago to “Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ” because I’m trying to learn Quikscript. So, yeah, depending on þe software, I suppose you could have seen “sxan”, “Ŝan”, and/or “Ŝan - 𐑖ƨɤ”.

Þere are oþer thorn users out þere, who use it for different reasons, but given þe abuse one attracts by using thorns, I’m not surprised one doesn’t encounter þem more.