Caveat that this only applies to USB chargers. If you find some random non-USB, old-school type charger (like the ones with the round connectors) that fits your device, don’t plug it in until you’re sure that the voltage and polarity are correct.

Interesting, thanks. Maybe it’s something with the entire Ubuntu branch.

That’s odd. Maybe it’s a limitation with Ubuntu or their downstream distros. I’m now positive that all 3 of those distros I listed gave me the option to encrypt the disk during installation. This was in the last 3 months or so.

In my recent experience, I’m pretty sure all distros I tried (Debian, Bazzite, openSUSE) had a simple checkbox to do full disk encryption.

• Apr 7: “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks”-

Nice! Good luck! Maybe there are good recipes for frozen banana ice cream online too?

Thanks! And for sure it was. I found this link with info and it seems that it had more ingredients than I thought, but main ingredients were still bananas, coconut milk, and dates. They had other flavors besides these. https://godairyfree.org/product-reviews/must-love-bananas-reviews

It probably wouldn’t be too difficult to make it at home, or perhaps someone else will eventually pick up the idea and start selling it again.

Please share what it was… There was this amazing “ice cream” that was sold a few years ago that was made basically from frozen bananas and dates. I think it was called Hakuna Banana? Unfortunately, the company stopped making it. :(

Oh, nice! I had no idea that she was in it. I’ll check it out eventually. Thanks!

Yeah, for whatever reason, that Burton movie hasn’t enticed me even though I’m almost finished watching all 1,200+ episodes of the soap. Something about it just doesn’t seem appealing.

I’m currently watching through an old soap opera from the late 60s / early 70s because of its amazingly unusual premise (as far as soap operas go). It’s called Dark Shadows and it started off as a gothic mystery but then became a full-on horror soap opera, with ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, devil-worshippers, etc. This was a daytime soap opera (lol) and it apparently became a cultural phenomenon that supposedly inspired a lot of stuff in the genre in later years.

Anyway, this is the first and only American soap opera that I’ve watched, and I have found that the actors are quite a mixed bag. Some of the actors in it are quite bad, and some are legitimately quite good. So much so that I would love to see them in other series or even movies because they have that quality that makes you want to watch them more and because I would like for them to receive proper recognition for their work and talents.

@jdr@lemmy.ml @Furbag@lemmy.world Wait, that wiktionary explanation seems weird too. I always thought of homie as being a derivative of “homeboy” or “homegirl”. I could be wrong, but I definitely started hearing homie after those two and have always thought that they were connected. In fact, the wiktionary page for homeboy lists homie as a related term, so to me it seems like the two pages are contradicting each other.

Thanks for providing at least approximate citations. I have a hard time imagining that homelessness in the USSR was ever anywhere near the current situation in the US. Even with arresting and pushing people to other cities, if you’ve seen what the streets around downtown LA look these days, it’s hard to imagine anything like it.

This may come as a surprise, but Warsaw Pact countries and the Soviet Union had widespread homelessness too.

Citation? Even if that’s true, was it anywhere near as bad as in the US currently?

The impression I have is that Germans are bigger users of the Fediverse in general than other countries, as in statistically overrepresented. Mastodon is originally a German project. Germans also created a Fediverse application for buying and selling second-hand items, Flohmarkt (Flea Market). Some other posts here have mentioned that Germans are culturally/historically more interested in privacy than many others, which may help explain the interest in the Fediverse. Finally, Lemmy is also an European project, so it makes sense that there would be more Europeans here, and Germany is the largest European economy and the most populous Western-European nation. Those are all probably factors contributing to this.

I came here to mention Pimsleur as a good option too. You can get them as audio books through sites like Audible for much less than that, but I don’t know if it’s the same amount of modules per course as if you get it directly from Pimsleur.

I’ve seen people recommend Michel Thomas’ products too, and have seen others compare Paul Noble’s audiobooks positively to those. I’ve tried both and find them a pretty interesting approach.

This one was also recommended by someone on Lemmy a few weeks back: https://www.languagetransfer.org/ - I don’t know anything about it other than that (and that it’s free?)

Far from the only one: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

Millions of users, no. That only happens with either massive marketing and/or sheer luck to become the popular thing.

Niche communities, yes, if the software is tweaked a little. We already have niche communities. Now it’s just a question of making sure that the people who are interested in those topics and subscribed become more aware of posts in those communities. In other words, just a different algorithm for the main feed. Lemmy and Piefed have already tried adding new algorithms, but they didn’t seem to do the job (at least Lemmy’s new algorithm - I haven’t tried Piefed’s yet). Oh, and those new algorithms that would promote posts in niche communities to have more even standing with posts in large, general communities would need to become the default or at least widely adopted by users in order to have the intended effect.

This has been part of the us navy’s war gaming/training exercises for decades now. Of course, they use incorrect information about their own equipment’s capabilities and limitations and underestimate their enemy, but they have pretended they can accomplish this for a long time

If you haven’t heard of “Millennium Challenge 2002”, check it out. It was a major US war game where the “red” team obliterated the “blue” team with non-electronic communications and attacks with cruise missiles and small boats. Sound familiar yet? They had to reset the game and start over with the red team being artificially hamstrung in order to ensure a blue team victory.

Yes, this is the kind of counter-example I was thinking of as well, as opposed to rent-seeking.