And yes, I’ve been hugely popular at both parties I’ve attended.

Well obviously! Everybody here can see you have at LEAST two shit-hot science facts just ready to go when the house ain’t bumping.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some stick with lab coats.

This probably isn’t common for a lemmy linux nerd, but I have spent a few grand on lumber over the past two years for various projects.

I bet one could build a properly superior hobby-sized siege engine for a total budget of $1000!

The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.

The fediverse shouldn’t need A savior. It should be its own thing that no one person can control or stop.

Maybe this… Maybe this is the fediverse healing? 🥹

Of course it’s the saunas, lol.

The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340km long. This has helped them become best of friends. They especially like to cuddle for warmth in the winter.

I think it’s less about genuinely caring at this point and more about it being a home-grown meme. Plus it’s perfectly designed to be popular around here because it directly involves individuals and you don’t have to lean on Star Trek, Linux, or even beans for it to get attention. Those three things are good, but people like variety.

My windows “partition” for work is just a single VM image that sits on one of my two Linux-formatted drives.

More AI + blockchain = breaking the economy

I bet there’s a strong correlation, at least among we olds, between the number of times one has installed Windows and the likelihood that they are now a Linux user.

That’s how we know that Linux is easier to install these days, for one.

All you need is another one of those global pre-processor directives! Then you’ll have commits that exactly match human output just like with the code itself!

“It’s raining tractors” sounds like a way better song than that one about tacos.

Yeah, temperature is weird like that.

I’m an American, but one with an education and an appreciation for the one true system, SI, which is pretty close to metric.

Meters and kilograms make total sense to me, even if I’m conditioned to think in feet and pounds. But temperatures in Celsius just don’t click. I have to consciously try to remember some equivalent Fahrenheit values to get a feel for it.

If you told me the barometric pressure in Pascals I’d literally understand that more quickly, since I deal with pressure measurements and settings at work.

But then you are treated to the ultimate satisfaction of “YOUR SOUND CARD WORKS PERFECTLY”

An executive whose job it is to increase profits by systematically denying care to vulnerable people. (which also causes death, and more of it)

They didn’t even need to meet that high a standard, lol, even though they should have.

I’m just your garden variety Lemmy computer nerd and I use oyster shell in my own little back yard pond. Baking soda is also useful, which is sodium bicarbonate rather than calcium carbonate.

The carbonates help keep pH stable and help the all-important bacteria in the filter do their thing.

I’m a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.

I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn’t fix everything.

I agree with you, and I think weed really helped me even though I’m not using any right now.

Sometimes it’s extremely beneficial to be chemically pushed into a good mood and satisfied with just existing, when otherwise existence just seems to be misery and pain.

But it is not a permanent fix. It’s a band-aid while you find more permanent ways to improve your life. But band-aids can hurt to take off when you’re done with them.

Someone set up us the Rust?

And because of that, unfortnately, a lot of regular people also think the entire point of technology and wealth is to never have to do anything substantive.

Iirc it was indeed designed to be terrible back in the day to protect bits on machines by camming out.