apt-search and dnf-search both exist. I have used both. I prefer a GUI for that because they’ll provide things like screenshots, no CLI tool does, neither to TUI tools like Aptitude.

Cats are a newtonian fluid with a melting point somewhere around 75F. If I cool the house to 74 or below, Izzy loafs or curls up in a ball. If I let it get warmer than that in the house she stretches out. They remain viscous and cohesive with a high surface tension.

Note this testing is done at around 29.8 inches of mercury ambient pressure.

Then make themed instances. Everyone wants to make general purpose instances probably with our particular brand of politics on it so we get soc dem c/linux and dem soc c/linux and communist c/linux and we have no values of our own other than hatred of America c/linux.

Make an instance where only communities about music are allowed. Or about sports, or TV/movies. Let that be where that content lives, on a website that refuses to host religious content like c/fuckcars at the domain level.

Phrased another way, trying to make !charlottehornets@sh.itjust.works is trying to start a niche community in a niche community in a niche community. Founding !charlottehornets@sportslemmy.net is one fewer shell of nichedom.

Well here’s what I’ve seen tried:

Make a WHOLE BUNCH of communities on a general purpose instance, one for each team in a league, and then add a bot to each one that posts game results or scores or whatever the fuck they’re called, so that anyone sorting by New sees nothing but redundant sports statistics until they go through the process of blocking everything you’ve done to make the rest of the platform usable again.

The United States was at one point a manufacturing powerhouse. We built the materiel to fight our own two front war and a lot of the kit used by our allies. Our solution to any other nation on Earth trying to put the thumb on the scale should be to shrug our shoulders and just fucking win. We’ve got manpower, energy and resources falling out of our ears.

It was both better AND cheaper.

I’ve seen similar tariffs circumnavigated by putting cheap crappy seats in the bed of the Subaru BRAT or selling a Japanese truck as a “Ford Ranger.” Or importing parts and assembling them in America rather than just importing the whole truck.

Tariffs are politics, politics is bullshit, therefore tariffs are bullshit.

If a few individuals did it, no. Plugging in a 200 watt source would be equivalent to unplugging a 200 watt load. That’s the equivalent of turning off 4 incandescent light bulbs. I think I might have seen the power grid handle that kind of “disruption.”

On the other hand, imagine if 100 million people go out and buy 100 watt solar panel kits. The load on the power grid is going to vary by a gigawatt every sunrise and sunset. A city in which a million people have 100 watt panels will have to handle a variance of 100 megawatts every time a cloud rolls over town.

At the individual level, what concerns me about the “panel you plug into a normal outlet” form factor is that it breaks a bunch of fundamental principles of the power grid, like “sources of power should be sockets not plugs, so that it’s at least nominally difficult to touch live wires.” Having a source of power on the load side of a circuit breaker further rustles my jimmies. I think the only thing that’s going to stop them from causing problems like overheating wires in walls is the practical limit on panel size.

If you’re going to plug solar panels into the grid this way, they’re going to have to be well engineered or they’re going to hurt someone. You don’t want to own one of these if Big Clive has a lot to say about them, and since most of them are going to be manufactured in China…just expect an increase in residential fires as more jurisdictions approve them for use.

And I don’t think it works at all for manufactured goods.

For example, in the 70’s or 80’s Yamaha came out with their Virago line of motorcycles. They were American style teardrop tank cruisers set to compete directly with Harley-Davidson, except with objectively better engines and lower prices. The only thing Harley had going for it was their trademark engineering mistake. of a single pin crankshaft.

Harley asked the government to step in, the government applied a tariff to motorcycles over…some engine displacement, I think it was 1200ccs or so. Yamaha responded by slightly reducing the cylinder bore to bring it down to 1150cc and made a range of lower end models all the way down to 250cc, none of which qualified for the tariff, and Yamaha is still selling cruisers in the US to this day, meanwhile Harley-Davidson is a popular designer clothing label with a small vestigial powersports division.

That’s a Gillette Superspeed, or a modern reproduction. They’re about 3 inches long.

I tend to read entire words at a time, and doing that your brain only really checks the first letter, last letter, and that most of the rest of the letters are actually there. That can be tolerant of mistakes like “raeding” or even “hte” but unexpected words or misspellings caused by touch screen keyboards make you stop and revert back to other, slower methods.

I do both. If I know exactly what I want to install, I’ll install it from the terminal because it’s often more direct. If I go “I need an app that does thing, what’s available?”

So the joke is, you’ve got something you want to install, be it a Python module, Java library, steam game, desktop application, whatever. You want it installed, figuring out which package manager has it and remembering the exact command syntax starts getting to be a pain, so just use this script to try installing it from a variety of sources.

You would evoke it by running ./install.sh package and it will replace all instances of $1 with the string “package” at runtime. The ampersand at the end of each line will run that line as a separate background process rather than in the foreground process, so effectively this will attempt to install “package” or whatever you put in as an argument from a half dozen sources simultaneously in parallel.

These include the old and new Python package managers, the old and new Red Hat package managers, debian/Ubuntu’s APT with and without sudo, cloning a git repo and building from source, and the icing on the cake is curling directly into bash.

Don’t curl directly into bash. You’ll catch genital rabies.

Remember that this is an XKCD comic, it’s a joke. The alt-text says “The failures usually don’t hurt anything and if it installs multiple versions it increases the chance one of them is right. (the ‘yes’ command and ‘2>/dev/null’ are recommended additions.)” “Yes” is a bash command that will spam ‘y’ in the terminal, the point of it is to answer yes to any questions an automated system asks, and 2>/dev/null will stop it from displaying errors. These add an even deeper level of Yolo-ing.

Can the average U of A student be expected to read words as complicated as “genetalia”?

So the state hasn’t approved it because the governor hasn’t signed it. It’s only a bill here on capitol hill.

Jesus fuck Bloomberg, go watch some School House Rock.

He’s a Maine Coon, that’s already going to be a near death experience. Maine Coons are huge!

It is a Maine Coon, known for extra toes, but this is kinda ridiculous. I hope kitty will be able to live a comfy life with what? over a dozen extra digits?

So in this movie she’s a successful big city criminal but she’s getting disillusioned with that and wants to move back home to a picturesque podunk town to be a small town criminal, maybe burgle a cute little antique shop in the town square, enter our eligible bachelor, the handsome, charismatic and eligible town axe murderer?

I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

Okay. When I walk into a Lowe’s to buy a power drill, the entire aisle of bathroom sinks on the other side of the 5 acre store don’t bother me at all, because they’re back there.

When they start putting out the Halloween decorations for sale in April or the Christmas shit in August, they put that right at the entrance, it tends to make noise, it’s often scented, and especially with the Christmas shit they start playing non-stop Christmas music over the store’s speakers. So we get half a fucking year now of either the same old shit, or this year’s repackaging of the same old shit. It is actively bothersome.

Like, you walk into Michael’s and there’s always an aisle of wreaths and pine fronds back there. And it stays there year round. That’s fine. They don’t choose an increasing number of months out of the year to wave it in your face as you walk in.

Add to that the ever-increasing commercial nature of the holiday and it’s just…ugly.