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Ephera

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    How can I make my laptop a little faster?

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  • I just want to throw in that if you do want to give Linux a shot, you can do so without installing it.

    You can prepare a USB stick from which you could later install Linux, but before you'll actually install it, you will boot from this USB stick and then you're able to click around, browse the web etc..

    It won't be entirely representative of the actual performance in the end, because it will run off of the USB stick rather than the hard drive, but yeah, you can at least get an impression whether it might work for your usage.

    This kind of bootable USB stick is also called a "Live-USB", just to give you another term to search for. And well, you will need to enter your BIOS (or at least the boot order menu) of your laptop to tell it to actually boot off of the USB stick.

    It isn't trivial, particularly since I don't know how techy you are, but yeah, before you go through with the installation, it is rather unlikely that you break things by doing this.Of course, it doesn't hurt to create a backup beforehand anyways. 🙂

    And yes, I do also think that Linux really deserves consideration here, unless you know upfront that you strictly need applications that do not support Linux. Linux has been known to give old hardware a second life, and your hardware sounds old enough for that to apply here.

    Oh, and perhaps also worth throwing in that browsers do work the same on Linux. I moved both of my parents from Windows 7 to Linux and since they practically only use the browser, it took just a few minutes for them to adapt...

  • Sftp client gor android?

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  • I just saw this on F-Droid, will need to test it, but sounds like it could be really good: https://f-droid.org/packages/lu.knaff.alain.saf_sftp

    I'm hoping, it works like mounting or FUSE on proper Linux, where you can just use normal applications to transparently access network files. Then you'd be able to use any old file manager app to actually work with the files...

  • Sftp client gor android?

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  • You probably just misread, but just to note that SFTP is different from SMB. They're similar in purpose, but basically competing protocols...

  • Put the ZIP code first

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  • Yeah, which is also the explanation why this isn't implementented nearly as often as the author would like.The folks implementing these address input components probably puke already from just needing different sets of input fields and formats for different countries. If they have to call different APIs with different input and output formats for every country, that increases complexity quite a bit.

  • Put the ZIP code first

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  • US postal codes...

  • Inkscape needs help. The Inkscape team is hiring one issue administrator and two C++ developers for part time positions

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  • What we expect from candidates:

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    • Easily breaks software, deliberately or by accident

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  • Please stop

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  • I mean, bees do like to dance.

    But the comic also refers to a clearly female bee as "Jim", so I don't think this is scientifically accurate at all.

  • My new static, multi-page calendar application

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  • Yeah, this should be equivalent to interpolation search, which has an average performance of O(log(log(n))).

    It helps that the months are separately indexed, so instead of a search on 365 input elements, you can do two searches with much lower input size, i.e. 12 and 31.

    But yeah, you're still in the larger O(log(log(n))) category with that.

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    Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse (blogpost)

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  • Yeah, I always found it really valuable to know a person on the other side. Obviously, they're not immune to propaganda either, but even just seeing the differences in propaganda can teach you a lot, both about which parts may be untrue, but also how propaganda works.

    For example, I once saw a guy on Mastodon, who posted a populist Indian news article and expressed his agreement. The article was about some policy the EU was discussing, following Putins attack on the Ukraine, which would've affected India.That policy was controversial here in the EU. I don't remember what policy it was, but I didn't feel good about it, my country (Germany) didn't support it, but the EU as a whole did agree to it.

    Meanwhile, that article framed it as "Europe is doing a bad thing" and "the West is blah".Like, man, I doubt, I would agree with my neighbor about this policy, but somehow I'm being generalized into an amorphous blob, the size of half the fucking planet.It dehumanizes. It makes it seem like we're not open for discussion, despite us internally leading extremely heated discussions.

    But of course, we do the exact fucking same. We talk about India collectively all the time, even though it is much larger than the EU, with 1.4 billion different opinions. You don't hear "the East" as often these days, but you do hear "Asia", which is effectively just as meaningless of a word.

    And yeah, just seeing the inverse happen to me, made it instantly clear why this is shit, which I would not have even thought about, if I only ever read our news outlets.

  • TIL knocker uppers were people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times.

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  • Well, I'm from Germany, so we probably have different songs here.

    We had a booklet of maybe twenty songs or so. Although, I couldn't tell you how specifically Easter these songs were, as we usually just had the title to go off of, and I didn't know the majority of these songs.

    They were certainly old-timey songs, probably collected over the course of centuries...

  • TIL knocker uppers were people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times.

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  • "They wanted to get to church at a particular hour, or say their morning prayers early in the morning, because they thought that brought them closer to God." There was often a sense of one-upmanship, she adds, in terms of who was up and at their prayers earlier than the next person.

    Oh man, there's some weird traditions in my hometown. If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass. Admittedly, I am still suspicious of this not actually being a tradition and rather just an excuse she came up with to insult us.

    Another tradition is that on Easter Sunday, the local wind band would form small groups and walk through the streets to play Easter songs, starting at 5:30 in the morning.I actually participated in that a few times and the only explanation I have for us not experiencing violence is that people still had to get dressed, while we already moved on to the next street.

  • Science

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  • Apparently, there's the Rwenzori mountains with glaciers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwenzori_Mountains

    This map suggests that Mount Elgon in the east is also rather cold:

    But from what I can tell superficially, it doesn't have glaciers...

  • Cough Cough [OC]

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  • Yeah, I specifically buy cough drops that don't taste overly good for that reason now...

  • Science

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  • TIL there's a setting in Lemmy that hides down votes.

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  • I don't find downvotes useful for that. If no one tells me why they disagree, a negative number isn't going to tell me that either. Not to mention that the most popular answer is often not equivalent to the correct answer.

    But I also have the display of downvotes disabled, because I want to judge other comments without much bias.I always hated the snowballing of downvotes. As soon as you're at like -2, people will stop giving you the benefit of the doubt and just hit downvote some more, or even worse: Start harassing you, because you've said a thing that others disagreed with.Admittedly, this was more of a problem on Reddit, haven't seen that too much on Lemmy yet, but I don't find seeing the downvotes particularly useful to begin with, so I'd rather not have the bias myself.

  • Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP

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  • Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don't even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.Now I'm reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I'm instantly sold.

    Well, to be honest, "Movim" also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it's a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.

  • Training goals

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  • I was gonna object that it's a vegan diet, because they're presumably not gonna do eggs or milk, but apparently not strictly vegetarian either:

    Mountain gorillas spend about a quarter of their day eating, mainly plants. Around 85% of their diet is made up of leaves, shoots and stems, but gorillas can also eat larvae, snails, ants, and even roots, barks and rotting wood (a good source of sodium/salt).

    https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/gorillas

  • When someone actually asks for a source

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  • I also really hate that since AI slop has turned search engines useless, you virtually cannot find anything, even if you remember the exact words of the title.

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  • Yeah, extremely cheesy way of putting it: The best work position is the next one.

    I.e. don't stay in one position for a long time, but rather switch it up regularly.

  • Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

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  • I'm guessing, they mean JavaScript and WebAssembly in general...