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Lumidaub

@ Lumidaub @feddit.org

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she/her, A(u?)DHD, German, sometimes draws nonsense. Likes Doctor Who a normal amount.

#fckafd #fckcdu #fckmrz

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • Very relatable, of course, and triggering a bunch of that type of memory, thanks for that. But bizarrely, it's the opposite. The first thing I read about the Fediverse is how if I can understand email, I can understand the Fediverse. This was people who are way more geeky (and presumably autistic) than I am. I've seen that comparison several times since then and I still struggle to understand what the fuck they meant by that, other than "your username is username@hostname.suffix which looks like an email address" which is so fucking surface level it makes my head spin and has fuck-all to do with how you use the various platforms.

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  • The Youth Today don't know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.

  • The Guard's Wife

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  • And then she'd know that something happened. Because if he's the liar, that means the other one would truthfully say "yes, something happened". And if he's the one who tells the truth, that means he just said "the liar would tell you 'no'".

    It's the same riddle.

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  • And you think the average user thinks of ANY of this when they're using Lemmy for the first time so they must conclude "oh it's just like email"? This has absolutely nothing to do with using the platform.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • That email comparison annoys the fuck out of me. How is any of this like email?

  • how far out of your way do you go to help wild animals each day on average?

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  • It makes absolutely no difference temperature-wise whether you're in my flat or outside.

  • how far out of your way do you go to help wild animals each day on average?

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  • "Each day"? Like on average? Trending towards 0, I suppose.

    I did help a bug out the window recently, does that count?

  • What's the equivalent for "blah blah blah" in your language?

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  • Huh. Sounds a lot like Japanese ペラペラ (perapera) which is used to denote incessant talking/blabbering (but also fluently talking in another language).

  • The Merz

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  • Fritz. Fritz, no. Fritz, this is not a smiley occasion. Fritz.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • Cool, I'm not against that. It's just the opposite of beginner-friendly.

    Like you can browse through 5 menus and find the thing

    I sure would've appreciated a guide on how to do that for, I don't know, something so exotic und unusual like installing my tablet driver, just to get the thing working. So that next time I can find things on my own, learn the structure of the system by exploring stuff and see what else there is, instead of just mindlessly copy pasting some command. Efficiency in doing things can come later, after I'm settled in.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • (sorry, rant incoming)

    See, I'd be absolutely willing to learn that Linux is indeed "better" than Windows (in fact, I do suspect it probably is - once you know your way around it). What annoys me absolutely endlessly is how people go on and on about how eeeeasy it all is and modern distros are juuuust like your current OS, really, and there's absolutely zero need to be intimidated because it's all so very intuitive and you can't do anything wrong! It isn't easy. And it doesn't have to be easy, I'd be okay with looking shit up - if explanations and guides didn't assume you already know your way around the OS ("do cryptic thing xYz, duh"), if they weren't out of date because they were published an entire month ago and if people didn't pretend.

    I almost broke my display tablet in my Mint experiment because while trying to get the driver to work, I followed a guide that explained nothing (so for every step I looked up another guide which lead to another guide to another guide to another guide.......). No I don't know what went wrong because I don't know what the guide was making me do. Luckily, I'm tech savvy enough to fix it on my own - under Windows.

    Edit, 3 days later: lolnope trying to get the thing running under Mint did break the tablet, I just thought it was fixed, but the problem is more serious. Brilliant.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • The command prompt is not a GUI.

    I WOULD have cared to read the explanations, there just weren't any or they sent me down a billion rabbit holes. Just yesterday in fact I did try Linux Mint (after having tried various Linux distributions over the years, ending in confusion every time). I hate (HATE) just following instructions without knowing why I'm doing what I'm doing so I tried very hard to understand every step. It was nothing but frustrating because my earlier post is only a slight exaggeration.

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  • You can do EVERYTHING from a GUI if you want.

    Until you run into any sort of problem and all the solutions you can find are "do this command that i won't explain and that and paste this cryptic series of letters here and this there and chant this unspeakable spell to summon dread cthulhu and then run this command with these arguments. it's very human design."

  • TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguards

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  • The poor little meow meow.

  • TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguards

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  • The people who wanted to "aspirationally" kill him were also "homicidal". This is valuable contextual information that tells the reader(/listener) additional things about the circumstances that they may not have realised before which gives them more insight into the situation so they can comprehend it better. Em dash.

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  • That would be acceptable so no.

  • People that skip breakfast to fast

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  • Their day hasn't ended yet, spiritually.

  • People that skip breakfast to fast

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  • Some people (yes, I'm people) do need help with that because they don't notice when they're thirsty (or hungry). I get so absorbed in whatever I'm doing, I barely register the reminder that has been vibrating every 30 seconds on my watch for 10 minutes, never mind the fact that my head is begging for liquids. Having a clearly defined goal amount is additional help. Some older people also just don't feel thirst anymore at all, I'm told.

  • People that skip breakfast to fast

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  • "Breakfast" is literally just the first thing you eat in a day. If that is after noon, that's still my breakfast.

    (This sadly doesn't work in other languages that call it weird shit like "early (time) bite/piece (of food)")

  • What character from a movie/show/game/anything did you think you were going to hate, but ended up liking?

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  • That one kid from Jurassic World Rebirth. Uh. Xavier! I even remembered his name, gosh. Started as your stereotypical idiot boyfriend (expectation: she'll dump him by the end because he fucks up big time and she recognises that her family is more important blabla) and turned out to be pretty relatable in his (probably unintentionally neurodiverse) idiocy.

    Yes, that's the one thing I took away from that movie. Also T-rex rolling around in the grass <3