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  • Customized Distro Questions

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  • is it possible that he can use something like puppy linux like distros (essentially live usbs, where you can make a persistent partition and make changes)? that way you can prepare a usb, and maybe teach them how to plug the usb in, and change the boot order to include usb? it would be slow (for boot times, if you use some faster usb, that would help), but does not require any fancy operation requiring him to open his computer.

    Or if opening the computer/laptop and installing ssd/hdd is within scope, then maybe you can prepare a ssd with complette install, and just ship that. give him additional video/text instructions on how to open a computer, and install it. (In case their system supports ssds, then I highly recommend ssds over hdd, as they do not require special packaging, would be much faster, and ssd installations are also easier(detachhing and reattaching sata ribbon is hard imo, where as with something like nvme ssd, it is very close to like plugging in usb, and then just screwing or something similar.)) If their system is old, and does not have nvme/u.2 connectors, i would still recommend ssd over hdd, then you would also have to procure (and ship) an extra enclosure (i think they are called caddys) to fit a ssd in a husk, which after closing looks like a harddisk and connects via sata. these steps are tad bit hard, but if it is within scope, then I do not think their is a better option.

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  • its the other way round for bears i think

  • Debian 13 burning 10W playing 4K YouTube video on a Framework with max brightness 🫨

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  • on my laptop (specs wise - consider steam deck non oled, but worse graphics performance, 1080p screen (IPS)) - 5.3-6 Wh for 2x speed playback. for full hd playback 6-7 Wh. Idle power is much higher though 4.5 Wh, on my old laptop, video power consumption consumed similar power, but idle power was close to 2.5-3 Wh (in terms of specs, it had halve the number of cores, and a tn panel)

  • xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From

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  • Indian babies are mostly free (or a much more reasonable charge)(assuming no pregnancy complications requiring a very fancy operation in a private hospital)

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  • thanks matey

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  • a serious question - snails must be using more than 2 brain cells right? i presume that for most beings with a brain that almost all are always working, some less activated some more?

  • Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Available for Public Beta Testing, Download Now

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  • i would presume yes. you could run cinnamon wayland since early 2024 (iirc), but it was only experimental, so i would presume it might have become more stable since then.

  • Debian -- News -- Debian 13 "trixie" released

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  • yeah, they even worked on that this time (90+% of packages are now reproducible)

  • C level

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  • did not everyone but the ones who were above c level died (the non avian ones)?

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  • or (hear me out) - get everyone to leave their mortal bodies and be replaced by lizard like limbs (which can grow back)?

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  • so you are in the android camp. i am in lizard camp

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  • So is zuckerburg just a more evolved human?

  • Everyone's Dream

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  • Ans offline backups for different wikis and game roms for many gens of consoles and handhelds.

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  • that hurt a lot

  • xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres

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  • this is actually very close to pseudocylindrical projections (an example is the orange peal like sliced maps, wiki says its called Goode homolosine). they look wierd, are dicontinous, but still largely preserve area and angles.

    this one is very similar, except sizes are still wierd, and uses different radii spheres, which makes it both non angle and size preserving.

  • Are there any other dark themes available for many services like the dracula one?

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  • I’m not aware of a solid centralized place to find high quality, multi-app color schemes like these.

    maybe, we should make a lemmy community, with all color themes, and something like 1 post for 1 color theme. in the comments, we can add various places (or ways) you can use/install them, and maybe a weekly/monthly post, to rank the best themes of the months (rnaking all existing posts by activity in last x amount of time).

  • 8 bit rule

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  • it is what it would appear to be using the logic that n! = n*(n-1)*...*1, but 0! was "chosen" to be 1

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  • If i am not wrong, and iirc, they have different lens systems as compared to humans (or other land dwelling beings). For us, light goes from air to a lens made of "watery" substance and then through a (different) "watery" fluid in our eyes, and then to the back. whenever you have refractive index changes (air and water have different indices(water is ~1.33)), light bends, and so, the way light would refract differently, or in other words, the angle at which "focuses" (not the current optical term here, but works in a colloquial sense, angle of cone of focus would be better) is different if you have air-watery*-watery system vs water-watery*-watery system. since fish live in water mostly, they develop for the lattery system (since most of the system is water esque, there is not much refractive difference which would bend light at larger angles), so they would have to use a more "powerful" (not correct again, better would be shorter focus) lenses, or else there eyes and eye sockets would have to be large. so if they come above water, these "powerful" lenses would resolve the focus spot before the back of eye (so they would be myopic). inverse happens with land dwelling beings going in water.

    Amphibians (and some other "beings") have some special "arrangements". iirc, some frogs have an extra layer of "transparent eyelid" like thingy, that they close underwater, which gives the "additiional focussing power" required to resolve.