And those laws were written under the assumption that "it is surely safe to assume any truck this big is a work truck, nobody would ever drive a truck this big just to go get groceries, that would be absurd".
Finally gave in and tried Mint recently when my Ubuntu was crapping out on me. It turned out to be a BIOS issue that I subsequently fixed, but I'm glad I did it, because it is the very first time for me when a linux install went smoothly and got me doing what I wanted without making me tear out my hair for hours at a time.
It actually felt better than a Windows install because on top of being smooth, it didn't bombard me with dark pattern data mining AI-riddled trash.
I can't ditch Windows entirely because of a handful of things that cannot run without it, but for the first time Linux has become a daily driver for me.
So yeah, I would stick with Mint. Turns out the hype was real.
It's like a UNION but you don't STOP at couple of PAY RAISE HANDOUTS you just KEEP GOING till YOU OWN IT ALL.
HELL YEAH BROTHER (INCLUSIVE)
I've always had a lot of success with holding out my hand towards the cat, palm down, limp, and allowing the cat to inspect it in their own time.
I've heard this is also a technique from experts, but I just found it when we had a cat. It seems to work on dogs too.
It's non-threatening, and it doesn't put any pressure on them for a response. Just get it close enough to be just outside their personal space. If they stretch their nose towards it to sniff, you can bring it closer, and then you may just get the coveted nose bump and cheek nuzzle.
You may also get the, "what are you doing, you freak, leave me alone" body language, in which case you just have to wait and try again later.
Entirely by design. Why do you think they have a "security council" with 5 permanent members, who are the most powerful nations on earth, who can each veto literally anything completely unilaterally?
They are keeping themselves secure against the UN ever doing anything against their interests, that's the only way the word "security" makes any sense. It is intentionally set up to never get anything done. You would never create such an arrangement if you wanted an organisation to have actual teeth.
My kid wanted to watch it together, and I was like, that's fine as long as you let me tell you that Rick isn't always right and he's not the hero.
The 1.0 interface is a night & day improvement on the previous UI, so I'd say that was a good call.
I was recently using entirely legitimate professional software because I was sick of Fusion360's cloud crap. Admittedly I wasn't using it at a professional level, but previously I would've had the same trouble with FreeCAD, which was what drove me to my entirely legitimate alternatives.
But just recently I was trying FreeCAD, and struggling a bit with the interface, when I checked the latest version which was 1.0.0.
So I updated and it's had a complete UI overhaul. It now looks and runs like pro software. It has a modern look, and the UI interactions are extremely smooth.
My favourite part of it is the spreadsheet system. It's fully-fledged spreadsheet software, and when you've made all the calculations, you just have to name the cells you need, and then you can access them as variables from the design. It's really powerful for parametric design. That part of it was already much better than autodesk's parameter system.
Anyway, I'm not going back to Fusion or any of the pro software again. I'm doing my latest project in FreeCAD and it's a super smooth experience.
All you gotta do to know the plastic bans were bullshit is to look at the sheer volume of disposable plastic that goes into your shopping cart.
Shopping bags and straws were targeted because they impact consumers, not corporate supply chains.
It's the classic move of individualising a systemic problem to distract people from focusing on the actual source. It was pioneered with littering, then recycling, carbon footprint, and others. The research shows it works to take the heat off of corporations, and the "solutions" that get sold to us don't work. None of them do.
Big recommend on that video and Anark's whole channel.
This is a short clip he put out recently that makes a really good case for building the new world by fixing today's problems, which makes life better now, which is something people seem to miss.
Like we're not just rolling the dice that what we do now might pay off for future generations. We're not just "planting trees in whose shade we will never sit", we are planting seeds we can reap soon, because we need to eat, so we're solving that problem.
And satisfyingly, this brings us full-circle to addressing the point of the original post.
Oh cool. I can still access spotify on the computer, so I'll probably just check and search up the artists I like. Thanks!
Viewed from above the north pole, the planet's rotation, orbit and the ISS's orbit are all moving in a counterclockwise direction. The ISS's orbit is inclined ~51° from the Earth's rotation, and the Earth's rotation is tilted ~23° from its orbital plane.
I think that means that Earth & the ISS never have their orbits perfectly aligned, but for our purposes that doesn't matter. All we need is for one moment in time, for the ISS's vector to line up with the Earth's, and we should get very close to that at two times of the year, where the ISS's northernmost or southernmost parts of its orbit fall on the farthest point of its orbit away from the Sun. This should be true regardless of Earth's tilt at that moment.
( edit: on reflection, not quite true, you need the ISS's highest or lowest point relative to the plane of Earth's orbit, but it will still happen twice per year )
At those moments, the ISS is travelling with the direction of the planet, very close to parallel, and its speed relative to the Sun should approach ~134,600 km/h, unless you did the math wrong, I didn't check that.
In this same orbit the ISS should also reach its slowest point, as the opposite side of its orbit should be aligned against Earth's orbit.
But also, in the premise of this idea is the admission that the bicycle is "stationary", because its speed in relation to its immediate environment is what matters, and we all know it.
Just installed that, and it works!
I've not been able to get spotify to work for ages. Not through xmanager, not through revanced, none of it. Maybe it's because I'm in australia, I don't know, but thanks to your comment I've got a music player again.
Cut to a different version of that scene where they just start humping the computer.
Untethered occupants are a serious danger to other occupants in their own car. I wouldn't agree to drive with someone who wouldn't put one on tbh, partly because it hints at a lack of judgement and I wouldn't want that person in charge of the car.
If anyone thought Trump's party was the party of "the little guys" at any point in time now or before the inauguration, they shouldn't be trusted with a pair of blunt scissors, much less a key piece of IT infrastructure.
And if you're gullible enough to think that's a reasonable defence, I'd put you in that category too. I'm not really interested in anything else you have to say, that was just a disqualifyingly vapid argument you just made.
Bye.
As written this guy only has one monkey.
He literally said that they are now the party of the little guys. That's what "the tables have turned" means. That says a lot about how he feels about Trump, and a lot about how much you can trust his judgement on anything.
892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.
Like you already got unbelievably lucky.
Brick Layers: Stronger 3D Prints TODAY - instead of 2040 (bad patent holding back progress)
This is about a bad patent that is preventing slicers from making brick-layer prints that would increase strength enormously, despite the fact that there is clear prior art that has expired for nearly a decade. The patent is full of bad references to the prior art and clearly shouldn't have been approved - even if the person saying it isn't a lawyer, it's obvious.
The new bad patent from 2020 would keep the invention away for another 20 years, and do real harm to the development of 3d printing.
The creator asked viewers to share this with people in the FOSS slicer community. I don't know if that's anyone here, but lemmy is pretty FOSS-happy. Also the FOSS communities here might be interested to hear about how this patent is hamstringing development of FOSS features. I don't have the time right now to search through the communities so any crossposts would be welcome.
Advice on best way to replace personal Atlassian Jira subscription
I'm currently paying a moderate amount to atlassian to host jira for me, and I'm looking for a FOSS way to replace it. I don't use it every month and I've decided it's not worth continuing to pay, plus I want to transition to FOSS wherever I can. I just feel trapped. I'm sure people here know the feeling when using proprietary stuff.
I've used hosted bugzilla before, and possibly I didn't know enough about how to make it work, but the web frontend they had was garbage, it was unintuitive and took forever to respond, and I just transitioned to jira because it was easier to use.
I'm happy to self-host for now and maybe pay for hosting if I want to collaborate in the future. I have a Ubuntu server at home with miles of headroom to run a webserver.
I would love to hear anyone's opinions here. Also any other relevant lemmy subs would be very welcome.
Edit: some good questions about my requirements. I'm doing software development on personal projects using git, and I'm tracking i
Using pressure-sensitive Velostat/Linqstat as a velocity-sensitive MIDI pad
EDIT: I think this video shows a better design, although I note some improvements below:
Making a DIY analog force sensor under quarantine, with the Kontrol Freak. | KontinuumLAB
The main video linked uses two strips of copper bridged by the velostat, but this creates deadzones where those copper strips are, and probably also gives different responses depending on the shape of the region being pressed. I've done more research and a much more consistent method should be to sandwich the velostat between the two conductors so that the entire surface gives a consistent response that goes directly through the material. This should also give a more pronounced response because the length of the circuit through the velostat is only the thickness of the sheet, not the width of the pad. This should also make it less sensitive to changes in the pad size.
Some videos use conductive fabric, but the best one I found uses adhesive copper tape. If
TFW the universe rips you from your everyday existence in an instant to remind you that you are tiny, it is immense and everything is subject to change (edit: rule i guess)
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Longer, unedited version with original audio: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7LrNlCNOmR/
She just happened to catch this meteor and her own reaction to it, entirely by accident. Absolutely watch the video, the shadows playing through the clouds as the meteor passes through the frame are stunning, but the most remarkable thing to me is this moment where laughing with her friends is interrupted and she doesn't yet know where to look. It's such a universal reaction and really special to see. This image is taken as one of the very bright flashes is blowing out the camera. Some frames are almost entirely white, others look much clearer. I chose a frame to make the subject legible but also give a sense of how overwhelmingly bright the flashes really were.
David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre'
Obviously this man was an important anarchist thinker, but I think this is particularly relevant to anarchism right now in a US election year where this conversation will come up ad nauseum.
He stops short of decrying electoralism in general here, but makes the point that the milquetoast emptiness of the US liberals enables a rightward slide. What he says is short and to the point and avoids getting bogged down in wider issues. He acknowledges that "at least they're not nazis" is an appeal of the liberals, but points out that is the only appeal.
I just think this is a good thing to have if you don't want to type out this argument every time you see it, to point out that this has been happening for a very long time, and to hear a voice of sanity when every single liberal is yelling at you to stop criticising poor Joe or else we'll get the fascists again.
There is No Rule Regarding This
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MURDERING ALL CITIZENS IS NOT REQUIRED.
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Kyle Hill
Schrodinger's cat is:
Alive -- 50%
Dead -- 50%
42K votes
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I love how this community knew exactly what to do.
PSYCHOPRULECEPTRULE HAZRULE
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Text: PSYCHOPERCEPTUAL HAZARD DO NOT HALLUCINATE ALLIGATORS
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Parkour group Storror does some guerilla urbanism
I've recently started getting into parkour and I love its inherently political bent. It reminds of me of Graeber's quote that "Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free," which is exactly how traceurs behave.
This is the lads just showing up to a dilapidated public space and transforming it into a playground. They didn't get permission, they just made the place better.
Is anyone else like 10 times more likely to play a game they pirated versus one they bought?
I can't explain it, something about the freedom of acquisition takes the pressure off and lets me just launch it and try it out.
Maybe it's easier to pay some money and hit "install", than it is to find a torrent, download it and go through the install process, so there's a selection bias there.
Maybe it's the fact I downloaded it exactly when I decided to and not when a sale happened or it was in a bundle.
But even then, when I decide I want something right now and I pay full-price, something about that just puts a psychological barrier in between me and enjoying the game. Like now I have to validate the purchase, and if I want a refund it has to happen within 2 weeks, and within 2 hours of play (for steam). It's just an unpleasant feeling.
Even worse is the subscription model. I absolutely hate the pressure of having to try all the games I put on my list before the end of the month so I don't have to renew to keep trying them, that just feels like wasted money. But then abo
Getting an error when attempting to visit communities from outside links
I've been searching for communities using https://lemmyverse.net, but lately every time I click on a link I get the error shown above (I've edited out my username because it's not really important). For instance the above error was shown when I clicked on the link https://slrpnk.net/c/[email protected]
After I refresh the page I can see the content of the community, but I appear to be logged out. Then I hit refresh again and I log in, but sometimes the posts all disappear so the community appears to be empty.
Seems like something weird is going on here. I assume it's a bug. I'm happy to give any extra details you might need to figure out the problem.
EDIT: Turns out I couldn't see posts after logging in because my language wasn't set properly, and the other errors have disappeared with time.
Is there a way to search for all communities in a given server?
So for instance I'm interested in all communities in the aussie.zone instance, and I can't find a way to use the search function for that. I've tried searching for communities using the search string "aussie.zone" and I get nothing.
Then in the screenshot shown I tried searching for communities with just the string "aussie" and I got "Aussie [email protected]", which is strange because all the community names there contain the substring "aussie" and I'd expect this search to find them.
Is this a bug? Am I doing it wrong? It would be nice if there was a way to browse all communities in a given instance easily, because when I find an instance I like, I want to be able to go through and find the communities I like just as if I was browsing local communities on this instance.
Also the copy-paste method, which is still extremely clunky, is broken for me. I it just has [email protection] which when clicked does nothing useful. I've tried the Lemmy Link addon but not only is tha