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bjwest 19 points 3 years ago

I moved to Reddit when Digg destroyed itself. It wasn't too hard to make the switch, although it did take a bit of getting used to. I imagine it'll be the same this time, or maybe a bit easier, as the format of lemmy.ml is not too different in appearance from Reddit.

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bjwest 14 points 3 years ago path: 0 6317878 6319175, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 0
bjwest 6 points 3 years ago

I think AppImages suck as well, but this is not a reason for my dislike. A simple script that you can run on startup will fix that problem.

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bjwest 6 points 3 years ago

The problem with meat is not that we eat it, but that we eat too much of it. Most people eat a week's worth of meat in a single day, and that results in the over production of meat, which is helping to destroy the environment.

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bjwest 5 points 3 years ago

If some company or the government wants to charge me 3% to 10% or more to electronically pay, I'm writing them a check.

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bjwest 4 points 3 years ago

BBSes were pre-public internet, not part of the internet. The connected ones were a separate network in and of themselves. I ran a WWIV BBS in the late 80s to early 90s that had its own networking system allowing communication, and even file sharing between instances. It was pretty sophisticated for the time, but hella slow over my 14.4k modem.

WWIV did migrate to using the internet for connection, and maybe others did as well. Perhaps that's what you were considering with this comment?

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bjwest 4 points 3 years ago

Maybe take it up with his boss? I really can't see the restaurant caring one way or another, as long as the shift is covered by someone qualified to do the job.

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bjwest 4 points 3 years ago

You don't need a PDF editor to create PDF's, you can print to PDF in any program that can print, including LibreOffice Writer.

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bjwest 3 points 3 years ago

My Samsung S22 did, but the Pixel I traded it in for does not.

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bjwest 3 points 3 years ago

I'm marinating a salmon steak in an Asian sauce mixture, and roasting that. I'll make some fried rice and steam some broccoli, and pour the remaining sauce from the salmon over the broccoli. This is something I meant to do last night but didn't get around to it, so it's my christmas eave dinner tonight.

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bjwest 3 points 3 years ago

As a democratic country, we should be on the side of the 94% of the population that doesn't support the current government. Of course, that's probably not in the interest of our corporate overlords, who are robbing Peru's natural resources for profit.

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bjwest 3 points 2 years ago

I don't encrypt my entire drive, but I do have encrypted directories for my sensitive data. If I did encrypt an entire drive, it would only be the drive containing my data not the system drive.

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bjwest 2 points 3 years ago

They have the .deb at the top of their download page, no need to install the PPA repository if you don't want. You can't get any more than "just downloading and double clicking an exe deb" than that on Ubuntu.

I will admit though, I wish there were an easier way to install PPAs.

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bjwest 2 points 2 years ago

That's a tooth extraction, a root canal is where they drill down through the tooth and root to get at and eliminate the infection, saving the tooth. It's not a one session job, they drill down then inject antibiotics to kill the infection, then place a temporary filling in the hole. This is to make sure the infection is gone before placing the permanent filling. I had one a few years ago that took several sessions to get rid of the infection. With a good dentist, it's not painful. Hell, my wisdom teeth extraction was way more painful.

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bjwest 2 points 3 years ago

I use a chargie. It's a physical Bluetooth connected device that connects between the phone and charger and lets you set your own charge limit. Works great with my wireless charger at night. I also have one for my tablet.

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bjwest 2 points 3 years ago

I thought pandas only ate a certain type of bamboo leaves.

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bjwest 2 points 3 years ago

Very little moderation and yet people behaved themselves, though of course the number of non-tech people on the net were far lesser as well so that certainly had something to do with it.

I remember the pre-AOL Internet, and what happened when AOL opened the gates to the masses. That was the day the civil internet died, and soon after the commercial internet devoured it, forever changing the way people can scam, deceive and show hate towards each other.

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bjwest 2 points 3 years ago

You realize your computer won't work without scripts, don't you? And if you want your computer to do something it doesn't do on its own, a simple script will make it do what you want. If that is your definition of sucking, then you need to go back to Windows, which is also loaded with scripts, by the way, so that sucks too.

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bjwest 2 points 2 years ago

I use Linux and it's built in to my desktop environment. I just create a new vault.

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bjwest 1 point 3 years ago

Just searched for the original, and it no longer comes with a funnel or filter holder, and the number of filters seems to have been dropped to 100 as well. It seems to be a darker version of the clear now, but less than $40.

Greed ruins everything.

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