Revan343

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

By the time Trump is dead, you will be well past fixing things and into start over territory

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

But at least you can counter it with misinformation from an AI bot :D

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Quarter pints are wider than tall, but tiny, wide-mouth half pints are similar proportions but bigger

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I guess they get their name because they're in pods like peas but without being told

Presumably the opposite; they get their name because they're in shells like nuts

(The 'pea' part is because they're a legume; it could have just as easily ended up 'bean-nut', except that would over time become 'beanut', which would probably re-become peanut)

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

If it has or recently (evolutionarily speaking) had wings, it's a pterosaur; there are several that look close enough to pterodactyls that they get lumped together in media. 'pterosaur' is literally 'winged lizard'

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I went googling just to see if it was unique enough to find (alas I suspect 'twinkstuffer' was a made up example, not a real one); I'd guess it's in Seattle because a bunch came up in my search, and they were all in Seattle.

What a city

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Golden rice is an example of a GMO that's actually beneficial to humanity, or would be; anti-GMO sentiment has kept it from being grown in any significant amounts.

It's tweaked to produce vitamin A, which rice normally does not; deficiency is a common problem in places where the poor get most of their calories from rice

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a fridge at 7°C

Gross

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll have to take a look; I liked the one book, kind of dumb bombastic fun. The FTL followed set paths between planets, which made for good world building

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The only reason I'm not sure they framed him is the wealthy family; why didn't they pick some poor fucker?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is that John Scalzi, author of Collapsing Empire?

 

Currently the 'Parent' button takes you to the top-level comment of the thread. Could it be split into two buttons, one of which takes you to the immediate parent comment?

 

Does anybody know of a list of usb live-bootable distros, with links to the download pages?

I have a coworker who wants to switch his gaming computer over to Linux, he has Linux experience but from like a decade ago.

He's not partial to any particular distro, so I was hoping to just put together a multiboot flash drive with a bunch of live images he could try. But I'm not sure what I should include, and what has live images, vs. install only images.

I'm most comfortable in an environment with apt, so Debian and Mint are of course already covered, but if the gaming-specific distros have live usb images, that would probably be the best thing for him to try.

 

When reading a web page within Connect, it would be nice if long-pressing on links in the webpage would give a popup with the option to open the link in an external browser (and probably also an option to just copy the link). I frequently find myself linked to Wikipedia from a Lemmy comment, and then want to open other links from that wiki page, so then I have to open the page I'm on externally and refind my spot in the article.

Having the same options when long-pressing a link in a comment/post would be nice as well.

 

The text when I try to type comments (but not the text in the search bar or, as I'm just now learning, here in the 'post body' text box) is white, and I can't find the setting to change it. Obviously I could change my background back to the default blue that it was, but that's the opposite of a solution.

Anybody know?

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