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pelya ,

You don't need to worry about the accuracy of your smoothbore pistol pepperbox if you fix your target with the attacked spearpoint before each shot.

pelya ,

That's what the asteroid belt is for!

pelya ,

Nothing like that, just more automated coffee machines with credit card terminals across the city. It's a progress I guess.

I never understood "100% Arabica" trend. It's just sour. The fancy expensive coffee made by a barista on a shiny manual espresso machine tastes acidic to me, and the best-tasting coffee is what our free office-provided automated machine makes from bottom-shelf beans. Am I supposed to fix it with cream and sugar? Do I have some rare gene mutation that makes me sneeze when looking at the sun and makes 100% Arabica coffee bad-tasting?

pelya ,

Coffee tends to not have any upper price range, you always can find something even more exclusive than beans pooped by a rainforest squirrel. So whatever marketing trend is occurring, it likely won't impact most consumers, who drink it for the caffeine content not the taste. Maybe in 10 years when the trend soaks down to the bottom shelf of the supermarket, I will have a bit differently tasting beans in my free office-provided coffee. But it's already 95% Robusta with 5% mystery beans to provide foam, not enhance the taste. They could add fried soy beans for all I care, it certainly won't make the taste worse.

Anyway, to answer your original question, I'm not seeing any "100% Robusta char-fry" coffee ads in my city.

pelya ,

I have discovered cold infusion coffee just last week. It's a surprising way to salvage ruined coffee roast. Cool water until there's some ice in it, or just dump ice in water, then dump your badly roasted coffee powder, shake, and leave in the fridge overnight (not the freezer). Strain the grounds, reheat in the microwave and drink (or just drink it cold and with grounds, whatever works for you). Ideally you should use coarse grind size, but it's mainly because it's easier to filter it.

pelya ,

I first used Matplotlib 10 years ago. It was unintuitive and very slowly redrawing the whole plot each time you tried to zoom.

I'm using it right now, and I'm happy to report that it kept to it's time-honored tradition - zoom is still piss-slow even on my fancy new PC with 12 cores.

Maybe in the next 20 years, matplotlib devs will discover wonders of tile cache.

pelya ,

Nope. They don't care about privacy, as long as there's no lawsuit.

pelya ,

I guess someone could cross-compile a bunch of desktop Linux apps like Gimp or Krita and publish them to Play Store to run on Chromebooks. There was some work on porting Wayland to Android, there's also X server on Android although it's unmaintained, and all other libraries like QT and GTK can be cross-compiled with some effort on top of Bionic.

pelya ,

It was so simple for Google to add desktop mode to Android during Android 5 times. And they even had Android TV as a mouse-oriented hardware. And they could populate Play Store with quality opensource Linux desktop apps, by just organizing the work, there's currently no technical reason why Krita or Gimp couldn't be built for Android natively, it's just that no one cares to do it after Google ignored Android desktop mode for ten years.

pelya ,

Subway that arrives almost to my office. Yes it's a bit slower overall, but I can doomscroll my phone for a hour per day instead of rotating the wheel for the same amount of time.

pelya ,

These arms only rotate 60⁰, so ironworks are okay

pelya ,

Debian 12. It just works, except for buggy Wayland, thankfully KDE still supports Xorg.

pelya ,

Nope, the lemmy-cached thumbnail has a different picture

pelya ,

Looks like a visual representation of a chiptune

pelya ,

Cat piss does not smell particularly bad to me.

Maybe it's toxoplasma speaking.

pelya ,

I'd like to imagine Trans Debian as a distribution where they'd snipped systemd.

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Castle Hill is a location and a high country station in New Zealand's South Island. It is located at an altitude of 700 metres, close to State Highway 73 between Springfield and Arthur's Pass. It is private property and located within the Kura Tawhiti Conservation Area. The hill was so named because of the imposing array of limestone boulders in the area reminiscent of an old, run-down stone castle. The front of ChristChurch Cathedral in Christchurch was made from Castle Hill limestone. The station was established by the Porter brothers, and later owned by brothers John and Charles Enys. John Enys was a noted entomologist, and friend of novelist Samuel Butler. It is widely considered to be the epitome of New Zealand's South Island climbing scene, where on any given day one can find rock climbers bouldering the unique limestone outcroppings. This area has recently seen more visitors, as nearby Flock Hill station was used for the filming of the climactic battle scenes of the 2005 movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Flock Hill also has a huge number of climbable limestone boulders though access requires a short certification procedure via the internet, unlike Kura Tawhiti which, as a conservation area, allows free access at all times.
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    • pelya ,

    Now we need a geologist to name these rocks properly.

    pelya ,

    Nah, russia used their only opportunity for a blitzkrieg in 2022. Now they have kilometers of minefields in every piece of land they try to capture. Blitzkrieg only works on unprepared opponent.

    Make and AI for tech bros that automatically replaces crypto with AI in all their their powerpoints. Use the AI in your own powerpoint to blitzcale and take over the market.

    Make and AI for tech bros that automatically replaces crypto with AI in all their their powerpoints. Use the AI in your own powerpoint to blitzcale and take over the market. Then make the AI powerpoint itself to raise money, thus outsmarting the competition.

    pelya ,

    What about blockchain-powered distributed AI?

    pelya ,

    The oldest is Khazar saber for some reason. As if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans did not use any swords.

    pelya ,

    Oh yeah, a hammer, an axe, an awl, and a fork, with a knife for a tip. I gotta guess the handle ends with a giant spoon.

    pelya ,

    For example, don't ever say you use Windows here lest a whole horde of people jump in to call you an idiot for not having switched to Linux

    Just copy Linux Mint onto an USB stick. No need to boot it, you hang it around your neck like a cross, and display it to raging pinguinoids to pacify them.

    I am using Debian, in case you were wondering.

    pelya ,

    Because the communism is a convenient ideology for totalitarian states to exploit and control the population.

    It's exactly like the middle-ages Christianity, with the Bible promoting humanitarian ideology, and the church exploiting the hell out of the population.

    That's also why communists banned all religions, they don't want any competition.

    pelya ,

    Peak evolution

    pelya ,

    Gold leaf is like 500 atoms thick, by just beating gold with a hammer.

    I'd thought they already have a process for making one atom thick gold, like vapor deposition.

    pelya ,

    That 450 000 counter is for dead + wounded, according to the explanation they gave some time ago.

    pelya ,

    I am using only one monitor. It's hard enough to position it to avoid glare from windows and overhead lamps, I cannot imagine doing it with two.

    I also have 15 virtual desktops, so there's that.

    pelya ,

    That's wild.

    pelya ,

    Choose the distro that can auto-install all the drivers for you, like Mint. It sounds like you will only run Chrome on it anyway.

    Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers - simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading ( www.msn.com )

    Does anyone know more about this? Sounds like distributing tasks to other processors that are not really designed for the job? Articles are making it out to be a miracle and not sure whether to believe it

    pelya ,

    I'll believe it when I will see Linux ported to the shader language.

    pelya ,

    The answer is 256-color (8-bit) palette.

    pelya ,

    It wasn't an engine limitation, it was a design choice. Heretic is a colorful game, and it was made using Doom engine.

    It's especially bad in Quake, all monsters look like a moving piece of a wall, and the level design is walls on top of walls with some walls in-between. If not for the revolutionary game engine, it would seriously flop.

    pelya ,

    Simply install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store.

    pelya ,

    That's why cowboy hats have folded brims.

    How to remotely reboot a Linux host if SSH fails to connect?

    Edit2: Thanks all for your responses! I have checked the logs, https://lemmy.nz/comment/6192604, and based on that removed tracker-miner-fs as it's a search/index tool which I don't need. No idea why it took over all memory. I'll also get a WiFi Smartplug as a kill switch. Hopefully that solves it....

    pelya ,

    edit: I just found this, which seems to be exactly what I need: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man7/amt-howto.7.html

    Ah yes, Intel's famous security hole.

    Some people stopped buying Intel CPUs after this feature was introduced.

    pelya ,

    Good bot

    pelya ,

    Yeah, it's called AMD DASH, but it's available only on select CPUs, unlike Intel's variant.

    https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/security-manageability

    pelya ,

    So the whole chip is a complicated lens, that somehow can perform multiplication using 'analogue computation'.

    Arxiv link

    pelya ,

    We tricked the same rocks we use for doing math into bending light like the glass, and we use that for doing math, yes.

    pelya ,

    I can't use the new MS Office with butchered menu. LibreOffice is more similar to the classic MS Office than MS Office itself.

    pelya ,

    X11 is an ancient piece of crap which no one wants to update or maintain.

    Wayland is the new and better display manager.

    However, many old applications only support X11, because they depend on some arcane feature not yet supported by Wayland. Hence, the drama.

    pelya ,

    I want to see IRL photo of this connection.

    The knot also needs to be adapted for common two-core electrical appliance cable, if you remove a piece of the insulation on one side and with an offset on the other side, the cable needs to be twisted mid-knot to match the correct wire.

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