JillyB

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 7 hours ago

A good bicycle is what I was going to put. I was able to get rid of my car and dramatically cut my spending on rental bikes and public transit.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 10 points 1 day ago

I think it's moreso the quality of the toilet that determines if it gets clogged. It could be something about American toilets that makes them susceptible or something about your place's toilets that makes them immune.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

A method of optimizing parameters for manufacturing bearings. Specifically the raceway superfinish process.

There are several machine parameters (oscillation speed, stone pressure, time, etc) that go into the superfinish process. The only output is surface roughness. I created a way to optimize for a low roughness. The best part was that once you set it up, you can just start printing out worksheets and handing them to engineering techs to get some more data collected.

Before I did this, superfinish parameters were considered a bit of a black art and were only adjusted when there was a problem. This means they were always as bad as they could possibly be.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Well I don't think it would have been possible to assemble

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Me and my friends used to get high and play geometry wars on the 360. Lots of fun passing the controller around to see who can get the farthest.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago

Eh. It would be better if there was something actionable but some things can just be news sources.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

TBH, I agree with you. However a lot of people's PCs are no longer supported with no practical way to change that. For those people that are trying Linux out timidly and reluctantly, I'm fine with a little handholding. I wouldn't recommend someone switch to Linux unless I knew they were a bit savvy. But if they're worried about going behind on security updates and can't afford a new PC, I will suggest their one option, even if I know it will be challenging at times.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

For me personally, I would remember none of that if taught to me. I'm stubborn and handy enough to figure it out during an emergency. For the kind of noob OP is describing that benefits from a handheld on-ramp, they will probably never be able to do what you're describing.

I think a good compromise would be mentioning a few things that you can do in case of emergency so a more savvy person would know what to look for in an emergency. You don't have to teach them so much as tell them there is something they can do. If there's a fire, idk where the fire extinguisher is but I know there is one and I can go looking.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

This was going to be my suggestion. Most noobs will be familiar with phone app stores. You can present a distro's software manager like an app store. People coming from another OS will probably be happy they don't have to find, download, and install their programs.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

As a Linux noob, this is not as basic as you think it is. It's probably cool to show them "sudo apt install [program]" as a neat trick to dip their toes into the command line. All the other things you mentioned would scare me away if it was presented as beginner essential knowledge. I legit have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 6 points 4 days ago

Disturbing the cat results in no attacks. It just means that the peaceful cat gets woken up from their cute nap, which is bad.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Ahh this makes sense

 

I recently switched my desktop to Linux mint. Overall it seems to work well for me. The one exception is that my password manager, Keepass, won't work. I currently use Gdrive to sync the database between devices. It works very well for this purpose. Is there another way I can sync this file as seemlessly as Gdrive? It would to work for an Android phone and Mint PC.

 

This channel normally posts board meetings and short progress updates on specific sections of the project in a pretty dry way. This is the first time I've seen them lean into a more engaging method of getting the word out.

 

I find it disgusting that they feel the need to appeal to their importance for economic activity. Safety should be a worthy enough goal to maintain such a lightweight organization. Trump says he wants to bring industry back to America. With moves like this, it's clear the actual intent is to keep workers subservient and expendable.

 

I want to make the switch but I want to test run first before fully committing. My PC has an M.2 SSD. I was thinking I could buy another one, swap them out and put Linux on that. In an emergency, I can swap the SSD back. Does this seem like a viable/sensible path toward Linux? I don't really have too many files on my PC that I care about. I don't want to dual boot. I did that on a laptop back in the day and it was annoying.

 

Game starts at 4:05. He entirely relies on game audio to play the game. Street Fighter 6 has good accessibility options that he uses to help understand the game state.

 

On the Beehaw local page, it's filled with posts from the Socialism community. On my subscriptions page, it's filled with posts from a 196 community. I'm glad Lemmy is getting communities that are gaining traction, but I don't want my feeds dominated by a few communities. I'm not sure if this is a Lemmy issue, a Beehaw issue, or a Thunder issue. Anybody have any ideas?

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