Tippon @ Tippon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I haven't seen enough of One Piece to ask bait questions yet, I'm only half way through the Netflix series :)

I was thinking that jobs would be one of the solved problems, as in you only have to work if you want to. I'm more curious about whether people would prefer to do the research because they enjoy it, or if they'd rather just tell the computer to give them their full family tree, for example.

Minecraft, if I've got a project to do.

I run a local server so that I can play with my kid, but I'm the one who has to actually get things done. Simple things like looking for diamonds is enough to keep me playing for hours. I'll find a vein, and I think that's not enough, I need to find more, so I'll find half a dozen more veins, but then my brain switches to the 'I may as well carry on' mindset.

I mined a mountain down to ground level recently because the top was spoiling the view from our village, and once I started, it was quite soothing.

I'm Welsh, and my wife is a Welsh speaker, and we both missed that one 🙈🤣

I can't comment on how many documents you have, but there's a free version of Office 365

There's a dirty joke there somewhere...

Have you tried the online version of MS Office? I'm not sure, but I think there's a free version. Depending on the file, you might be able to convert it to another format, then use a FOSS tool going forwards.

I've heard that if it's cooked right, it's really gooooo00000000ooooooood

sorry

I commented on the last post about this, the three stars are difficult to make out on a small screen, they look like a blurry capital A. On top of that, it's apparently used in astronomy to represent clusters of stars, like a constellation.

The whole point of this campaign appears to be to replace a unique symbol with one that's already in use and is hard to read at small sizes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Exactly. Then when you clean your bathroom, you clean up all the shit particles along with whatever else is in there.

From the two photos you've posted, it looks like there's a little bit of the grooves left in the top of the screw, but not enough for your screwdriver to grip.

Try the rubber band trick first, mainly because it doesn't cost you anything other than a rubber band to try. The combination of the little bits of the grooves and the grip from the band might do it.

If it doesn't, a sacrificial screwdriver might work. You basically need to file off the pointy tip of the screwdriver until it can reach what's left of the grooves, and unscrew it with a bit of downward pressure.

Good luck 👍

I like it! 😁

Well, it's better than letting the tiny particles of shit float through your home until the smell disperses

I didn't say that it was being used to represent anyone, or that it was being stolen, I said that it was already in use. To use your examples, I'd think that using Pi or the degree symbol to represent the fediverse would be a bad idea too, as they could also lead to confusion. The semicolon is punctuation, so there's less chance of confusion with that.

If an astronomy group made a poster with the three stars, would the stars be representing star clusters, or advertising that they're on the fediverse? Given that the fediverse is still relatively small, is there more chance of the stars being seen as an astronomical symbol?

I'm going to blow your mind - bathroom doors can be closed 🤯

Am I misunderstanding this - you want to replace a recognised symbol with a symbol that's already being used by another group? That seems counterproductive at best.

I'm also wondering, have you spoken to anyone with poor eyesight? This is my reply to a comment below suggesting that the new symbol would be easier to read:

I'm reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn't already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn't have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A. Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it's not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size

I'm reading this thread on mobile, and the fediverse logo next to the community name is much easier to see than the three stars. If I didn't already know what the three stars were from the rest of the post, I wouldn't have a clue what they were supposed to be in the body. They look like a blurry capital A.

Obviously the fediverse logo is bigger there, which helps, but it's not significantly bigger, and would still be clearer at a smaller size

They don't shove them to the side, they put the new kidney in the front 👍

Apologies, yes, I did misunderstand you.

I got VMware to recognise the partition, but it couldn't boot it. Everything I found said that the distro needed to be on a separate drive with its own boot partition. I found threads saying that VirtualBox couldn't do it either, but I'd be happy to be wrong :)

I'm not at my computer now, so won't get a chance to try it for at least a few hours.

Thanks for the link and the information :)

From what I can tell, they would both need their own boot partition, which is where I'm stuck. My Windows and Mint installations share a boot partition, and it causes problems for this.

I know that it's not very practical, for most people, but imagine having to use Windows for work or a specific game, and still being able to access your distro as normal. It could be handy for a small niche, and felt like an interesting challenge :)

You might be misunderstanding what I want to do. I want to boot my existing Mint partition as a VM under Windows, not make a new VM with its own drive.

From what I can tell, it might be possible if the distro is on its own drive with its own boot partition, but my Mint installation is on a partition on the same drive as Windows, and they share the same boot partition.