excitingburp @ excitingburp @lemmy.world

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This has been a serious concern of mine. In the event that I prematurely die I have everything set up with automatic updates, so that hopefully my family can continue to use the self-hosted services without me.

Nextcloud will not stop shitting the bed. I'd give it a few months at most if I died, at which point my family would likely turn back to Google Drive.

I'm looking for a more reliable alternative, even if it's not as feature-rich.

The ruling from the original court was that Trump engaged in an insurrection (but enjoys presidential immunity). The presidential immunity bit was then appealed to the Colorado supreme court, who overturned that. That is how we have arrived at (a) he was in an insurrection and (b) he does not qualify to be on the ballot. Trump and is team have never contested (a), so as far as this case goes there is no question about whether he engaged in the insurrection.

If you throw gasoline out on to the pavement it will evaporate away. If you keep it in a gasoline can it will not. In a gasoline can the liquid and gas will reach equilibrium, though you'll certainly have slightly less liquid than what you started with. If the can isn't sealed then, yes, all the gasoline will eventually evaporate away - even at STP.

And, again, this is all trivial to test at home by using some hand sanitizer. Another example is your skin does not remain wet with water forever, despite human skin temperature not being 100°C. It's an everyday phenomena, I'm not sure what you're trying to argue against here. It's not my "line of thinking," it's objectively reality.

As for your distillation problem, the issue isn't that some alcohol remains in the water - it's that some water evaporates alongside the alcohol during the distillation process at the boiling point of alcohol - due to, guess what, vapor pressure. That's called an azeotrope - clicking through to that Wikipedia page might have helped.

It was what the GP was, though.

It's incredibly unlikely that there will ever be a vaccine or cure. Prions aren't a disease like others, put in layman terms they are anti-life.

It's like all the healthy proteins in your body are balancing on a tight rope 10 stories into the air. Prions are what happens when the proteins fall off: the proteins fall to a ground state where they are incredibly stable. Moving them back up would be as difficult as sending lightning back up to the sky, or unbaking a cake. That's why you need to burn them at 600C, they are so stable that they don't even want to react with oxygen. They are like nature's own forever-chemical.

it would not turn into a gas at normal conditions.

It does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure. In an airtight container you would have an equilibrium of alcohol vapor and liquid. In open-atmosphere, the atmosphere basically behaves like an infinitely large volume for the vapor - so the alcohol will completely vaporize (and cool the surface it is on in order to do so).

It's also trivial to demonstrate by pouring alcohol onto a surface, it disappears in seconds. Same with gasoline and numerous other liquids you've surely seen do this (another example is hand sanitizer, which is basically pure alcohol).

Being diluted doesn't really help with any of this though. Also alcohol is kept in bottles, which are usually airtight until they are first opened.

Voters in other states could rely on the precedent if the SC specifically upholds the judgement. You can bet such lawsuits would happen, so it would indirectly result in the same thing happening in all states.

If the SC overturns the judgement then Biden could become Dark Brandon and just stay in power, ignoring a Republican victory.

Apparently it breaks group chats, notwithstanding that it's an Apple problem, Signal exists and doesn't feature any of this nonsense.

Btw COW isn't necessarily (and isn't at least for ZFS) a performance trade-off. Data isn't really copied, new data is simply written elsewhere on the disk (and the old data is not marked as free space).

Ultimately it actually means "the data behaves as though it was copied," which can be achieved in many ways. There are many ways to do that without actually copying.

As of 2017 he still contributes and said "it's fun." I assume he did.

But even Linus has since admitted that his behavior was unacceptable.

Larger engines (such as those in power plants) are also generally more efficient. And RVs don't use oil to drive the oil to where the car can get oil - we have the grid (a modern wonder of the world) to do that for us.

... so long as you're not leasing them, the lifetime energy cost is night and day.

The current rhetoric against EVs is reminiscent of the rhetoric against nuclear power. Yes, it's not great. Yes, it's not renewable. However, it gives us more time to more deeply address these issues. The successful anti-nuclear Green Peace campaigns against nuclear have done immeasurable damage to the environment in the long-term (I'm now convinced they were a big oil sock puppet all along). The same could be said for the anti-EV crowd, but the "EVs are sexy" campaign seems to be gaining more traction this time round.

Make no mistake though, the "EVs are just as bad" is a myth perpetuated by big oil.

If you can do a bike, then please do a bike (or a scooter, or one of the many options). If you can't, then an EV is a good choice. If you can't afford an EV. But never, ever, lease.

I'm both an AMD (7900XT) and NixOS user. AMD drivers are known for being a bit wonky when they're brand-new on Linux.

I continue to have a particularly bad experience with anything Flatpak (I chalk that up to its Ubuntu influences, rather than Linux in general), but everything else works perfectly.

If a game doesn't support Linux I refund it. Haven't had to refund in a good long while.

"Use the force Spork" ~ Gandalf

Pro-tip for dual booting Linux: make it the primary OS. Humans are inherently resistant to change, so you need to set yourself up for overcoming that.

Putin has been claiming that Ukraine invaded him all along, so now what? "Oh they are invading for realsies." I've been hoping that Ukraine would call him on his bluff.

It's an entire planet's war.

I started with a Hakko, $120. It blows my mind how much better a $25 soldering iron (Pinecil V2) is. Both only have 2 buttons, but the Hakko does a terrible job with them. The Hakko also takes significantly longer to heat, which resulted in me running it really hot when I first started out.

Sadly, these big apps already have tons of exemptions.