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People from other countries also usually don't expose their entire set of teeth when smiling...

Thanks!

@wintermute@feddit.de Are you the admin of lemmy.villa-straylight.social?

Misjudged your intelligence

Some civility would be nice.

How many see-through clocks do you own? I own none.

I completely agree. I get the most generic version of the homepage most of the time (logged out + clearing cookies often). And I am always wondering with at least half the stuff on the front page: Why did someone put time/effort into this? Why all the low-effort acting out of humor-free skits and pranks? Why tell people about their relationship to some other creator falling apart? Why create excessively long "podcasts" where people just ramble about either nothing or about topics that they did not research?

There are obviously "creators" who have actual topics and a script. I mostly enjoy watching them. They usually still stretch out their content more than necessary and I am still not enjoying the obligatory "and so we banded together to create Nebula!" ad.

I am guilty of occasionally watching phone reviews. The topic is low-brow consumerism and their content can usually be condensed to "black slab now with better camera". But they are at least shot and scripted pretty well and are not excessively long.

And that's not the same for regular TV. The signal/noise level there seems a lot better.

I guess you unethically sourced this comment from your lower back.

I am reminded of this somehow.

You don't necessarily need it as a builtin option in Lemmy, actually. You'd just need someone to hand-roll it. Before GitHub had forums with surveys, there used to be a third party provider that offered inofficial surveys that could be added to comments as embedded SVG images. The only drawback was that you could vote even as a non-registered user (but that's true of Strawpoll as well). I sadly both forgot the name and think the company/people behind that tool may have stopped providing it.

It's just misapplied logic. No ivory-tower logicians in sight anywhere to make fun of.

You could maybe use that joke in such a way, if you actually had a logician in front of you whom you'd want to piss off.

That's a bit dangerous for a few reasons:

1. cat is the wrong command, because it outputs the file's content, not the file's name.
2. my.awesome.file.txt would become an empty string, leading to errors. (The regex is not anchored to the end of the string ($), the . is not escaped, so it becomes a wild card, ...)
3. My awesome file.txt would trip up the loop and lead to unwanted results.

I'd suggest this:

for file in * ; do mv “$file” $(echo “$file” | sed -r 's/(\.tar)?\.[^.]*$//') ; done

deducing, not deducting. Also, you seem to be talking about the joke from the comments. And the joke from the comments makes fun of the man misapplying logic rather than making fun of the logician.

Drafts is a feature request can get behind.

Anyway, still somewhat hoping for a Lemmy version of Slide.

Do you even want to know at this point?

Your answer is correct but I am going to needlessly nitpick: Actually, OGG is just the name of the container format. The audio stream inside a .ogg file is usually using a format called Vorbis. However, .flac files also use an OGG container afaik, they just have different file format convention. Same goes for the newer Opus audio format which usually uses .opus despite also being packaged in an OGG container. In any case, it wouldn't be entirely wrong to name a FLAC or Opus file .ogg.

Side note: Opus is the future but sadly not yet widely compatible outside browsers. FLAC is great and more widely established but also has its support deficits. MP3 and WAV are still the most widely compatible formats sadly.

Thanks for not shouting at me for the hijack comment.

Removing snap from Ubuntu, at least, seems to be more impossible with every update as far as I’ve heard. Apparently it just reinstalls itself if you try to use apt in order to install eg. Firefox and then uses snap for that package. So I’d guess actually disabling snap would mean somehow configuring or editing apt itself or some addon to it.

Basically you need to have a list of packages to avoid in your head. :) And with every passing release there are more. Great!!

Since I've gone back to using Ubuntu I've managed to avoid these traps somehow.

Wann Klage gegen Canonical wegen Monopolstellung?

While their practices suck, they don't exactly have a monopoly. If they're eventually bought out by MS, something could happen. (So far, MS seems happy (and capable) to do its own thing though.)

In Englisch nem Deutschen zu antworten fühlt sich affig an lül

Yeah, but this is a public thread in an English-language community.

On a tangent, ...

tldr: Hot water tends to majorly influence home/office energy use.

tl: Since living with rooftop solar here, I have noticed just how much energy is often drawn because of warm water. As in, in this house, you can see very noticeable usage spikes in the solar app whenever someone showers or washes dishes. I've completely given up on washing my hands with warm water and have reduced the amount of water I shower with. We've also started using the electric kettle for heating water because it means you usually only heat up about as much water as you actually need and the kettle has a pretty uniform 2kW power draw (which helps make it work on solar).

Obviously, there are different systems for heating water but one way or another, they tend to use a lot of energy and heat more water than necessary to higher temperatures than necessary. Unsurprisingly, other major energy wasters that most of us come into contact on a daily basis are also all about changing temperatures, namely home heating, AC and gas-powered motors (aka drivable heatings).

During that tour, we learned that pretty much every stereotype Americans have for Germans (lederhosen, yodeling, beer and brats, etc.) are actually Bavarian culture, not German.

So for lederhosen, it's mostly true, although they're traditional in Austria too. Yodeling is Alpine culture and not specifically Bavarian, meaning it exists in Bavaria, in Austria and Switzerland. For beer, only weissbier is truly Bavarian; e.g. pilsener originated from Czechia, lager originated from Austria [til!]. And although there are Bavarian bratwurst variants, bratwursts are not specifically Bavarian. However, veal sausage (weisswurst) is exclusively Bavarian.

And Germans are actually quite offended at the confusion we have between their culture and Bavarian culture.

That is true. I think to some degree this confusion comes from the fact that so many Americans were stationed in Bavaria after WWII, so they only got to experience this part of German culture.

[...] when the war was over, they not only had to rebuild from scratch, but also had to contribute to rebuilding the rest of Germany, as well as paying for war damages for Europe and all Allied nations, etc. Their wealth was pretty much depleted and their hope of being an independent nation was gone.

I am not particularly versed in Bavarian history, but note that some Bavarians have developed a bit of a fetish portraying themselves as victims of injust decisions from on high. I would take that info with a grain of salt.