flubba86 @ flubba86 @lemmy.world

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The majority of dust particles on the surface of your desk is dead human skin cells. That's the part you're missing.

Yes. And their socks are too.

My daughters share school socks, because they are all the same colour and shape. So I guess this concept isn't too unreasonable to do it on a whole family level.

Yeah, I remember reading this last year.

Update, after looking at it a bit more, I don't know if I like the Edge 60 pro. It's got a MediaTek processor, I prefer Qualcomm. I'm not a fan of the faux leather back, and the price is much higher than I expected (though I know they discount substantially after a year on the market).

I did Gentoo from stage 1 too back in the day, it's was a valuable learning experience for me, and those skills helped me to fix things when they went wrong down the track.

Yes. Thank you for speaking the only truth in this thread.

The number 1024 is my favourite, it feels like a smooth slippery ice skating rink, with lots of room for activities.

12 is another good number, it feels like a sharp 12 pointed knife, very good at slicing things up evenly.

This number always feels like a completely full glass, one drop would overflow it.

Prominent open source projects you're involved with or have contributed to.

I'm on an Edge 30 Pro now, it's the best smartphone I've ever used. I've had it for 2 years, and it was 1 year old when I bought it.

I skipped the Edge 40 and Edge 50 (they are pretty good, but not worth upgrading), this Edge 60 pro will likely be my next new phone.

I will wait until I can buy a lightly used one. I don't buy new smartphones anymore. There are many people who upgrade their phone every year, and unlike iPhones, most android smartphones depreciate in value rapidly after they are even lightly used, so it's easy to get a good deal on a 1 year old phone that's in near-new condition.

Bro, people normally don't comment in the form of a regular expression.

I was big into custom ROMs back when CyanogenMod was the state of the art. Unfortunately these days my banking app and my work mail app don't work on custom ROMs, so I'm stuck with whatever the manufacturer provides me.

Yep, not bricked. Just frozen.

There are two forms of bricked:

1. hard bricked. This is when a software change (eg, installing a custom firmware) caused the system to fail to boot, and there is no possible way to ever get it to run again.
2. soft bricked. Where a software change caused the failure to boot but there is a way (eg, reflashing using UART) to recover back to an older version that does boot.

Both are terms from the Phone modding community (ie, a phone has become as useful as a brick after this update) it's quite hard to actually brick a modern PC.

If you take the plunge and switch to systemd-boot it's worth it. It's the only boot manager I've tried in the last decade that feels like an upgrade from GRUB.

Obesity, and bounciness.

In my early 20s I had a part-time job as a pizza delivery driver. When there were no deliveries, I would answer phones or take orders at the counter. One day one of the touchscreen monitors at the counter stopped working. It was just black all the time. So we were told not to use it.

A few days later I was on lunch shift and bored, I was trying random things to see if I could fix the monitor. Switched the inputs, switched to a different VGA cable, etc. At one point I discovered the touch panel was still working, I could interact with the OS, even though nothing was displaying. I was pressing around different areas of the screen and I accidentally found that pressing right in the centre of the screen caused the display to re-appear! It would disappear again after a few seconds. Press that spot again, it came back. I was fascinated by this, I showed some coworkers, they didn't care.

Over the course of the day it was getting harder to make the display re-appear. It gradually needed to be pressed quite forcefully to come back. I started using my knuckles to knock sharply on the spot, and that was working.

When my manager arrived for the night shift, I was excited to show him my discovery. I said "hey man, I kinda fixed this monitor, watch this!" And I enthusiastically knocked hard on the centre of the screen with my fist. The LCD lit up and showed the display, but at the same time shattered in a rainbow ring the shape of my fist.

The look on my manager's face was of awe and horror. I was trying to explain what I had meant to do, but I realised what it must've looked like to him. "Hey man, watch me fix this monitor!" Before smashing the screen with a swift punch. It wasn't possible to explain it a way that didn't sound crazy.

In the end I convinced him that the monitor was faulty anyway, and we were going to replace it anyway, so my accident breaking it more is not a big deal.

I love it when the phlebotomist tells me I have nice veins. Makes me feel proud, and I like that it makes their life easier.

I believe FileLight (in OP above) is a fork of or built on top of QDirstat.

Ncdu is my go-to tool. Can't live without it on the servers I administer. However from this thread I've also learned about gdu, diskonaut and du-dust that I need to check out.

I like Strawberry, for two reasons:

• It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.
• It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.