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  • If you ever sweat, like ever, smart watches may not be for you. I've had 3, different brands (all Android Wear OS), and my sweat eventually tarnished the charging contacts to the point of no use (even after being cleaned with alcohol and something abrasive) all three times.

    So, if you sweat, you're gonna wanna make sure the charging contacts don't touch your skin. Ever.

  • I decided to fully convert to Linux on my living room PC because I was convinced these random display drops I was getting were being caused by Windows. (I was right.)

    I had a drive that I wanted to leave alone, because it had my videos and music and such. I wanted to try a new (to me) distro, so I just started using high rated ones I found on distro watch. The first two I tried (I honestly forget which) would NOT leave my video drive alone during installation (even with advanced options). The third one was MX, and it successfully installed while leaving my video drive alone. I liked that. I am used to xfce, and I like some of the custom little tweaks that MX adds to it, like easily making custom folder themes. I like that it can install .deb files and pretty much everything I've tried to run so far has worked.

    So, yeah, that's why I like MX. I have since installed it on my laptop, my office PC, and my husband is dual booting it. It even runs his v-tube software, which blew us away. I know most of this isn't unique to MX, but it just seems to work really well for us.

  • What I heard is "the cow farmers who said they weren't milking sick cows are lying." And "our workers are still touching these diseased cows to hook them up to the milking machines, which has already led to one human contracting the virus by rubbing his eyes."

    Also, unfortunately, raw milk is still sold. It's a very small margin, but it happens.

  • So, I'm also a layman. I have been following bird flu news articles since the massive wild bird deaths started.

    For what it's worth, it didn't just start jumping to mammals recently. It's been infecting aquatic mammals for a while. I believe European minks and goats were infected even before that. Luckily, the virus doesn't currently seem to be infecting the lungs of cattle. Similarly, the one human who contracted it recently had no respiratory symptoms. It seems he touched a cow and then touched his eye, causing the spread.

    Based on articles I've read, it won't be a problem for humans until the virus infects the upper respiratory tracts of humans easily.

    However, with cattle farmers seemingly taking no precautions other than not milking sick cows (and I'm not even sure I believe that, honestly), it may just be a matter of time before that happens. Every infected cow is a place for the virus to spread and mutate.

  • I have this mantra that I say to myself. I think it's from Tibetan monks, but I heard it on an NPR interview.

    "May we be victorious over our fears.

    May we be happy without hope.

    May we be of benefit to all."

    The fear here is my fear of doing the thing. The lack of hope is what I feel because I will not just fucking do the thing. The benefit to all is what happens when I actually do the thing.

    I know it sounds super depressing, but it helps me... sometimes.

  • "Dual boot friendly" means installing Linux on its own hard drive, just so you know. If you don't do that, it's likely the next Windows update will screw up the Linux bootloader. Maybe that's gotten better, but it's what I'd recommended from past experience.