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stravanasu
stravanasu @ pglpm @lemmy.ca
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  • +1 rsync, to an external harddrive. Superfast. Useful also in case I need a backup of a single file that I changed or deleted by mistake. Work files are also backed up to the cloud on mega.nz, which is very useful also for cross-computer sync. But I don't trust personal files to the cloud.

  • Thanks for the info! I'll make sure to buy some – and a mug :)

  • I think it'll get better. I've been on lemmy for only a week or so, but started to see kbin posts and comments (under the "all" category) only in the last couple of days.

  • Random thought about another possibility: filters because of (misinterpreted) NSFW content?

    Maybe it's worth asking about this in one of the lemmy-help communities.

  • I confirm, on lemmy.ca I don't see some of the posts you show:

  • Let me join and compare (I'm on lemmy.ca).

    I don't know if you're moderating any communities/magazines, but have you tried posting from a lemmy account on the kbin instance moderated by you, and then making your lemmy account a mod there? Or vice versa.

  • I regularly see posts from Technology@kbin.social without delays, with sort order on "new". Maybe the sort order influences this? I've also heard that posting to kbin from lemmy or vice versa helps increasing traffic between them, but I don't know if or how much that's true.

  • I partly agree with your comment about the books. But there's a curious historical element to consider: at that time telepathy was really discussed in the mainstream scientific literature as a scientific possibility. Not in a crackpot way, but in a scientific way: theories were developed, tests and experiments made, and then it was concluded that it doesn't exist, with explanations about why.

    Since it was a scientific possibility at that time, or at least it wasn't seen as crackpottery, it was obviously used in science-based sci-fi books (not only Asimov's).

    It's a little like they do in today's sci-fi with "parallel universes" or "quantum theory & consciousness" and similar stuff, which is discussed in today's scientific literature. Maybe (or very probably, in my opinion) in 50 or 100 years they'll laugh their arses off looking at our "science-based" sci-fi of today.

  • Well the screenshot I took looks really exactly like the original above. So I think browser is giving the most faithful output?

    ( 😂 )

  • Works via browser too! Very expensive apples though – they better be really juicy.

  • Simple example when I wanted to install the latest version of Okular, which came as flatpak. Owing to sandboxing it couldn't do the inverse search from a pdf, calling Emacs to open the tex file that generated the pdf. My workflow was broken. After spending half a day in forums trying to understand how to give more permissions to the flatpak, I finally ditched it and am using the older version from apt. Works seamlessly.

  • I disagree. The other day I wanted to install some audio app that came in flatpak install format (I'll check and add the name later). The app was less than 30MB in size, but the installation included 300MB of a previous version of org.freedesktop!

  • Indeed I didn't really mean to use these terms in a precise way, since my understanding of the matter is very supericial. I was using terms that I read around posts and net. With all these replies I see that there are a lot of grey areas, and a strict dichotomy or classification is meaningless...

  • Cheers, I had absolutely no idea about these marketing/competition sides of snaps and flatpaks...

  • True that too. I'm realizing it's really a matter and situation with many diverse important factors and degrees. As always, categorization only goes so far...

  • Thank you for the info! I see they're workning on extending the ranking system already. Then I'll just wait. "Hot" works OKish for me for now.

  • I thought they were similar, but not exactly. There's some difference in timing: the order is not exactly the chronological one.

    But HOT is the closest to what I was looking for.