wuphysics87 @ wuphysics87 @lemmy.ml

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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

The race and gender of an actor don't matter. Ask Shakespeare

It's clear from the image you throw it away

I grew up in the 90s and I remember how many things took D cell and AA. What got me thinking about this was cordless drills. D cell drills were pretty worthless, but now with today's batteries, they are just as good as corded. Shit I was at Lowes the other day and you can get a riding lawn mower that is battery powered. So yea today's electronics are much more efficient, but batteries last longer, can be recharged, and provide substantially more power.

I would not want to know what I did in a past life to deserve this one

Fedora actually. Regardless, work on that whole cynical tween thing and try not to spend too much time trying to be edgy by misreading Nietzsche. You're better than that.

Idk if I understand. There's no more signal desktop 9n windows?

What the fuck is wrong with you? This guy bombed a clinic, and you are joking about the distro he used?

No, but I've had A LOT more cloudflare 'prove that you are human' boxes. And I had an infinite loop captcha. I don't have much in the way of extensions, and I wasn't using a vpn

Ain't no thing

My aunt did this along with posting a bunch of family photos and falling for those quizzes that ask your pet's name or your childhood address. If you have one person like that the privacy of your entire family is compromised.

We told her back around 2010 not to do this kind of stuff, but she's somewhere between "If I have nothing to hide" and "what's the harm?". I hope she gets it now, but we don't talk to her often

It happens when you are full of shit 🤷‍♀️

Why all the saddam memes?

Room mate thought he was pissing in the bathroom. He was pissing onto a couch. A couch someone else was sleeping on.

You can probably get by on library computers

Yea lol

That's what I did

You'll find a little RTFM (read the friendly manual) much more time/result effective than watching videos. Want to go backward and forward to find an exact piece of information? Get precisely what the original developer meant? Ask for help on a forum? RTFM. RTFM. RTFM.

It may seem slower initially. It's a skill to develop. For me, it typically means 5 things (in order, where applicable).

tldr

<command>

-h or --help This gives you usage, subcommands, flags, and options. It is exhaustive for common commands, but less common ones will not always give you the usage for everything or you need to do

<command>

<subcommand>

man

<command>

Arch Wiki. It's the wikipedia of Arch. User maintained and to the point. Again, reading is a skill. Learning to use the Arch Wiki effectively takes time, but it is well worth it. It is most useful if you run Arch (I can't think of a time it references a package manager other than pacman). Following the pages in the wiki is almost exclusively why I use Arch Linux, btw. And don't let people scare you away from it. They are arrogant pricks. Most aren't. If you don't want to do a custom install of Arch, it's as easy as using the arch install TUI. And if you have issues, because you run into problems use the wiki!

Web search. You probably have this one down, but a few suggestions. Don't ask a question. (Unless you know you are specifically searching for that question) your query should only contain the words for what it is you are searching for. And make things singular not plural. Singular is inclusive of plural. The other way around isn't true. When you want to search a particular site, include that in your query string. Last. Don't use google. They want to show you ads, and I've recently seen they don't care about quality (anymore or potentially ever) The first result, which is typically what people go to, is almost always the one with the most ads. I suggest Duck Duck Go (opinions will vary) for the specific reason you can use what they call bangs to search on a particular site and go directly to the first (non ad optimized...yet) search result as am example !w cats takes you directly to the cats page on wikipedia. !aw virtual box. Arch wiki virtual box.

I would suggest (and typically do) use those in order repeating websearch (I've probably done this for up to an hour at least a few times this week) before I do the next 2. Write a forum post. Now you are getting to the point that if you can't find the answer, it probably doesn't exist. Again their are strategies and in this case, ettiquette you need to follow. You'll annoy or even piss people off if you don't. READ THE RULES OF THE FORUM. When you explain the problem, not what you are doing to do to solve it. There might be another way to solve it. Then explain what you have tried in terms of what you have read and tried so far.

Then and only then watch a video.

I've used exwm (emacs window manager) it's... interesting, but there's a reason I use sway instead 🤣

What does the output aay when you run it from the terminal?

What's wrong with Marilyn Manson that wasn't 20 years ago?