Sorry this is kinda political. Is there an asklemmypolitics group this would be better for? I’m hoping not to get into the libs vs progressives political debate we see everywhere on here… Just want to know what people are actually looking for.
Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone’s head, what you are actually doing is telepathy… so far I haven’t researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could...
My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....
I second this. Grap a cheap 256GB SSD, use that HDD as external storage device. Your mother will hug you tighter for this :)
Background:
Been using my laptop for 6 years to this point, and thought it was the installed programs and content size that slowed my laptop.
Then I heard somewhere that SSD have gotten cheaper. So I gathered the courage to look on my local stores, and found Lexar NS100 1TB for $72.
After swapping the HDD with this SSD, installed nixos on it, laptop went from taking 2 and a half minutes to start to 15 seconds! And it was consistent every time.
Not only that, but opening apps (libre office suite) went from taking 30 seconds to just 3!
SSD gave a new breath to my somewhat old laptop.
PS: RAM is just as important, And it’s often overlooked. Anything less that 8GB nowadays is not recommended (browsers have been known to use more RAM than expected. To me, tab suspenders where not an option, since to revisit the suspended tab means the browser had to load the page all over again, few seconds delay) 16GB is the sweet spot IMO.
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US Lemmys what could Biden do in the next 6 months to EARN your vote? (other than just not being Trump)
Sorry this is kinda political. Is there an asklemmypolitics group this would be better for? I’m hoping not to get into the libs vs progressives political debate we see everywhere on here… Just want to know what people are actually looking for.
Can you name any objectively unique human creations or thoughts that were not derived/inspired from another source?
This is intended as a very abstract philosophical question....
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album
Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?
Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
My (20F) colleague (60sF) is a workplace bully, what do I do?
This is a job at a casual dining establishment. My colleague is driving me nuts but there seems to be no recourse for it. UK btw...
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What do you think about this?
Someone told me that if you keep your gaze fixed and imagine a completely black circle right above someone’s head, what you are actually doing is telepathy… so far I haven’t researched more about it but I have noticed that some strange things happen when I do that, I see spirals and the vision looks different, could...
Can a damaged hard drive slow down a computer?
My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....