luthis

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luthis,

If kids that young want anti-aging products, give them nappies.

luthis,

I knew the ants would come up

luthis,

Yes, but not quite like the movies.

There is a parasite (I forget the name) that, when it infects a person (or a warm-blooded animal) starts living off the host and storing energy in sacs around the infection point. It often presents itself as tumours, as the sacs can get quite large. Between the sacs there is a voltage difference, it’s stored as chemical energy (like a battery with one side less electrons to allow for electron flow).

In severe cases, the parasite has had long enough to grow it’s own nerve pathways through the body that can be used like wires. At that point, the tumours are really advanced and enlarged and will usually kill the victim, if not before.

In an effort to spread itself to the next host, the parasite uses the stored chemical energy to activate muscles in the dead host and move the body around to find another host to infect. That’s where the whole ‘eating flesh’ thing in the movies come from, but it’s actually the parasite trying to break the skin and be able to jump to a new victim.

In reality, this stage only lasts a few hours but as long as the muscles haven’t deteriorated too much, it can be any ‘few hours’ movement within a couple days of death if the parasite is unable to immediately reinfect and instead waits for a period of time.

luthis,

Rice is a cereal and therefore a valid breakfast food. Fry last night’s rice with some chopped veg and garlic salt for a nutritious and easy breakfast.

luthis,

Just did mine this week. Really helps to have a ‘Caliper Piston Cube Wind Tool’ or something similar when you have to rewind the piston back in.

luthis,

Often the rear brakes, and I’ve seen them on Mazda and Toyota. Its a real pain to screw them back in without the tool.

luthis,

This is the dumbest thing I have read this year so far.

“Player uses built in functionality as intended and gets banned for a year.”

luthis,

Jan 4 for me, I managed to get past last night’s cravings by going out for a ride and finding some cheap(ish) unhealthy fastfood to eat, and then going home and playing Morrowind multiplayer.

Keeping busy and well fed, that’s the key.

luthis,

Already ahead of you. Managed to not fuck-up day 1 so we are going strong!

luthis,

Can’t I just download a file and install it?

Yes, there are instructions on the page for that, the section is titled ‘Installing the app without the Mullvad repository’

luthis,

As a side note, dealing with adding repos and keys and all that is something I will never miss from apt. I use Arch and installing things is usually as simple as… well let me check.


<span style="color:#323232;">$ yay mullvad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 aur/mullvad-vpn-bin 2023.6-1 (+86 1.36) 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">1 aur/mullvad-vpn 2023.6-1 (+126 2.10) 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">==> _
</span>

And it’s option 1. So easy. Type 1 and press enter and you’re done.

luthis,

Interested to hear answers for this one… maybe MITM yourself and capture packets to see whats being sent?

luthis,

Keep us updated! Looks like I was on the right track, everyone else recommends the same.

Also, keep some screenshots and data you can assemble into a tutorial. You’ll likely end up using your own tutorial again at some point.

luthis,

Yes, but I’m on call so I need to stay sober anyway

how do i efficiently attach audio to an image

hi all, ive tried using shotcut and kdenlive but the outputted file ends up being huge. i have a single image and want to put audio on top (releasing a song) but these programs end up making video files where they render the same image on each frame and the files end up being huge. what is the best way to achieve my use case of...

luthis,

The answer is always ffmpeg

luthis,

Definitely would like some more detail on this.

luthis,

“My food is included in rent. Which is convenient for day-to-day eating but gives me less capacity for cooking my own meals. Like, I admit it, the system works really well for normal people, I’m just a weirdo who likes tinkering with recipes, hosting dinner parties, and whatnot”

There, I highlighted the absurdity even more for you. You’re not a wierdo, you’re a tech-chef.

luthis,

Well, people have been forking recipes forever. I’m sure we will get closer to that reality eventually

luthis,

Firstly, I would just like to refute ‘If all knowledge is based on faith, then is science reliable?’ because I’ve seen it been made before to argue [random-bullshit-thing] is worth considering. Science isn’t based on knowledge, it’s based on experimental results, models, and extrapolation. Actual faith is not based on that.

There’s a really good argument to be made that our senses are not telling us the truth, they just tell us what is beneficial to survive and reproduce. However, this is not the case for instruments that measure, say, gravitational waves.

There is a real reality out there, and it’s unlikely we can perceive it. Perhaps the universe happened all at once, but our brain processing happens in consecutive slices of reality, so we perceive time.

Personally, my (pessimistic) gut feeling is that we don’t exist. How could anything? It’s that Prime Mover argument. Because the Big Bang, because multiverse bubbles colliding…

I think the universe might not actually exist, nothing does. But the potential possibilities make it exist relative to the baseline of nothing. Just like when you climb Everest, your total altitude change is 0 because coming down cancels out going up. The universe is just a potential that is cancelled out by something else, so existence remains at 0 in total.

luthis,

It’s an amazingly good model of the way the world behaves.

You could turn Pacman into a linear game with branching and looping paths instead of a grid, and still be able to play. You’ve just removed the invalid options to turn left or right when up and down are the only option. But both are still not accurate models of the world as it is which is instructions running on a processor.

luthis,

‘though offline play will still be available’

No issues here.

luthis,

Are you donating to Lemmy world? If you have concerns, start donating. Money makes the Lemmy.world stay online

luthis,

You’re right! Dam I should have saved that post.

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