Honestly been feeling pretty good recently. Started taking some antidepressants and they seem to be working! I guess I now have this feeling that everything is going to be okay and work itself out somehow.
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Halogen oven: I live alone, and even though it’s relatively small, it’s big enough for me (unless I want to cook a pizza). It preheats much faster than a regular oven, so meals take much less time to make if I’m just throwing something in it too cook.
Headphone stand: I got a stand that you can hang headphones on, and it’s so much nicer than just tossing it on the table or whatever.
Battery powered lamp with a flexible “spine”. I have an adjustable lamp which charges via usb and has a flexible neck. It saves the hassle of trying to prop up a phone or something with the torch turned on.
Did you know you can get toilet roll holders that have a little shelf for you to put a phone on? If you browse on the can, they’re rather handy.
Extension cables: If you have a desktop or tv, you can just grab some USB, hdmi or audio extensions and swap things using that instead of leaning behind the device.
Egg cooker thingy: I have a thingie that you put a certain amount of water in and it boils an egg using the steam and turns off when done. Saves the effort of setting a timer or boiling a full pan of water.
Kettles: Apparently not a thing in the US? I don’t know how you live without them.
I occasionally need to know the names of programs. I asked here about “Run as Administrator” being added to the context menu (like in Windows), and the response was basically “can’t be easily done”. an example is if I wish to edit a config file it cannot be done without accessing the terminal. Knowing the name...
Just a heads up: Some instances don’t allow creation of new communities by non-admins. If the “Create Community” option isn’t there, you’re probably on one of those instances.
A society that allows everyone to be free to do whatever they want, provided that all parties involved fully understand and consent to it. Economy wise, I’d like everyone to just unconditionally receive a basic income that covers enough for them to live comfortably.
Perhaps unrealistic yeah, but that’s the dream society I wish could happen.
One small thing but I’m surprised nobody points it out - the charging port location. I like using my switch/steam deck in bed or otherwise laying down, and the fact that the charging lead is at the bottom of the console rather than the top sucks. It just gets in the way and stops you resting the console on you. Whereas the Steam Deck just has it on top where you can just plug it in while playing.
I know the technical reasons behind it because of the dock and all that, but it’s annoying.
In general, I think the steam deck is better than the switch in almost every way - The switch is just an expensive ticket for the right to play Nintendo games nowadays.
Programs running graphically (Firefox, your file browser, etc.) need a way to tell the system “draw these pixels here”. That’s what the display server does; it takes all these applications, works out where their windows are and manages that pixel data.
XOrg has historically been the display server in common use, but it’s very old and very cobbled together. It generally struggles with “modern” things that must people expect today. Multimonitor setups, vsync, hdr and all that. They work, but support is hacked together and brittle.
Wayland is a replacement for XOrg that was designed from scratch to fix a lot of these issues. But it’s been an uphill battle because XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.
tl;dr They’re both software that manages drawing pixels from applications to the display.
Boss is going away for a few days and we’re trying to create a fun surprise for when she returns. Our offices are all shared so it has to be limited to a small area and can’t impact other people toooo much.
Firstly, if you can, get a bunch of boxes of paperclips and put them in plausible hiding places. Depending on how they are marked, it might buy you some time.
Some ideas:
Lock it in a safe or strongbox only you know the code for.
Unscrew a plug socket or light switch from the wall, put it in the cavity, and then reattach it.
Get a photograph with a metal frame and slip the paperclip behind the picture itself.
Find some other metalic easy to dismantle thing and hide the clip inside.
Throw it down a drain or other hole, you can use a magnet on a string to retrieve it.
I assume the investigator will systematically remove everything and sweep it with a metal detector. Hopefully these hiding places won’t be as obvious.
Soldering. Anyone who tells you it’s easy is wrong. :P
Was soldering a mod board to a Sega Mega Drive, but ended up getting solder on the cpu’s contacts and needed to get a second one. And it was a pain getting the wires to bind to the traces.
What I call brain fog is like “thinking through treacle” or something. Any thoughts I try to make, either solving problems or being creative, take a lot more “brain fuel” and effort to do.
I’d like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It’d be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.
If we’re being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.
After Brotato addiction I found this gem of a game, right before the sequel announcement it seems. It’s such a perfect game for the Deck at least for me - you have time to think, the controls just work and you can just put the game down and continue your run later....
We’d all like Steam to be open source, but that’s not going to happen for a number of reasons. So I guess you could say that a core part of the OS is proprietary, if you wanted.
We like Valve because they are actually contributing to open source projects, unlike Microsoft who say they love open source but don’t do anything to support it.
Also, the Steam Deck is really nice, and less locked down than “Windows” hardware.
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How are you doing? Anything you want to brag about? Rant about? Just shout into the void?
What did you bring to the table? (lemmy.world)
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Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them?
I was thinking about how I missed having an indoor thermometer that measures humidity. It’s such a small specific thing, one I’d never think of getting unless pushed to it (which I was by one particularly dry winter). But I like having one now....
Easily find program name from context menu/without terminal?
I occasionally need to know the names of programs. I asked here about “Run as Administrator” being added to the context menu (like in Windows), and the response was basically “can’t be easily done”. an example is if I wish to edit a config file it cannot be done without accessing the terminal. Knowing the name...
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Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4…?...
What is your experience with btrfs snapshots? (lemmy.world)
question about how to create communities
how do you create a community on Lemmy? I’m not necessarily interested in making one and actively maintaining it but just curious.
SuiPlay0x1 is a upcoming handheld that is going to run Playtron OS a Linux based (NOTE handheld is being made by blockchain company and with a potential price around $500) (blockonomi.com)
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Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks....
Which do you think will be the next country to legalize recreational cannabis?
I just stumbled upon Accell's art (pawb.social)
Stumbled upon this artist on bluesky ( bsky.app/profile/accelldraws.bsky.social ), and their art is adorable....
I don't know who Wayland is (i.imgflip.com)
If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I’d be incredibly thankful...
Xenia Desktop by dancrescentwolf@pounced-on.me (pawb.social)
Source: pounced-on.me/…/112288173920746670Full version on their Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/fbdb5de265...
What's a fun office prank? Christmas themed if possible.
Boss is going away for a few days and we’re trying to create a fun surprise for when she returns. Our offices are all shared so it has to be limited to a small area and can’t impact other people toooo much.
How would you hide a paperclip in your home/apartment to win a contest against an investigator?
This time, with rules....
What is something you did for the first time recently?
How do you live as an autistic?
The Squonk (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14606907
What does "brain fog" feel like to you?
OMG, it’s incredibly, profoundly difficult to talk about this....
Need fighting game advice
So, j want to get into fighting games, mainly the der street fighter games, and advice on how to get good....
Which scientific discovery or technological advancement do you hope to see in your lifetime?
For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital
Slay the Spire on Steam Deck is such a joy
After Brotato addiction I found this gem of a game, right before the sequel announcement it seems. It’s such a perfect game for the Deck at least for me - you have time to think, the controls just work and you can just put the game down and continue your run later....
Valve fans be like (sh.itjust.works)