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What does everyone here do when you can’t sleep and are wide awake besides being on phone? [serious]
    • YouTube (radio drama channels) - there are some fantastic plays.
    • podcasts using antennapod on F-Droid.
  • What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?
  • I'm not interested in pills, black or otherwise. Single 'l' - as in beer - maybe! Haha

    Live and let live. If individuals are obviously not leading a compassionate life then keep away, but mass labelling an entire set of individuals that you do not know as incels - noting the hateful meaning of that word - is the very definition of bigotry.

    I though we'd got rid of labelling people for their dating preferences when being lesbian, gay or bi stopped being particularly note-worthy in the glam-rock era. It's a shame that you're still behaving like those knuckle draggers of the 1970s with a different target.

    You have given two options: aro or incel. There is an enormous third option which is unavailable to anyone but you, I guess.

    Apparently I'm not allowed to use the word 'bigot' for a bigot. You don't define my language use.

  • What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?
  • That is very obviously not what anyone is saying. Not dating because you are not interested in dating is different than not dating because you're down on yourself and blame the world (and those of the gender you find attractive) for creating your situation.

    Yes it is. People who are not into dating for that reason (aro) are explicitly being called incels by you in your reply to me. Anyone who isn't dating without being aro is an incel. You're a bigot.

    You're the kind of person who would be calling a guy gay (but using the really derogatory terms, fag .. ) because he doesn't have a girlfriend in the last century.

    I'm old and feel sorry for people who just want to be left alone for their own reasons. Why is this so called liberal - which in my mind means live and let live - baying-mob so much more vindictive and nasty than I could have ever imagined (rhetoric question).

  • VPNs for UK users?
  • It's not just UK, but Europe-wide soon. I imagine that the various (other) -eyes countries will be joining with similar legislation.

    And then The law of unintended consequences will strike.

  • What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?
  • TIL all aromantic (aro) persons are misogynists (but not misandrists) by reading the comments.

  • Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?
  • Quite a few people have come to their senses. It's taken thirty years but .. hey .. Rome not built in a day.

  • Where would you draw the line?
  • That's really well put.

    I'd add, if I may, a small piece of wisdom from Muhammad Ali: "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

    I take that as advice to have a willingness to re-evaluate one's views on a daily basis.

  • Where would you draw the line?
  • I'm curious. What is your definition of evil?

  • We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent
  • What things are and what the masses choose to call them, and use them for, are usually two different things.

    Asking the masses to understand a complex subject for themselves, and ascribe to it appropriate nomenclature, when all they actually want is something that echoes what they already think with more eloquence is folly.

    Reference: social media - a method to collect personal data from the masses to use against them, which they willingly and greedily supply, without recompense.

  • No criminal charges over British woman shot in US during a holiday
  • I should withdraw my original comment. I spent a while re-researching the original intent, the Heller case and some of the subsequent cases to its current interpretation.

    I believe it was originally intended to prevent federal overreach. Except that when there was a belief by some people that that had happened and there was an invasion of the capital. That confused me. I don't know what the rights and wrongs were - apparently the alleged overreach wasn't adjudged to be severe by anyone.

  • I'm putting my tin foil hat on and want to join the world of Linux, however I make music in Ableton. Do I just need to dual boot or does anyone have a better solution?
  • I'd suggest no-one ever dual-boot Windows with anything. There are to many mishaps when Windows takes it into their head to fuck the bootloader.

    Put the OS into a VM. If you only use Windows for one app put Windows into the VM. Otherwise put Linux into the VM until you find you're mostly using Linux.

    Unless you have an old PC laying around ..

  • M&S strawberries and cream sandwich: Japanese fruit sando hits high streets
  • Next week, the sandwich sandwich:

    Just the raw ingredients of bread and butter pudding, (minus seasoning and dried fruit) pushed together.

  • No criminal charges over British woman shot in US during a holiday
  • YSK that Americans will liberally (!) provide, carry and use their weapons for everything except the second amendment intended purpose.

  • If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people?
  • Because they don't need to. As Zuckerberg himself said: people will voluntarily give all kinds of private information to corporates without being asked or by the gentlest of requests.

  • You are born 250,000 years ago, one of the very first modern humans to roam the earth. What's on your to-do list?
  • I'm not sure that you meant born because everyone is taking it too literally and it doesn't help make a decent question.

    Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.

    I know how impossible this sounds.

  • Nothing significant. Just best wishes for anyone applying

    Went to uni last century here in the UK (native Brit).

    Much much more difficult now for you all and I feel for you all. The idea of fees for our elite students is pure folly. Shame on them.

    Good luck all.

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    Fedora Linux @lemmy.ml deadcatbounce @reddthat.com
    Removal of old packages

    I'm sure I saw somewhere some while ago a way to remove old/obsolete packages from an system-upgraded install. Packages that wouldn't be removed because they're dependencies somewhere still.

    For example, the xorg drivers can be removed from my F40 when upgraded to f41 install. As if I'd installed it from the to-be f41 everything iso.

    I can't find it from the documentation; can someone point me in the right direction, please.

    I can't quite remember but I think it was an official Fedora package that one 'installs' which contains a script to remove obsolete packages from the prior Fedora version.

    UPDATE: found it. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-retired-packages

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    [Possible bug] Sharing a post to Firefox makes Voyager into Firefox, and I can't get back!

    Picking a random post from the list of posts in Voyager and then using the share facility to share it to Firefox makes Voyager look like Firefox with the address bar and so on.

    However, when I want to go back to using Voyager flicking back - partial right swipe on my Pixel 7 Pro w/Niagara launcher - doesn't do anything useful and I'm still in a version/instance of Firefox with the Voyager icon.

    Can someone double check that this does/not happen to them to an up-to-date Android phone before I report it, please?

    Thank-you in advance

    UPDATE: looks like it is my end from your comments, thank-you people. I'm going back from whence I came, shame faced. 😳

    I'm glad. Voyager is my Lemmy of choice!

    Maybe it's Niagara. There's a couple of stability fixes coming through. So here's hoping! Meanwhile I have a reeducation class to attend! 🤣

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    [pre-noob] What's the process for migrating from, in my case, Alexa, Smart Life to Home Assistant?

    Hello all,

    What do I actually do when I finally have a running instance (of containerised HA on a Raspberry Pi)? Delete all the toys from Alexa and Smart Life and start again in Home Assistant?

    Is deleting everything the intelligent way to go rather than trying to transition?

    My Google-foo is failing I did try to find an answer in Lemmy/Reddit/HA. Apologies if I miss an obvious place.

    Thank-you in advance.

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    Is there a community for instrument learners, particularly piano/keyboard?

    My early teen cousin is learning to play keyboard/piano. She likes to compose her own songs, and she's good at that, but perhaps could use some help with the basis rhythm.

    I thought that a book of rhythms might help. Something like this, but it's going to be the wrong era for her on the surface, although the rhythms repeat through the ages. Encyclopedia of Piano Rhythm Patterns: Popular Piano Rhythms and How to Play Them https://amzn.eu/d/2JdTsST

    Please point me in the right direction. Thank-you in advance

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    [Reddit] avoiding Reddit links in Lemmy.

    Hi all

    Is there an Android client that allows me to avoid Reddit posts which are currently crossposted and overwhelming my Lemmy timeline?

    Something like Domain exclude as on the Relay for Reddit client.

    Thank-you in advance

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