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kalkulat, to linuxmemes in Just finished setting up my GNOME desktop. Am I doing this right?
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Guess not, Gnome desktops have nothing on them.

kalkulat, to lemmyshitpost in Not everyone can live up to such high standards...
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There might be a slim chance. But in the words of mid-20th-century writer Robert Anton Wilson,

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.”

Eventually there has to be one, so try to hold on to that idea.

kalkulat, to lemmybewholesome in In 1969, Mr. Rogers testified before U.S. Congress to get funding for public broadcasting. Senator John Pastore is initially abrasive but is won over by Mr. Rogers' warmth and kindness.
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Old saying: ‘You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.’

kalkulat, (edited ) to asklemmy in What misconceptions do you still have that you learned from TV/film as a child?
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KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don’t think it’s a misconception. You’d have to tell me.

But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn’t make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn’t have said stupid, I should said… whatever they call it now. Meathead?

kalkulat, (edited ) to asklemmy in Can licking an iron bar get you the daily recommended amount of iron?
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US RDA age 19+ is 8 mg / day. Maybe if the iron bar is really rusty. Or, pills are cents a day. OR you could eat breakfast cereal or liver, lentils or spinach, Popeye.

ods.od.nih.gov/…/iron-HealthProfessional/

kalkulat, to asklemmy in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.
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My morals would go out the ‘Robin Hood’ door.

kalkulat, to linuxmemes in Just finished setting up my GNOME desktop. Am I doing this right?
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Gnome purists would be very offended tho…

Safer to try every keypress to find out how to get to the terminal.

kalkulat, (edited ) to asklemmy in Anyone have any guides or tips for how to decorate home living spaces to feel more "lived in"?
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I make a place look lived in by living in it. I might leave some small stuff lying around until I get to it. No biggie. Or I get tired of it where it is. Not tidying a whole lot … just enough to be orderly. A magazine or two here or there, half read, waiting. Coordinated furniture? RU kidding? A pet plant (named) that needs water. Some of souvenirs here and there. Pix on the fridge.

kalkulat, (edited ) to asklemmy in What are Lemmy's unwritten rules?
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But whatever they do they should not use the word it’s in their comment, or else we see something like itAಠ€’s … and thattAಠ€’s harder to read.

kalkulat, to asklemmy in What do we get in return for paying taxes?
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Sewers. Ever visited an outhouse in a place where it’s 0 degrees out? yOw!

Or carried two pails of water 2 blocks, twice, to start heating it while you did it 3 more times for the rest of your bath? Lots of people still do that.

kalkulat, to asklemmy in How long would you live if electricity for the whole world went out permanently?
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Disguise it as a sausage grinter?

kalkulat, to mildlyinteresting in We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.
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Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the ‘trickle-down’.

Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.

kalkulat, to asklemmy in What are some green flags in a partner in your opinion?
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They offer you good advice even when they know it isn’t what you wanted to hear.

kalkulat, to asklemmy in Why do most people refuse to accept that they are wrong
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What makes you think it’s most people? Who you hangin out with?

Remember, Confucious say: If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

kalkulat, (edited ) to linux in One single partition for Linux versus using a partition table?
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When I started with Linux, I was happy to learn that I didn’t need a bunch of separate partitions, and have installed all-in-one (except for boot of course!) since. Whatever works fine for you (-and- is easiest) is the right way! (What you’re doing was once common practice, and serves just as well. No disadvantage in staying with the familiar.)

After I got up to 8GB memory, stopped using swap … easier on the hard drive -and- the SSD. (I move most data to the HD … including TimeShift … except what I use regularly.)

I use Mint as well; for me this keeps things as simple as possible. When I install a new OS version (always with the same XFCE DE) I do put THAT on a new partition (rather than try the upgrade route and risk damaging my daily driver) using the same UserName. A new Home is created within the install partition (does nothing but hold the User folder.)

To keep from having to reconfig -almost everthing- in the new OS all over again I evolved a system. First I verify that the new install boots properly, I then use a Live USB to copy the old User .config file (and the apps and their support folders I keep in user) to the new User folder. Saves hours of reconfiguring most things. The new up-to-date OS mostly resembles and works like the old one … without the upgrade risks.

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