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I’ve known the difference ever since I decided to look it up one day, but I’ve always felt the ‘in-’ prefix was the wrong choice (especially when labeling potentially dangerous substances). “In-” is more often used to qualify a word as “not”.

“Autoflammable” would have been my choice.

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So much of English just does not make sense. lol

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(American) English: Inflammable vs flammable vs non-flammable.

Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!

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Yeah, it does, but if you try to install packages from apt, it still uses some Ubuntu repos and will try to sneak snaps and snapd in on you.

All Canonical had to do was NOT push snaps through apt and I’d probably be fine with them.

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I use both mouse and trackball (or keyboard nipple if available).

Trackball is nice for when I’m sitting on the couch and need to control the mouse on my HTPC. Generally anywhere you’re space-constrained or dealing with an uneven surface a trackball is super useful.

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You either vote for Biden or you get Trump. Abstaining from the vote you get Trump. MAGA will have a 100% turnout for their God Emperor.

Also, voting 3rd party in the general election…you get Trump.

Our two-party system is awful and failing us horribly. If I had to guess, they’re just as frustrated as I am and that’s the only way they can blow off steam; make idle threats about “taking my business vote elsewhere”.

Hopefully it’s just frustrated, idle rhetoric and they show up at the polls to vote for the only sane option that has a real chance.

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I really do wish reversing the polarity worked like that. lol

AC broken? No problemo! Just reverse the polarity on the oven.

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I get most of mine from the grocery store. When they’re on sale, they’re usually almost half off, so I buy several and stock up.

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I’ve read it but never seen the movie. lol. Based on the other bad adaptations, I assumed it was one as well. Will check it out sometime!

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I enjoyed Sphere…

The novel was great. The movie…eh, not so much (IMO, anyway). Not even the combined powers of Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson, and Queen Latifah could really make it work for me. There’s just too much subtlety in the book that didn’t make it to the screen.

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Oh, I didn’t mean it was perfect, just acceptable. lol

I’m still holding out for a streaming mini-series that is a 1:1 adaptation of the book. I just can’t let that dream go.

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Pretty much every movie based on a Crichton novel except the first Jurassic Park and the original 1971 adaptation of The Andromeda Strain. Every other one has been awful (including The Lost World which is so far from the book it shouldn’t even get to be called “based on”).

Edit: After sleeping on it, I don’t know if the movie adaptations are objectively awful or if I was just unimpressed because I read the novel first for all of them.

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I mean, he does, but +1 for the reference.

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I’ve seen Voyager 3 times and never noticed they had alt pips. Wow. 🤦🏻‍♂️

If you’re looking to hire a private investigator, you should…call someone else. I’m not that observant apparently.

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The API sanitizes them, so they’re stored encoded (&) in the database.

Some frontends correct for this when posts are rendered, some don’t. Voyager and Tesseract, at least, seem to correct them. Not sure about others.

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Like I said, it’s up to the client on how to handle what’s in the post. So you’ll not have any media support that Voyager doesn’t offer.

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It’s up to the client on how to render them. Most videos I encounter in Lemmy are linked from outside sources or are on YouTube.

  • Lemmy-UI has no or limited support for anything but images.
  • Tesseract is on the other end of the spectrum and supports pretty much every kind of media.
  • Photon supports GIFs and native (mp4, webm) videos.
  • Other UIs and mobile apps, I haven’t kept as up-to-date on but are typically somewhere between Lemmy-UI and Photon’s level of media support.

Edit: In addition to what clients support, it’s also up to each instance admin to define what media they allow to be uploaded. Among the possible configuration options are:

  • Whether to allow any media uploads at all
  • The max size of the media they’ll allow users to upload
  • Whether to allow videos or just static images
  • Whether to convert videos to GIFs or static images
  • Whether the media subsystem (pict-rs) can process the upload before the upload request times out. I think that’s 10 seconds which limits direct uploads to short videos.

Like others have said, hosting videos is expensive both in areas of storage and bandwidth. Most Lemmy instances are run by volunteers at their cost or operate solely on donations. Admins typically ask users to host those off-server (Imgur, YouTube, Catbox, etc) and restrict what can be uploaded directly to reasonable limits.

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GNOME Foundation names “professional shaman” as new executive director

That’s kind of a two-fer right there.

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I was also going to suggest that as a joke because it’s 95% instrumental break.

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“They should make more movies out of country songs”.

[Earl, Joy, and Randy proceed to sing the chorus to Convoy]

Probably the greatest gag in My Name is Earl.

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Convoy by C.W. McCall is my go-to “fine if I have to karaoke” song. Fairly short, no long instrumental breaks, it’s fun, and absolutely no one sees it coming.

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If someone’s spending $500/mo in gas, let’s just say public transport probably isn’t an option. Also, in the US, public transport is practically non-existent outside of urban centers. We kinda suck at stuff like that.

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Was literally in that situation back in 2018. 110 mile round trip daily commute, ~$500/mo in gas. Had to fill up every other day.

Bought a 2017 Ford Fusion hybrid and cut my monthly gas expenditures down to about $200. Payments were about $225/mo so I ended up saving $50/mo once the insurance differential was factored in. A tank now lasted me just over a week.

As of 2020, l’m still driving it, but I’ve since moved much closer to work. A tank lasts me about a month now.

As of 2021, I work from home. A tank lasts me 3-4 months on average. Car is paid off.

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