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troyunrau

@troyunrau@lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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This is me. I still go there for two or three subs that don’t have critical mass here (thus no conversation). The upcoming weighted sort algo should help a little, drawing people to smaller community content.

But I also moderate a reasonably large sub there, and have stopped attempting to grow anything there – just spam removal, manually.

But I don’t post new content there. Sometimes I’ll reply on a comment chain. Here I post new content and interact a lot more.

I’m using Lemmy Connect as my app (like 98% of it). What’s interesting is, when I use Reddit I refuse to use their app, so I’m using old Reddit, in a browser. But I catch myself attempting to swipe on comments using the Lemmy Connect gestures.

So I’ve definitely flipped to Lemmy first.

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Word will be your biggest problem.

On rare occasion, you might get some sort of advanced PDF feature that will trip you up (embedded 3D objects or some weird encryption or something), but 99% will work as expected.

Linux is literally the home turf for major video player development. VLC works like a charm for literally everything.

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Are they empty?

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Don’t forget the centipede crawling around in the sewer pipes named Fortran. We’ve all been trying to kill it for years and yet, somehow, it keeps going.

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Jokes aside, I encounter Fortran in the applied physics community still fairly often. And have never encountered M in a professional context.

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Somewhere in a backroom, there’s a hamster named Julia. In a hamster ball.

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Try microwaved beets. Mmm.

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All these air fryer, broiler, sautéing, and other methods…

Y’all forgot about microwaves. Microwaves and veggies are amazing. Broccoli, carrots, etc. Microwave until a fork still has a little resistance. Add a spot of sour cream or honey and dill… Or something. Tada. So fast. So yummy.

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What a reactive load of…

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Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that’s a thing…)

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There is a mostly abandoned town called Snowflake, Manitoba, Canada. They bulldozed the school even.

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It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.

My PC is hacked

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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You

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ITT: people sitting in their comfortable first world environment commenting using electronics which were certainly mined somewhere, convinced they’re oppressed and not the root cause.

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I keep trying to add content to other communities, but I get drowned out by memes about beans and stroganoff… ;)

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I’m pretty sure I saw this episode of Community…

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Best meme. Shut down the internet.

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Some of this is correct, and some of it is myth. Source: I was there ;)

Qt way back in version 1 was merely “free for non-commercial use” and shipped with the source code. KDE was founded on that version. This was in like 1996, before KDE even had a stable release. Gnome was founded immediately in response, choosing GTK (the Gimp Toolkit) which wasn’t really ready for use as a full fledged desktop toolkit, but existed and the license was friendly. KDE and Trolltech formed a few agreements – the first was the creation of the QPL, an attempt to create an open-source compatible license for Qt, and the second was the creation of the KDE Free Qt Foundation (it said, effectively, if Qt were to become closed, the most recent version prior to that would be released under the BSD license).

However, the damage was done. Stallman and others would never forgive KDE for choosing a not-free-enough toolkit, and the Gnome devs were associated with redhat. That meant Redhat and Debian, the two biggest distros, defaulted to Gnome. Ubuntu just adopted Debian, ergo Gnome.

Qt would shortly thereafter be released under GPL, GPL3, and LGPL. There’s still a commercial license option, and that pisses a lot of people off for some reason. But it was never a risk to KDE or the community – not since before KDE 1.0.

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This cracks me up. The ole switcheroo punchline haha

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Not every illustrator is a structural engineer ;)

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So embrace it ironically then ;)

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Depending on where you live, the cost of living and housing makes this the only viable option. Or moving :)

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Somewhere, in the back of my memory, I have recollection of an old school comedy sketch with a title like “foghorns in disguise”. Monty Python or Kids in the Hall or something similar. Wherein people would start a conversation with someone, only for that someone to respond by being a foghorn. But all attempts at googling this sketch has ends in total failure. I thought it might be the enshitification of Google search results, but I tried a few others too. Now I think I might have dreamed it.

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