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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] 2 points 10 months ago

Back when I originally dabbled with using Linux on a computer of my own, maybe around year 2003 or so, I didn't know about rm -rf and was many years from being an adult as well. But I did know about /dev/null, and was really fascinated by the concept of the /dev/ directory!

So, I tried removing a file by

# cat filename > /dev/null  
``` .  
The next time I booted my computer, there was... An error message.

/dev/null: Not a file


From the perspective of a person who has now used Linux since 1998 (first with only user rights on my parents' computer) this sounds like an absolutely bonkers solution for that problem, but yeah: it's er-em-dash-rm-ef-slash level of error. And those do really happen. It's good to keep in mind what a n00b can be able to do!
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    rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    if your partner falters or strays away, it’s also your fault.

    Haha, this reminds me of what happened to me when I was around 15 or 16-year-old :D I had just stumbled upon the pages of Union of Freethinkers of Finland (Link to Wikipedia) and had read most of their relatively long page of "Critique on bible". Here's that page on Archive.org. (These should translate very well if you copypaste them to DeepL )

    So, I had spent a couple of hourse reading about ways how the Bible contradicts itself. Then my doorbell rang. And I kept asking these "the Bible is supposed to be interpreted literally" people explanations for why the bible says that "X = 1" here and "X != 1" here, and "Y = 10" here and "Y = 50000" here. Eventually, I think it must have been at least 20 minutes, possibly closer to an hour - hard to say quarter a century afterwards - the chin of one of them started visibly shaking and he started looking really scared. And the other one was starting to look really bad as well. And they basically just abruptly stopped the conversation and without much of "bye!", just turned out and got away from my door with quite some pace!

    I did not know to look for one of them being the "boss", so I do not know what happened for sure, but now I'm figuring out it probably went so that the more experienced person of those two started to seriously lose their faith and initiated an escape maneuver.

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    • What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I have watched a couple of them because the only video I have found on some interesting theme has been such a reaction video.

    But, I'd say that I do feel kind of comfortable "having someone around" when watching the video. I would still prefer the video without the extra commentator saying things aloud that I can see myself, but I bet there are people who really do get something out of the reaction videos. I'd imagine they are very nice things for the most intoverted among us?

    Still, they are there mainly for generating revenue for their makers and for youtube, not so much for some actual need...

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    Spotify subscriptions should be boycotted as if it were a US-based company in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    They get more money from advertisements if you use the free version. Is an adblocker able to remove the ads from Spotify's audio fred?

    (And if it does, does it block Spotify from getting paid for the ad anyway?)

    Using the unpaid version doesn't really deny Spotify much any income. Better just move completely away to better platforms.

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    I died in 2025, and someone told me to post here AMA in c/askmeanything@lemmy.ca
    I died in 2025, and someone told me to post here AMA in c/askmeanything@lemmy.ca
    [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe he accepted the money, brought it to a safe elsewhere but nearby, and was planning to make the hotdog only once he's back at his hot dog booth? Your selling the hotdog is unfinished and as long as the customer doesn't get their hotdog, you're gonna stay a ghost.

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    • People of Lemmy: would you date a single parent? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I have children and have nothing against someone dating me.

    As I consider it okay to date a single parent such as I am, I also consider it okay if at some point a I end up wanting to date someone else who is a single parent as well.

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    People of Lemmy: would you date a single parent? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    94.3° F in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    94.3 F is 34.6 °C. The body temperature is 36 to 37 °C. Therefore, the thermal camera shows the temperature a little bit wrong. It's unlikely that the butt would be much colder than 36 °C.

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    Hello in c/LanguageLearning@lemmy.zip
    Why are you learning your target language? in c/LanguageLearning@lemmy.zip
    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I work at a children's daycare centre and I try to speak at least a few words of each child's language.
    Firstly, it's good to hear your language from some people other than your own parents only, and hopefully motivates the child to keep that language as a part of their own life. Heard too many stories of "my mother talked to me in this language, but I never actually used it for anything else, so I've forgotten all of it."
    Secondly, if they are distracted, they are unable to listen to other languages but might hear their own. Earlier, I used to work as a substitute worker for a workforce rental company owned by the towns comprising the capital city area of Finland. I was sitting at the lunch table and one 6-year-old had incredible difficulties concentrating on eating properly with an unknown adult at the table. I noticed they were interested in listening to me, but somehow talking with the other kids was too much more interesting. So, I asked them how to say "eat!" in their own language, Somali. It's something like "ün!" After that, every time I noticed the child forgot they were supposed to be eating, I said "ün!", he smiled and took a forkful of food. And another and a third. Until he forgot and I had to utter another ün. But, it worker really well and I've used the technique afterwards as well. "How do I tell you to _____ in your own language?" is a question that brings one surprisingly far with children.

    But yeah, there being 7000 languages out there, it's a bit difficult deciding which ones to learn. Learning ones used by people around you is a good excuse.

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    I Made A Language Learning Charades Game in c/LanguageLearning@lemmy.zip
    [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Cannot try it because it doesn't work on my hardware, but this sounds very interesting. Could you consider making a browser-based version of it, for example?

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    Pohdiskelua, olisiko ryhmän instanssin vaihtaminen järkevää (piefed.ee)
     

    PieFediin on ilmestynyt muutama ominaisuus, joista voisi hyvinkin olla iloa tässäkin ryhmässä: Äänestykset ja Tapahtumat.

    Lemmy ei osaa välittää tuon tyyppisiä viestejä lainkaan eteenpäin – ei edes sellaisille instansseille, jotka ymmärtävät noiden aloitustyyppien perään.
    Tästä tuli mieleen, että olisiko tämän ryhmän järkevää siirtyä jollekin PieFed-instanssille?

    Vasta-argumenttina sitten tulee mieleen, että Lemmy kaiken järjen mukaan alkaa tulevaisuudessa tukea ainakin äänestyksiä ja varmaankin myös tapahtumia. Lisäksi toistaiseksi vain noin 1 % Forumversen (eli käytännössä pitkälti Lemmyn, Mbinin ja PieFedin) käyttäjistä käyttää PieFediä, eli käytännössä äänestykset eivät kuitenkaan nåkyisi kuin pienelle osalle käyttäjistä. Onko siis hyötyä voida lähettää aloituksia, joita suurin osa ryhmän jäsenistä ei saa missään muodossa näkyviinsä?
    Toki jotkut tätä seuraavat Mastodonista käsin, ja siellähän äänestykset näkyvät täysin ongelmitta. Tapahtumat tosin tietääkseni eivät sielläkään.
    Vasta-vasta-argumenttina sitten voi sanoa, että on joka tapauksessa hyvä, jos ihmisiä siityy käyttämään mieluummin PieFediä kuin Lemmyä, kun Lemmyn pääkehittäjä bannaa ylläpitämistään ryhmistä kaikki, jotka sanovat Kiinan tekevän jotain pahaa uiguureille tai että Ukraina ei ole syyllinen Venäjän hyökkäykseen Ukrainaa vastaan. Ja sitten se, että äänestykset näkyvät myös Mastodon-käyttäjille, joita on tämän ryhmän seuraajista aika suuri osa!

    Lopuksi vielä: Jos Sopuli joskus jotakuinkin lähiaikoina aiotaan siirtää toimimaan PieFedin päällä, tämä ryhmä toki saa äänestykset käyttöönsä ihan tuosta vaan (toki yhä niin, että ne näkyvät vain PieFed- ja Mastodon-käyttäjille, eivät Lemmy-käyttäjille). Tämän takia tein tämän aloituksen: https://sopuli.xyz/post/38044466

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    Are there plans to migrate Sopuli to another serverside software? (piefed.ee)
     

    I just noticed that Lemmy does not federate Polls (nor probably Events, either) even to other instances that do understand them. (Here's a post that explains this in more detail)

    I'm considering requesting for a community run on Sopuli to be moved to some PieFed instance so that polls and events would be possible at least for users of instances that support those. But of course, if Sopuli has plans to move to PieFed (or Mbin, or anything that federates such posts onwards), there would be no point in that, as moving a community to another instance is very janky.

    So, the question is: Is Sopuli planning to remain a Lemmy instance?

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    Elronin uusi junavuoro Riikaan ja takaisin aloittaa tammikuun aikana (elron.ee)
     

    Viron matkustajarautatieyhtiö Elron aloittaa 12.1.2026 liikenteen Tallinna–Riika–Tallinna, käyttäen virolaista kalustoa.

    Lähtö Tallinnasta on 14:50, saapuminen Riikaan 20:52.
    Paluusuunnassa lähtö Riiasta on 7:40, Tallinnassa ollaan 14:11.
    Yhteys mennään yhdellä junayksiköllä, eli junanvaihtoa ei ole.

    Pe-Su ajettava yhteys, jossa on vaihto Riiassa, jää yhä käyttöön, samoin kuin nykyinen Tallinna–Vilna-yhteys. Viikonloppuisin tulee siis olemaan kolme päivittäistä junayhteyttä Tallinnasta Riikaan: 10:10–16:40, 13:16–20:40, 14:50–20:52. Tietty voidaan kysyä, miksi kukaan haluaisi enää käyttää tuota 13:16 lähtevää vaihdollista yhteyttä, kun se on perillä lähes samaan aikaan kuin 14:50 lähtevä vaihdoton. Ellei nyt sitten ole lähdössä liikkeelle vaikkapa Mägisten kylästä, kun siellä nuo muut kaksi vuoroa eivät pysähdy.
    Paluumatka Riiasta Tallinnaan onnistuu viikonloppuisin tällaisin aikatauluin: 7:40–14:11, 9:01–16:40, 11:18–17:34. Tässä suunnassa siis on kaikille kolmelle yhteydelle ihan järjelliset käyttötilanteet.

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    What keeps routes away from residential areas? (piefed.ee)
     

    I can see that my CoMaps does not route through houses' yards. And, if the route either begins or ends at a yard, it does allow crossing there.
    So, it is respecting some OSM tag. What tags are those that cause the routing to avoid residential yards?

    For example, a route from 60.219, 25.065 to the metro station at 60.224, 25.076 is routed straight through the yard of a school with 7-year-old pupils, which is really not okay during school hours. The school's yard is marked as an area of type School Grounds, but of course many schools where it is no problem at all to walk through their areas can have the same feature... So, what are the tags that cause the routing algorithm of CoMaps/Organic Maps/Maps.me to avoid houses' yards? What tags can I add to the school yards in OSM in order to prevent routing through them?

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    Petition against lowering Germany's flight tax (aktion.campact.de)
     

    The Federal government of Germany is planning to reduce the flight tax and an organization called Campact is collecting names to a Petition against that. They ground this by saying that the train tickets could be lowered using the income from the flight tax. I figured that's worth a signature, and maybe you people might think the same.

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    Pariisi–Berliini-yöjuna palaa raiteille European Sleeper -yhtiön toimesta (www.lemonde.fr)
     

    European Sleeper saanee järjestettyä yöjunan, jota ÖBB ei saanut toimimaan. Ratkaisu on minimoida kalliit ranskalaiset ratakilometrit ajamalla mahdollisimman lähelle Pariisia Belgian rataverkkoa myöten.

    Uutisessa mainittu Hampuri lienee toimittajan virhe. Arvaisin kyseessä olevan oikeasti Hannoverin. Tämän myötä Berliinistä pääsee Brysseliin kuutena päivänä viikossa, vähän vaihtelevin aikatauluin.

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