Hamartiogonic

joined 1 year ago
[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

I recall having issues like that when I tried to do things the wrong way. The forum posts just tell you wow to do something, but they rarely question if it’s the sensible thing to do in the first place. If Standard Notes isn’t in my repositories or if I can’t find a flatpack for it, I would just ditch the whole idea and switch to whatever note app is easily available. If something is not easily available, I just ignore those apps completely. Going through hours of trickery and hackery to build a wobbly tower that will collapse next week is not worth it.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve had Fedora on several computers, and everything worked for quite a while while. Eventually though, things just began to break randomly - probably a sign of me not doing much maintenance.

The most common issue was Gnome Software center failing to update anything. I just ignored that app, and continued to upgrade through the CLI for a while. Eventually, I just got tired of that, and installed Debian on my HTPC.

Now I can finally treat that computer the way I want. Just install, watch videos, update when needed, and ignore the rest. I have another computer for satisfying my tinkering desires, so this one is just for the videos and very light browsing, but not much else. Therefore, Debian is the perfect distro for this kind of use.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

You can just drop them all in the square hole. Triangles, semicircles, arches, doesn’t matter. All of them go into the square hole.

Source: Internet

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow! I was so sure that circles and pentagons were closely related. Who would have known.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I expected to see microbes here first. Insects have a slower reproduction cycle, so evolution should take longer.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Doing chemistry by mixing chemicals is like fumbling in the dark. You tend to have ridiculously low yield, because you can’t really control which reaction takes place. It’s just a game of probabilities, which makes this gamble really expensive.

Living cells are doing chemistry the right way by combining specific materials and making specific products. Enzymes are very picky, but with them you can actually control the reactions. Making enzymes is just next level complexity and a story for another time.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Maybe hundreds of years from now we can synthesize nutrients without involving any living cells. At that point, it could be seen as unethical to enslave, murder and eat billions of microbial cells. For the time being, our life still depends on other living things, so better get comfortable with having mixed feelings about survival.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, that’s pretty clever.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What does it do?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but what if you had deathstar levels of power at your disposal? It’s not going to be merely laser ablation at that point, now is it?could you really blow up the whole moon, just like Alderaan?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

But it is still unpopular, so it belongs right here, now doesn’t it? Being right or wrong isn’t in the definition, so either way is fine.

If it’s wrong, there’s probably a good reason why it’s unpopular. If it’s true, we can have a very interesting discussion.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I can imagine how these workers would constantly monitor the temperature of the fire and add more coal when necessary.

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