Nawor3565

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[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Personally I just use an ad blocker

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Because you don't have a driveway/hose, I would try something like the Simple Green "OxySolve" cleaning concentrate (it says it's for power washers but there are mixing instructions for "manual cleaning"). Most concrete cleaners have some pretty harsh chemicals in them that could damage your bathtub, but the Simple Green stuff seems pretty tame.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Added context for anyone who isn't aware, Schwarzenegger was the Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally, I would not recommend diving into Linux headfirst by installing it as your only operating system. If you can afford an additional small drive (128GB should be plenty), I would suggest buying one and installing something like Linux Mint on that, while putting Windows on your main drive.

That way, you can switch between them whenever you want to (when you turn on your computer, you can just use a menu to choose which drive to boot to), and get somewhat familiar with Linux before deciding if it's worth your time to really dive in.

(There's a way to put both operating systems on the same drive, but it's really easy for something to go wrong and end up with one of the operating systems inaccessible. Since you're inexperienced, I would avoid going that route for the time being, and just keep both on separate drives.)

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

That makes sense, but how well did that work in 2016? Pretty fucking badly, and now we're stuck with a conservative Supreme Court for possibly the next few decades.

Change needs to start from the ground up. Once left-leaning voters can actually match conservative voters' numbers in off-year elections, then we can talk about reforming the party.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

No, you should not "generalize" when those generalizations are negative and targeted at a specific group of people. That's called stereotyping and is widely considered a bad thing.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

That's a pretty sexist outlook. I don't think the image makes an entire 51% of the population angry. And I think people like Jeff Bezos show that not all men require "so little to be happy". It's almost like genders are not hive-minds, and generalizing anything that broadly is only going to result in looking like a boomer who complains about how terrible their spouse is.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Same here. I only support those companies because they're the best options for what they offer, and I'm not gonna let perfection get in the way of progress. Even though Mozilla is making some business choices I don't agree with, I'm gonna keep recommending Firefox until some other non-Chromium browser comes along (which unfortunately isn't gonna happen for a long time).

Same with AMD- they are so much more friendly to the open-source community than Nvidia or Intel, so I will recommend them to everyone, until the moment they start being worse. At that point, I'll start recommending whoever seems best at that point in time.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You could always put it into service as a network wide ad blocker with PiHole. Might also speed up web browsing a bit too, since PiHole also works as a DNS cache.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not sure I exactly understand what you're asking, maybe some pictures would help?

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Start feeding it too, or get one of the neighbors who's been feeding it to help out. Your best bet is a feral cat trap, which are kinda pricey, but if you call around to a few local rescues or "trap, neuter, release" programs, they may be able to lend you one. Then you can likely just use food to lure it into the trap.

Of course, if this cat used to be someone's pet, you could even just try luring it into a garage or, hell, a big cardboard box, from which you could put some thick gloves on and transfer it into a pet carrier

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

That's fair, although I think that depends a lot on the type of car you drive. There's an option to tell Maps what type of car you drive (electric, hybrid, or gas), which will change the results, because cars with regenerative breaking often get better "city" milage than "highway" milage.

It also probably depends on factors like how aerodynamic your vehicle is, because it makes a huge difference above ~50mph (air resistance/drag increases exponentially with speed)

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