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What is the most nonsense thing someone has ever told you? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, the last one is true if you're coming from the standpoint of the rider.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How will they maintain their office real estate portfolio if the demand for offices drops precipitously?

We've got it all worked out in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Modern studies using freezers with well-understood properties have observed the Mpemba effect where water supercools before freezing. Water that starts out cooler tends to reach a lower supercooled temperature before freezing.

Also from the Wikipedia article.

If you define the Mpemba effect as hot water reaching 0 degrees faster, then no, it's not observable. But if you define the Mpemba effect as heated water freezing sooner, (remembering that freezing can initiate below the "freezing point" when water is subcooled) then the Mpemba effect may be observed.

If true, it would be interesting that cool water is less likely to nucleate and form ice than water that was heated.

Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I watched that video, but didn't the person you reply to address every point stated in the video?

The only other point not stated in the video (but is mentioned in the more recent video) is to not use a brand that also sells pods, because they're likely making the powder shittier to upsell you on pods.

TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire. in c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Alternatively, a more generous interpretation was he was trying to gain ground to topple it from within. That's if you want to give him that much credit.

Fictional in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Right but the actual quantities are arbitrary. A metre is a fixed fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum, but it's an arbitrary fraction chosen because it was convenient. We could just as well have chosen it to be half or twice as long. Same with the second. And the kilogram, etc.

Banana in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

wtf they're like 50¢/lb here

Banana in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The above user is a cat

My Recent Experience Getting Back Into Linux in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Sounds like it is working pretty well to me" when I spend multiple days trying to get Linux working for one purpose (to draw) and am unsuccessful.

This is why "current year is the year of the Linux desktop" is hilarious to anyone who doesn't use Linux.

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My Recent Experience Getting Back Into Linux (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Over the past several days, I have been trying to install Linux on my surface pro 2 because Windows is having issues with hogging memory, which is preventing me from finishing a drawing.

First I tried Linux Mint. After several freezes of the Bluetooth program, I was able to get my 8bitdo controller to connect, however i learned that neither using it as a wireless keyboard nor as dinput works. Mint was not detecting input from either mode, but it could detect xinput. Krita, however did not recognize the inputs because they were not keyboard keys, so i had to install a program to convert xinput signals to key presses.

Additionally, the on-screen keyboard on Mint has two options: always on when enabled, or on when a text box prompts. The former sucks to use because you have to toggle the keyboard in accessibility settings every time you want to turn it off or on, and the latter never detected a single text box in my experience. So the on-screen keyboard simply doesn't work on Mint.

I tried installing Kubuntu. I installed the Linux surface drivers recommended on r/SurfaceLinux. This resolved an issue where the pen and eraser were seen as the same. My controller also worked Flawlessly in keyboard mode right out of the gate. The Bluetooth program didn't freeze once. The on-screen keyboard is also acceptable. By all accounts the experience was a significant improvement.

Then I tried calibrating my pen. This did not work. The cursor was consistently 2-3 mm up and to the left of where i was holding my pen. KDE with wayland also does not support non-linear digitizer calibration. This is a problem because the errors in my tablet's digitizer are non linear. On windows I had created a script to add extra calibration points to rectify this. I can't do this in KDE with wayland. I could switch to X11, but then all the QoL improvements for touch screen/tablet use would be gone.

So I've been fiddling for hours trying to make a script in krita that will allow me to correct my pen inputs with an error matrix. Krita is refusing to even recognize the script is even there. Probably a Krita problem, not Linux, but blegh. I wouldn't have to do this if the system pen calibration worked.

But of course, my 5 year old experience with how troublesome Linux was is invalid today, and Linux has gotten so much better and Just Works™ now /s

Burgerland would never lie /s in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Well you can't believe them because they're brainwashed /s

Do you have a strong opinion on the death penalty? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The death penalty is not an effective punishment, it is a security measure and should only be used if confinement is unsuccessful and the risk is sufficient, which should be a high bar.

What are some loanwords (originated in another language and usually retains original spelling in equivalent english) for concepts, things, or experiences that English doesnt necessarily have yet? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, that's not a uniquely Muslim concept. I think that's pretty universal, although we don't have a word for the concept in English. It's just considered unhygienic.

Unless you mean to say that when someone has used a utensil it is permanently tainted.