It's already too late, America. Even if he loses the election, he's already rigged the supreme Court.
About 20% more than what anybody currently has at any point in time
If you base your livelihood on a platform owned by a private company, you're not really justified if you complain about it being changed or blocked.
Lemmy users aren't making money from it, so your argument is irrelevant.
It's not my job to educate you on how the education industry works. Go and read what qualified people have already written about it in academic journals.
Sure buddy, force people to do what you want, see how quickly you get fired.
No, just equality. Isn't that what feminism is about?
Yeah I know. It still annoys me though, I don't want this place to turn into Reddit.
I understand your frustration, I'm an introvert and I work in education which is about 75% women, so I have run across groups like what you describe.
The easiest fix is to find a better work place, but in the meantime the only thing I've found that works is to become boring to them; listen politely but give short, non-committal answers. Shrug and say "I don't know" as much as you can. Don't say anything that they can use to ask a follow up question. If you get a hardcore talker, excuse yourself to go to the bathroom.
Your entire post is a series of straw man arguments that are completely fabricated.
No assessment method is perfectly suited to every student.
Coursework can be similarly adapted.
Absolutely, one of the first and best examples.
I have to admit though, I do actually love that show haha
All this moral panic is garbage.
Easily solved by using essays with an unseen question written in exam conditions as assessment instruments.
Literally a pencil and paper solves this problem.
I think this is a pretty good definition. Heard it on an episode of This American Life. Note that it's not just about romantic love, but other kinds as well.
The visionary feminist writer Bell Hooks says love is made up of seven parts. Wherever someone is practicing care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, trust, and open, honest communication, there is love.
They have elections to decide who's going to shit in the Seine?
Just like the actual monarchy, with gold and peasants
What I've never been able to wrap my head around is how did they use their tiny arms, and for what?
Only thing I can think of is that they might have used them to brace themselves on the ground while leaning down past their balance point to eat. Doesn't seem like a very useful thing to have arms just for that though
I will never understand how he passed the audition stage for a late night show.
I have never seen such an intense combination of being unfunny and awkward at the same time on television before. The interactions he has with the music guy are just incredibly lacking in chemistry, and his obnoxious, forced laugh is even worse than Jimmy Fallon's.
Is it something about the British accent that fooled the network execs?
This whole thing gonna take the U outta the USA
It was good knowing ya, murrica
Because nobody cares when double standards negatively impact boys or men.
What's your "back pocket" wish?
A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to "make a wish" blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was "world peace".
Since then, I've kept a wish ready to blurt out if I ever see a falling star or toss a coin into a fountain etc
For me, it's sending my mind, with all my current knowledge and experience, back in time into my body at the moment I graduated high school, so I could re-live my life with more confidence, less anxiety and get straight into doing the cool bits of my life much earlier.
What would be your "back pocket wish"?
Using ChatGPT with Linux
Last night I was nearly tearing my hair out trying to get a crappy inkjet printer installed when I turned to ChatGPT for help; 5 minutes later it was done (driver issues).
I realised that I use it a lot for all sorts of things but haven’t really seen any posts on here about it, and was wondering if other people do the same.
I’ve used it to create bash scripts, write small, niche python programs (eg sort photos into separate folders based on their orientation), and create cron jobs among other things.
In particular, I find it useful when I want to use a command line program that has a complicated set of options / syntax, but I might only ever want to use it once, or very infrequently. So I tell it what I want to accomplish, and ask it to give me the correct command to run with the options I specify in plain language.
Example:
User
Give me the correct rsync command to recursively copy all files in /home/user/Documents that are image files of any type but were created more recently than 1/1/2024. The destination is /home/user/foo
ChatGPT
rsync -avm --include='*/' --include='*.jpg' --include='*.jpeg' --include='*.png' --include='*.gif' --include='*.bmp' --include='*.tiff' --include='*.svg' --exclude='*' --prune-empty-dirs --min-age=$(date -d '2024-01-01' +%s) /home/user/Documents/ /home/user/foo/
User
Break down the command and explain each part of it in dot point format.
ChatGPT
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rsync`: Invokes the rsync program, which is used for efficiently transferring and synchronizing files across systems or within a system.
-avm
:-a
: Archive mode, which preserves permissions, symlinks, modification times, group, and ownership. Implicitly includes recursion.-v
: Verbose mode, which provides detailed output of what rsync is doing.-m
: Prune empty directory chains from the file-list.
--include='*/'
: Include directories themselves, which is necessary for recursion.--include='*.jpg' --include='*.jpeg' --include='*.png' --include='*.gif' --include='*.bmp' --include='*.tiff' --include='*.svg'
: Include files that match these image file extensions.--exclude='*'
: Exclude all other files that do not match the previously stated include patterns.--prune-empty-dirs
: Exclude empty directories that result from the inclusion/exclusion pattern.--min-age=$(date -d '2024-01-01' +%s)
: Exclude files that are older than the timestamp for January 1, 2024. This usesdate -d
to convert a date string into a timestamp, whichrsync
uses to filter files./home/user/Documents/
: Source directory from which files are being synchronized./home/user/foo/
: Destination directory to which files are being synchronized.`
It’s also really good for explaining concepts / commands in plain language.
It’s like having a 24 hour on call Linux expert :)
#Things to note:
- Get the subscription. ChatGPT 3.5 is pretty useless. ChatGPT4 is fine, but I’m pretty sure you need the subscription to access it.
- Give it pre-instructions. I have told mine what distro, what shell I’m using and the make and model of my laptop. If you have a subscription you can add these as permanent pre-instructions, so to speak. That way it will be much more likely to give you correct answers.
- It’s not magic In order to get what you want, you have to be able to ask the right questions. It will boost your ability but won’t turn you in to a 1337 haxx0r
-Ask questions As always, don’t run any commands that you don’t understand. Ask it to break down any commands it tells you to run if you don’t understand them.
-Sometimes it goofs For various reasons, sometimes it will ask you to install a package that no longer exists, or will give you a command that doesn’t work. When that happens, I just feed the error message back into ChatGPT and it usually is able to correct itself.
-Ask “Is there a better or easier way to do this?” This is probably the most valuable question I’ve found to ask chatGPT. Sometimes it gets so far in the weeds looking for a solution to a problem that you need to pull back and start fresh.
What would you do if you had six months left to live?
Assume that you only have the resources and money that you've acquired up to this point in your life, and you still have to pay rent, bills etc. You are basically physically capable of everyday activities but extreme feats (eg running marathons, climbing everest) are not realistic.
Mozilla Location Services
Hi all, I used to have pihole on an actual rasperry pi for a long time with no problems, and have recently switched to docker. However, a couple of weeks after doing so I noticed that there are now an excessive amount of requests to location.services.mozilla.com - nearly 86000 in the last 24 hours alone.
I have always used Firefox, but this seems like weird behaviour. I have Pihole set up as the DNS server in the router settings, but am not using the pihole as a DHCP server.
Let me know what logs to post, if any. Thanks.
Estate planning - yes, you
Hi Lemmy,
I like the idea of this sub so I thought I'd contribute the first post.
I'm 40, and I have cancer. I don't know if I'll survive or not. Being in this position though has forced me to get all my "life stuff" in order, and boy, I can tell you there's a lot more of it than you realise.
Start now. Especially if you're healthy, double especially if you have a spouse and/or kids.
I get it that nobody wants to think about their own mortality, but consider that what you're actually doing is making things easier for your family.
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Get a properly done will from a lawyer. Not one of those "write your own will" kits. It's not just about who gets what, but also burial vs cremation, who will be your executor, any special gifts/request, who is next in line if your beneficiary dies etc.
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Organ donation? Tell your relatives AND register.
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Insurance. Get life insurance as its the only insurance with a guaranteed payment BUT calculate yearly cost vs how much you would have if you just put that money in the bank. Amount should cover all outstanding debts. Get separate insurance for house and vehicles.
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Superannuation (retirement savings). Where I'm from they need a form filled out that tells them who your executor will be. If they don't have this, your executor will have to go to court and it's a real pain in the arse.
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Photos. Get them off your phone and back them up using the 3, 2, 1 backup rule. Make sure someone else has access if you pass away. Photos are one of those things that doesn't seem important until someone dies and that's all you have left of them.
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Power of attorney. Who will make financial and health decisions for you if you're in a coma?
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Advanced health directive. If you're in a coma, do you want someone to pull the plug, or keep you alive no matter what? Read about Terry Schiavo to see why this is so important. Again, tell your relatives AND fill out the documents.
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Consider prepaying for your funeral. Especially if your family doesn't have a lot of money. They're more expensive than you think. It may take weeks or months before your relatives can access your savings or insurance money, and they'll still have to pay for it in the meantime.
Hot tip: caskets are a waste of money; get the cheapest you can. I am friends with a mortician, and he tells me that most of them are cheap crap made in China with 1000% price markups. They get away with it because frankly, nobody's going to bring one back for a refund.
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Write letters to the people you care about. If you die suddenly, they'll have a heartfelt letter as your last words to them instead of a text saying "Do we need more cheese?"
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Relax. We all die eventually, but at least now you know that everything is taken care of. Your friends and family will still be sad, but at least your death won't be any harder on them them it has to be.
Environmentally friendly balloons?
Hi Lemmy,
I'm organising a funeral, and one of the ideas that has come up is for people to write memories on a balloon and let them go. However, I've also heard that they often end up in trees etc and are terrible for the environment.
Is there such a thing as environmentally safe balloons? Other suggestions are also welcome.
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
For models not supported by lvfs
Completed successfully on a Dell Inspiron 3595 running Manjaro
This fix does not require Manjaro, it should work on any distro.
It took me a looong time to figure out how to do this for various reasons, and there are a lot of forum posts on the net about this exact problem. So for posterity I offer up this guide for any future googlers.
TLDR for advanced users: Use Ventoy to boot the Windows 10 installer and open the command prompt in the "Repair my PC" menu to launch the Dell BIOS update executable from a second USB.
- Grab two USBs that are at least 8 GB in capacity.
- Download the BIOS update file from the Dell support website.
- Copy it to the first USB. Mine was formatted as NTFS but I don't think it's critical to the process.
- Download Ventoy. If you've never heard of this, spend a minute reading about it. It's a cool tool.
- Flash Ventoy to your second USB.
- Acquire an .iso of Windows 10. I chose Windows 10 because Windows 7 didn't boot on my laptop (not sure why), and Windows 11 was too heavy for the CPU. I also tried Freedos but my laptop only has UEFI boot enabled, and no legacy option, which is apparently not supported. Note - you don't actually need to install or activate Windows in any way so I didn't feel it was necessary to be too picky about how I acquired the image.
- Copy the Windows 10 .iso file to your Ventoy USB.
- Boot from the Ventoy USB and select Windows 10. (F12 on most Dell laptops to interrupt the boot sequence)
- Click "Repair my PC" in the bottom left hand corner - DO NOT install.
- Click on the "Use command prompt" option which should be in the "Troubleshoot" menu.
- Insert your first USB with the Dell BIOS update file on it.
- Change directory to your first USB.
It automatically mounted mine as
D:
Simply type the name of the drive to change to it. - Type the name of the BIOS update file to execute.
For example:
Inspiron_3595_1.5.0.exe
If you forget the name of the file, typedir
to get a list of files in the current directory. - Watch the magic happen and don't freak out if it reboots more than once - just let it do its thing until it's finished.
- (Optional) boot into the BIOS to confirm that the update has been successful (check the version number).
The entire process was fairly quick, less than 5 mintes, and it automatically rebooted twice. The only indication I had that it was finished was that on the third reboot it booted back into Linux. I went back into the BIOS later to confirm that the BIOS version number matched the version number on the Dell website (in this case, 1.5.0).
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
For models not supported by lvfs
Completed successfully on a Dell Inspiron 3595 running Manjaro
This fix does not require Manjaro, it should work on any distro.
It took me a looong time to figure out how to do this for various reasons, and there are a lot of forum posts on the net about this exact problem. So for posterity I offer up this guide for any future googlers.
TLDR for advanced users: Use Ventoy to boot the Windows 10 installer and open the command prompt in the "Repair my PC" menu to launch the Dell BIOS update executable from a second USB.
- Grab two USBs that are at least 8 GB in capacity.
- Download the BIOS update file from the Dell support website.
- Copy it to the first USB. Mine was formatted as NTFS but I don't think it's critical to the process.
- Download Ventoy. If you've never heard of this, spend a minute reading about it. It's a cool tool.
- Flash Ventoy to your second USB.
- Acquire an .iso of Windows 10. I chose Windows 10 because Windows 7 didn't boot on my laptop (not sure why), and Windows 11 was too heavy for the CPU. I also tried Freedos but my laptop only has UEFI boot enabled, and no legacy option, which is apparently not supported. Note - you don't actually need to install or activate Windows in any way so I didn't feel it was necessary to be too picky about how I acquired the image.
- Copy the Windows 10 .iso file to your Ventoy USB.
- Boot from the Ventoy USB and select Windows 10. (F12 on most Dell laptops to interrupt the boot sequence)
- Click "Repair my PC" in the bottom left hand corner - DO NOT install.
- Click on the "Use command prompt" option which should be in the "Troubleshoot" menu.
- Insert your first USB with the Dell BIOS update file on it.
- Change directory to your first USB.
It automatically mounted mine as
D:
Simply type the name of the drive to change to it. - Type the name of the BIOS update file to execute.
For example:
Inspiron_3595_1.5.0.exe
If you forget the name of the file, typedir
to get a list of files in the current directory. - Watch the magic happen and don't freak out if it reboots more than once - just let it do its thing until it's finished.
- (Optional) boot into the BIOS to confirm that the update has been successful (check the version number).
The entire process was fairly quick, less than 5 mintes, and it automatically rebooted twice. The only indication I had that it was finished was that on the third reboot it booted back into Linux. I went back into the BIOS later to confirm that the BIOS version number matched the version number on the Dell website (in this case, 1.5.0).
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
How to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop running Linux
For models not supported by lvfs
Completed successfully on a Dell Inspiron 3595 running Manjaro
This fix does not require Manjaro, it should work on any distro.
It took me a looong time to figure out how to do this for various reasons, and there are a lot of forum posts on the net about this exact problem. So for posterity I offer up this guide for any future googlers.
TLDR for advanced users: Use Ventoy to boot the Windows 10 installer and open the command prompt in the "Repair my PC" menu to launch the Dell BIOS update executable from a second USB.
- Grab two USBs that are at least 8 GB in capacity.
- Download the BIOS update file from the Dell support website.
- Copy it to the first USB. Mine was formatted as NTFS but I don't think it's critical to the process.
- Download Ventoy. If you've never heard of this, spend a minute reading about it. It's a cool tool.
- Flash Ventoy to your second USB.
- Acquire an .iso of Windows 10. I chose Windows 10 because Windows 7 didn't boot on my laptop (not sure why), and Windows 11 was too heavy for the CPU. I also tried Freedos but my laptop only has UEFI boot enabled, and no legacy option, which is apparently not supported. Note - you don't actually need to install or activate Windows in any way so I didn't feel it was necessary to be too picky about how I acquired the image.
- Copy the Windows 10 .iso file to your Ventoy USB.
- Boot from the Ventoy USB and select Windows 10. (F12 on most Dell laptops to interrupt the boot sequence)
- Click "Repair my PC" in the bottom left hand corner - DO NOT install.
- Click on the "Use command prompt" option which should be in the "Troubleshoot" menu.
- Insert your first USB with the Dell BIOS update file on it.
- Change directory to your first USB.
It automatically mounted mine as
D:
Simply type the name of the drive to change to it. - Type the name of the BIOS update file to execute.
For example:
Inspiron_3595_1.5.0.exe
If you forget the name of the file, typedir
to get a list of files in the current directory. - Watch the magic happen and don't freak out if it reboots more than once - just let it do its thing until it's finished.
- (Optional) boot into the BIOS to confirm that the update has been successful (check the version number).
The entire process was fairly quick, less than 5 mintes, and it automatically rebooted twice. The only indication I had that it was finished was that on the third reboot it booted back into Linux. I went back into the BIOS later to confirm that the BIOS version number matched the version number on the Dell website (in this case, 1.5.0).
What you would like to see happen VS what you think will happen
Regarding the UFO sessions being held in the US currently, what would you like to see happen, and what do you think will actually happen?
Personally I'd like to see: -Any proof that conclusively shows that this isn't some kind of weird disinfo / smoke show by the US -Actual physical evidence of living or deceased aliens or their craft -Details of communication that has occurred (if any)
I think we'll actually see: -Talk -Claims -Discussion
Why does this sub have the snoo feelers on its icon?
This isn't R. R is shit. That's why you left. Stop trying to make this place like R. R still exists. If that's what you want, go back there. R sucked because of the hive mind mentality and pandering for (pointless, imaginary) upvotes.
Don't try and recreate that. R trained you to write and post in a certain way so that the owners of that private company could get maximum engagement for their advertisers and make money off of your eyeballs. Let it go. Be free. Let the weird web flourish.