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    4 days ago

    Without any context this just comes across as psychotic advice.

    Maybe it’s advice for a comedy career. Never laugh at any jokes, just feign ignorance and get the jok teller to explain. Then you learn the art of comedy and joke design, and you will have the tools to write your own comedy set. Thanks dad!




  • Qwant is built in option in Vivaldi for me on mobile.

    To add it manually in settings on desktop it should be added as follows:

    https://www.qwant.com/?q=%25s

    For some reason lemmy keeps changing the %s to %25s even though it’s listed as code. If you see 25 above in the url delete that, it should end %s to work.

    %s is what Vivaldi uses to give whatever search term you type to a search engine like qwant. It works for me manually so should work for Vivaldi.


  • Then there is your problem. You need to find activities that are social and do those. You can’t easily meet people if you only do things that are solo activities.

    So at the moment there are no things you can think of that you like to do with others. That means you need to start trying new things until you find something you do enjoy.

    Try a sport, try learning a language, try board games, try multiplayer video games, try cooking classes, try adult classes in anything. There are so many options - look at local sport centres, schools, cafe notice boards, search online.

    You won’t meet people unless you put yourself out there. And if there isn’t an activity you already like then step one is fine a new one that involves other people.


  • Yes it’s fairly simple to do, essentially the user needs to download an image of a Linux install disc, flash it onto a USB stick (or a Dvd I guess), and then reboot their PC. They may need to press a key at boot to open the boot menu and select the USB (or the bios to change the boot order).

    After that, most distros offer a very easy to follow installer which will install the new OS.

    Most Linux installs can be done alongside windows (on the same hard drive or it’s own drive) but windows tends to break the boot loader with updates. It’s gernallt better to only dual boot if you’re good at fixing things - otherwise a full Linux install is better.

    The most inportant thing is back up all your important data, and only do this if you genuinely want to leave windows. I’d make sure your windows license is digital before doing this too as that allows using windows again if you want to go back.

    I’d say anyone can use Linux, it’s user friendly and robust. In terms of installing Linux, I’d only do it if you are sure you know what you’re doing - installing any OS - including windows - can involved trouble shooting problems.






  • It’s not just the milk but milk is a rich source of nutrition and over consumed in the west.

    The obesity crisis is due to excessive calories in all foods, including massive overuse of sugar in processed foods, high levels of red meats and fat etc and low levels of fruit and vegetables. This is combined with physical inactivity.

    Southern Europe doesn’t have the same levels of obesity - about 10% in Italy compared to 20% in the UK and 36% in the US. They have a “Mediterranean diet” which is low fat, low sugar, with more fish, fruits and vegetables. Japan also has low obesity rates of 5-6% and again has a much healthier diet. Their rate is going up and it seems to be due to increasing westernised diet.


  • Europe does have an obesity crisis, and also nearly half of adults overweight. The UK is bad but not alone and not the highest.

    But even then things are still not as bad as the USA. The obesity rate is about 23% in Europe compared to 43% in the US. Russia has an obesity rate of 30% skewing the European rate. For comparison other high European countries are Malta at 33%, Croatia at 31%, Ireland at 29%, Greece at 29%, UK at 27%, Germany at 21%. Lower rates are seen in Italy at 18% and France at 10%, but even those rates are not great - 1 in 10 people are obese and more are overweight.

    So OP is right except the US is worse. Over a third of people are obese and many more are overweight - that is shocking even with how bad things are in Europe. It is certainly not projecting.

    Edit: sorry the US obesity rate is 43% not 36%. Other figures updates to 2022 figures.



  • I’ve tried Arch - it allows you to make a system that is exactly what you want. So no bloat installing stuff you never need or use. It also gives you absolute control.

    On other distros like Fedora, you get a pre configured system set up for a wide range of users. You can reduce down the packages somewhat but you will often have core stuff installed that is more than you’ll need as it caters to everyone.

    Arch allows you to build it yourself, and only install exactly the things you actually want, and configure then exactly how you want.

    Also you learn an awful lot about Linux building your system in this way.

    I liked building an arch system in a virtual machine, but I don’t think I could commit to maintaining an arch install on my host. I’m happy to trade bloat for a “standard” experience that means I can get generic support. The more unique your system the more unique your problems can be I think. But I can see the appeal of arch - “I made this” is a powerful feeling.



  • I think the new device is good news. I can see what you’re saying - the benefit is if Steam Machines expand the PC games market with former console only players. But otherwise the threshold for PC development is already much lower than consoles; there are no dev kit fees, a wide choice of engines to target, relatively greater independence etc.

    The steam machine may help somewhat in having a specific hardware profile to target, but the games are still on steam’s store so still have to be able to run widely on Windows or Linux. That’s always been the complexity of PC development - the steam machine doesn’t change that much. Although admittedly the Steam Verified benchmarks are useful for users to simplify understanding what their kit can actually run which will benefit indie devs.



  • For me it seems to be when you go through to download the windows binary, you get an iframe on the page containing another site. That has ads and serves up the download. So I’m guessing the ads are on the website that provides videolan with hosting for its binaries?

    They are old fashioned intrusive ads pretending you need to click then to start your download. But the download starts already.