[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

What am I missing in the "end Kernel panic" one?

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That was a good read with some helpful tips, but they didn't have a conclusion at the end so they never answered their own question!

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

I'm all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I'm wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

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So I want to build a home server to use as a media server, and to back up my photos etc.

I am also currently doing an online course, and happen to spend some time at work as well as at home working on it. I don't like using Google where I can help it, but I find google docs really useful. So I'm wondering if there's an open source application that works essentially the same, but I could run off my own server? It would have to be web-based as I use Windows at work and can't install new programs :/

edit: Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I've got quite a few leads to follow now, it should be fun!

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe to avoid confusion, they should just display units in GB instead of GiB? Or just display both

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I wish he had the balls to follow through with it

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the kind of alarmist media that cripples people with anxiety and leads to learned helplessness. We want to be giving people hope for change, not taking it away.

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or maybe eX-twitter

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

"Someone could get the most votes, and not win!" McCarthy said at the time.. "So if you come in 3rd, you win. What? 'I got a lot of second votes, I got a lot of 3rd vote — what does that mean?'"

I don't think it's the "Black areas" that are getting confused about how it works. Or perhaps he's just pretending to not understand? 🤔🤔

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I just stumbled across this while trying to learn a bit more about using the command line, and thought others might appreciate it. It comes in a printable format so you can stick it up on your wall :)

https://linuxopsys.com/topics/linux-commands-cheat-sheet

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I looked for a lazy way to get myself a Tux sticker and found this pack of stickers for $1

https://www.stickermule.com/products/unixstickers-pro-pack

Bargain!

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

What it seems to me that you're suggesting is essentially crowd sourcing a mix of investigative journalism and data analysis, which is not a skill I think that just anybody can pick up and do properly. To be fair I've never tried my hand at investigative journalism, but I have done a few units of data analysis and trust me there's a hundred different ways to do it wrong. Even among the experts, there's a lot of disagreements to what the best approaches are. I had a teacher even say that if you give a set of data to 10 data analysts, you'll get back 12 different ways of interpreting it.

That is all to say that I'm not sure how much you'd be solving by providing another forum for people to post their takes on public policy issues, but then again if you manage to attract the right crowd of critical thinkers, who also happen to be open minded enough not to insert their own agendas into matters, perhaps people might hold each other accountable?

BTW have you checked that something similar doesn't already exist? Insert obligatory xkcd comic:

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

My guess to the biggest reason not to do this is safety - if somebody is being electrocuted, you want to be able to pull the cord out of the wall as quickly as possible to maximise their chance of survival.

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submitted 1 year ago by JoelJ@lemmy.world to c/usenet@lemmy.world

Hi folks sorry if this is a dumb question, but I'm fairly new to Usenet and although I have it all set up, I saw some instructions to use a docker to run SABnzbd in?

I've been using it for about a month without one, but I'm worried there might be adding security or privacy risk?

[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I would like to see a breakdown of useage by region. For example I found stats that said India's share of linux users rose from 9% in May to 15% in July. That's quite a sharp increase in only 2 months! With a population of over 1 billion people, I'm betting this rise would have a significant increase in global stats, so I wonder what is behind it..

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india

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[-] JoelJ@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Wood is mostly cellulose and lignin, which holds no nutritional value to us humans. Another comment said that termites have certain enzymes which digest it, but it's actually the bacteria in their guts which break down the woody fibres so they can turn it into glucose. So, theoretically, maybe we could isolate those bacteria and somehow incorporate them into our guts too? I mean it probably wouldn't work, but you never know until you try right?

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So one of the benefits of a streaming service is the recommendation algorithm suggesting new shows to you. They're not perfect but I have discovered great shows in the past because of it. So to replace that I've found a great app called JustWatch. It asks you to select what services you're subscribed to so I just choose all of them, then select what shows I've watched and which I liked, and its algorithm suggests new shows to watch. You can also use it to track what episodes you're up to, which I'm sure is great for people more organised and less ADHD than I am!

Disclaimer - I suspect this app is australian-centric, but there must be other apps out there for your country too.

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