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And I'm not saying that the original is bad. You have to have a good song to have a good cover in my opinion. But sometimes the cover artist just understands the mission and takes what the original song did and expands on that a hundred times over.

I'd like to get into 3D printed fashion accessories and furniture idk

I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

I've been thinking lately about why, in debates (usually) about highly emotional topics, so many people seem unable to acknowledge even minor wrongdoings or mistakes from "their" side, even when doing so wouldn't necessarily undermine their broader position.

Could be work or school.

Vote in comments, or comment if your colour is not represented (poor person's poll until Lemmy adds polls officially)

If you have any experience in this field, please include so in your reply. I've seen over time a lot of criticism over the peer review process and how journals hyper-exploit academics simply because the journals are able to monetize scarcity/exclusivity. I saw another post on it today and I thought, "what if this was federated?"

Running bamboo is notoriously fast spreading and difficult to remove. What keeps its population balanced in the wild, and prevents it from crowding out the competition? I tried googling, but was inundated with gardening advice, horror stories, and assault / offensive gardening (some of the latter two presumably covering the same incident from both sides). My google-fu failed, I couldn't really find any info about natural population controls of running bamboo in the thicket of tall tales and gardening advice.

I'm GenX, a child of the cold war. "Tradecraft" is what spooks and spies do. It's espionage and poisoning enemy agents and infiltration and shit.

For me it's calculating. Too many people put math into their search engines and not their calculator.

I'm wondering if I'm able to transition as a full-time employee if I would be able to enroll immediately in health insurance or if I would have to wait for the open enrollment period.

Hello Lemmings! For the past year or so, I've been working on a solo project, and I'm kinda close to being finished with it! It's a punk rock album, made with mostly open-source tools (the only non-FOSS stuff is a couple of plugins that didn't have good open-source alternatives)!

Would you rather be able to do everything with one thing? Say, listen to music, take pictures, play, work and whatever with one device? Or would you rather have a specific device for listening to music, a specific device for taking pictures, a specific device for work and another one to play and such?

Basically the title. A lot of us couldn't get together for proper 4/20 this year, so we're doing a make-up party on Saturday. What fun/engaging activities can we do?

State all your assumptions upfront

Which country, how much a month, what's the plan include?

Hi everyone,

What is your favorite way to visualize... Anything, images, files, music, games, etc?

We habitually spend a lot of time in daily routines, and we hear about cool stuff from the same sources. As such, we tend to lack awareness of things that don't have the capability to advertise broadly. So, what's something you expect many people don't hear about or consider for use in their life?

Not so long ago YT introduced age restrictions and this every now and then prevents me from watching the video through NewPipe. NewPipe can't play age restricted content.

I spent way too long trying to find I'm a Morning Person made by Julian Smith and found out it has since been unlisted on youtube. Only reason I finally found it was a direct link to it on another forum which appeared on search page 5 on duckduckgo.

My most beloved British slang is Knackered. Fucking knackered! It means very tired, exhausted. But those terms are sterlized of feeling, of life. You know that feeling after you finish moving? That total fucking exhaustion, you're knackered my friend. I can't think of a word that feels more accurate to the state of reality it describes. Knackered is a fucking gift.

I keep seeing posts mentioning this phenomenon more and more often.

I'm about to take a long flight and am looking to expand my music library.

I didn't think he would really do it.

I'm going with Danny Devito! That fuck would straighten out the church. He got good morals. He just a nice guy. What about you?

Posting this because I can’t really talk to my family or whatever. I have one main friend but I don’t think she cares on a deeper level so it always just feels like I’m alone. Who do you guys turn to for help? It’s always been a struggle for me, it’s like no one is really there. It feels like I’m living the same day over and over again and I’m not contempt with my own thoughts and it’s hard for me to get over it. I’m not sure if I’m just depressed and I’m so good at hiding it or I’m just so numb to everything. I forget so much of my past and it’s so hard for me to sit with myself and figure out what the fuck is wrong with me. I just lost something so good in my life because I made a big mistake and that’s also something I won’t get over. I can’t win things back and it’s sad to accept reality of things. Sorry for this depressing as post but I don’t have anyone to really talk to

I am completely serious about this as it’s been a fundamental question I’ve had since I joined here.

I need to get out of my desk chair more, but lately I've been trying to walk my neighborhood since the weather's nice. What kinds of things do you do to stay active? I'd love some suggestions for good stretches and simple/effective exercises. Thanks!

For example, if you only wanted to see bees, you are unable to see anything unless a bee comes into frame, in which case you are only able to see a bee.

I feel like most posts on Lemmy are irrelevant to me, and they don't refresh much, is this how Lemmy is like or is this just because I'm a new user?

24 M at a 3‑way fork for my life:

Things in the broadest of senses, stories/books/movies/shows/games/etc., technologies, jobs, whatever you tend to keep on the lookout for.

Whatever "too long" means to you. What eventually helped to lessen the pain?

Hi, maybe you can help me with some tech suggestions. At my local scouts troop I'm one of only a few guitar players. At camp fires I play the guitar and provide lead vocals, so that others can follow (which is important especially for songs, that are not well known). Because only a few can sit directly beside me and others might talk in parallel, I need to sing very loud, to give an orientation, which makes me hoarse way faster.

Which instance is better and why?

You can choose a new sound or sound(s) to make when you fart. The sound can't be quieter than your fart would otherwise be. Nor can it be shorter than your fart would otherwise be.

I've been meaning to ask this for a while. I saw a comment a month or so ago. Person said they keep their thermostat at like 65 in the winter and 78 in the summer. 78 seems fucking insane to me. That's too damn hot for inside. How do you sleep at 78 degrees?

I always end up low-balling myself lol.

You are presented with an opportunity to choose between two distinct options for a post-scarcity life. The parameters of each option are as follows:

This is just a fun game, don't answer anything personal or identifying you don't want to!

Share a link or face the consequences: me asking you politely to share a link.

So I've been working professionally with Linux-based systems for a few years, and while I'm not the expert I would like to be, I have got a pretty good feeling for the way those systems work. You have the bootloader, the initramfs, the boot procedure, systemd, PID 1, you can check the logs, you have all those little things that make the system work. Everything is a file, you have file permissions and selinux contexts, you have networkmanager, systemd units, you have (system) users, some just for some services, it's all dandy.. if I have a problem with a program I can usually debug it, check its logs, and get it to run.

I've( 22M ) been an overthinker for almost my entire life. Not only that, I have hyper-anxiety and overwhelmness. I haven't been scheduled with a psychiatrist so far.

Circulation issues have been plaguing me for the past several months, and getting a doctor's appointment is taking an eternity. As I've been waiting, the issue has only worsened, to the point where I am quickly losing sensitivity in my hands and fingers. EDIT: "Quickly" as in over the span of a few days or weeks having cold hands, not hours. If that makes a difference.

so this one girl, i’ll call her ella (19f) is transphobic, homophobic

I'm thinking the band "Yeah Yeah Yeahs". It's the same word 3 times but with an s on the last one.

I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

My external Maxtor drive won't be detected on my linux machine. I have the power cord all tight and I have firewire that I think that came with the Maxtor drive itself. It just won't be recognized. Any help.

I’ll try to summarize this as much as possible but it’s really hard.

I always wanted to pursue CS as my majors but due to the recent news of SWE getting fired changed my mind

Having a TV in the bedroom is extremely common in my country - practically the norm. Don't have one though cause my husband is against it.

I retired at the beginning of the year, and before leaving I saved all my personal email from my work account to a PST file. I had confirmed in advance that Microsoft has a free utility for converting PSTs to Gmail. What I didn't realize until I was gone is that the utility requires you to have outlook installed, and I don't have it at home.

Most of the time, fellow Lemmies post videos via YouTube links. Each yime, I end up with a series of ads before being able to see the actual video. Is there a way to open these links directly in NewPipe?

I'm talking about like tax fraud and stuff.

Ok, Lemmy, let's another play a game!

I'll start by plugging Harvard's free courses catalog as well as Udemy

someone told me about it while in the hospital and I didn't fucking write it down and I'm pissed 😩

Edit - I said "site" because I didn't know how to even describe whatever this is

A friend from Argentina once told me Argentina keeps its best wines for themselves and exports the mediocre stuff, even at the sake of profits.