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@ amorpheus @lemmy.world

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  • Where do I even start?

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  • Going by your comments, I think you need to know a few basics before you get into people's suggestions for actual services. Start with this: more or less, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. It's bigger, the connection is faster, etc., but the services you use most likely run on a Linux computer much like the one you already have.

    For experimenting with the topic, it would be good to have another computer that you can mess around with and not worry about having a usable machine. If you can cobble together a desktop from old parts it will be enough to start the learning process.

  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • CAD on Linux sucks. Most is made as Windows only, and many people have tried running it through Wine (Bottles) or other janky methods. Don't even try it.

    How is gaming not a problem any more, but CAD is? Shouldn't the same tools work to enable both?

  • Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised?

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  • When I read this, it seemed like an attempt at a pithy comment that included a logical fallacy but I couldn't put my finger on it.

    It was. But I also think it boils the topic down pretty well. One thing you seemed to have skipped is that there are plenty of circumcised people expressing regret. So the resulting logic table is very straightforward.

    People who went through the procedure at a time in life where they can remember both also corroborate this - while it's generally not the end of the world, nobody wants to be circumcised unless it's all they've known.

  • Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised?

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  • Just something he keeps in a jar...

  • Uncircumcised penis owners, did you ever wish you were circumcised?

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  • I honestly would be curious to see studies that people thought were trustworthy that showed it one way or another.

    You only need to look a one fact: the only people defending the practice are people who it was done to.

  • Good morning Mr. President! You wake up after a snap election in the US to find out that you are the new POTUS, what are the five first things that you focus on to reverse the current course of the US

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  • Incinerate.

  • Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?

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  • Solar produces DC, presumably the even higher voltage is preferable to the conversion losses.

  • How often do guys have a haircut?

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  • I think my last one was about thirty years ago. Or close.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    amorpheus @lemmy.world

    Modern Windows in a nutshell

  • What is your favourite video game quote?

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  • Statement: I see you have purchased me, master. I find this a satisfactory arrangement. Am I to accompany you now? Shall I kill something for you?

    HK-47 from Knights Of The Old Republic is probably my favorite source of quotes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Quote_of_the_Day/Archive/HK-47

    • I was most proud to have partaken in the political system of the galaxy. During the time [the senator] possessed me, he gained significant rank. Given enough time, I believe he could have become chancellor. I even eliminated a few key opponents that he did not ask for. Freebies, if you will.
    • Query: Would you rather be caught with contraband that is very illegal or just a little illegal?
    • Droids tend to blend into the background, like a bench or a card table. Mockery: Droid, fetch this. Droid, translate that. Droid, clean out the trash compactor. Part of the love of my function comes when the ‘furnishings’ pull out tibanna-powered rifles and point them at the owners' heads.
    • Observation: I am a droid, master, with programming. Even if I did not enjoy killing, I would have no choice. Thankfully, I enjoy it very much.

  • What is your favourite video game quote?

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  • That game is such a gold mine.

    • Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.
    • Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.
    • Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.

    A particular one always gives me chills:

    • I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.

  • What is your favourite video game quote?

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  • Betrayer... in truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still I am hunted. Still I am hated. Now my blind eyes see what others cannot. That, sometimes, the hand of fate must be forced!

  • What is your favourite video game quote?

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  • When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old spaniard did with a brush?

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Only if they're charged.

    P.S.: since battery cells need to be disposed properly, they are now an 18+ purchase.

  • What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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  • It's the movie equivalent of trolling.

  • (Not so)Smartphone

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  • Too much to ask that an Apple AI knows the basic features of the Apple device it's running on?

    Weird hill to die on, but you do you.

  • (Not so)Smartphone

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  • OP has one without the switch, so it shouldn't be the issue. Only happens because a trillion dollar company cannot account for the differences in their handful of devices.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • Your Wi-Fi also needs a cable if you want to be pedantic.

    The benefit is that there is no overhead involved, in theory you don't even have to think about charging your phone ever again. When it's not in use, just leave it on some of the dedicated places around the house and office that provide wireless charging.

  • What technology will disappear in the next 10 years?

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  • If you don't require it to replace cables it doesn't need to. For adding some energy to the device while it's on your desk or nightstand it works perfectly fine.

    The efficiency issue is also exaggerated, phones don't take much power to begin with. Anyone using AC or warm water for convenience is doing much worse in terms of spent energy.

  • Good tip

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  • The perfect cover.

  • Weapons Of Mass Deception

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  • That's the point everyone making these memes is missing. If they actually had nukes already, none of this would be happening.

    This offensive is supposed to make sure they don't develop nuclear weapons, whether the reasoning is fabricated or not.

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    amorpheus @lemmy.world

    Inspired by recent events

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