up/down voting is simply a way to help comments you think are good, or agree with, become more/less dominant in the thread.

In some cases, comments are useful to explain why - but often that's just not the case.

'true fact'.

• Facts cannot be anything except for true.
• Anyone who uses the two words 'true fact' together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word 'true' or the word 'fact'.

• Stop using the word 'Google' instead of saying 'Search'. Take offense if anyone tells you to 'Google' something - fuck them!!!
• Set Firefox as your default - don't keep 'defaulting' to chrome, or chromium based browsers (as this code mostly comes from Google).
• Be sure to become more acquainted with more platforms, keep shortcuts handy and use them when they have content...
• If you must use Youtube, use it signed out - find your channel and add it to an RSS reader. Avoid using the Youtube interface and avoid the algorithms. Search for any channels you watch on alternative platforms.

Methinks you have been so busy trying to fight that you didn't realise that nobody else is fighting.

However, there's a slight issue with 'still being connected to the wider internet' as I don't see results for Lemmy content appearing in my searches the way Reddit content comes up.

So it feels rather like a sci-fi movie when you've had too many mushrooms - kind of bright, but a bit confused...

However, it does help focus that idea that - if we are going to have interesting discussions and create information which is archived - it shouldn't be inside Reddit, and it should be accessible by search.

So Lemmy is half way there...

Such an obssessive need we have, to claim 'inventors' for everything!! Oh, I guess 'clickbait' answers that one.

Wasn't it Jeff Dahn (along with colleagues) at Dalhousie University who found the final piece of the puzzle in developing the Li-Ion battery? https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JElS..137.2009F/abstract

He is simply one of the co-creators who SHARED the Nobel prize for DEVELOPMENT which helped to transform the technology.

Goodenough and Koichi in 1979 helped with the positive electrode material that helped early commercial batteries LiCoO~2~ and Goodenough's name does appear as one of many 'inventors' who worked on this.

However, there are many many names involved - we don't really have 'inventors' these days. We also find that most famous inventors are simply people who claimed credit for other folks work.

Hard to find something depressing with no experience.

What is depressing is that tens of millions JUMP on the platform, knowing already that Meta is evil and not caring.

The human race is digging it's own grave, and the handful that know better will just get pulled down.

🥊

You taking to me? Or chewing a brick???

'Coz you gonna lose your teeth eitherway.

Aha, yes - this is the first (internal) issue. The wider issue is - how can these comments be included in search engine results?

The ultimate power of Reddit is that it shows up everywhere in search. Lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, BeeHaw etc... they just don't.

As I expected.

I'm not sure it it's just Reddit that makes me sick, or Google. It's the way that society is getting dumber and more subservient.

I definitely get angry when I hear people are 'googling' everything they want to 'search' for. Similarly that people simply wish to protest Reddit - when they don't really care, they're just jumping on the RANT bandwagon.

With the advent of instant gratification, smartphones/internet access, I welcome the lack of need for a paper dictionary.

However, people go further - they love the way the big tech can aggregate their content and dish it up to them.

They don't care that they are being spoonfed solent green, and increasingly denied the ability to find actual answers to their questions.

If you do disturb them, like a borg they will become disoriented. They start to drown until they can feel the comforting caste of blue light on their faces as they dive back into their familiar environment.

Reddit's CEO is not stupid - he knows that most of it's users are sheep, and the escapees will be a minority. The mods, addicted to their power trips, will return and take whatever shit they have to... what else is their life good for?

Reddit is not 'crushing' the protests. The protests were mostly a flash in the pan - now most folks got bored, and just wanna go back to reading their joke of the day.

Moving Forward

A couple of problems. Firstly, even if I've been talking on Fediverse somewhere about a topic - if I search that topic, it will not take me to the Fediverse - I get taken to Reddit.

Unless the Fediverse content is getting included in search engine data, it'll never be driven from that direction.

I know personally that the reason I created my Reddit account is that I would find answers there, and then end up discussing them where I found them.

Not here...

This is the way.

Unfortunately, if you don't already know the answers it's more a question of experience before you'll understand them.

When I started with Ubuntu I couldn't do dualboot, so it was hard. It got better with each update, but my beloved Gnome2 desktop was threatened and Ubuntu went on to Unity - KDE sucked, so I jumped over to Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.

Whilst it was great, I had terrible issues getting software - PPA's are often suited to Ubuntu and not Mint... so in the end I tried installing Arch, failed twice, then got a Manjaro (Cinnamon) ISO and tried that for a few days, got some snapshots (rsync to my HDD) and then figured it's not a big deal to install KDE, as it's easy enough to go back.

KDE was so much better by then (about 5 years back) that I'm stuck with Manjaro KDE - having access to the AUR to install stuff is awesome, and flatpaks work at the flick of a settings switch too.

Dual-booting gives you the luxury of (if you wanna play Genshin Impact) having the option to boot into your game OS but also the ability to install games on your Linux OS and decide which one runs best on your hardware.

Everyone has such varied 'needs' that your question is impossible to answer - you must just suck it and see.

That's a shit load of money!

Fireworks are brilliant. I think you live somewhere with cultural issues... people reserve the right to party and annoy everyone else...

They have their time and place - and 2am sounds more like problms with arseholes, not Fireworks.

They should be banned after 9pm (except for New Year - extend until 00:20 for that).

I've been witness to some amazing displays that bring tears to my eyes they were so awesome. The most memorable being ones that I'm close enough to feel the pressure wave, a truly trouser flapping experience.

For limited opportunities to pee, I'd carry a good sized bottle and limit drinking to sipping water/an electrolyte beverage through a straw.

For limiting poop, I'd try to be empty ahead of time, and just take something solid like bread and cheese which means you probably could go through three days without pooping.

I can't see this post, I am just replying to let you know that.

Don't ever join the infantry, I imagine you in camouflage approaching the enemy - and you stand up and shout "Please, I need to stay hidden - so let me know if you can see me so that I can hide more effectively".

Some of the jokes were nice - with the best laughs coming from the replies and the bad puns.

Thinking about the possibility of brain-computer interfacing is insane. It'll be possible to shove a thought into your shopping list... convert your dream into a text file to edit and include in your book later.

I do think writing by hand is a good skill to teach at least until highschool... from then on, there should be more accessible ways of getting your notes down and organised - and also easy to search and re-organise.

It's strange that after I tested out a couple of REALLY dirt cheap chinese pens to replace my old, trusty, fountain pen which got lost - this ended up with me having three transparent plastic pens (WingSung) that cost $2 each - and now my son has stolen one for school, filled with some Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue (every bit as nice as a blue EnerGel) but with a couple of ink-eradicator pens, he says it's better and faster than using the alternatives (FriXion is way overpriced, and not nearly as nice as a proper GelPen - and the rest of the competition is just nasty).

I also use a double-edged safety razor to shave, and found out (when I figured it was something most folks just hadn't thought about) that a few of my friends went there a year or two back... so many things should never need to die out, but obviously some things should be skipped...

Longer form (essays, dissertations, anything more than a page) is certainly a bit of a waste of time. I wrote a list of 'to read' books and stuck it up in my wardrobe, but the list changed... so now it's digital and that paper got trashed.

Another 100 years should see more convenient and effective alternatives.

That's very negative, however I must concur that it's a fact the correlative conjunctions were incorrectly placed to negate the possibilities.

Whether that fact is true or not is up to you.

That's interesting. I picked up memebership in both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world (same username) after trying Beehaw and finding that I was met with an endless circle of progress when submitting...

Sure, use it to post to Lemmy.ml - there's a nice challenge.

This is crazy - for sure, in many countries it can be taken straight from the tap depending on the reliability of infrastructure... but to waste energy boiling it??? No thanks.

In England, I moved a few times - some places have great tasting water - others not so great - meaning it's always safe (and ok for brewing or cooking) but not so good for drinking from the tap.

In Scotland (a couple of places I stayed and worked) it's a toss up whether you should drink the tapwater, or go to your local and take another dram from the top row.. those Single Malt Whiskeys made with water from Scotland are amazing... but both are safe in moderation.

In Bangkok, if I don't clean my shower out monthly, it ends up with brown gunge building up, so I certainly don't drink the stuff... and it's hard to know how clean it is (though we're told it's certainly drinkable at source, it has a long way to come to my house - and the pressure of the system is low... another red flag). Visiting tropical islands, you see some resorts are connected via long plastic pipes which are often on the surface (in the sun) and so definitely not the best candidate for anything more than a shower.

In Bangkok too, unless you can test it yourself you shouldn't drink it - but I fail to see why you'd decide to boil dirty water and drink it, seeing as most countries with inadequate tap water have drinking water.

I wouldn't use 'boiled tap water' to make my pasta either.

I have six large bottles which gets topped up each week, to make sure I have plenty of water to cook and drink with... If I didn't, then I'd invest in a good water filtration system.

This is pretty awesome.

Where are they?

I'm not sure it matters more TBH... but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don't bother commenting.

With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn't read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle...

So I now downloaded 3 versions of 'Great Expectations' and am reading that book before watching them - but also have "Welcome to the MonkeyHouse" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Book Thief" grabbed from Annie's Archive.

Basically now I'm spending less than half the time on net than I was before.

I was excited when I bought an Amiga 500, and ever since then the main thing I noticed is that the EXCITEMENT of getting a computer was always over-ruled by my ability to exploit it's powers and use it.

So my perspective is that all computers and operating systems SUCK. But some suck less than others...

So using Manjaro KDE, it sucks less because it's very simple and easy for me to install whatever I like - having AUR available, being able to search with pamac to include repos, AUR and Flatpak (even snap if I was that desperate).

KDE also gives you super powers to fuck up modify your desktop experience and shortcuts.

It's been good to me for 6 years now. After going Ubuntu>Mint I was excited to leave Debian and try something else, I never made it to the Redhat camp (always interested to try Fedora) and hopefully will never feel the need.

So yes, what I like MOST is - it mostly just works. And when it fails, the forum is awesome.

When I studied to become a Radio Officer (Marine, not Navy) I joined a Radar Maintenance class with six guys from various parts of India.

They added a new page to my 'technique'. I visited them and saw all their notes plastered on their walls. They didn't sit and revise - they walked around and stared at the walls... it was amazing.

So first of all, we'd do a class - maybe a couple of hours - where I'd mark diagrams (using colours) and take notes (also using highlighters to mark important sections of printed notes).

• After the class, during break, I'd spend the first five minutes just scanning over the whole class one time.

• When I got home later, I'd go over it again for about 15 minutes and basically blu-tac them onto the walls. Then I'd scan across the older notes.

Within a week of scanning them, I could basically scan from further away until I could remember most of what was on them without being close enough to read them.

• Only tidy away what you know - but be sure you know it before you move it to longer term storage. I could basically recite the contents of an A4 sheet by just scanning down the headings at this stage.

When I was sure I'd internalised a sheet, I could take it down and stick it in my folder.

The hardest subjects are the most boring, and often least relevant, parts of the course. I think I must have put in 80% of my efforts into less than 10% of the actual coursework.

• Flashcards are awesome. You should have them in your pocket - Question one side, Answer on the back. You should have them in your pocket always, in the toilet, on a bus, wherever you go. If you do just 5 minute sessions multiple times every day then you'll know them all at the end of the week.

As a testament to how well this worked, I remember learning hundreds of 'Q' codes. If you randomly throw one up at me, I'll remember every detail....

Stuff I remember learning iin 1984, like QRA - Q: What is the name of your vessel/station? or QRK for 'What is the readability of my signals?` with answers rated from 1 to 5.

I never went to sea - so I never used this stuff after I finished College (Margarette Thatcher put the plug on that) but it's all there.

It is often still The Answer

Haha I cannot say for sure. I certainly started to duplicate my credentials... so now I'm more likely to be logged in as BendyLemmy.

So initially it was Lemmy.ml (which wasn't working too well) and it got annoying that I wasn't logged in when opening links - so BeeHaw, Lemmy.world, https://fosstodon.org/ is BendyToy,...

One thing I'm finding useful now in Bitwarden is that I can autofill and copy (so just refresh for a new password) to get the same username for each one... but it's kind of getting out of hand.

It's a little frustrated that we can't use a kind of centralised profile - like the way an 'opendesktop' account can be used to log in to various instances of websites. If I log in the Opendesktop website, and then go to Mastodon, I find my Opendesktop account gets logged in there - so there's more fragmentation.

Overal it is just very confusing.

https://digg.com/ still fun. https://cat-gpt.com/chat - the BEST instance of GPT by far. https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home https://window-swap.com/

• Levar Burton Reads - good short stories (today "D.P." by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Behind the Bastards this week: Stockton Rush, inventor of the Deathsub
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• Evil Genius with Russell Kane (BBC) - last week, David Bowie... was he a genius, or simply evil?
• Something Rhymes with Purple - Fascinating look at English language.
• Drama of the Week (BBC) - occasionally brilliant plays.
• Desert Island Disks - Good when doing chores.

SearXNG

I actually added a custom search engine to Firefox... so I can search something on Lemmy. I have the keyword 'LW' for Lemmy.World search right now (because Lemmy.ml was offline a while).

Basically, do the Lemmy search (search term ssss) then edit/replace ssss > %s and copy the entire link. https://lemmy.world/search/q/%s/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

Then using 'add custom search engine' extension on Firefox, you add it.

Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the 'Home Theater' app died it's death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!

Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that's so awesome... though now it's dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).

After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA's made for 'buntu often don't work) it's like a dream.

1. Inoreader
2. Bitwarden
3. uBlock
4. Sponsorblock
5. Dark Reader
6. Font Changer
7. Stylus
8. Markdownload - web clipper
9. Lasttab (Alt_Z back to last tab) A. Violentmonkey B. webcompat.com reporter C. Wikiwand D. YouTube Redux

Almost all of them when I had read the book first.

The Hobbit

The latest (The Hobbit) I got my son to read the book, then watch the movies and he's like 'Whaaaaaa???' because they tried to amplify it into a blockbuster.

So yes, Great movie - but sucked after reading the book.

TTIME (abbr - not alias)

abbr -a -- ttime date\ \'+It\ is\ \%-H\ \%M\ and\ \%S\ seconds\'\|espeak\ \>/dev/null\ 2\>/dev/null # imported from a universal variable, see `help abbr`

I think 'soul' is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don't think they can survive physical death.

Firefox.

Lolz: those overweight folks living up North...

Mostly you worry about the pipework to your house I think.

This is a bit of a pointless question. Also, not quite making sense.... because 'workflow' can mean absolutely anything.

I enjoy using Dolphin (KDE) because I have a terminal window at the bottom (F4 toggles it) which is tied to the GUI - so if I do 'zi' to jump to one of my video, or document folders, then the GUI follows... best of both worlds... and it means I can manage almost as well without the GUI, though not quite so well without the terminal.

You should aim to do things the most efficient way, without predetermined ideas about whether to use GUI or terminal. I use terminal to listen to radio, but not to edit pictures or videos.

When you get to your desktop, certainly start with a terminal open... I like Kitty - easy tabbing and splitting means I can do tons of stuff in the one window.

You learn by using, researching, and learning. That's how you can get better. You can also do a lot by trying different shells - for example, I run Konsole (with ZSH) and Kitty with FISH - so they're quite different to use, and each has benefits.

Swastika/fasist tattoos and memorabilia are often simply anti-authority expression and not really fascist ideology (as witnessed recently with ex-cons, UKR and Russian soldiers being caught out and branded as being 'Nazi' or 'fascist').