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Mice can often find ways you wouldn’t believe, but they still have to adhere to the laws of physics, so you might simply not have suitable holes in your apartment for them to enter. But yeah, also quite possible that they can smell the cat and don’t want to enter the lion’s den.

She wrote “a drum”, so we might be talking less than ten quid… 😅

Honestly, at this point just plonk down a few traffic lights and pretend it’s a normal intersection. At least assuming that center piece isn’t elevated.

On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.

Incidentally, you can also play !dcss@lemmy.ml to train Vim navigation with HJKL keys.

I mean, DCSS does also have diagonal movement keys, which are most definitely not a thing in real Vim, but uh, you can probably just ignore those. So long as you’re not trying to win the game, anyways…

The system for domain names is called Punycode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

But it’s still combined with domain registrars rejecting names like “αpple.com”, which ultimately needs a human to approve names.

There could also be a system like here on Lemmy, where there’s a separate display name, but it still doesn’t really solve the impersonation problem…

The problem is, even if it were solved for 99% of systems, 1% of systems crashing is still a massive problem.

But yeah, I also don’t believe that it is solved for 99% of systems. There’s a ton of embedded systems all over the place, which are easy to forget about.

French kiss?

Yeah, it’s great. Farmers need to use pesticides and monocultures to stay competitive, since other farmers are using them. Also, pesticides and monocultures kill the ecosystems that provide things like natural pest control, pollination and humus. So, you probably don’t get an increased yield from pesticides and monocultures when they’re employed in wide areas, while you do still get the destruction of ecosystems.

It is similar to Bluesky, yes. They both got a lot of inspiration from Twitter (before Musk turned it to shit/X).

And I would say that the discussions are more shallow than on Lemmy. Even though Mastodon has a higher character limit than Twitter and many Mastodon instances effectively remove the character limit, it’s still fundamentally a platform for shortform interactions. Infodumping is rarely seen, because you need to create a silly number of chained messages.

On the flipside, though, you get to know people. I do appreciate the time I spent on Mastodon, because of that. It’s a very different perspective as not everything is about discussing cold hard facts, but rather also people’s hobbies and struggles and whatnot.

Not sure what your problem with Discover is. It uses PackageKit under the hood, which hooks into APT (as well as other distros’ package management).

If you want to, you can disable Flatpak and Snap support in Discover’s settings and then it is effectively just an APT frontend.

Here’s a description page for Discover: https://apps.kde.org/discover/

I believe, it’s this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapbooking
So, kind of like a photo album but more freestyle…?

Man, with how things are going right now, I almost believed this was happening…

I find ants and bees and such interesting in this regard. They work together more seamlessly than humans do and arguably have a higher form of sociality.

Especially in Western cultures, we humans like to think of the individual and compare ourselves to the individual of other species. But that is a logical fallacy.
Are you smarter than an ant? Sure. But are you smarter than a human-sized ant hive? That’s a far trickier question to answer…

Yeah, I don’t like when corporations put stuff like that into their ToS, but at the same time, I 100% understand why every open-source license under the sun has it. You’re giving it away for free, so you don’t want people to sue for more than you’re providing for free.

Mastodon.social is currently very much in the latter camp of giving things away for free. I also understand that a service is yet another beast than a piece of software, since they hold your personal data and may leak/sell it. But yeah, at this point in time, I wouldn’t want someone to be able to sue Mastodon.social out of existence. I guess, it depends a lot on how it’s formulated in the end…

My favorite is when you get told to cook something in water and there’s always just this implicit “with salt” in there.

Except when it isn’t. For example, you should only add salt to lentils after cooking, otherwise their hull turns hard.

Well, and they also don’t tell you how much salt to use. Yesterday, I cooked millet and just added as much salt as I would add to noodles.
But then I had to leave them in the pot to soak for half an hour, because they wouldn’t soften (is that also from the salt?). Which meant they had soaked up all the salt water and the millet was far too salty in the end.

Climate change is gonna fuck this place up before I retire. I do not hope I win.

No pride for the poor, sorry.

I’ve never used Facebook, but I’ve seen people say that Friendica is quite similar to Facebook (in case you care about that).