Ephera

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 minutes ago

Man, you almost feel bad for them, because clearly some effort went into this. It's not like they just slapped high-res textures on and called it a day. ~~You can tell, because that would've looked better.~~

But I don't actually feel bad, because no one forced them to remake such a recent title. You don't run that risk, if you remake something that actually looks bad in the first place.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

I mean, trailers are going to pick the best-looking scenes. The comparison video linked in the article seems like it's trying to be neutral and lots of scenes just look worse in it. I haven't seen the actual game either, though...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

BTRFS snapshots are 'incremental'. So, the very first snapshot is a clone of your system at the time that snapshot was created.
The second snapshot only contains what changes there were from the first.
The third snapshot only contains what changes there were from the first+second.
And so on.

So, yes, you can delete the fifth snapshot, but for the most part, it will mean that the sixth snapshot just incorporates the changes that the fifth snapshot contained.

If you're looking to free up space, deleting the fifth snapshot will only do that, if files had been added before the fifth snapshot got created, which then had been removed again before the sixth snapshot got created.
Because then removing the fifth snapshot means those files are completely removed from any snapshots, they don't need to be remembered anymore.
If between the fourth and the sixth snapshot, you had only ever added files, then deleting the fifth snapshot will free up effectively no space at all.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 39 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

As Wiktionary puts it:

The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum.

It's like "hair". You can hold a single 'hair', you can also hold three hairs. But if you're looking at an entire mane, you ain't counting, so it's referred to as "hair" again.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A really cool example is that certain birds actually spread wildfires, because it forces their prey out of hiding.

https://www.livescience.com/61375-fire-spreading-raptors.html

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

You need to be on Plasma 6.1+.

Then it's under System Settings → Accessibility → Shake Cursor, although I think it gets enabled by default.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 15 hours ago

I was going to suggest setting a delay in Spectacle, but seems like the enlarged mouse cursor does not show up in screenshots, even if you set "Include mouse pointer"...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 105 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Man, it really is like an extremely dense but dedicated intern. Does not question for a moment why it's supposed to make fun of an interval, but delivers a complete essay.

Just make sure to never say "let's eat Grandpa" around an AI or it'll have half the leg chomped down before you can clarify that a comma is missing.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 71 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I enjoy how you had to hold it very specifically this way around so that none of the spirit level bubbles were in the middle.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Hmm, sounds like you're maybe aiming a bit too high, with how many ingredients are involved. Like, yeah, it's good to eventually get there, because it's nutritious and yummy, but they add quite a bit of complexity in preparation and then getting everything cooked to the same degree.

I cook a lot, but if more than a handful of ingredients are involved, I need to prepare all of them and put them into little bowls before I even think about turning on the stove.
And then, yeah, as was already suggested, cooking them separately (microwave or otherwise) and then just combining them at the end, that will also help with not having things overcooked or undercooked.

But yeah, when I say I cook a lot, most of the time it's ~~noodles with tomato sauce~~ two or three ingredients + varying spices.
Maybe you can find some simple recipes you like to eat+make regularly, then try playing around with those recipes (e.g. swap out an ingredient, try out different spices) and every so often you tackle a bigger recipe.

I guess, maybe you could also pick out a complex recipe you want to make and then try to cook simple meals which involve a subset of the ingredients, so you can get some experience with that ingredient...

 

We often talk about the climate impact based on greenhouse gases, but extracting fuel from the ground and using it in exothermal processes of course also releases energy as heat.

This is mostly¹ in contrast with renewables, which make use of energy that's not long-term contained to begin with, so would end up as heat in our atmosphere anyways.

So, my question is: Does the amount of energy released by non-renewables have any notable impact on our global temperature? Or would it easily radiate into space, if we solved the greenhouse gas problem?


¹) In the case of solar, putting up black surfaces does mean that less sunlight gets reflected, so more heat ultimately gets trapped in our atmosphere. There's probably other such cases, too.

 
 

Hi, I just read online that you can apparently run apt --fix-broken install.

I wanted to know, what that really does, but both apt --help and man apt only show a high-level summary of the subcommands and flags. The --fix-broken flag is never mentioned, and presumably many others neither.

Is there some way to access documentation for all subcommands and flags?

 

Real screenshot from (crappy) personal project...

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Hi, the default Roboto font is boring me out of my mind and I'd like to change it.

In the past, I've done so by just replacing the font file in the OS, which worked well, but meant that it would reset after every OS update.
I'm considering scripting that with ADB to make it less of a pain, but figured I should ask, if there's a better way.

I'm on LineageOS which has a font styling system, but it only applies to the OS, not the user-installed apps...

 
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