Squiddork

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[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Huh TIL, had a look through my system and it sits at about ~5GB not including disk cache. Been on Fedora KDE since 39 and have put it through its paces so I'm pretty happy with that

I would've reformatted windows twice in that time because of bloat accumulation, and like you said there's always room for improvement with hyper minimalist packages.

God I love Linux.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago

I support this kind of protest, but let's not get this twisted: this is only happening to make people feel better about themselves,

I went to this protest, I don't expect Israel to do anything in response except call me an anti-semite. I do however, expect the Australian government to listen to it's consitutents and take a hard stance against this fascist regime.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Linux also uses a lot of ram for disk caching, it's flagged as a form of available memory so there's no performance overheard for this.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Barotrauma, I checked it out on a free to play weekend a few months back and have been hooked since

Lots of tinkering and the modding community is extensive, best played with friends but the single player is good too

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh shit PS5 has no games?

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How did the cat garden end up going?

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

These things are great for charcuterie boards

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Cigarettes have a myriad of carcinogens like toluene, benzene, formadelhyde, hexamine, napthaline and acetone

Stating that vapes are more toxic than cigarettes over one metric is disingenuous journalism.

I'm not disagreeing about the lead content but studies like this get picked up by journalists with the comprehension of a tomato and are then misconstrued into these fear-creating headlines for engagement.

The adoption of vapes tremendously ate into the big tobacco profits, its an extremely effective way of getting off cigarettes. (for better or worse)

If we instead listened to these studies and developed a similar form of nicotine replacement therapy with harm minimisation in mind under industry regulation we'd do far more for smokers, vapers and our healthcare systems than any fear mongering 'don't do it!' campaigns which time and time again do not work.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If you read the paper, it assumes a 100% absorption rate of the heavy metals emitted.

I'm not here to defend vapes but I think that is a seriously overlooked flaw in this study. Most people don't puff a cigarette/vape and hold it in their lungs until it's completely absorbed.

Couldn't see anything about the bioavailability of these carcinogens via lungs factored into the absorption rate either.

Ontop of that the sample size from this study is abysmal and from the same manufacturer and there is also a declared conflict of interest.

IMO more studies need to be done before we can conclusively determine the damage and risks of disposable vapes.

 

Hey folks, being the family IT man I've held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I've been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don't do anything it's only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I've never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I'd ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I'd also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it's a win win in my book

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And they have the gall to act like they're better than you because you're working a mininum wage job on a Sunday.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah as a chef I only learnt how to dice, chiffonade, brunoise, batonnete, julienne and tourne all sorts of food cause it looks cool.

Different shapes and sizes is extremely important, it's why salt flakes taste different to iodized salt because of surface area or why a thicker slice of ham will taste different to a thinner one.

Also if you cant cut something consistently half of its going to overcook and half of its going to undercook.

[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Opened the comments before reading the article and thought your quote was a comment by someone about Musk hahaha

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