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- Comment on Feeling that groove 6 days ago:
That’s how basically all electronics work
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Tat’s the neat part about it. Scientists dont understand it either.
How computers work is also some form of witchcraft. Even tho I understand the principles behind it, it still is literally magic that we get computers to execute stuff.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
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If Turkeys dont want to be eaten, why are they made out of food?
- Comment on Radon 1 week ago:
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Idk, i really disliked the UI and especially the application launcher.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Another good reason for having GUIs is, that you can learn the CLI while not being dependant on it.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Havent done that (except for games ofc)
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
The wiki can be rough at some times, but you are guaranteed to learn a shit ton about Linux Ehen reading it. It gives you the commands you have to copy/paste most of the time, so its not to bad.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Can’t speak for you, but trouble shooting, even if you dont know what you do, is at least in my experience way easier. A terminal command does the exact same thing, no matter on which system (OK, there are differences like package manager, but you get what mean) and no matter when. On Windows you get 10 screenshots of a UI that has changed 10 times since the creation of the guide and no or a completely useless error message if something does not work. As long as you are not trying to debug big ass problems that affect core components of your system (bootloader, drives, stuff with the kernel) it is in fact quite hard to fuck up your entire system (it can happen with Updates on Arch, but this is usually quite rare). As long as you are not touching anything else except your /home directory you should not be able to break your entire system. Also if you are still scared of losing date, there are ways of creating system snapshots (backups). Backing up your home directory is enough because this means, that all the files you use daily are backed up.
Since you mentioned dependencies, here’s a quick answer to what this means. There are a shit ton of programming libraries. A library has the use case, that a developer does not have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to do something. You dont want to write a complete library for GUIs every time, but instead use standardised well maintained and documented libraries. Since Programms use these they depend on the user having this library (or alternatively Programms) installed. This is called a dependency. In most cases dependency errors mean, that an expected library is not installed. In this case simply copy the name, and search “install name Linux (or your Distros)” and you are almost guaranteed to find a tutorial for installing it.
My best tip is, that you take the time to learn the basics of Linux. What is a package manager and which one does my system use, how do I navigate directories, how do I create and delete files, how do I edit files. How do I copy or move files. If you know the basics of these things you know most of the stuff you need to know to understand what you are doing. If you want to read more about a specific command you can also always refer to the man page of said command. For this simply type in man “command name” (e.G. “man cd” this gives you the basic infos about the CD command (used for navigating directorys))
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
I’m too lazy to troubleshoot in Wine.
I’ve been daily driving Linux for about 3 years now and one major tip I can give is to avoid using non Linux apps as far as possible. When I started with Linux I also tried to get windows apps running on Linux, but this, at least as far as I remember, never worked the way I wanted ans always caused more troubles. Currently I’m at a point where I dont know where I used plain wine (I am not counting proton) the last time. It has been 2 years at least. I Am using native Linux apps for everything I do. Much less trouble shooting, no need to learn wine additionally to the command line and much less prone to breaking because of an update.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
I can really suggest Mint for beginners simply because it has an UI for about everything you need somewhat regularly. This means, that you can use GUIs to get familiar and aren’t forced to know your way around the terminal. Its the Ideal beginner Distros (at least from my experience)
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 weeks ago:
High school should go up to the bachelor level
The reason college/university exist is to allow people to chose what to learn specifically. There is no way to extend highschool to a bachelor level, since there are so god damn many different bachelors. It is not realistic to extend highschool so much, that you can teach people a bachelor degree in, as example, physics or engineering.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 3 weeks ago:
Geometry dash only requires a single finger.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 weeks ago:
Assuming that flying with an electric motor is a viable option (I have zero clue, but from what I heard currently its not that realistic that we will get electric planes)
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 5 weeks ago:
Ah, The goodbold pennymarkt documentary. One of the most legendary German documentaries ever created.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 month ago:
Can’t argue with that
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 1 month ago:
There absolutely is. Academia is completely fucked.
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 1 month ago:
Save their dick picks to have a collection at hand so when someone sends you one you can reply with one too.
Also report these fuckers to the police.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
Yeah, but I still have no idea what its meant to be
- Comment on Does being a ‘hero’ mean you are a perfect person? 1 month ago:
Doesn’t have to be and in stories its absolutely boring. The wheel of time has a quite great example of a hero that is far from being perfect. The main character has to save the world but due to him being the chosen one he develops quite the superiority complex and becomes arrogant (which is also because kings bow before him) this inner conflict of being absolutely flawed and his duty to save the world largely contributes to the storyline being literally the best book I have ever read. I can only recommend it (but be aware, the whole story is 11.000 pages long)
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
What?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
If you’re pregnant that also counts as two
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 months ago:
Here’s what the article says:
Assuming a periodic table in which each element is represented by a 1 cm by 2.5 cm rectangle, 40 rows of 32 elements will take up one meter of space. At this scale, a periodic table incorporating element 10^56^ would need to be 7.82 × 10^52^ meters long. This is problematic, because 7.82 × 10^52^ meters is about 10^37^ lightyears, and the universe is currently estimated span a mere 93 billion lightyears. As such, the new periodic table would be a quadrillion times larger than the observable universe.
The universe is expanding, however, which is good news for chemists and first-home buyers. The rate of this expansion is apparently about 73 km/s for every million parsecs of space, which corresponds to 2 × 106 km/s across the entire universe.8 At that rate, the universe will be able to accommodate the new periodic table in about 10^34^ years.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 months ago:
I just copy pasted it, so thats why its messed up.
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 months ago:
IUPAC currently recognises 118 chemical elements. The last twenty have half-lives shorter than Australian prime ministers, and are of equally limited utility to science.
Lmao
- Comment on Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table? 2 months ago:
Of course there is a relevant xkcd
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
That’s actually a very good joke.
- Comment on Hello there 2 months ago:
Bring A shrubbery
- Comment on Natural selection at work 2 months ago:
I absolutely can’t.
