rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Veganuary 2 days ago:
Your body adapts. It’s mainly down to your gut microbiome being able to handle it.
- Comment on Veganuary 2 days ago:
Could possibly buy or make garlic infused salt, then mix the two.
- Comment on Veganuary 2 days ago:
Tempeh and nutritional yeast are a good start there, but you may need supplements, yes.
- Comment on YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex 4 days ago:
Hmm… i briefly wrote a column (it was … pretty bad) for Linux.com when it was an online magazine in like 1998, i think. I wonder if the address they gave me still works.
Probably not. Heh.
- Comment on Form over function 4 days ago:
Can’t tell if serious or not…
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 week ago:
Yeah, we go to Spaghetti Factory (Canada) and fill up on bread and just tip the main course directly into leftovers containers sometimes.
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 1 week ago:
THX
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 3 weeks ago:
I wear leather boots, ankle high. The shoe store fixes em when the bottom wears out. Had em 11 years and they’re still fairly pristine. Just gotta oil em every winter. Probably should do that more often.
It was $600 and $50 or so every couple years. Figure I’ve gotten it amortized down.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 3 weeks ago:
I miss boibgboing. Never been able to get into it since they paywalled commenting.
- Comment on I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids] 3 weeks ago:
We did pick it up from a fancier florist, so it wasn’t a $10 supermarket special. That probably doesn’t change your point, though, god knows what its parentage is.
We give it the sunniest spot in the house already (south-facing window, with morning light up til about 1pm because winter), and it’s filtered through a double-pane insulated window, and it’s winter during the doldrums of the year, so it’s probably the lowest light it’ll get through the year.
The temperature thing is a good point. Maybe I just crack the window a bit so it gets some cold? It drops to about 5C right now.
I’ll get some pictures if I think about it when I’m home later. =p It has been throwing off a bunch of roots and the leaves are pretty healthy-looking.
- Comment on I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got one of those that never blooms, but it’s a beautiful bit of green. I assume there’s some pH or nutrient reason.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 4 weeks ago:
‘You’ has a similar ambiguity, being a plural word originally, but most people muddle through that.
I do think we should bring back thee/thy/thou as singular, but whatever.
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 4 weeks ago:
Spiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately i think this is a case of ‘nice doggy’. Trump needs constant sucking up or he goes apeshit. Words are cheap, and we need time to adapt and replace the USA.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 4 weeks ago:
Keychron doesn’t appear to be US based so that’s good… are they UK? Sources disagree.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 4 weeks ago:
I had a cool little leather wallet that held 2 3.5" disks. Felt like a pro every time i flipped it open.
- Comment on genius 5 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if such a critical part was cast as a single metal crystal. The stresses on that rotor mist be unbelievable.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
You don’t want to microdose poop to boost your immune system? Lame.
- Comment on Gundam Chestnut 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it would have been possible to keep it out. :/
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 1 month ago:
I try to notice it but often fail.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 1 month ago:
If it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.
- Comment on get out of my head 1 month ago:
100%. I think just a vertical flip of the image would do it. Otherwise anatomically difficult to pull off.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 1 month ago:
If they were rare, they would be unbelievably expensive. We’re so lucky they are cheap.
- Comment on Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet. 1 month ago:
Differences between salt are mostly textural. Trace minerals can change the flavour, and people do sell flavour infusions and mixes.
- Comment on Venezuela Condemns US 'Piracy' as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels 1 month ago:
Letters of marque have to be issued by their legislature, no?
- Comment on home gardening 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’d imagine treated wood wouldn’t be great.
- Comment on home gardening 1 month ago:
Does this significantly damage the wood?
- Comment on Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? 1 month ago:
And will last vastly longer, without the hassle of replacement and without having to deal with intermediate decay stages.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’d worry that they’d ask for my social media and get confused and angry.
Haven’t been to the USA since 2016, unlikely to ever go again. :(
- Comment on Today In Computing History 2 months ago:
She clearly did, the skull is on the bottom shelf.