As someone who’s subbed there, I’d rather not get spammed by a bot…

(Besides Anime)

It’s pretty much entirely because anime (and adjacent content). You can’t exclude that and expect a coherent answer.

People learn languages when they have a cultural reason to do so – such as engaging with media in that language or wanting to interact with people who speak it (for business/relationships/diplomacy/whatever).

Hollywood movies and rock-and-roll were big drivers that pushed people to learn English last century. Programming and the internet probably pushed a bunch of people to learn it in the last ~20 years. K-Pop and K-Drama have been drivers for learning Korean recently. German was one of the major languages (along with French) for math and science before WWI – but was overtaken by English after that. You get the picture, I hope.

If the US continues on its current path, maybe in a few decades all the new research papers coming out will be in Chinese instead and everyone will learn Mandarin to discuss new tech. 🤷️

Or a strong odour break my sense of smell?

I’ve accidentally knocked out my sense of smell with a bathroom cleaner before. Not enough ventilation while I was scrubbing things, I guess. Came back later in the day, thankfully, but was quite disturbing. I don’t recommend it.

Can a really strong flavour break my taste buds?

Not sure exactly about that, but there are compounds that will mess with your sense of taste significantly. e.g. there’s a fruit that makes sour things taste sweet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum

Do you feel like trying to DIY something?

If so, like I said take a look at YOLO and other object detection models, or try using a small VLM like gemma-4-E2B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf – which ought to be able to fit on your graphics card – and pass it an image and a simple question like “Is there a person in this image? YES or NO. No extra text.” when a simpler process like a motion detector light triggers.

If not, that’s probably as far as I can help.

Either way, good luck!

Hmm. That sounds on par in terms of features with the AXIS cams I’ve encountered before. Does the camera have a web ui? (If so, maybe try poke at it through that.)

What exactly do you mean by “doesn’t work the best”? (Slow?) If it’s trying to do “AI detection” on the desktop itself from a desktop app then it’s possible that it doesn’t know how to use your GPU effectively, maybe? (ARC is still relatively unusual.)

What camera are you using? Some security cameras (e.g. AXIS) already have built-in detectors that you can use directly on board – I’m not sure on the quality since I never used it myself, but worth a try before you pay someone else if you’ve already got it…

There’s also open weight models for object detection. YOLO models can find people in images easily, though you’ll need some heuristics to avoid drowning in false positive alerts. VLMs like Qwen or Gemma are more heavy-weight but you can give them an image or short video clip + natural language description of what you’re looking for and have them make a judgement before escalating to a human; the usual LLM caveats obviously apply. That’s just the kind of DIY stuff I’d do though.

That picture raises serval questions…

I’ve seen the word “shimeji” around a bit recently (e.g. fanart of Shimeji Simulation) but it hadn’t connected in my head that shimeji is a mushroom until just now. Do these things pop up like mushrooms?

The narwhal bacons at midnight; the lemming beans at dawn.

Tornado-kun, no! I’m not ready to go to Oz yet! 🌪️

I believe the intention of DMs is that they are supposed to be accessible only to the sending/receiving server admins and sending/receiving users – but given the many ways that distributed systems which are not built specifically for secure comms can go wrong, you should simply assume anything you transmit through Lemmy is or will eventually be public, period.

If you are concerned that some information you transmit through Lemmy may be exposed the correct security stance is simply: DO NOT SEND IT.

I usually make quick sauces with my pasta and use whole canned peeled tomatoes. To alter for fresh, I’d score the tomatoes with a knife, then blanch and peel the skin off as the first step.

My default tomato-based sauce is:

• olive oil
• a few whole tomatoes (peeled) – maybe about ~3 decently sized ones?
• garlic (either fresh minced or garlic powder)
• dried basil
• salt
• 1/4 tsp or so of capers
• a few kalamata olives
• pinch of MSG
• pinch of cayenne pepper

When using fresh garlic, I add it to the pan first – with garlic powder I add it with the other seasonings. I basically just combine everything, break up the tomatoes with a spatula, and let it cook down on medium heat (stirring occasionally) while I boil my spaghetti – then finish the spaghetti in the sauce.

I usually make this just for myself and eyeball the ingredients – so unfortunately, I don’t have exact measurements for most of it.

This is basically a variant of spaghetti puttanesca without anchovies – feel free to add those instead of (or in addition to) the MSG if you’d prefer.

I couldn’t see the cat in the picture at first and was like “There’s no way you’re fitting that dog in that carrier…” 😅️

On 196, there’s a rule to post before you leave (see the sidebar/community description depending on which UI you’re using). “rule” means they couldn’t think of a good title; i.e. they’re just following the “post something” rule. It’s popular to come up with something punny though involving “rule” if you can.

assuming backup the home folder also

If you’ve put anything significant in there, yeah, it’s not a bad idea to backup your stuff. Timeshift doesn’t usually backup the home folder; it usually takes daily/weekly/monthly snapshots of system folders.

I’ll be using it as a general browser / social/Lemmy machine but also for just learning Linux, structure, CLI and getting familiar with distros/DEs. Maybe a bit of dabbling in development.

Mint should do pretty well for your use case, at least as far as learning the Debian side of the family goes. The main drawback to Mint is that it’s not bleeding edge – which is also sometimes a strength. For old hardware, it’s generally pretty good; for new hardware, I’ve had issues because of things like the kernel being too old and not having the drivers I needed. There are ways around that though like using the OEM/HWE kernel releases – which is what I ended up doing when I put a modern GPU into my ~10 year old desktop.

I’m not certain, but personally, I’d try taking a system snapshot with Timeshift and then upgrade to the latest – unless Update Manager suggests otherwise.

They’re probably referring to the [email protected] community/meme.

Glad you’ve got something up and running that you’re happy with, but FYI 21.2 is fairly dated. It came out in 2023. It’s still supported, but the expiration date is next year (instead of in 2029 like the current version, 22.3). If you’re running it because you had problems with a later release, fair enough, but if you were unaware that it’s not the latest version, you might want to upgrade and see if the newer version works well on your system before settling in.

Cheers!