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!

Personally, I think it’s particularly stupid that you can’t use it for GLSL shaders from external files…

Microsoft had a Visual Basic variant (VBScript) in IE that got some attention back in the 90s; it’s probably just as well that JS won instead of that…

In modern webdev type="module" is used to indicate an ES6 module and type="importmap" to include a JSON table of paths to modules. Still basically JS, but the parameter is still used in a meaningful way.

while ( const std::optional event = window.pollEvent() )

Try passing -std=c++23 to g++ – that code doesn’t look like valid C++ from when I was regularly programming in C++, but the standards committee has fucked around with the language a lot in the last few years and I suspect this is something from one of the very recent standards.

For you, maybe, but for me it’s my desktop’s clock – with my microwave as the fallback (e.g. when I’m playing a fullscreen game).

I basically only check the time on my phone if I’m out and about (which is… rare) or when I’m getting up/going to bed – which also serves as a check for messages (since I have my phone on Do Not Disturb 24/7).

I actually bought a physical wall clock earlier this year thinking that I could stick it somewhere more convenient to read than the microwave, but the ticking was too damned annoying.

Presumably Moo Deng would be the water type… would Punch be the fire type and Jimothy the grass type? Or, is it the other way around?

They had me at 40 for a while as it built up; 20 seems to be about right for me as a maintenance dose. I felt like I slept for a week when we cut the dose! :p

My docs put me on prozac (well, the generic version of it anyway; it’s cheaper). ~20mg/day seems to be about what I needed. Hope your meds are working out well and you’re less anxious now; get your docs to adjust them if not!