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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

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  • They die for a variety of reasons, including disease, pollution, heat waves, etc. Not being half starved of essential nutrients means that they're more resilient.

    From the article:

    [Unaffiliated expert] said: "[...] bees face many stressors. Good nutrition is one way to improve their resilience to these threats, and in landscapes with dwindling natural forage for bees, a more complete diet supplement could be a game changer. This breakthrough discovery of key phytonutrients that, when included in feed supplements, allow sustained honey bee brood rearing has immense potential to improve outcomes for colony survival, and in turn the beekeeping businesses we rely on for our food production."

  • Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold

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  • Your second sentence is your own thoughts, not part of the tldr summary, right? I think you should make that separation clear (in Wikipedia terms, I'm flagging this as "original research").

  • Looking to make the switch - Advice?

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  • You'd recommend Heroic launcher over Lutris? Epic didn't install via Lutris for me, but I haven't got around to looking into it.

  • Sinking my teeth into Metroid having never played through it before, what series are you looking into starting?

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  • I've never played that either, but I love Metroidvanias so I assume it's great.

    I picked up the Mass Effect trilogy recently following a tip from here (I think).

  • Are Brita filters bullshit?

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  • Recently while troubleshooting I've found a lot of deleted comments with dozens of people saying thanks, often for years afterwards. Reddit annoyed their most valuable posters and we're all paying for it.

  • tree++ - The tree command with icons made with Modern C++

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  • To be clear, the command is made with modern C++, not the icons (which come from nerd fonts or the dev's equivalent).

  • 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1)

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  • Twenty years ago, I had an epiphany: Linux was ready for the desktop.

    Please read articles before posting; this is literally the first sentence. The article is about the author's 20 years of Linux desktop usage.

  • Inserting "Anal" infront of RV & trailer model names at the RV park makes some interesting combinations.

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  • We know this as the Caravan Game.

    Anal BuccaneerAnal XploreAnal FreedomAnal Cavalier

  • KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature

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  • Yeah, I hate those little dots and I inevitably jump through the hoops until I've clicked enough things to make them go away.

  • It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux

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  • metux is Enrico Weigelt, the dev behind Xlibre, the new fork of X11. He's quite controversial, partly due to claiming to want to keep politics out of development by filling his posts with alt-right dog whistles, as well as being an antivaxer and having some... er... revisionist views of history.

  • Okra and fenugreek extracts remove most microplastics from water, finds research

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  • I'm guessing by the recipes you mean Southern USA. I thought okra was from somewhere in Asia, but Wikipedia tells me it's from East Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea and "East Sudan" - which is kinda funny as there's a Sudan and South Sudan).

  • Me attempting to hide my imposter syndrome at a tech conference I just attended

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  • Dickbutt? Getting /r/HighQualityGifs/ vibes

  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Are you saying you think it's ridiculous to end support "already"?

    I think it's likely that anyone still using 486s isn't updating software anyway, so it's unlikely to matter aside from niches like retro devices. Luckily, open source means that if there's a genuine desire there'll probably be a fork to provide it.

  • Mustard

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  • Nothing dates it more than the reference to Boing Boing.

  • Debugging images

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  • Then the UK's equally dumb: it was 10:04 pm BST (GMT+1) cos daylight savings is a thing in most of Europe too. At least it's synchronised across Europe[The EU is planning on killing daylight savings but I have no idea if the UK will do the sensible thing and go along when/if this happens] so you just need to remember that most[thanks for making it more confusing, Mexico] of North America changes a few weeks earlier.

    Also, the UK says GMT/BST which is nice and clear - calling both EST and EDT "Eastern Time" makes even more of a mess!

    And yes, I've just rediscovered you can use footnotes, why do you ask?

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it's a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances' comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.

    The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won't if they're multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn't tell you which.

    I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn't generally so many similar, overlapping communities.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • From the Lemmy docs:

    • Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time
    • Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

    My default is set to

    • Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

    This is the newest sorting option, I think, and it helps me not miss posts from the smaller comms - particularly ones where people are asking a question and there's been no engagement. Ideally I'd like to have Mastodon-style lists so I could have "quiet comms" or something and check them all every so often.

    I will switch to new or top 6h/24h if I've been on recently and just want to see what's fresh. Top all time or 1y if I'm looking at new-to-me comms so I can see what type of thing to expect from it.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • There's no algorithm here, so use the different sorting options (for both posts and comments), as well as setting your favourite as default once you see what works for you.

    the different sort options are of course algorithms, but I mean there's no automatic, manipulative system like YouTube's "The Algorithm", Facebook, TikTok, etc.

    Voting doesn't tune your algorithm, so I'd say only use downvoting for things that are low quality, trolling, in the wrong sub, duplicate posts, etc. Your votes aren't private, by the way - although Lemmy itself doesn't display voters' names, that info is in every server's database, and some other software in the Fediverse does show them.

    There are quite a few apps available, I like Voyager on Android and I stick to the default website on my computer.

  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • I'm new to lemmy. Any tips or advice?

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  • I think scaled is better than hot otherwise you'll never see anything from your small communities.