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I do a little bit of everything. Programming, computer systems hardware, networking, writing, traditional art, digital art (not AI), music production, whittling, 3d modeling and printing, cooking and baking, camping and hiking, knitting and sewing, and target shooting. There is probably more.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Not in my experience. I guess it might depend on the brand or affect individuals differently, but I've been using grocery store off-brand dish soap for this for like 10 years and never had a problem.

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  • Oh neat, I'll have to go watch the new one when I have a chance. I recall it working quite well and being absurdly cheap - I can't recall if he did a cost analysis. Maybe I'll watch the old one again and then the new one haha.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Yes, that's what I mean. I don't pay for TV because I just put all of my media on a Jellyfin server as I also don't want to watch ads, let alone pay to watch ads.

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  • Ah I seem to recall a video he did about dishwashers and why the pods are bad etc. I think he may have briefly touched on making your own detergent using bar soap and borax as well as the manufacturer recommendation to put some detergent in the bottom in addition to behind the spring loaded door.

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  • Yes but I think there is a miscommunication here.

    I'm not talking about detergent/dishwashing liquid - I'm talking about liquid dish soap which I can purchase locally for about $3 to the litre and is a different thing.

    Detergent/dishwashing liquid is definitely much more expensive and probably would not be great for washing hands.

    Bar soap is definitely still cheaper though overall, you are correct.

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  • True enough. I haven't had any problems in using it myself but I supposed you could ratio it with some water or something to make it not as intense for hands.

    It's a lot cheaper than hand soap too so in doing this you could probably get a tonne of hand washes out of it for really cheap.

    The primary downside to it for me is that it lasts ages and I get kind of tired of the smell.

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  • Television. It's like paying to see ads.

    Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

    A dining table. I eat at my desk or standing at a counter. I was pressured into buying one by family because it was apparently bizarre to them I did not have one. Got the cheapest one I could find to appease them. I have now owned it for 4 years and it has never been used once, it just takes up space.

  • Affinity Studio is now free

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  • Affinity is one of the things i lost in moving from windows to Linux, but I've been getting by.

    I bought a license before canva acquired it and quite enjoyed the software.

    Really sad to see canva doing what everyone knew they would do to it.

  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • If you are coming from Windows, I would say Mint for sure. I have friends that are 20 using it and my parents in their 70's use it. Both seem to like it and even find it easier to use in quite a few respects.

  • Looking for music player in Linux

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  • Speaking of Quod Libet, Ex Falso from them is still the best way to fix meta data on music that I have found - so very very handy.

  • Looking for music player in Linux

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  • Definitely agree - I usually use cmus because it follows my system theme as part of the terminal and kind of fits in anywhere, but for graphical players having options for skins is a must for me. Used to like all the options for this on AIMP when I used to use Windows.

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  • Is English your first language?

    No, it is not in fact? I didn't know I had to submit my "I have spoken english since birth" certificate to you in order to have an opinion.

    I'm going to go ahead and block you now, because if you aren't an open racist, you aren't far off.

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  • I felt like more than the theme was common. The first panel and second panel are quite similar in that that both use "puke" as their term of choice over vomit, throw-up, hurl, spew, etc. In the first panel, both cats are stationary and making their statement about needing to puke. In the second panel, both cats are in motion while making a statement about needing to be in motion.

    In the final panel of this comic and the final 2 of the one I linked, both cat's make a statement of relief of having "made it" in time to throw up. The joke is the same, and is delivered almost identically, except the other comic delivers it better by splitting the last pane up into 2 in order to reveal the location.

    The largest difference I see here is that the comic in this thread cuts out the additional work of having 3 extra panels without the text.

    The theme, choice of words, and when those words are spoken in these comics align.

    Furthermore, this has nothing to do with myself, I have no idea why you would say "get over yourself" when I am not talking about me. I can only assume you chose to say that to be intentionally inflammatory.

    If you are that offended by me seeing more similarities between two comics than yourself, then I have no idea what to tell you.

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  • I think they may have taken the idea from a different artist without crediting them (or vice versa, I haven't checked the dates on which comic is older).

    https://lemmy.world/post/6518297

    This is the first time I saw this same joke.

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  • Hmm... This is pretty similar to this post I saved 2 years ago.

    Similar enough that I feel like it might be derivative / a redrawing of this comic without accreditation by the artist.

    https://lemmy.world/post/6518297

  • Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition

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  • I play the Java edition on Debian with mods from modrinth and don't require emulation etc.

  • Employment contract that allows for open source projects, advice needed

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  • That's true, the problem with the original statement is that it is too broadly scoped by "knowledge", implying that it is any and all knowledge. If I obtain the knowledge to write a singleton in object oriented programming while at work - even if the concept is applied to a work project, and later use the programming concept of a singleton in my own software, then they can't do shit.

    A simpler example that shows that it's too broadly scoped is that if I get trained and certified to use a forklift for a job, and later start my own company and have to use a forklift, there is no precedent for my original employer to come after me for using a forklift in my business operation just because I learned how to use a forklift while I worked for them.

    If the knowledge is proprietary or copyrighted or a trade secret and what I do uses any of that, or what I produce is a 1 to 1 product of that, then they can come after me.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • Oh ok, no worries.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • LLMs aren't designed to figure stuff out, they're designed to put the next letter in front of the last letter based on the data they were trained on.

    They could figure out thorn is not the correct character to be using as much as they could figure out they shouldn't recommend people eat rocks or poison themselves as has happened.

    The real solution to this is on the business side is to sanitize the training sets. Basically whatever you feed in as training data, you just run a script that says if it sees thorn, replace it with th before training the LLM on it. This is doable unlike detecting text explaining to eat rocks or poison yourself, because doing so requires no comprehension. For thorn it's just a find and replace operation.

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    How to work out

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    Methods for getting content from server to TV sets on separate local network

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    If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

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