Kirk

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I visited once and it is really funny how you drive through normal looking suburbs thinking "there is no way we are anywhere near Mintaka III" then suddenly there it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Potentially unpopular protip: I've blocked most of the "prolific" posters. My entire feed was becoming repurposed memes from 2015.

I'm happy there are people out there dedicating time to keeping Lemmy "active" but that is not how I want to live my life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

TikTok → Reddit → Lemmy → ...grass?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I blame the people publishing the articles but I also understand they're playing in a rigged game. The platforms (facebook, reddit etc) that they depend on to get views REQUIRE headlines to be insane clickbait.

If I were the boss of Lemmy I would mandate that all communities require de-clickbaited headlines but what can you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's definitely the first thing I thought of too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

This is my not-safe-for-Reddit opinion but I thought the S1 Klingons were great, interesting and impressive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I have a feeling even the bottom 10% of Europeans are still contributing more than the bottom 10% of someone in India or Botswana. This Wikipedia page says that the average EU citizen contributes 117% of the global average carbon emissions (for comparison Canada is 307% and USA is 285%).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree re: Fedora, especially the atomic varieties. I do think Zorin is good at what it is but it has a pretty specific use case.

Also, had no idea you were also in this community. Pleasant surprise.

Had the same thought, it's always nice to encounter a civilized person of distinguished taste and culture out here in the wilds.

Cheers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

FTA:

In response to the closure of the library entrance to Canadians—who represent at least half of the library’s clientele—the Haskell did what libraries do: found a way to serve its community anyway. It opened a back door, allowing all Canadians to continue to access the library via a small storage room, without crossing the border. Haskell also set up a fundraising drive to renovate this entrance and make it more accessible, asking for $100,000. In under two weeks, it raised $170,000 and counting. The library is essential. The community and the country at large are responding.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes a very good point, the carbon footprint of the average Canadian is 10x that of the average Albanian.

 

Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

  • "Necessary Evil"
  • "Rules of Acquisition"
  • "The Alternate"
  • "Armageddon Game"
  • "Whispers"
  • "Paradise"
  • "Shadowplay"

All bangers!

Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

Wink

 

Someone should probably jump in and explain what federation means.

 

I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

 

Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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