DEET is the only chemical that I know-of which they HATE.

I use mosquito-netting to keep them away from me.

I don’t want DEET touching me, at all, ever again.

No, I’m not a mosquito.

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1 is narcissism/cult-of-personality,

the other is cult-of-institution/inertia.

They are not identical, and not even functionally-equivalent.

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https://ubuntustudio.org/

It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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0.0000000021g/kg

or 0.0000000000021kg/kg, if you wanted the same units both sides…

( I’m presuming this was your last-line’s request )

IF you’ve a high-efficiency charger, then I’d say it’s probably more-efficient to use that charger.

The warmer you run your computer, the less-efficient it becomes, & the shorter the lifespan of the hottest chips in it ( this effect shouldn’t be significant )

e.g. increasing a CPU by 10Celsius should cut its lifespan in half.

by having more heat-generating-stuff going on in your computer, you impair the cooling of your CPU & GPU ( slightly, probably ), & that may affect your computer’s time-to-failure.

Fan-bearings may dry-out sooner, too.

hth, eh?

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We’re already IN the 6th great extinction: humans ARE exterminating the marine & terrestrial ecologies.

Use IBM’s “wipe” command, not just rm -rf.

Wipe overwrites the files ( you don’t need to use the default many-times method: that’s for spinning-platters ), but it makes undeleting stuff require serious work, instead of just some fs-surgery, if that’s significant to/for you.

wipe is available with many distros, iirc.

The amount of power you could pull from a single square metre of solar on the roof wouldn’t increase your range meaningfully.

What it would do, is that you could possibly keep your starter-battery from going dead-flat if you left your car alone for a 1/2 month, in the summer ( snow would cover it, obviously ), & since bringing a lead-acid battery to dead-flat permanently-damages it, this would prevent costly problems for the car-owners.

( this happened to a friend with a Prius: had to replace the battery, and the damned thing was inside the rear wheel-well??? in a little compartment.

Origami-engineering’s … simultaneously incredible & stupidly-frustrating )

I’ve held for years that they should be doing it to keep the starter-battery trickle-charging, but … why make the customers have fewer costly/frustrating problems?

I’ve lived in XFCe for years, awhile ago, now use LXQT.

XFCe had this goddamn thing where windows had a 1-pixel thick window-grabber.

There was no means of fixing it, that I could find.

UbuntuStudio.org used XFCe, too, btw…

Eventually I got sooo fed-up with the broken UX that I just committed to never using XFCe ever again.

That was sometime in the last few years…

some brain damage: malnutrition tends to aggravate or cause brain damage.

I’m a brain damage survivor: it sucks, it takes decades to undo ( neuroplasticity takes time to do rewiring ), and life is never going to be what it could have been.

Don’t damage people’s brains.

'tis a good rule, eh?

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Canuck is what we call ourselfs, eh?

: P

Depends on the religion, I’d say…

to me, though, it’d be a mental-illness to want one.

Space-suits must operate this way, if inadvertently…

The number of decibels at the rocket-nozzles is waaay higher than what it would be “at the top of the candle”, but … there’s pretty-much nothing in Nature as loud as those things are, except meteorites, maybe some volcanoes, being inside of lightning, etc…

Keep in mind that some people just have brain-defects.

I’m defective for social-process ( if I could live somehow where I never had to meet another human-being, or never had to even be within 100km of any human-being, only interacting online, … for the rest of my life … lower stress … yeah : )

but not defective for some other things, maybe.

Some people are color-blind, some dyslexic, some are screwed for spelling, some for grammar.

Diversity’s more real than I’d ever understood, when I was young…

Evolution’s concerned with getting the average right, right?

The individual can be … chaotically a mixture of better-at-this & moar-worser-at-that, while still keeping the average … average.

: )

The “stubby” bottles were replaced with tall “classier” bottles in a surge of … fashion-moment, or something.

I remember somebody did a news vid, or documentary on it, & the industry lost usable-storage-effectiveness when they went with the taller bottles, and there’s more glass in them, too…

They said if they’d known what the actual results would be ( it didn’t alter the market to increase the percentage of the population which is always buying beer, for some reason… ), they wouldn’t have done it.

Well, Duh…

“never believe your own hype” IS a rule, because when you’re believing your own marketing-bumf, then you’re not competent at calculating any sort of project balance-sheet, right?

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

Whereas I think every one of them looks oniony.

Maybe I’m just remembering too many Mad Magazines from back in the day, though…

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

They are creative, though:

They put things that are “near” each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

The AI’s don’t understand anything, though: they’re like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

The real problem is that we humans aren’t able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

We’ve created a “hack” of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

This is called “Darwin Award territory”, at the species-scale.

No matter:

The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn’t grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate “persons”, etc… )

you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

“there’s no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man”, as the book “Starship Troopers” pushed…

Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

AI’s our “gun”, & narcissistic-sociopathy’s our “toddler commanding the ship” nature.

Maybe we should rename Earth to “The Titanic”, for honesty’s sake…

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