It’s like reddit, but I don’t have to feel icky. \ \ \ \ \ given up looking for replacements r/anarchydnd r/apolloapp r/Condution r/robotech r/OSUOnlineCS r/vintageobscura r/ZeroCovidCommunitv
Yeah, that's not very typical. l'd like to make that point.
Since relatively early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a recognition that in some people, SARS-CoV-2 — or at least remnants of the virus — could stay in various tissues and organs for extended periods. This theory is known as "viral persistence".
While the long-term presence of residual viral fragments in some people's bodies is now well established, what remains less certain is whether the live virus itself, not just old bits of virus, is lingering — and if so, whether this is what causes Long COVID.
This distinction is crucial because live viruses can be targeted by specific antiviral approaches in ways that "dead" viral fragments cannot.
slams
at that point, you might as well call it: efficient
Now let's give some dates! I was planning to publish the second release candidate this weekend, which would definitely have been possible… if the infrastructure had not been working against us! 😰
… I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill. I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill. Kill. KILL! KILL…
…they took twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, explaining what each one was…
long-term lazy
vs
short-term lazy
Sorry, pal, the dart landed on Alabama.
I thought it was more shy (or nervous) than surprised.
A boy who found a shiny rock while playing at a beach has been told the item is a Neanderthal hand axe that could be 60,000 years old.
Ben, from Shoreham, West Sussex, discovered the axe at Shoreham Beach when he was only six years old, and kept it in his room for three years.
It was only when the boy, now aged nine, went to Worthing Museum three weeks ago and saw the Stone Age exhibition that he realised he had a similar looking item at home.
The museum, which is now exhibiting the axe, said it was "almost certainly made by a Neanderthal" between 40,000 to 60,000 years ago.
Link without the unneeded si parameter:
Can't boot into BIOS / UEFI settings on Lenovo Ideapad 80TJ
My ultimate goal is to install Xubuntu on this computer, but I am stuck.
I cannot find any way to get into the BIOS to change settings, including being able to boot to the USB installer drive.
I have tried F1 held, F1 repeated, Fn+F1 (held/repeated), same with F2, same with F12, same with Del.
I tried telling Windows to boot to UEFI settings, but it reboots directly to windows.
I ended pulling the drive and removing all the partitions, in hopes that then it wouldn't try to boot to Windows anymore. Now it just gives me this: !
Using this menu, I can't boot to USB, nor can I boot to DVD.
I opened it and do not see any jumpers on the visibe side of the motherboard. I also did not see a CMOS battery. There are lots of tiny ribbon cables and the heat sink+fan that I'll have to remove if I need to look on the other side.
What I want most is access the the BIOS / UEFI settings.
If a workaround like installing an OS to the drive using another machine and then putting back in will probably work, then I'll try that, but that will be such a hassle.
Cursed Dice (odd-numbered dice) Kickstarter campaign ends 11/14
This Kickstarter is for odd-numbered dice: D9. D11, D13, D15, D17 and D19. Available in Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Purple. $12 plus shipping for the set of six.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impactminiatures/cursed-dice
I’ve backed Impact! Miniatures before and it’s always been great.
I really like that odd-numbered dice even exist. It sounds like a what-if that was taken too far. And it turned out great.
> What about a unique way to show curses and disadvantages to your players. Impact!'s cursed dice allow you to give your players a unique die to use for the session to show the effect of their misguided actions. A D19 to show a curse that prevents criticals and natural 20s. Along with several other different dice to disadvantage rolls in many creative ways. > >These dice were designed to be as fair as possible for an odd sided die. All the sides are equal sized and equal distant from the center mass. Each die was created by a specialist trained in working with geometeric design. > >These odd dice are all new molds and modified designs by Impact! We've learned from our attempts to make odd sided dice in the past and these dice are brand new designs to make sure the dice stop faster by being larger and designed to have better defined stopping surfaces. The new designs are also easier to read with larger fonts and better extras to show you the top value being rolled.
RDP but no network shares?
After using WireGuard to VPN into my LAN, I can use RDP or SSH+VNC to control machines on my LAN. I am able to reach them via IP or by host.domain.private for remote control, but I cannot browse to
\\host.domain.private\share for the same machine to access its network share.
Inseparable Pair
I saw one show in the middle of the road, so I moved it to the curb. I walked a bit further and found the other shoe on the side of the road. When I came back through the second shoe was still there, so I carried it to back to be reunited with the first. No clue if their owner ever found them. They must have been on someone’s car and fell off at different times. Both were near curves in the road.
How can we encourage to post more than just a link?
I see more and more posts that are just a link to a video, post, or article. There’s no text in the description.
I’d like to see some of the article quoted and/or a brief reason this is currently being posted to Lemmy.
When it’s just a link, the cynical part of me thinks it’s just an SEO bot—especially if the account never posts any comments.
What are some ways to encourage posts that are more engaging?
Or should I just ignore, downvote, and/or block those doing this kind of posting?
Why does a mirror only flip left and right but not high and low?
edit: Thank you to all who answered! I’m amazed at how many ways you came up with to answer this.
Advice on release upgrade from Xubuntu 18.04.6 to 20.04.6 through 24.04.x
I have a computer running what I think at the time was called Ubuntu Server (no GUI) that I installed Xfce on, making it essentially Xubuntu. I did this because it allowed me to use mdadm to set up RAID (4 drives; RAID 5) during the OS install.
My OS lives on an NVME drive, and I have my raid mounted at /Files.
I have lots of data in my RAID, and much (but not all!) is backed up to the cloud. There would be both emotional issues and lots of time required to fix things if I lose the RAID or the data on it.
(I am realizing as I write this that I put off upgrading so long, I can probably copy all the data to one 20TB drive (oof! That’s expensive) since they’ve gotten about as big as my 21.83TB volume.)
How safe is it to take the OS up on this offer?
New release '20.04.6 LTS' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
How hard is it to reestablish the RAID if it forgets it exists?
Is there anything else I can do to make this more likely to “just work”? (Like: don’t do it over ssh)
Are there other factors I am not thinking of?