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Feeling lost and with no direction, what skill should I learn?
  • Maybe woodworking? It can get dusty and you need some room but you can also make smaller things that don't need big power tools or a lot of room. Like miniature things.

    Or computer programming. Create an app. Or do something fun like follow one of the coding challenges from the YouTube channel The Coding Train

  • VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
  • I have this vpn because it comes for free with my Google Drive subscription. I have never used it because it does not do what I expect it to do

    • privacy, it's Google.
    • pretend to be in a different country is not available
  • How do I block all meme communities on lemmy?
  • What I do is two things

    • Go to the All view and block each community that has memes.
    • subscribe to commutes that you like.

    This ways, all your views are meme-free.

    Bonus tip for finding new commuties: create a new account and go to your All view. Every post you see, check if you like the community. If you like it, subscribe to it on your normal account and then block it on your new account. The new account works kind of like check off system. Each community that you made a decision on (subscribe or don't care) will no longer be visible on the new account. This way, other communities that are smaller will also be revealed.

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    How can we reconcile the idea that Eugenics in Humans is bad, but in Dogs it's acceptable (given the 150 years of breeds with specific characteristics)?
  • I think it is because a dog has been seen as an object or tool for a long time. We are the owner. We buy the one that we like the most.

    With humans we don't have ownership over another human. The human is owned by itself. So we let everyone decide for themselves who the want to breed with. One person will select a partner that is nice, some like a "bad boy", some like dark hair, blond, tall short, etc.

    Also, humans are really not that different from each other while dogs can look like a completely different species.

  • Upload is at 0. Losing my mind.
  • What happens if you download something. Does it also upload while downloading?

    Is it possible to download the torrent that you seed from outside your network by yourself? Mobile network, a friend or family wifi. To be sure that it does not download it all from someone else, create a torrent from a random file, upload it to a random tracker and download the torrent from outside your network.

  • Can't even buy chicken in peace
  • It's probably not advertising that they are afraid that you will block but the trackers. They want to know what user is clicking where, how long you are on each page and what you ordered / not ordered.

  • Does anyone else remember dreams from when they were kids right before falling asleep?
  • I need to stay awake some time during the night to feed the baby or support my wife doing it. I always fight against the sleep and that is when the pre-sleep dreams are really getting weird. What is happening a lot is that I read something and half way the sentence I fall half asleep and at that point, my mind completes the sentence(s) with the weirdest things.

  • downloading gmails
  • In addition what others have already said, in the Gmail search bar it can search for mails that have an attachment larger than x mb. I did that some time ago and there where a lot large mails that were not worth it to save on disk

  • Blood is thicker than water
  • Only 10 generations away (about 100-150 years), you already have 1024 ancestors. 20 generations and you have 1.048.576. And 30 generations get you 1.073.741.824.

    In 1500 the world only had 450.000.000

    This example only shows the direct family line (parents of parents of..) and no descendents of brothers and sisters.

    And the world did not start 500 years ago

    Needless to say, we are all a bunch of inbreds

  • I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?
  • It depends in the country you are.

    If you want to show of your skills, why not write an article about it. This way you don't publish company property (maybe only snippets of code) and the viewer can read your reasons on why you made certain decisions.

    But do not do this without consent of the company. If the company likes it, you could even start your article something along the lines of "here at %company% we like to write good code...". Than it is a win-win. I see this a lot on sites like medium.com

  • Can anyone tell me what PC will draw more power?
  • You are absolutely right. Assuming the home server is probably not serving thousands requests every minute or mining bitcoin but just a file server or something that is idle most of the time.

  • Can anyone tell me what PC will draw more power?
  • I do not agree with that.

    • A PSU is the maximum what all the components combined are allowed to use. No more power than that is possible. If a system needs more than it's PSU can deliver, it will become unstable (data loss, random restarts, etc.)

    • The 2x750 is a redundant setup that servers have. Servers need to be able to run 24/7. With redundant PSU if one PSU has a failure, the other PSU will take over. Without any restarts. You can just pull the plug out of one of the PSU and all is just fine.

    • I do agree with you that the max wattage is under load. Most home servers are running idle most of the time anyway.

  • Anyone know a good, hackable bluetooth mp3 player? Fitbit recently disabled transferring music to my Versa 1. Any cheap, preferably physically clippable, mp3 players? I guess storage being accessible
  • Can't really give you a recommendations but a starting point could be the rockbox firmware. They have a list of mp3 players that they have been able to install their custom firmware on. https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus Maybe there is a player on that list that you like. Do note that the last update was in 2019 so the devices on that last are probably even older than 2019

  • YSK you can block Lemmy communities

    When blocking communities, they will not show up in your "all" feed anymore. This makes browsing Lemmy nicer especially now that you might not subscribed to a lot of communities.

    In the browser: In you Lemmy instance, click on your username (right upper corner), "Settings" and open the tab "Blocks" and type in the community you would like to block. Here you can also unblock communities

    On Jerboa (Android): Open the community you would like to block, click on the 3 dotted menu (right upper corner) and click "Block Community". Note: you can not unblock on Jerboa. Use the browser (Settings -> Blocks) to unblock.

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