steltek

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[–] steltek@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This list comes across as very self-serving though. It's basically saying men's issues are only a problem for Feminism when it can be framed as also impacting women. I read the parent poster as calling for rising above a narrow single gender view of equal rights.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's how to fix this[+]

Create $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs with

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"

You may need to logout/in for things to reread this file.

The full list of keys is:

  • XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
  • XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
  • XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR
  • XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR
  • XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
  • XDG_MUSIC_DIR
  • XDG_PICTURES_DIR
  • XDG_VIDEOS_DIR

+: Since this is Linux, this is a fix for many but not all cases.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy seems to dream up this strawman of Capitalism while having a very rose tinted outlook on Communism. Everyone seems to miss that these are all problems with humans, not your favorite economic system.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Important consequence of this in the context of elementary schools: most little boys don't lift up the seat when they pee and their aim is atrocious. At my kids' school, the gender neutral bathrooms are the toilets of last resort.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most nuclear countries have had conventional conflicts since 1945. Many have lost without (publicly) considering nukes. The closest was the UN vs China in the 50's and it got MacArthur removed from command for asking.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I tried RTSP on the wyze v3 cameras and it was unstable bordering on nonfunctional. Even if they worked, I think you also had to power cycle them occasionally to keep them going.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Never. The epic court case has evidence showing Apple views iMessage as a moat to hold their users hostage.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's not even the being dead part. Ask yourself, "Is this the society you want? Is this how it should function?"

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I like "heat pump". It's a very nice ELI5 name. It's a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn't go naturally. A heat pump does the same.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Pebble Time Steel should have been the "standard". Maybe I'm the wrong audience but the Moto 360 is a big miss for me. A smart watch for me needs to have:

  • Always on, sunlight readable display
  • "3 day weekend" battery life
  • Basic smarts only: notifications, alerts, calendar
  • Durable, waterproof
  • Compact size
  • Fitness tracking

I don't care too much about "premium materials" once some basic durability is satisfied. I don't have an opinion about round vs square.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thumbnails and titles are not high on my list of criteria for quality content. Clickbaity or vague is annoying but what about the next 10 to 20 minutes?

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

A few years ago, I used crypto-as-in-cryptography in conversation with another engineer and they seemingly derailed into talking about Bitcoin and Ethereum. We were both really confused and annoyed with each other.

It had a nostalgic feeling of what does "hacker" mean with some added irritation.

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