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What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well yeah, that's half the fun

I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately, I am. Too much capsaicin messes with digestion (slows it down), and causes more stomach acid.

So with my gastrointestinal system's hatred of my body (including food allergies which wreak havoc on me), I am at the top tier of too damn white to get to enjoy the heat anymore. So, I guess thanks for a new pepper I can check out!

What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or a fully themed, punctuation inspire flick. Named "character" to let you fill in the blanks.

Char 1: Well what do you think Mark?

Char 2: Are you sure she can handle it, Point?

Char 1: Its time we've shown

Char 2: our true power...

Together: As Interrobang!

Char 3: No wait, I've got my per....

.... OK it needs to be reworked, but you get the idea.

converting recipes to healthy gluten free alternatives in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Pre-made for the flour, I'll have to ask my wife about the recipes. I can say that she often uses almond flour, so there may be some more swapping in there for you, but I'll see what recipes she's got saved up

TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure you should have a Lowe's Associate as a legal advisor.

Here's Home Depot covering it

The relevant text:

Corded blinds are dangerous to children and pets. Roughly one child per month dies from blind cord strangulation, and more than 600 children per year are injured. That's nearly an average of 2 preventable injuries to a child per day. Between 1990 and 2015, more than 16,000 children were injured.

New Voluntary Standards

  • The Window Covering Manufacturers Association decided safer standards in January 2018.
  • Manufacturers adopted the new standard on cordless blinds in December 2018.
  • In 2019, all standard model window blinds were expected to be cordless.

Cordless Blinds & Law

  • Corded blinds are not regulated under state or federal legislation.
  • New, safer guidelines allow for cords on custom-made coverings.
  • Per WCMA standards, custom cords should not be longer than 40% of the window height.
converting recipes to healthy gluten free alternatives in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So I use a lot of almond flour, but that's safe for me. My wife is more the baker, but its usually a mix of bobs and almond flour, and for each recipe its a bit different.

Also been trying out watermelon seed flour. Its sweeter, so it seems good for cookies and the like. Its higher in protein, but also fat content. It also is a bit more runny than almond flour batter, but works nicely for things like waffles and pancakes I think. Still nailing down getting it fluffy the right way, again mixing in some general purpose bobs flour to find the right mix.

Then you've got your brown and white rice flours. The white rice flour is a bit more neutral in flavor, and like the watermelon flour good for stuff like pancakes. For more of a breading kind of flour, or at least more thickening, the brown rice works.

Not exactly recipes, just some stuff I'm mixing in to try, but I hope this at least helps!

Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Considering our use is not to the general public, we'd be better off with an entirely different strategy.

Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah... I didn't choose it, but some of the services from my employer run there. May be a good time to make some moves, we'll see.

Not really going to be an issue I can fix obviously, but I'll be making even more backups than normal....

TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They aren't illegal to sell.

Manufacturers can't make them any longer, existing inventory is permitted to be sold off. So they can be found on amazon, ebay, and a bunch of other places still. Just won't see any new stock coming in, and places that have less stock (as in, not gigantic warehouses) haven't been getting new ones in for some time. Nearly a year now I believe.

Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I have a feeling the big impact is going to be in other services, namely AWS. Makes me wonder if some new global outages are coming, which are always fun to deal with.

Workstation Rehaul (Advice Needed) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I wish I had a solid answer for that, I actually made a post about this recently.

Deskflow (synergy upstream) seems to be working well at the moment. Bear in mind they just moved all the repos, but Synergy v2 had a bunch of issues, it was dropped for v3, which is just deskflow packaged up all pretty. Input leap is from the people who were maintaining barrier and forked it a few years ago. Lan-mouse is its own thing, and it works, though its a bit clunky to use.

Right now I'm doing some testing to figure out what I want to use, my concern around barrier is that no updates makes for a security risk, and (for me) it also won't work with Wayland.

With Synergy going back to the open base, I don't really mind throwing them some cash, but its not available yet with Wayland support as a packaged project, so I built it and will be testing more for all of them once I move some things around on my desk to restructure - the whole reason I was looking for something in the first place actually. That won't happen until a free weekend though, so hopefully this weekend, but maybe the following.

Reddit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't protest your use, and since that phrase is mine now I can say that!

Jokes aside, this is exactly it. One option, you can protest it. The other, and you're getting "a very rough hour, real rough".

So.... Yeah. Not voting is supporting more murders by the state, and I hope so many people realize they are being duped with their "non-voting protest" and actually go to the polls. Especially because the presidential election is not the only election that matters.

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Keyboard / Mouse Sharing with Arch / Wayland, MacOS, Windows 11 Laptop (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

TL;DR: Want to use my desktop keyboard/mouse with my Laptop. What software are you using/enjoying? Arch+KDE w/ Wayland will be the main host, main client is Windows 11. Secondary hosts may be Debian and MacOS, same client, but low priority on the Mac.

Hey folks, I'm rearranging some things a bit at home, would love to get some current thoughts on keyboard/mouse sharing over IP (no video).

I have to put up with some tools that don't play nicely with wine/proton, and so my work laptop is a windows device. I'll be controlling that device primary from Arch and Debian, though MacOS is a possibility. I'd like to keep the laptop closed and not add another mouse/keyboard into the mix, so Keyb/Mouse over IP it is.

Here's what I'm looking at, haven't tried them all yet, but looking for opinions:

  • Barrier - Dead fork. Hasn't been updated in some time, being superseded by input-leap. Most portions of the project managed by someone who had not been active for a couple years before the Input Leap fork.
  • Input Leap - Forked from Barrier at the end of 2021, and nearly 3 years later, no stable binary releases yet. Development seems fairly active, but no binary releases yet doesn't provide a massive amount of confidence that it will be stable. Doesn't mean I won't build and test though.
  • Lan Mouse - Seems pretty neat, the lack of input capture on MacOS could create an issue for me in certain situations, but I can work around that if I need to for the rare times I'd need it. Traffic is unencrypted/plaintext. Its entirely local, and I've got more security than most users (and some companies), but still. Probably leading the pack right now.
  • Deskflow - Upstream project for Synergy, a rename to differentiate the user project from Synergy. TONS of recent activity, but the switch is very recent. I don't know if there are any binaries built, but its a longstanding project (and like many, many others, I used Synergy before it went commercial, it was nice).

Any other options out there? Good/bad experiences with any of these?

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3-7yr Kids Book Recommendations? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

TL;DR: Got any of them "banned" book recommendations for kids? We have a 2 1/2yr old and a 6 yr old who love book time

So a recent popular post in politics was about a book that stirred up controversy - My Shadow is Purple, which is the second book in a series (Here's the first).

Local library doesn't have them unfortunately, so I'll be putting in a request (then checking out a local store).

It made me wonder about some other great books out there that more conservative areas might not have. My township is pretty progressive (, but not large, so the school library is only OK. The county library is literally a few blocks away, so no town library. And while amazing as a library, the in-county magas have made the library slow down on some kinds of books. Its ridiculous, but one problem at a time.

So I'm hoping to get some kids books they might not otherwise see, like the My Shadow is Pink/Purple books mentioned, but I don't know what's out there.

Anyone have some favorites to share for the young kids? Looking forward to any ideas!

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Touchscreens, Debian, and Having Fun - Ideas? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf

I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.

Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.

In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.

I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....

  • I could use it as a HomeAssistant kiosk. Neat, but.... overkill compared to the tablets doing the same job.
  • Make it an emulation station, attach my steam controller and maybe my usb adapters for N64/GC/Sega/PS/etc.
  • Use it to test a series of distributions to see how well they handle touch drivers for this silly thing (EndeavorOS is probably going to happen, I may be a long time Debian guy but I should spend more regular time in other things, and not just my arch VMs).
  • I don't know, gcompris for my kids? They already have it though on an android tablet and an old mac mini (like, 2011ish) hooked up to the TV in the living room.
  • Make it another proxmox endpoint for the cluster, install a DE anyway, and then let it be an always-visible display for grafana?
  • Install OBS, let the hdmi capture have some purpose?

What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?

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eBook Library Structure (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TL;DR: How do you sort your books for your book server?

I'm thinking of reworking my eBook/comic/etc library, and I'm curious how other people structure things.

I don't want to separate fiction out by genre or anything since some can fit multiple genres, so I'm leaning towards Dewey decimal system categories personally.

I'm also planning a bit ahead since my daughter is now starting to read more than sight words books, so I'm thinking of separating kids fiction and adult fiction.

I also currently have a section for comics, manga, and LNs. Those are separated mostly for who goes to what, and what they do/don't want to read. So my library right now (plus the kids section) will look like:

  • Kids Fiction
  • Adult Fiction
  • Comics
  • Manga
  • Light/Web Novels
  • Non-Fiction

Simple for navigation, and searchable, but maybe not the best for browsing. So I was thinking maybe the Dewey categories:

  • Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems
  • Philosophy & Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Language
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Arts
  • Adult Fiction
  • Kids Fiction
  • History/Geography

Nicely browsable, but some of those sections will be really light on books.

What method of sorting do you use? Any librarians out there with thoughts on better approaches than the Dewey decimal system?

EDIT: I really like what @[email protected] mentioned, which I've currently adapted to:

  • Instructional (How-to, manuals, gardening, etc)
  • Tech (Electronics reference materials, programming reference books, etc).
  • Equine (all my wife's horse stuff)
  • Kids Fiction
  • Kids Non-Fiction (I've got some geography books and such my daughter likes, I'm sure it will expand over time)
  • Adult Fiction
  • Adult Non-Fiction
  • Comics
  • Manga
  • LN/WN

I can easily allow the kids accounts to have access to the Kids section, not include the comics/manga/tech my wife has no interest in, etc.

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