I wish Linux would quit hiding things that don’t need to be hidden. For example, your Steam directory should not be hidden, but it usually is. Hidden directories should be reserved only for things that can fuck up your system if you modify them.
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- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•New social experiment
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- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit
link Englishfedilink 2·arrow-up 7 months agoedit-2 Do you realize that you can pay 0% if you pay a card in full, and still get the reward?
Why are you trying to take something away from me just because you’re terrible with money?
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit
link Englishfedilink 7 months ago2·arrow-up Say goodbye to rewards cards if this happens.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do Americans win their country back?
link fedilink 6arrow-up 1·arrow-down 7 months agoedit-2 Doesn’t help that you have old hags like Nancy Pelosi refusing to relinquish any power and pass the torch to someone younger. People shouldn’t have to wait for you to die to take the reigns.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?
link fedilink 13·arrow-up 8 months agoedit-2 From the top of my head:
Everyone forgets how to drive when it first snows. Try to avoid driving as much as possible during the first few days of winter.
Stick to busy roads if it recently snowed as they get plow priority, and the heavy traffic will help pack down the snow which will make it less slippery.
Fresh snow is a heck of a lot more slippery than snow that fell a few days ago.
4 wheel / all wheel drive is great, but you don’t actually need it. If your car has traction control and a good set of tires, then you’ve got everything you need to drive in the snow with confidence.
Snow tires are a worthy investment. People think that you don’t need snow tires if you have all seasons, but there’s no comparison to tires that are specifically made to be driven in the snow.
The posted speed limit is for ideal weather conditions. If there’s snow on the ground, then that’s not ideal, and you need to drive slower than the speed limit if you want to be safe and not fly off the road. One time a car passed me and about 2 miles later I saw that exact same car in the ditch. You don’t want to be that person. If you are that person, then everyone that passes you will be silently judging you while you sit there and wait hours for a tow truck because 30 other people all did the exact same thing at the exact same time.
Not really snow related, but cars with old batteries have a really hard time starting when the weather is at or below zero. If your battery is more than a few years old, it might be time to get a new one.
Bridges will freeze before anything else when the temperature gets below freezing. Just because the roads aren’t slippery doesn’t mean that any bridges you go over will be the same.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is your pet peeve in 2024?
link fedilink 8 months ago2·arrow-up Is our children learning?
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is your pet peeve in 2024?
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- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is your pet peeve in 2024?
link fedilink 8 months ago2·arrow-up My dad used to do this shit all the time. He would be like “let’s clean the house” but what he really meant was “You clean the house.”
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)
link fedilink 8 months ago3·arrow-up You really don’t need to use the terminal if you don’t want to. The only reason so many people use it is because it’s usually the most efficient way to get stuff done, and it’s easier to show a terminal command than it is to show how to do something on each and every desktop since they all vary slightly.
When it comes to installing apps, Linux is actually not that different from how you install them on your phone. Most distros will have some kind of software center that you can use to install apps. Check here first before searching online. Most apps are NOT downloaded using your web browser.
Stick with a distro that’s been around forever. Newer distros have a lot of buzz, but they lack support and you’ll eventually come across a problem that you won’t know how to solve.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you prefer ads or paywalls?
link fedilink 8 months ago4·arrow-up I keep telling people but if they keep using ad blockers, then they can expect less content to be available for free. Yet they all want to act like they’re not responsible for this trend even though they are.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do we call communities in Lemmy?
link fedilink 8 months ago5·arrow-up Reddit wants you to call them communities too, but most people still call them subreddits or subs.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?
link fedilink 9 months ago1·arrow-up I remember Google saying like 2 decades ago that it was actually their goal to get you off of their website as quickly as possible. If you clicked on a link, and then clicked back in less than 30 seconds, then Google would consider that search result to be not what you were looking for.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Oh no, not again
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- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your least favourite thing about your smartphone
link fedilink 9 months ago1·arrow-up My understanding is that these fingerprints are specific to your device and don’t get stored in the cloud. If you buy a new phone, then you’ll have to rescan your fingerprints.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet
link fedilink 9 months ago5·arrow-up Real call of duty hacks free
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the dumbest Reddit ban you've heard of?
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- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the dumbest Reddit ban you've heard of?
link fedilink 9 months ago8·arrow-up They banned the infamous turtle mod. Not because he was a horrible and abusive mod, but because he protested Reddit’s API changes that killed third party apps. It just sends the message that as long as you align with the company, then you can abuse their users all you want.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•SponsorBlock (and DeArrow) - SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos; DeArrow is a crowdsourced extension to replace titles and thumbnails on YouTube video
link Englishfedilink 10 months ago8·arrow-up DeArrow has a bad habit of renaming videos that don’t need to be renamed. For example, ‘History of the Entire World I Guess’ was renamed to ‘History of the World.’ Ain’t nobody clicking on that.
- smackjack@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•Resident Evil 2 Arrives On GOG Later This Month | Time Extension
link Englishfedilink 10 months ago3·arrow-up RE2 is one of my favorite games. Every time I play it, I get completely immersed. The graphics may be dated, but the sound and music is what really draws you in.
One of my teachers told me that RL Stine died and for 20 years I believed her.