Revan343

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Literally the entire rest of the sentence is the problematic part. "We don't take kindly to you", doesn't matter if they say "y'all", "you all", "you people", "your kind", take your pick, it's not the problem with the sentence

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Nope, "y'all" is still not the problematic part

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Lol, those specific people are fucking pansies; ignore them, but don't paint the whole community the same colour as them

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Might I ask what sort of drugs?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

I'm spitballing, but my guess would be the water crystals damage the fibres, softening them

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Yep, the difference between .444... And .5 is only .0555...

Who notices 5 nintieths of something? That's going to be within the error of sloppy measuring anyways

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

No so much directly as encouraged his supporters to.

Rhymes with "bang my fence"

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His social media investment absolutely paid off

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/removed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetback_(slur)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paki_(slur)

So yeah. Not that 'Zionist' is a slur

Edit: Really, shitty censorship bot? We're adulterating URLs now, and selectively only that specific slur? Gross on both counts

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

That's a very good question, and one that I don't know the answer to. I would guess no, as the point of the Istari losing their memories was to make them more like the people they were sent to save; it's not something about being embodied that made them lose their bodyless memories, it was part of their mission. The balrogs had no such mission

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Iirc the books themselves didn't say, but Tolkien's letters say something to the effect of the Istari only having vague memories of their time as Maia, with the exception of things that they were explicitly meant to remember, e.g. Olórin's memories of being sent back after his physical death while fighting Durin's Bane.

They know that they are, in our parlance, embodied angels or minor gods, but they don't remember a ton of where they came from

 

Does anybody know of a list of usb live-bootable distros, with links to the download pages?

I have a coworker who wants to switch his gaming computer over to Linux, he has Linux experience but from like a decade ago.

He's not partial to any particular distro, so I was hoping to just put together a multiboot flash drive with a bunch of live images he could try. But I'm not sure what I should include, and what has live images, vs. install only images.

I'm most comfortable in an environment with apt, so Debian and Mint are of course already covered, but if the gaming-specific distros have live usb images, that would probably be the best thing for him to try.

 
 

When reading a web page within Connect, it would be nice if long-pressing on links in the webpage would give a popup with the option to open the link in an external browser (and probably also an option to just copy the link). I frequently find myself linked to Wikipedia from a Lemmy comment, and then want to open other links from that wiki page, so then I have to open the page I'm on externally and refind my spot in the article.

Having the same options when long-pressing a link in a comment/post would be nice as well.

 

Edit: there's already a setting for it, another user pointed it out. Ignore me :)

~~Currently, when you block an instance or community, it's blocked app-wide. I had blocked various NSFW communities and instances on my main account so that they don't show up in my All feed, but now I can't access them from my NSFW account unless I use a different app to do so, or repeatedly unblock and reblock them as needed.~~

~~Can we instead make block lists on a per-account basis (or have the option of account-associated or global blocking)?~~

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