Asklemmy linucs • 3 weeks ago • 93%

First of all, I know this is not the kind of questions that usually are done in asklemmy but I don't know where to ask, sorry folks. It's a 5th generation kindle and I really loved reading on it. :( Bonus question if the kindle is doomed: best e-ink reader on the cheaper side? I don't want anything super powerful or fancy, I just want to load my collection with calibre and read on it. - bonus points if it's a libre and or open source friendly.

4 ways of using it come to my mind: - Place hands on the inclined outer handles and do a pull up with arms open wide - Place hands with palms facing the wall on the "inner" handles and do a pull up with arms at shoulder width - Place hands with palms facing my face on the "inner" handles and do a chin up - Place hand on the handles which point out of the wall and do a pull up / chin up (sorry don't know in this case) Are these excercises different for the group of muscles they target? And if so, how? Is there any ranking among them from worse to better? Also if I can do chin ups just fine but I can only do negative pull ups, which ones should I choose?

Ask Science linucs • 3 months ago • 98%

I'm referring to the human race evolving in the African continent and then migrating to the rest of the world. Evolving in Europe made people light skinned to account for the reduction in sunlight exposure, are there any other traits which other ethnicities developed to adapt to their new environment? Or are the diifferent traits in different ethnicities just stuff that developed by chance and got somehow reinforced because of the isolation between populations? This question came to my mind first thinking about "Asian eyes", do they serve any "purpose"?

Showerthoughts linucs • 3 months ago • 87%

Alternative title: Dinosaurs wouldn't be that big if they weren't that big

Asklemmy linucs • 4 months ago • 96%

Any topic, just explain what it is please

Ask Science linucs • 4 months ago • 96%

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine. I don't know if my question is clear enough but I hope so. Bonus question: are animals subject to the same contribution of light or lack of it to the quality of sleep?

Ask Lemmy linucs • 4 months ago • 99%

The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything

Asklemmy linucs • 4 months ago • 96%

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off. There are other cases in which if you didn't write the code and you don't read any additional documentation, everything is not clear just by looking at the variable name e.g. is_person_standing, when true it's clear what that means but when false, is the person sitting? Lying? Kneeling? I'm obviously not talking about cases in which there are more states, boolean would of course not be a good solution in those cases. I'm talking about programs in which there are only two states but it's not obvious, without external knowledge, which ones they are.

Arch Linux linucs • 4 months ago • 100%

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/32

Would I receive notifications for new comments on posts I saved?

Ask Science linucs • 8 months ago • 79%

This is something I always wondered because some people have a bunch of theories about whether your head should face north or south or whatever, because of the earth magnetic field. Is there any science in this or just "superstition"? Also, would it be better to have the head towards a window or away from a window, even if closed (e.g. in winter)? I'm basically asking whether there exist "recommendations" on how to structure a bedroom backed by science.

Ask Science linucs • 8 months ago • 95%

After reading the abstract of the paper mentioned [here](https://lemmy.world/post/11436624) I started wondering, why did human groups migrate away from southerner (warmer) places towards the north which is far colder and has less possibilities to grow crops and wild animals to hunt? Was the population density too high? And after they migrated, what did they mostly survive on? Were they hunters-gatherers? Did they cultivate? Was it not more difficult to survive in colder climates?

Asklemmy linucs • 9 months ago • 90%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_yaCcyvNc Kimyan Law - Mortal Life, the chords in the first part of the song remind me of some song but I can't remember which one, can anyone recognize them?

Firefox linucs • 9 months ago • 88%

Whenever I try to install an Android extension, except for the Recommended ones, by pressing "Add to firefox", I'm prompted to download the .xpi file and when it finishes I press " Open file" but I get an error saying I don't have any app which can open those files. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know how to fix it? I'm on Mull 120.1.0

Arch Linux linucs • 10 months ago • 100%

I'm talking about - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0004-lto-by-default.rst - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0003-buildflags.rst - https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0002-march.rst I read some time ago that there were doubts from package maintainers regarding the -march RFC because of lacking tooling. Does anyone know if there has been any progress on solving those problems? And what about the other two RFCs? Is there any way the community can help?

Asklemmy linucs • 10 months ago • 94%

I found this post on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421110 and in it a comment that sparked my interest: "Only tangentially related but: I have a blue light filter (Plasma night color) always on on my laptop because I feel like, in combination with brightness reduction, I get less eye strain. I've always wondered if there exist a color scheme for desktop theme or IDE / neovim theme or whatever that is thought with night color in mind, i.e. it's made specifically to be looked at with blue light filter reduction, so that all choices of color work, because for example I use solarized light in neovim but when doing diff I need to turn night color off because otherwise I can't read selected text." Does anyone know if such a thing exist? I too have blue light filter on my PC on all the time so everything is yellow/red tinted depending on the time of the day but sometimes I have difficulties reading some text in certain colours because of it. I'm sorry if this isn't the right community to ask this.

Ask Science linucs • 10 months ago • 100%

And if so, how much? Less, same or more than if it was actually charging something? I'm in the EU if that changes something.

Ask Science linucs • 11 months ago • 92%

Wouldn't grow something from the inside require a very strong force to "move" the already present one? Instead growing from the last "layer" towards the outside would require a lot less force, but perhaps a lot more matter. Is it even correct that trees grow concentrically? Now that I think about it, how do plants grow in general? Hahaha Update: for everyone wondering, yes, my question doesn't make sense because the i.e. contradicts the question. I don't want to correct it because I don't know which part to correct since I was wrong, I thought trees grew new parts inside and pushed older parts outside. So I could correct the i.e. and swap "innemost" with "outermost" but that would mean that people would read a question stating something that is wrong, or I could correct the question and swap "inside" with "outside" but I was wrong and I'm glad I learnt something today. We can all agree that I asked a weird question in a weird way, thank you all for your answers.

Ask Science linucs • 12 months ago • 96%

I mean, why evolution selected dinosaurs to become that huge?

Arch Linux linucs • 1 year ago • 96%

Do you think we'll reach a point where it will be the "default" (using quotes since Arch is DIY so no default but we can argue that stuff like systemd is default) way of using Arch? Or at least have all the required packages in an official repository?

I saw memes about it and many comments against it but I was wondering if there was a list of instances whose admins already said they will / won't federate with Meta's Threads. Or if there is a public discussion happening among admins to decide a common strategy or something. Personally I'm a little worried about comments saying stuff like "if we federate with them I'm out of here" because I read the article by Mastodon CEO [1] and found it to be very reasonable. If someone doesn't want to interact with Meta they won't need to, even if other users on the same instance will do it. Or am I wrong? I guess the risk is that Threads gets extra features and people from the Fediverse move to it thinking "I can still be part of the Fediverse even if I'm using Threads" and then suddendly Meta defederates and they are locked in. But I really don't think many people from Lemmy / Kbin would switch in the first place so I guess that won't be a huge problem. I know many people who, when asked "what do you use Instagram for?", told me they use it to follow the pages / people they like. And I think we can extrapolate that for these people being on Lemmy instead of Threads would make a little difference, if it still allows them to follow who they want. And they can be convinced with privacy concerns points. I'm not saying 90% of people, given the choice, would leave Meta for a FOSS alternative, hell not even 10% maybe, but I'm sure there's a non-zero amount of people who would. And, as the Mastodon CEO said, if Meta at a certain point decides to defederate we would be back to the point where we are now. [1] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/