Asklemmy piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 98%

I'm going to be camping for 4 days at a location without easy access to fire (hence no boiled water). As such, I'm going to be packing a bunch of canned stuff for my daily meals. The place is in England, where we're expecting a few hot days this week and maybe some rain over the weekend. However, I have some free time before the trip to cook food. But I'm not sure if there's any good foods I could bring along that could keep for 3-4 days without a fridge. I guess that crosses out most meat dishes. Some ideas I had were: falafel, fritters, bread, calzones, pasties. Have you tried taking such foods camping and if so, did they last a few days without spoiling? Are there any other foods you'd recommend? Thank you so much!

Linux piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 93%

I'm trying to set up a Linux laptop for a friend who lives in another city. They have only ever used Windows, and likely won't have easy access to fix issues (not that I'm an expert). First off, is it a good idea to give them a Linux PC at all? Have others had good/bad experiences giving technophobes Linux? Secondly, if I go ahead with it, what's a good, stable, "safe" OS for a beginner? I'm shy of anything that's a rolling release (e.g. Arch, Manjaro etc) as "bleeding edge" can break things more often than not. I'm leaning towards Debian or something Debian based. But I've also heard good things about Fedora. If I was the one using the PC, I'd have installed Fedora, as I've heard it's well-maintained. Then again there's been some good buzz about Debian 12. What would your advice be? Thanks!

Lemmy.World Announcements piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 95%

play.google.com

[Native Alpha](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cylonid.nativealpha) is an Android app that lets you easily create PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) of your favourite websites. Basically, it's a way to make a website look and work like an app in a matter of seconds. I've mostly used it to access websites that are effectively spyware (Instagram, Facebook etc) but still somewhat necessary to visit every now and then. This is because Native Alpha also has the added benefit of sandboxing PWAs from the rest of your phone. You can tailor each PWA to your needs (block ads, disable cookies etc). But with Lemmy, I've actually enjoyed using Native Alpha for its primary purpose (easy PWAs) instead of secondary one (privacy). Here's how you can set up Lemmy on Native Alpha: - Download & install Native Alpha from [F-Droid](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.cylonid.nativealpha) or the [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cylonid.nativealpha) - From the main screen, click the "+" icon from the bottom right - Input the URL of your Lemmy instance - Tweak the rest of the settings, or leave them unchanged. Personally, I like to allow the PWA to open links in my browser. I'm not too worried about the privacy risks of this, but YMMV of course. - You'll now have the option to create an app icon on the home screen if you'd like. Completely up to you. - All set! Access the PWA from your homescreen or Native Alpha, login, and you've got your very own Lemmy "app" in basically <1 minute You can stop reading now, but some extra thoughts. Pros of this approach: - Unlike Jerboa, you can now create communities and search posts (not just communities) from your new Lemmy "app" - Unlike Jerboa, you can now mark messages read from you inbox - Jerboa is obviously not invasive, but you save some space on your phone, and prevent any potential additional tracking that would've come from installing an extra app Some cons: - You still can't open links to other instances within the app. I'm sure there's an easy workaround for this, I'm just not sure what that is. - Native Alpha is a bit glitchy with opening links within a PWA. This is why I chose to open links in my external browser above. - Some UI gestures are unintuitive. To reload, you need to swipe down with two fingers. But if you also enable the "pinch to zoom" option from your PWA settings, you lose the reload functionality for some reason. Have you already used Native Alpha? Your thoughts on the experience? If there's interest, I can also share a quick recording of the Lemmy experience on my phone.

Nature and Gardening piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

For context, I have no idea on how to take care of plants, but I'd like these three baby plants I bought to thrive. I'd also love to snip them every now and then when I'm cooking, making a salad or a tea etc. Right now each plant is quite young and in small plastic pots. The chocolate mint is already about 8-12 inches tall. The lemon balm and orange thyme are both less than 5 inches tall. My questions where I'd love your advice are: * How often should I water these plants? * They're all newly bought and in disposable plastic containers. When I repot them, will it be dangerous to mix their current soil and the generic store bought soil I'm planning to get? * How fast do these plants grow? Should I be optimistic and already buy semi-large pots, even though they're quite tiny right now? * Any other general tips to care for these plants? Appreciate your advice, whether it's plant-specific or applies to all the three plants. Thanks in advance!

Radiohead piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

For me it's either Punchup at a Wedding ('you had to piss on our parade .... you had to ruin it for all concerned') or Bodysnatchers ('your mouth only moves with someone's hand up your ass', re-the Spez AMA). How about you?

Vegan piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

One of my favourite sources of nutrition advice -- not to mention an instrumental figure on my own path to veganism. Hope you find him informative

Libreboot piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm aware that Leah [*strongly discourages*](https://libreboot.org/docs/install/spi.html#do-not-use-ch341a) using CH341a, but I understand that this is chiefly because it's voltage is 5V, whiich risks burning the 1.8V or 3.3V datalines of the devices we're librebooting. At the same time, I've seen a popular video specifically recommending CH341a when librebooting an X200. I assume this advice should be ignored. However, Leah also specifies that you can technically tweak the CH341a to reduce it's voltage, [following this guidance](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/ch341a-serial-memory-programmer-power-supply-fix/). My question is: is this worth it, or is it safer to just use a Beaglebone Black/Raspbery Pi instead? What's your experience been? I'm unfortunately on a budget, and BB/RPi are both prohibitively expensive for me. Then again, so is a laptop that's bricked thanks to an improperly fixed CH341a. Have you had problems using a (tweaked or untweaked) CH341a? What's your advice? I really appreciate it. Thanks!

AskAnthropology piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm aware of a few good ones, say, Tom Boellstorff's *Coming of Age in Second Life*, Gabriella Coleman's work on Anonymous, and Daniel Miller's *Why We Post* series. But I feel like these examples are somewhat dated now. Curious to learn about any good ethnorgaphies on this topic from the last 2-3 years, especially from the COVID/post-COVID era. Cheers!

Music piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

sopuli.xyz

You can tell I'm pasting this across a few relevant communities. Upon reflection, I don't know if niche communities will help or possibly fragmented consolidated communities like this one, but I thought I'd just create a few communities mirroring my own favourite subreddits. Hopefully this makes it easier for people in those subreddits to migrate over to Lemmy. We'll see.

Music piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

sopuli.xyz

You can tell I'm pasting this across a few relevant communities. Upon reflection, I don't know if niche communities will help or possibly fragmented consolidated communities like this one, but I thought I'd just create a few communities mirroring my own favourite subreddits. Hopefully this makes it easier for people in those subreddits to migrate over to Lemmy. We'll see.

Music piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

sopuli.xyz

You can tell I'm pasting this across a few relevant communities. Upon reflection, I don't know if niche communities will help or possibly fragmented consolidated communities like this one, but I thought I'd just create a few communities mirroring my own favourite subreddits. Hopefully this makes it easier for people in those subreddits to migrate over to Lemmy. We'll see.

Radiohead piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm never certain if this is my favourite version of HTDC or the Saitama 2008 version...

Libreboot piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

This is a Lemmy community created to discuss all things Libreboot. As you can tell, it's quite empty here, so please feel welcome to fill it up with your experiences of Libreboot. I've created this community to do my part and help the migration from Reddit to Lemmy. Lemmy isn't perfect, but it's closer to Libreboot's spirit than Reddit is. That's what I think, anyway.

China, 中国 piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 60%

Obviously I'm not asking if there's something like the Western version of veganism, although I'm curious if that's the case too. I'm wondering if something like a vegan way of life is part of the culture or tradition in any part of China. In Greece, for example, there's a dedicated type of cuisine νηστεία ("nisteia", i.e. "fasting") that's fully animal-free and is what you're meant to eat on fasting days (if you're a strict Greek Orthodox Christian, that's something like half the year). Although interestingly, octopuses are allowed when fasting... Are there similar practices in China that you know of? Are there any good vegan (or "veganozed") Chinese recipes you'd recommend? I'm soon going to try and make my own kao fu, but other than that I don't know much, and welcome any tips/ideas..

Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 95%

I plan to have the following services running concurrently on it: * A VPN (OpenVPN or Wireguard) * A very lightweight personal website * A Nextcloud instance (25GB storage max) * A Vaultwarden instance * An Invidious instance * A Matrix server * A Lemmy instance I'm unsure if these would be private or public instances. But I'd be curious to hear any thoughts on how much more space I'd need for public instances too, if you'd have a sense of that. I currently have a VPS with 2GB RAM + 50GB storage. Would that be enough? Thanks in advance!

Vegan piezoelectron • 1 year ago • 100%

I've seen a few (not many) people online fawn over how Khaled bin AlWaleed converted to veganism, and even got his dad to do the same. There's also talk that he plans to open a chain of plant-based restaurants throughout the Arab world. I'm curious to hear what people think about such figures. This guy is directly descended from the founder of Saudi Arabia -- on both his parents' sides. He's part of a family that's brought an entire country -- Yemen -- on the brink of death, with *2+ million people* at risk of dying from hunger. Not to mention he's part of one of the most brutal, draconian regimes anywhere in the world. The same goes for places like, say, Tel Aviv, hailed as the "vegan capital of the world". Is that what we really want to talk about, and not the hideous apartheid regime erected by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza? Gaza, for example, is an *open-air prison*, where people are left to die, with no access to even drinking water. And yet we find popular YouTubers celebrating both AlWaleed (who flew in Dr Michael Greger to Saudi Arabia just for a consult) and Tel Aviv as bastions of veganism. I've heard the argument that neither the restaurants in Tel Aviv nor Prince AlWaleed are personally liable for their government's crimes. I don't really buy this. I mean I somewhat understand it re-Tel Aviv, but someone like AlWaleed is literally part of the government. He has plenty of power and privilege to relinquish ties with his family and use his newfound platform to bring attention to the hideous regime in Saudi Arabia. But as far as I can tell, he hasn't said a single thing about Yemen (not to mention Khashoggi, Saudi-Israel ties etc). In my opinion, in these contexts, veganism effectively serves as a way to whitewash serious crimes that are far worse than the animal lives these individuals/groups are potentially saving. But I'm curious to hear what people think.