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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • bjwesttoAsklemmyHas anybody had a root canal?
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    1 month ago

    That’s a tooth extraction, a root canal is where they drill down through the tooth and root to get at and eliminate the infection, saving the tooth. It’s not a one session job, they drill down then inject antibiotics to kill the infection, then place a temporary filling in the hole. This is to make sure the infection is gone before placing the permanent filling. I had one a few years ago that took several sessions to get rid of the infection. With a good dentist, it’s not painful. Hell, my wisdom teeth extraction was way more painful.



  • My how our education system has utterly failed the last two or three generations. Personal finances used to be taught in High School economics, including how to track spending. With the tap, swipe and scan payments we have these days, few people even keep a record of their spending other than perhaps the account balance. I use a checkbook program and spreadsheet together to keep track of where my money goes, and reconcile it with my bank statement every month to be sure everything adds up. This does mean I have to get paper receipts when I can’t get a digital one, but living your life means you can’t just float around through life expecting the apps and electronics to keep you on track, you have to do some work.



  • Yes. I’m genuinely unsure how it could be any easier. It’s just add the repo and install.

    It can be much easier to install a PPA than using the command line to do so. I think it’s high time it was as easy as clicking on a (verified) “install this repo” type button on a page, and confirming, entering your sudo password from the launchpad website. I’d even be OK with building it into Discover.





  • bjwesttoLinuxFlatpack, appimage, snaps..
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    11 months ago

    You realize your computer won’t work without scripts, don’t you? And if you want your computer to do something it doesn’t do on its own, a simple script will make it do what you want. If that is your definition of sucking, then you need to go back to Windows, which is also loaded with scripts, by the way, so that sucks too.


  • bjwesttoAsklemmyWhat are you having for dinner tonight?
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    11 months ago

    I’m marinating a salmon steak in an Asian sauce mixture, and roasting that. I’ll make some fried rice and steam some broccoli, and pour the remaining sauce from the salmon over the broccoli. This is something I meant to do last night but didn’t get around to it, so it’s my christmas eave dinner tonight.



  • bjwesttoSteamSomeone redesigned the Steam UI, and I need it.
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    11 months ago

    I rarely spend time on the Steam “home” page. I reach the browser version by searching for a specific game on Steam via my browsers search bar, and in the desktop app in my Library, unless I use the search bar to get to the game I’m looking for. All that other crap is marketing getting me to buy something I don’t need/want, and redesigning it isn’t going to change that.

    I don’t know, maybe I’m just not a normal person, and don’t fall for all that marketing crap. I don’t spend time in stores looking for something to purchase, I go into a store to purchase a specific item.


  • It looks nice, but there’s no search, sort or way to show by first letter like in the official Jellyfin app. I have 817 movies, and no way am I going through each page till I get to the T’s to watch They Live. It also doesn’t show my Collections or Playlists, or the continue watching row, and the Next Up row shows only one thing, and it’s four shows behind what I’ve watched in the past.

    These issues, for me, make it unusable.






  • BBSes were pre-public internet, not part of the internet. The connected ones were a separate network in and of themselves. I ran a WWIV BBS in the late 80s to early 90s that had its own networking system allowing communication, and even file sharing between instances. It was pretty sophisticated for the time, but hella slow over my 14.4k modem.

    WWIV did migrate to using the internet for connection, and maybe others did as well. Perhaps that’s what you were considering with this comment?