Honestly, kind of mind blowing even thinking of them as a technology, they’re so ubiquitous. I use a knife a minimum of 10 times a day, and that’s just in the kitchen, not including opening mail, packages, small medical stuff, and a ton more uses. Holy shit, where would we be without those inclined edges?

Awesome comment to read at 430 in the morning. Thank you

Bulbs v switches is actually why it took me so long to get them to begin in. Having bulbs, inherently disposable things, full of tech seems… Less than ideal. But where I live, the electrical is rough. Like, we have 1 circuit, the light circuit. Everything else is messed up and turned off at the box, including all the 220s, except for the water heater. Run everything off power strips and have to turn everything off to cook. Lol. I don’t want to mess with the electrical in this house. I want to move. Lol

In October of last year my mom came home from the ICU, now unable to get out of bed. I replaced all the bulbs in the house with smart bulbs and put the fans on a little smart plug thing. It made me really like the idea of home smart home features, but I’m not techy. They’re just Alexa enabled for her to use with the fire stick, and I use google home on my phone for em.

Can you offer any advice for ones that don’t require internet? Every time our power goes out (any time there’s a storm), I have to go around and reset them while they flash at me like the worst night club

I have no idea. I’ve got some lidocaine viscous they gave me for the pain. I’m lucky enough to have medical, just not dental. But from experience, it helps temporarily numb the surface pain, but if it’s in the root, or if you’re pulling the tooth, it does not help.

My first thought when I saw the headline was “Can it help me pull this tooth without it hurting so badly?”

cheesy mystery novel.

Well… I guess I’ll just delete that Google doc I’ve been working on for 2 and a half years! 😭

Yeah, that’s what I get for not reading well enough and just busting my way through like a bull in a china shop. Lol. Lesson learned, though.

I really appreciate all your help. Honestly, it’s one of the best things about switching to Linux, since I have, any time I’ve had any issue, even minor stuff, people have jumped on the chance to help me learn and fix it. It’s been amazing. And then switching to Lemmy has just made that experience even better

I really appreciate your help, but I had to do a fresh install of Fedora last night. It was having major issues after I updated to 40. I hadn’t used the laptop in nearly 2 years, and I think it just messed up when I updated it. It is working perfectly now, though!

My main issue now is that I got nextcloud through hertzner to back up everything before I reinstalled, and I accidently rented a server on there in addition to the storage share, and I’m not sure how to give it back 😭

This is the first thing I’ve found since I switched from Windows where windows just does it better, to be honest. Kde doesn’t make you jump through these hoops? I love gnome, It’s the perfect aesthetic for me, and I love how… Flowy it feels. But grrrrrr about this. Lol

Thank you!

Thanks for teaching me something! :)

Any idea what to do about the lid close issues with that output? I’m stumped, but I’m stumped easily, so I’m not sure how dead-endy this is haha

If I’m reading it right, it’s saying it should be working?

/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf_cody@fedora:$ systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf | grsystemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf | grep -i lid #HandleLidSwitch=suspend #HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend #HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore #LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes cody@fedora:~$ grep -i lid /etc/UPower/UPower.conf

Do we ignore the lid state

Some laptops are broken. The lid state is either inverted, or stuck

IgnoreLid=false

If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults

If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults

cody@fedora:~$

Apparently # makes a line huge? All the huge lines are preceded by a #

Thank you for replying so quickly! I’ll email him back and let him know I should be able to get the formatting the same. I really appreciate your advice!

So I just emailed my professor, and he says that I can use fade in if the formatting is the same as final draft, and I buy the license so there’s no watermark. Which sucks, but fuggit it it lets me keep using Linux. Do you know if the formatting is the same? This is only my second ever screenwriting class.

My mom has chronic pain from disabilities and started taking Kratom a few years back. I tried it first to test things out before she started. We misread the instructions, and steeped about 10x more than we should have in orange juice for several hours.

I have never been so sick. OMG. It was 3 days of pure hell.

But here’s the kicker, doing that with any other medication would’ve killed me. This just made me sick. It’s a weird way to begin saying you swear by something, but I swear by the stuff. It is genuinely helpful, and it has an upper limit, so it’s risk for abuse is low. Stuff is great.

The school pays for final draft, and I am poor. But someone else just showed me fade in was free and works with Linux, so I’m gonna try that out!

Oh shit, this I did not know. I just Googled the price and I guess it only showed the paid version. Sweet! Thank you! If this works, I can officially uninstall Windows! That’s literally the last thing holding me to it. :D

It was 8 gigs. Someone else suggested boxes over a VM, would 8 gigs be enough for either of those?

Thank you for the advise! YouTube tutorials, here I come!

I looked into it, but I can’t afford it out of pocket. The school pays for final draft, but won’t cover anything else :/ If I could, that would definitely be my go-to