otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
NOTE: Some of the communities I’m moderating are open if you want to take them over :)
- Comment on Finally escaping Windows, ironically thanks to AI 2 days ago:
I suspect that LLMs do pretty well with troubleshooting Linux thanks to those manuals and old forum posts. After using them to troubleshoot Linux based devices, I tried the same thing on Windows and it struggled to figure out what commands to run.
Windows is a mess to configure and troubleshoot, even with the help of LLMs. Microsoft could have spent their investment trying to fix that, but I don’t think they have.
“Copilot can troubleshoot your computer” could have been a selling point, but they’d have to admit that windows 11 is a buggy mess
- Comment on Hardware price surge drives student demand for refurbished laptops 1 week ago:
Most of the new devices I see are using the hard to find components (DDR5) while refurbished devices from a few years ago have more than enough RAM for school.
I wish I learned this sooner, but the best device for school is a generic laptop that you can easily find guides and replacement parts for. That way you can fix things quickly in the middle of a term.
- Comment on Recommendations for self hosted recipe manager 1 week ago:
Oh wow that’s neat
Does the ecosystem have something like Mealie and Tandoor, where a nontechnical user can drop in a link to add a recipe?
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & Morewww.metmuseum.org ↗Submitted 7 months ago to internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago to internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 2 years ago:
Futurama seems ok now? People seemed to enjoy the recent season
- Comment on Coming to your streamer soon: more ads 2 years ago:
The graph
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
I’m moderating a handful of communities, and I’ve done so on Reddit for a long while as well.
It’s generally not a good practice to stop people from discussing how things are run. If the criticism is unfounded, the mods or users can reply with why. If the criticism is valid, then it’s a good way to improve the community. What people don’t like is when mods use their power to remove criticism
Some cases where it might be ok to remove the posts might be
- the user is posting in bad faith and breaking some other rule (ex. complaints about the removal of rule breaking content, or if content in the meta post is hateful, etc.)
- the subreddit has very strict post format rules. In this case, there should be some other way to talk about the issues, such as regular meta threads or a separate meta community
In this case, I don’t think removing the post helped much. It was a low stakes discussion and the movie/TV communities on here are already very small.
It might be nice now if the mod leaves a comment about why the other post was removed, and what they’d suggest instead
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
This depends on how good Lemmy search is, but could we have a tag in the post title that people can search by? Similar to what flairs/tags would allow for
[Review] Title of movie
Users can edit that tag into the title after being reminded, but it would also be a lot more work to enforce. I left my vote with the new community option
- Comment on [Movie] The Kitchen - new Netflix movie takes place in a pre-cyberpunk world 2 years ago:
Looks interesting :)
- Comment on If I add baking soda to lemon juice and water or use carbonated water is the carbon the same as the CO2 in the atmosphere? 2 years ago:
Also CO2 is a natural part of the carbon cycle. It’s still needed and used by the nature around you.
Advocate for change, but enjoy your lemonade :)
- What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions!www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 years ago to videos@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Home near Washington DC explodes as police surround armed suspect 2 years ago:
Well that’s a cool new instance!
- Submitted 2 years ago to publicfreakout@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Home near Washington DC explodes as police surround armed suspect 2 years ago:
Related to this clip here: reddit.com/…/police_trying_to_execute_search_warr…
- Submitted 2 years ago to publicfreakout@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA | Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 2 years ago to biology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on There are a number of spam bots popping up today, it might help to have admins around to ban and remove them instance wide 2 years ago:
Or to temporarily defederate from the instance
- Submitted 2 years ago to support@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 2 years ago:
I’ve heard that it’s easier if you’re familiar with the person, past that I’m curious too!
- Comment on What happens when you try to buy a $1M domain? 2 years ago:
I’ll have to find it again, but some generic variation of
open____.org - Comment on What happens when you try to buy a $1M domain? 2 years ago:
I’m on it!
- Submitted 2 years ago to videos@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Giving blood exception 2 years ago:
My guess is that it’s related to mad cow disease, and it hasn’t been updated in a while? I couldn’t find anything when I searched
Here is ours, and the history behind some of the changes blood.ca/…/changes-donation-criteria-blood-donati…
- Comment on Will there be power issues if I plug an unpowered USB hub into a powered on or vice versa 2 years ago:
I misunderstood, my bad
- Submitted 2 years ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on Will there be power issues if I plug an unpowered USB hub into a powered on or vice versa 2 years ago:
Putting the powered hub second means that it doesn’t need to pull power through the unpowered hub, and it should be fine right be used as normal.
I might be misunderstanding, but wouldn’t this still be a problem?
Computer |- unpowered hub |-powered hub |-power hungry device
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 2 years ago:
How are views calculated? I think I remember that you need to watch X% of a video for it to register as a view, so some of the comments here may be off
- Comment on What does it look like for a YouTube creator when the audience uses something like NewPipe or Freetube? 2 years ago:
I’ve heard anecdotally that they don’t get paid when the ads are blocked. I assume there’s some kind of confirmation built into the process?
I’m curious about the specifics too though
- Comment on Is there any reason to not have built in scheduling on social media? 2 years ago:
Gmail has something similar, instead of the post going out when you click post you can set it to go live at a certain time
I know friends have used the third party schedulers when promoting events on Instagram, where the posts needed to go out at a certain time (ex. releasing tickets at a certain time for fairness). Others might want to post right around when people are likely to be looking at their phones.
There is also a similar service for Reddit, and now for Lemmy: schedule.lemmings.world , where mods can schedule reoccuring posts (ex. TV shows, weekly events)
