poweruser

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[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In addition this was back when airlines had strong restrictions on wireless being used on planes, so many devices had physical switches to turn WiFi/Bluetooth off. Maybe it's still turned off

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I called 911 a few years ago and they had a police officer call me back when he got to my neighborhood. I had to do this a few times as the incident repeated a few days later. Each time the officer called me his number was hidden.

That's the only time I've ever had a call from a hidden number that was not a scam, but I would be hesitant to block them all

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That also makes it illegal to nuke hurricanes

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not a dad joke unless it's apparent

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also an old fart, also love XFCE

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 weeks ago

I am a longtime fan of Debian Stable, for exactly that reason. I installed the XFCE version using the custom installer about 8 years ago and have had very few issues.

Initially my GPU wasn't well supported so I had to use the installer from Nvidia, forcing me to manually reinstall the driver after every kernel update. That issue has been fixed in recent years so now I can just use the driver from the Debian repos.

I installed the unattended-updates package about 2 years ago and it has been smooth sailing since

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To my untrained eye it looks like raspberry. Raspberry plants propagate through underground runners, which just look like any random stick

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I have some bad news for you - any random idiot with a driver's license and a two-ton death machine already puts your ass at risk, all the time. We call it "traffic" because we've just gotten used to it

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone I know who has had a skunk spray was due to one of two causes:

1). They ran it over with their car or 2). Their dog attacked it

In general skunks are very reticent to actually spray. I've never known anyone to get it from just walking by. I knew someone who blocked a skunk with their shoe from running in the house, because they mistook it for their cat.

From what I understand, they have poor eyesight and hearing, so in my experience they usually don't even notice you. They are a wild animal though so the important thing would be to not surprise them. I think if you make noise, keep your distance, and never corner one you should be fine.

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen some commenters say they messaged her but got no reply

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago

"Three economy" really means "rich people's money" and the filthy rich have been doing just fine

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