[-] ada 1 points 2 hours ago

You can always test it by booting off a backup image. If it works, you have peace of mind, and you can just reboot again from the correct image

[-] ada 4 points 2 hours ago

You don't change people. You design systems that don't allow for a snowball effect where inequity creates more inequity.

Of course, that's easier said than done and above my pay grade, but what I do know is that it doesn't look like saying "celebrating excessive greed is good"

[-] ada 9 points 3 hours ago

Capitalism is literally enshrined greed and self interest. That's never "fine". It can have restrictions put on it to constrain just how much damage self interest can do, but there's no way to make it not damaging

[-] ada 2 points 8 hours ago

If you open cachy hello, you'll see an option to install snapper support there. I should also add, you need to use grub for the boot images to work when you do a kernel upgrade

[-] ada 2 points 12 hours ago

Yep, as long as you use btrfs during the install and select snapper support

[-] ada 3 points 15 hours ago

I don't know the details, but CachyOS uses a pacman hook to do exactly that, so it's possible. It looks like there are AUR packages to do the same thing, but I haven't looked at them

[-] ada 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is such a strange take to me.

I was on the broader fediverse for a year or so before lemmy took off, and I got used to the very strong left leaning environment I found there, where compassion for your impact on the people around you was built in to the norms of many of the communities. I wasn't used to it, but I was so glad to have found it.

And then lemmy happened. And unlike the rest of the fediverse, which was largely populated by people escaping twitter because it had been taken over by a fascist, the lemmy population was largely people escaping reddit because they could no longer use 3rd party apps. And the difference in ideology between those two groups is night and day.

To me, the broader fediverse feels left wing and comfortable. Lemmy feels centrist, where half of my time as an admin is banning trolls and bigots spreading hate.

tl;dr - Your definition of leftist is not my definition of leftist.

[-] ada 1 points 1 day ago

So, it didn't really seem to make a great deal of difference, but I'm not sure if I was able to get the band low enough. I had it right at the bottom of my sternum, but couldn't go lower without it being weird and uncomfortable. And when it was still on my sternum, it was still partly under my bra, so there was likely still movement impacting it...

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submitted 1 day ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis)

Archerfield Wetlands, Queensland, Australia - June 2024

Image description: A small olive-green and grey finch with a red stripe across its brow sits on a branch of a small, scrubby and leafless plant, surrounded by branches and seedpods. Two other finches are partially visible, obscured by the branches

[-] ada 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm a hobby photographer. I have to keep a windows machine in my house just so I can run some of the software I need for my photography.

I've transitioned what I can to linux equivalents, and digiKam and Darktable are my daily drivers now, but Darktable is a HUGE learning curve for someone who hasn't used it before. You are literally starting again with learning how to edit your images. It's not simply a case of learning "how to do the same things in a new environment" but "learning a new paradigm, almost from the ground up". I love Darktable, but it took a dedicated desire not to run windows software and then months of practice before I could start to reproduce things that I could do in Lightroom in minutes with little experience.

And on top of that, dedicated noise reduction software (which requires a good GPU) basically doesn't exist on linux, and is next to impossible to run with wine or even VMs, because of the reliance on a GPU. And that means I have to keep a windows machine around to run my noise reduction. Dual booting doesn't even work, because that means my photo workflow suddenly needs a reboot. So, a second machine, which is not ideal...

Which is a lot of words to say that it's not always about being resistant to change or accepting alternatives. Sometimes there are no alternatives, and sometimes the "change" is a HUGE change. Unless a photographer is driven by ideological reasons to move off Windows like I was, it's not going to be worth the hit for most people. And even then, I still have to run a windows box too...

[-] ada 3 points 2 days ago

The first one. Hormones may have played a part too, but the bulk of it was dysphoria and repression

[-] ada 8 points 3 days ago

I transitioned...

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submitted 4 days ago by ada to c/running@lemmy.world

I'm seeing weird results with my heart rate strap. My ground contact time is really low, but my vertical oscillation is really high! One indicates good form, the other indicates bad form. My subjective experience is that my vertical oscillation is low, but my garmin disagrees.

And I think the reason why is the movement of my breasts. I think they're moving the sensor itself, and confusing its measurements.

Is that actually a thing? I've tried to find research or people talking about it, but all I can find is discussion on the impact of breasts on actual running performance, rather than on the measurement of it.

[-] ada 73 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community

Why would I want that? That sounds genuinely awful.

Edit - And the plebbit homepage talks about making a 4chan equivalent, and along with this post, there are pepe images everywhere. No thanks. Plebbit can fuck right off

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ada to c/main

I've been waiting until after Christmas day to make this post, but some of our communities recently have had a lot of noise and upset over someone that uses neopronouns that most people are unfamiliar with.

So I want to make this clear. A persons pronouns are to be respected. This is true when the user is using neopronouns that you're unfamiliar with. It's true even if you think someone is trolling. Pronouns are not rewards for good behaviour. They aren't only to be respected when you like the person you're interacting with, or if their pronouns "make sense" to you. Trolls, spammers, twitter users, it doesn't matter who they are, your options are to respect their pronouns, or to not engage with them.

I really want to re-iterate the importance of this. Gender diverse folk are undermined, invalidated and questioned at every step of our lives. As a community, we need to be working to undo that, not creating more of it, and that means there is no space for treating pronouns (including neopronouns) as a reward for good behaviour.

This isn't a free reign for trolls and spammers. The rules still apply. Trolling, spamming, etc will continue to be dealt with, but it's not an excuse to act as if respecting someones pronouns is optional.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ada to c/unixsocks

~~If you're a regular lemmy user, with history in this sub, and ideally, with a blahaj.zone based account, and you're interested in moderating this community, please drop me a DM or comment below~~

New moderation is in place

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ada to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

I've got an image noise reduction app that I simply can't get working under linux, and that I can't find an equivalent tool for under linux.

I've tried VMs and wine and none of them work. My web searches haven't encountered anyone that can make it work either.

So, I'm at the point where I may need to boot in to windows to do my noise reduction. However, I would really love to be able to access my existing linux install via a VM or the like when I do so, so that I can access my daily driver software (which is all linux) whilst I'm in windows.

Is such a thing possible?

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submitted 2 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

I rode the new bike out off road, through grass tussocks and all sorts of bumps to get this viewpoint!

Image description: A pied stilt standing on the edge of water in a marsh/wetlands area. The bird is leaning forward and down, with its head and beak pointed towards the ground and its wings slightly aflutter

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #wetlands

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submitted 3 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world
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submitted 3 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world

Image description: 4 Pied stilts wading in shallow wetlands in the Golden Hour

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A daring show of acrobatics! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ada to c/gullfriends@lemmings.world

New camera in hand, we made a deal with some local gulls. We provide the chips if they pose for us so I can get some photos!

And didn't they oblige!

This fine gull is a Silver Gull (not a Herring Gull) from Australia, and you'll be pleased to know, the chip was caught!

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submitted 4 months ago by ada to c/pics@lemmy.world
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submitted 4 months ago by ada to c/birding@lemmy.world
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ada to c/main

For those of you who don't know, the Blahaj Zone admin team runs a matrix space for gender diverse folk. Similar to lemmy, it's designed with a few "official" channels, but is otherwise a community curated space, with channels run by our members. You don't have to be a blahaj zone user to join.

If you're already a matrix user, you can head straight to our application room https://matrix.to/#/#gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone, or by searching for #gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone from within your matrix client.

If you're new to matrix, you can find some more details and an instruction video on how to get up and running here https://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/

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