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Even manually installing Arch is a good way to understand the parts of a Linux system, stuff like users, package management, etc. Without heating your house all summer compiling the kernel.

How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.

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So by your definition at least two ingredients are required for a salad.

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I’ve taken to calling this kind of media “Mandatory Adult Television.” I think the first of its species was Lost; there were predecessors with some similar traits like The X Files or The Sopranos, heavily serialized adult content television that was very popular water cooler talk, but Lost was the first one I remember as segmenting the population into those who follow he show, and those who don’t. Game of Thrones was THE big one. You either watched Game of Thrones or you weren’t allowed to socialize as an adult. “Hey, did you see Game of Thrones last night?” “No, I don’t watch that show.” “Oh. Bye.” For nearly a decade. No one wants to talk about that show anymore. Same with Lost.

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What, in your mind, is “fantasy?” Because for a genre whose name implies imagination and creativeness, it seems pretty pigeonholed into the European medieval folklore/fairy tale aesthetic somewhere between King Arthur and JRR Tolkien.

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Art assets, sound effects, storylines, that sort of thing transfers pretty easily.

Rigging, animations, scripting, physics…these pretty much don’t and would have to be rewritten from scratch.

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It depends on the game you’re making.

Godot has a dedicated workflow for 2D games, so I’d rather make one of those color sorting puzzle games that’s all people play on mobile these days in Godot than Unity or Unreal.

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Sure, as soon as you stop bombarding me with advertisements for these things to the point I retch at the very sight.

Fucking seriously my local Lowe’s had the Halloween decorations on display before the end of August. Two whole entire months am I getting BLEAURGH’d at by an injection molded demon every time I walk in to buy some screws and a quart of stain. Of course the Christmas decorations are going to be out on November 1st. Remember when there were only 12 days of Christmas? Now there’s something like 60.

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So if I understand correctly, our candidate live-streamed sexual activity to Chaturbate, and is mad that someone saved and uploaded the video elsewhere.

Our candidate is a naive idiot.

“Invasion of my privacy without consent” You waived any claim to privacy when you hit the Begin Stream button and invited To Whom It May Concern into your bedroom. The video left your computer and arrived on someone else’s computer, and hence permanently entered the state of being “on the internet.” You’re 40 years old, you and I grew up on the same internet in the same time period, you are both young and old enough to know better.

If you don’t want the entire internet to see your gonads, don’t upload your gonads to the internet. Probably don’t even photograph your gonads in the first place, because your phone probably puts your entire camera folder on the internet anyway.

On the topic of a 40 year old woman and candidate for state office sharing an active and apparently adventurous sex life with her husband: Excellent, carry on. Living as long as I have under the thumb of right wing hypocrites who spend their entire lives trying to criminalize anything except being white, male and straight pausing only to take it up the ass in an airport men’s room, I’d honestly prefer a candidate whose take on the matter is “YEAH I like getting dicked all the way down. Wanna watch?”

It’s the blaming someone else for something YOU did that chuffs my spuds here. You chose to broadcast. And you can’t stop the signal, Mal.

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A private (meaning, non-public) field like this one probably uses the multicom frequency, but yes. Self-announce on the CTAF. Irks me a bit there aren’t runway numbers.

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A runway with two ends. And you’d probably be surprised how easy it is to choose one end when you mean another.

Also to identify it from the air as a runway. It’s paved and they painted a centerline; I would have also painted numbers and thresholds.

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An xorwich would be crosscut, or ripped, but not both.

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The Jehovah’s Witnesses have an update process they call “progressive revelation” so that they can keep retconning their doomsday prophecies.

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Yeah keep kitty in, folks.

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My house is 80 years old, I’ve personally seen 3 feet of snow on its roof, it weathered hurricane Fran with no damage, hurricane Matthew caused a leak around the chimney that stained my living room ceiling a little.

I’m ready to take anything this area is willing to throw at me except tornadoes. A direct strike by tornado will pull it down.

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I read a headline on the internet once (in other words: What I’m about to say is almost certainly bullshit) that cat owners can understand THEIR OWN cats.

Anecdotally as a cat owner, it seems we train each other, cat makes a noise to get attention, human gives a kind of attention when hearing that noise, cat starts making that noise to get that specific attention. My cat has a food meow, an attention meow, a bath water meow (my cat likes to drink from the tub faucet) and a “it’s 3 AM and my brain can’t handle it” meow, and I can definitely tell them apart. There’s also a difference between the “enjoying a shoulder rub” purr and the “make me breakfast make me breakfast make me breakfast make me breakfast” purr. Hand me a different cat and that cat speaks mandarin Swahili.

What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not)

I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don’t really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin....

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dd is a fairly ancient/standard file copy utility, if you dd an ISO file to a drive, it images that drive.

Ventoy is basically a clever use of GRUB, which allows booting multiple ISOs from the same USB stick.

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Or extradite him to Ukraine.

'One Chip Challenge' pulled from shelves after mother says spicy tortilla chip contributed to her son's death (www.nbcnews.com)

Paqui, the maker of extremely spicy tortilla chips marketed as the “One Chip Challenge,” is voluntarily pulling the product from shelves after a woman said her teenage son died of complications from consuming a single chip....

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Vibrant?

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Marketing an outright painful food product to teenagers by framing it as a social media “challenge” is a bit scummy, frankly.

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A fresh Carolina Reaper ranks somewhere around 1.6 million scoville. I grew a bush of em last year, they’re evil little things. I ended up just composting them.

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However deep the public at large deems is acceptable for raw sewage to puddle in the street is exactly how much sewage I have to wade through on my way to the store.

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Not sure I’d call it my favorite but it’s the one I’m using right now.

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As others have said, older Steam Machine era SteamOS was Debian-based, Steam Deck era SteamOS is Arch-based.

By default, SteamOS ships with the KDE desktop environment, so if you want a desktop that looks like the one on your Steam Deck, go with a distro that ships KDE.

In terms of terminal commands, most are going to be similar across Linux distros and there will be a non-zero amount of overlap with MacOS. The main differences are going to be in package management, ie installing and removing software. SteamOS has an immutable file system and doesn’t let users get to the system package manager (which should be pacman for an Arch-based system) by default; users are expected to install applications via Flatpak.

Flatpak is typically used as an alternate package manager; it’s designed to be distro agnostic (doesn’t matter if you’re on Debian or Arch or Fedora etc.), and really geared toward graphical end-user apps rather than OS components or CLI tools. On a typical Linux desktop, Flatpak would be used alongside the standard package manager. Installing something on your Steam Deck via Flatpak would be done with the same command as on my Linux Mint machine, but I could also use APT to install something from the standard repos. SteamOS prevents users from doing that by default. They chose to do it that way to provide a smart phone-like environment where the underlying OS “just works” and the user just installs games and apps. I keep using the phrase “by default” because you can change that setting and then monkey around with it. Or install a different OS entirely. Paraphrasing GabeN: It’s your PC; do whatever you want with it.

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I mean, Kubernetes is a really stupid name for what it is, but I guess Docker was already taken. I’m going to make my own containerizing system and call it deghwI’, which is “helmsman” in Klingon.

OC What should I use over a water based polyurethane stain to make my project shiny and smooth?

I am working on a project made of African mahogany. It’s a wall mount for our guitars that will stay indoors. I have a water based polyurethane stain. I’m going for a darker stain. I’ve put a layer on my test piece and it’s a nice color and spreads on well but it has no shine. From what I understand, more layers with...

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There’s some interesting words in here, huh? “Polyurethane stain” is an interesting combination. And what exactly is “varnish?”

Traditionally, stain is just about color. It’s some dye or pigment suspended in a chemical that will easily evaporate. Just there to color the wood. Does nothing to protect it or add/subtract gloss.

A finish–either a lacquer or varnish–would be applied over a stain as a protective layer. Anything from shellac (excretion of the female lac beetle), tree resin, or polymers such as polyurethane are used for this. These protect the surface from physical damage as well as water/dirt/oil ingress, plus they build up that pretty transparent layer on top of the wood.

Rule of thumb: lacquers are just resins dissolved in a solvent, and when the solvent evaporates, it leaves behind the resin, meaning they can be repaired/modified/removed by applying more solvent. Varnishes undergo some chemical change during the drying process kind of like concrete; it doesn’t just “dry,” it “hardens.”

Another rule of thumb: lacquers are often designed to dry very quickly, and are often designed to be sprayed on. Most commercially produced furniture has a lacquer finish simply because of how fast it can be applied; a table could be taken from raw wood to ready for the customer in under an hour. Varnishes are often designed to dry slower and are often designed to be wiped or brushed on. Varnish is more typical for floors, bar tops and other high wear applications because they’re often more durable, but it can take days to apply in multiple layers.

Polyurethane is a varnish. To achieve a shine, you’ll want to build it up in several layers, lightly sanding in between each. Water based polyurethane is easier to work with than oil-based, but it doesn’t build up to the same gloss.

I suspect by “polyurethane stain” you mean you’ve got something like Minwax Polyshades, which is a urethane that has some pigment in it. These are marketed as “one-step” color and finish coatings. You would apply several coats of this product, lightly sanding between coats, and then apply a polish over it for your desired level of shine.

Mind you: A lot of things you might think of as “polishes” at first are actually varnishes or varnish-like materials. Linseed oil, for example, is a drying oil. It goes on as a liquid, but it reacts with the oxygen in the air and undergoes a chemical change into a solid. Danish oil, and Minwax’s “Tung Oil Finish” are essentially thin urethanes. That latter product, the “Tung Oil Finish” is controversial because it has little to no tung oil in it; Minwax is trying to say it forms a tung oil-like finish. I personally like the product and use it a lot, and mentally think of it as “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Tung Oil.” Applying these over a water-based urethane probably won’t end well; one probably wouldn’t adhere to the other and it would peel off or otherwise misbehave.

What you’re probably going to reach for is paste wax. Paste wax is just a wax and oil mixture, lots of different oils and waxes have been used over the years. Once upon a time you’d find paraffin and turpentine used, which does a great job while being really poisonous. On the other hand, a popular mixture for food-safe applications is mineral oil and bee’s wax, which is safe to eat by the spoonful if you’re so inclined. It’s a great polish for children’s toys and furniture or wooden kitchen implements. Just wipe some all over the surface, let it dry for several minutes, then buff it off. Paste wax is also useful around the shop as a lubricant and rust preventer for metal surfaces such as the bed of your table saw.

TL;DR: Apply several layers of your water-based urethane, sanding between each, then polish with paste wax.

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