pelya

joined 3 years ago
[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Rest of your lake, rest of your salt, it's all down below.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not when you are forced to use dial-up internet when all your online friends had Ethernet or optic cable for years. That was the state of civilization between '90s and 2000.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

How did this happen? We need to rename the place immediately!

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

When USSR ended, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus were in very similar situation, politically and economically. Belarus got Lukashenko from the very beginning, he immediately bought off police and squashed all dissent. Ukraine had a wannabe dictator Yanukovich, bur kicked him out.

Russia got a big window of opportunity between Yeltsin and Putin, they could totally do their own Maidan, plus storming Kremlin is a historical Russian tradition.

No one cared.

They got a taste of Europe and civilized world, the young people got tech jobs with lots of money. Instead of fixing their own government, they mostly emigrated, and now formed a diaspora instead of learning the language and blabbering about mysterious Russian soul and wanking on WW2 photos.

One of Putin's fears is that Ukraine showed a clear scenario how to depose a dictator.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Drone armor is literally duct tape. On premium luxury drones it's a painted duct tape. Zip ties for structural strength.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Justice for the 5.25" floppy disk! It had an actual hole inside, which would fit your finger! You could see it's a disk and not a weird shaped square box, and you could hear it's rotating.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Will we see people floating into the sky with clothes ripped off after eating one spoonful of fried rice?

Also, one of the characters wears gloves. Actual sanitary practices in my anime kitchen?

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

That corner cutout is grossly exagerrated. In the actual floppy disk (which is also not floppy anymore) the cutout is tiny.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

The dull answer

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Why does that wood pile photo look like it has pre-rendered background?

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Regular gas contained lead, so not quite the same.

 

Because I express my creativity through shitcode, I named my development hardware appropriately.

It's actially xn--og8h8z because /etc/hostname is allowed to contain only ASCII Latin characters, numbers, and dash, but converting emojis to Punycode using command idn 🌈💩 does the job.

I can log into my Raspberry using command ssh user@🌈💩 however Bash login shell still shows untranslated Punycode hostname instead of rainbow poop symbols, so the support is not yet fully there, and avahi-resolve-address shows hex codes of UTF-8 emojis.

I'm using Debian 13 btw.

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Frontpage is broken (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by pelya@lemmy.world to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
 

When I open Lemmy Connect, I see this. No frontpage posts are loading, however I can open my profile and read my own posts.

I am posting this from a mobile web browser like a savage. Please help!

 

For those who want to try it at home:

ping 33333333
ping 55555555

I am sorry, two random Internet users in Korea and Germany, your IP addresses are simply special.

 

Google had removed my X server app from Play Store, because it was too old (is 2022 too old?)

But no more! I have recompiled it for the newest Android version and published it back. And you can use it to run GUI apps from Termux. Launch X server first, then run these commands in Termux, then switch back to X server:

pkg install x11-repo
pkg install xfce4
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:127.0.0.1:4713
xfce4-session

Termux now has it's own X server, my app is pretty similar, except that it's landscape by default.

 

I have mixed sour cream with Marmite to make it spread more evenly over banana, and the taste is... not good. The salt overpowers all other components. It's even worse than plain Marmite banana, because you can actually taste the banana before Marmite diffuses over your tongue. The best combination was cream banana without Marmite, to no surprise.

Marmite cream oat cookie is a surprising discovery. The overpowering saltness of Marmite is balanced by the overpowering sweetness of the oat cookie, the same way salted caramel works. I don't think the cream is even necessary, you can rub Marmite on the cookie's hard surface much easier than on the soft banana.

 

If combining two things from a fridge could be called a new recipe. It tastes good, I promise.

 

The shop also had regular sprink bottles with the same cologne, but this bottle is shaped like a fuel can, so it looked manlier to me. It contains 80% alcohol, so it's also a disinfectant and an after-shave.

 

I don't need any fancy tiling window managers. One fullscreen window per desktop, and 12 virtual desktops, that was my workflow for 10 years. Then I incorporated KDE activities into my workflow, which are exactly like virtual desktops but switched with Meta-Tab not with Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-F12. Wonderful!

And then, Plasma devs broke it. Switching activities now puts my foreground fullscreen window (one per desktop) into background, and switches keyboard focus to the desktop. Give me back my keyboard shortcuts, and you could also rename Plasma back to KDE while you're at it, thank you very much.

At least there is a bug opened, but it's doubtful that Plasma devs will fix it before Debian 13 release. I can't even find motivation to update my OS anymore.

 

Also works for searches 'Times new roman' and 'Courier new font', but not for 'Lucida console font' or 'Dejavu sans font'.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pelya@lemmy.world to c/cooking@lemmy.world
 

Washed tomatoes and pasta

  1. Get half-kilo of fresh tomatoes, three onions, and three carrots. You can use the cheapest tomatoes for this, the heat treatment will average the taste. Wash everything. Chop onions and carrots, dump into the frying pan. Add salt.

Onions and carrots

  1. Fry diced onions and carrots in a pan, using a generous finger-thick layer of oil, preferrably olive, until the onions don't sting anymore and carrots start to soften.

Simmered tomatoes and hot pepper

  1. Cut tomatoes in 2 pieces each, you'll mash them anyway so thin slices do not matter. Dump tomatoes into the pan. Cover with a lid, cook on a slow fire for about 10 minutes until they become sauce. Mash and stir each 3 minutes so they won't burn. Cooking less will preserve taste of fresh tomatoes, cooking longer will make it taste closer to canned pasta sauce. But they won't have that taste of the can that you will get with canned tomatoes.

The secret ingredient and spices

  1. Add the secret ingredient - half-kilo of canned pork. This is an optional step - if you prefer taste over calories, it's better to prepare a separate meat dish instead. If you want to add hot pepper, add it now so it will spread uniformly.

The secret ingredient

  1. Boil pasta while tomatoes are cooking - the standard 500 gram package will do, preferably something with a lot of surface like penne so it can soak up more sauce.

  2. Dump Italian or French spice mix into the pan. Turn off the heat, let it simmer for 1 minute so the herbs will soften.

Finished pasta

  1. Dump pasta into the pan. Done! Plating is optional, you can eat it straight from the pan. And the next day you can prepare another wonderful dish - yesterday's pasta re-heated until it's crusty.
 

Lemmy Connect attempts to add ?format=webp to the image URL when loading .gif image, this makes many Lemmy servers return an error. When opening the post in the web browser, without the extra addition to the image URL, the image loads correctly.

Post where the bug is present: https://lemmy.world/post/19556846

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by pelya@lemmy.world to c/imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world
 
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