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Heatmap of compound curse words used online. (sourced from reddit: 2006-2020) in c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world

What are yall's thoughts on this new "papyrus"? in c/ancientinternet@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

PAPYRUS IS VERY POPULAR!! AND COOL!!

If seeing someone 4 days consecutively is seeing them 4 days in a row, does that mean seeing someone every Monday of a month is seeing them 4 days in a column? in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

NVIDIA GPU not detected after driver update in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Did I understand it right that you installed the driver manually? It's generally better to use the Fedora Nvidia driver package (sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia), than to download from Nvidia's website. I'm on Fedora 40 too, and currently using the 560.35.03 version of the driver on a 2080, which upgraded from 555 recently - I wonder if that's what broke compatibility with your version of the driver. It may be that you need to update. Only thing I'm not sure of is how this will interact with manually-installed drivers...

This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down” in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I've wanted this for a while; when I'm done with my computer, I don't mind it staying on a bit longer to do this, rather than when I next turn it on when I (presumably) want to do something. Great add!

Installing Bismuth - Concern about the listed downgrades and deletions required | Nobara in c/linux@sopuli.xyz

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That will downgrade you from plasma 6 to plasma 5. Not worth it!

US8246454B2 in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

my favorite thng about this image is how the mandatory hamburger acknowledgement is interrupting a scene where a man is getting shot in the face, emphasizing that the target audience is Americans

What is it like to attend a predatory conference? in c/academia@mander.xyz

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get so aggressively spammed with this shit that I have deleted legitimate invited talks at real conferences

One downside of cycle routes made from unused railways. in c/bicycling@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

after a long period of disuse, the rails turn back into the snakes they were made from

Anyobody picked up a game from the Steam Summer Sale yet? in c/patientgamers@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just got Disco Elysium, it has been on my list for a while, and now it's 4 euros...

I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In defense of this warning, when I first put my application on Flathub, I had it because of how file i/o worked (didn't support XDG portals, so needed home folder access to save properly). It did actually motivate me to get things working with portals to not request the extra permissions and get the green "safe" marker.

A lot of apps will always be "unsafe" because they do things that requires hardware access, though, so I could see them wanting something more nuanced.

Are offline updates going to be the future? in c/linux@lemmy.world

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

If you're on KDE using Discover for updates, the default on a lot of distros is to apply updates on reboot, but you can change this under the Software Update section of the System Settings app. I think it's not a bad idea; I'd rather have a bit of controlled downtime than risk borking my system.