When zathura (my beloved) isn’t feature-rich enough for my needs I usually turn to okular. Sure, it’s kde, so if you’re on a pure gnome system you’re going to have to install a bunch of dependencies, but if that’s not a problem for you, okular is quite good in my experience!
Ok. Doesn’t sound like great world-building to me. There’s a reason I don’t like capeshit. But enjoy your crappy stories about a shitty billionaire and the unrealistic impossibly broken city he beats people up in.
Like, actually “good” billionaires
Hahaha, no such thing. How did they get their billions? 
Where did the billions come from? 
First of all, your comment is pretty ableist.
Second of all, these two distinct meanings you’re seeing aren’t so distinct, so I don’t at all think it’s a misunderstanding.
For an example that sits right between the two meanings you see as distinct, we can look at my struggle to finish my PhD. I should have quit 4 years ago with a master’s. I’d be in a much better spot economically, mentally, emotionally, basically in every way that matters. Sure, finishing my PhD was not as bad as staying in an abusive relationship or smoking a ton or partying way too hard way too often, but it’s closer to that than someone who believes “quitters never win” would like to admit. There are lots of times when it’s a way better idea to just quit while you’re ahead and do something more worthwhile that will actually make your life better rather than stick with something awful just because you don’t want to be a loser and quit.
Ok, I think I see. For people who use it frequently, an instant pot is actually easier than other options. For me it’s very much an arcane piece of equipment that makes me nervous every time I touch it. I think I’ll stick to pots and rice cookers. I’ve never had beans boil over (I use a giant pot) and my rice cooker is amazing. For setting and forgetting reasons I can just use a crock pot (which takes forever, sure, but I’m fine with that).
Thanks for answering my questions! And for posting your delicious looking meals all the time, I love looking at them!
Ah ok, that makes some sense. I really enjoy the process of cooking beans, I like having a pot simmering on the stove for hours, so I’m probably not about to switch to instant pot for beans. The whole set it and go thing is pretty cool in some contexts I’m sure. I use a crock pot sometimes for similar reasons.
I have a few questions about instant pots, because people love them, but I just can’t figure out why I’d want to use one. Maybe someone reading this can help!
So, ok, instant pots can cook beans quicker. But I have no idea how you decide how long to put the beans in for! And every time I’ve tried I’ve ended up with crunchy beans, so I have to restart the whole instant pot process and basically cook the beans twice, which ends up not being that much quicker than just doing them in a pot on the stove. How do you get the time right the first time so you don’t have to cook the beans twice? Do you just way overestimate the time since beans can’t really get overcooked?
Second, I recently tried to make some rice in the instant pot, using the usual ratio of rice to water that I normally would. It was terrible! Just wet and mushy and awful. What is the correct grain to water ratio for an instant pot? Not just rice, but like, say I wanted to make barley, or any other grain. In a rice cooker you want to do 3 to 1 water to barley. How do you adjust water to grain ratios for an instant pot?
And third, this picture has me confused. Why would anyone ever cook pasta in an instant pot? Isn’t that going to be way slower than on the stove? Because the instant pot has to pressurize and then de-pressurize? What am I missing?
Basically, someone who likes instant pots, please instant-pot-pill me. People swear by these things, but in my mind they’re entirely useless to downright worse than other cooking methods. What is it about instant pots that makes them good, because I literally do not understand.
Thanks!
Oh shit, is this supposed to be a response to me asking about ranked choice voting? Assuming that’s the case:
That’s cool for Arizona. I hope it passes. But I don’t live in Arizona. Most americans don’t. What should those of us not in Arizona do to bring about ranked choice voting?
support some form of ranked voting in your state next time
Serious question: how do you suggest I do this? The “vote for Biden” people say this a lot, and like, I agree, ranked choice voting would be far preferable to our current electoral system. I’d like this change to happen. So how can we make it happen? What is the plan for after the election to get ranked voting before the next one? So far as I can tell, none of the politicians in my state (or any state, really) have tried to implement ranked choice and there aren’t any ballot initiatives that aim towards it. So what do you see as the way forward here? How do we get ranked choice voting to become a reality before the next time we’re faced with a choice between two absolutely unacceptable presidential candidates?
I can think of a couple of uses. Well, basically just one use. You could hide posts that cause distress for whatever reason. For example, I hate snakes and if someone posted a neat picture of a snake I’d probably hide it, just so I don’t have to keep seeing the same post and jump scaring myself with a picture of a snake while scrolling. Another example might be a thread in which people are arguing and you don’t want to get dragged into the argument. I actually literally did this earlier today with a thread where people were yet again arguing about the upcoming US election and whether voting Biden is a reasonable choice. I’ve read this argument so many times and it’s so tempting to jump in and be an asshole to someone who is wrong and I just don’t want to do that today, so better to hide the post so I don’t keep seeing it while scrolling.
So yeah, you can hide posts you don’t want to keep running across while scrolling for whatever reason. Seems like a pretty useful feature to me, I’m glad we have it now.
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absencesanything beyond math’s clarity and definiteness can be challenging if not impossible to say the least.
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Anyway, just a tip for future comments on the internet: I’d suggest not being an asshole in your very first reply to someone you disagree with unless there’s a good reason to be, because it makes you look extremely silly if your shitty comment is actually just wrong. I wouldn’t have commented in this thread at all if you hadn’t been an immediate asshole to frightful_hobgoblin, but here we are.
Yes you absolutely can. Here’s an extremely trivial example: 6 is not prime, which I can prove by simply saying 6 = 2*3. Bam, I’ve proved a negative.
Impossible foods? The brand that tested on animals when it wasn’t required to do so?
Nah.
But what if we grow? What if more people pirate?
Good. Unlimited piracy on media and software corporations.
I’m a communist first and foremost. Private property is wrong in all its forms, this wrongness is just most obvious when talking about intellectual property, because intellectual property can be easily copied and isn’t something physical like the tools in a factory. Of course corporations will always try to clamp down on piracy, they’ve been trying to do so my entire adult life. It doesn’t really matter how many pirates there are, because corporations don’t just want money, they want all the money. If even one person pirates, corporations will try to make piracy difficult.
I guess I fundamentally disagree with your statement that “The world can handle a stable population of pirates.” I don’t think that’s a meaningful statement. It’s not like there’s some “carrying capacity” for piracy after which point the intellectual property ecosystem will tip out of equilibrium and cause pirates to become an endangered species.
Nah, it’s way easier than that: pirate everything, give as much money as you can afford to small creators. Intellectual property is a fuck and the vast majority of any money you pay for media goes directly into the pockets of wealthy executives, not to the people who actually make the media you enjoy.
I love lemmy, having been here since the very earliest hexbear days. In my view, the devs are doing the best they can. They’re a tiny team surviving on grants, trying to produce software that the users, for some reason, expect to have feature parity with reddit, a large corporation with a large paid dev team. It’s weird to say the least.
My understanding is that nutomic and dessalines survive solely on that 4000 euros per month, because all of their time goes to lemmy. How do you want them to survive? They need to eat and pay rent, you know. The real world exists and they’re humans in it, needing food and sleep and shelter.
It seems to me you want magic. You don’t want the lemmy devs to be humans, you want them to be magic coder gods who are infinitely patient, with boundless time and energy. But that’s completely unrealistic, you surely must see that, right?
There’s a pinned post at the top of this very comm talking about exactly this issue: https://hexbear.net/post/403920?scrollToComments=false
Long story short, yes, it’s a racist term with a racist history and should not be used. Please change it
You could try spacemacs (what I use) or doom emacs. Both have vi-like keybindings as a default and are slightly easier to get going with than vanilla emacs. On the other hand, especially with spacemacs, there’s more to learn than vanilla emacs and more that can go wrong.
what, on the surface, is a pretty trivial ask
I don’t think having my real life phone number tied to a website or game account is a trivial ask. I’d like my data to be private, especially something as real-life and tangible as a fucking phone number. Sure, there are ways around these things, you can get a fake phone number for cheap (or possibly even free), but that’s rather more effort than I’m willing to put in for most things. If I need to enter a phone number to sign up for an account for something, chances are very extremely good I’ll just decide I don’t need the account that badly. I don’t think I’m alone in this.
Sure, that’s extremely fair! Those qt dependencies are no joke! How do you feel about Evince (apparently now called gnome document viewer)? It seems to be the standard gtk pdf viewer, but I’ve never used it, so I actually don’t know what it’s features are like. It’s a heavier application than mupdf (of course), but at least you don’t need to install qt to use it!