But people regularly find bears in their yards and driveway. Lots of people open their doors in the morning and find a bear within meters from where they’re standing. And the vast majority of those encounters don’t end up with anyone getting hurt.

Source: live in BC, Canada, tons of bears around urban areas.

As long as it’s not Australia you’re probably safe

Soda machine

Open source orgs

I still have Reddit where I post to r/Vancouver and r/Worldbuilding, mainly because Lemmy doesn’t really have active communities for those where new stuff gets posted every day. Once Lemmy gets large enough (which I believe it will) for those communities to become active I’ll probably stop posting to Reddit. Or if they get rid of the old UI. Whichever comes first.

Boo

Microsoft Surface.

In no particular order:

The Alcantara keyboard cover stated delaminating and the top layer started peeling off just from the friction of resting your hands on it. Started happening within months of getting it.

Battery failed after just a few years of daily use, I’m talking completely refused to charge, you unplug the charger even after leaving it in overnight and the screen goes black instantly. And while most laptops can run just fine with a dead battery as long as you keep it plugged in at all times, not the Surface. The little magnetic connector supplies so little power that the device is forced to down clock to below 1 GHz to keep from shutting down due to undercurrent. And sometimes it shuts down anyway because fuck you.

It’s also glued so tight, and the front glass is so thin, that you basically can’t open it without destroying the screen in the process.

Also, the magnetic charge connector started having contact issues around the same time the battery was starting to fail, so the moment you bump it, it disconnects and causes the device to turn off. It also just refuses to connect half the time when you plug it in. Gotta jiggle it, blow into it, shake and hit it a bunch of times, and pray. I’m pretty sure it’s the tablet’s side that’s the problem because changing chargers did nothing, and the charger that came with the problem tablet worked fine on another Surface. Gotta love when companies make the fragile part of the connector apart of the $2000 device that’s sealed shut with glue and put the more robust part on the cheap and easily replaceable charger.

It’s also really bad at going to sleep. Way too many times I’ve closed it, put it in my bag, and when I take it out it’s scalding hot and the battery is nearly drained. It’s your own device Microsoft, running 100% your own software. How the hell do you fuck it up?!

Worst. Tablet. EVER. And probably ruined any potential that laptop-replacement tablets once had, which is a shame because I still like the tablet form factor.

More like yelling at the one fighting the fire because they’re getting water everywhere

Where app data is stored.

~/.local

~/.config

~/.var

~/.appname

Sometimes more than one place for the same program

Pick one and stop cluttering my home directory

Why Linux Mint specifically, why not just Linux? Or if they want to pick a specific distro, why not Trisquel or another FSF-endorsed distro?

I already have a pixel. Is it just as easy as installing Lineage OS on the phone?

FOSS is not American. Foss belongs to literally everyone.