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Cake day: August 18th, 2023
  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.detoFediverse@lemmy.world•we need more usersEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy

    Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.

    Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.detoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?
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    9 days ago

    I happened to enjoy most of the assigned books. I’d have the same issue in class with the amount of time given on each book, but I’d use it to my advantage. I’d usually just read each book twice on my own, chill out and more or less slack off while in class, and still answer any questions or do the work better than anyone else because I knew the subject matter better than any other students. I’d ready something like the oddesey a couple times over a weekend and then have a month where I didn’t have to use any effort at all in that class.

    I give my grandma props to my reading. I went over to Grandma and Grandpa’s a lot and from the age of like 1 she would read me childrens picture books. Many times I’d ask for the same one again and again and shed lovingly read it to me. I could follow along looking at the words (she’d point with her finger at each word as she read) long before I learned sounds each letter would make. I could just recognize a word by what the word looked like in the book. I could read at a 5th grade level in first grade, and by 5th grade I tested out to its max of 12+.

    Thanks, Grandma. Miss you.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•"how do i install this on Linux?" "thats the neat part. you dont."
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    9 days ago

    The real mvp comes from one of the best website hosts in the world. If you have to be on windows and especially if you’re setting up a fresh install; use www.ninite.com.

    It bypasses all the prompts and warnings and opt in\out prompts of a ton of common programs you’d want to install on your PC into one single and quick install. You check mark each of the programs you want from the list (web browsers, anti virus, video players, etc) and it hands you over a single install file to take care of automatically installing them all at once. Best website their is if you’re a windows user. I’ve counted on this gem for well over a decade. I only have one PC left that I keep windows on now, and I’ll be swapping that over to Linux as well by November this year when windows 10 stops getting security updates.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyz•What? Anyway, you hungry?English
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    10 days ago

    As a general rule of thumb, most of the times you find something that grows in nature that causes hallucinations, but it isn’t something you’ve heard that people take to hallucinate, it’s because taking enough of it to trip will make you a lot sicker than it’s worth or is generally regarded as a terrible “trip” or can fuck with your brain in the long term. For example; nutmeg is also a hallucinogen. Commonly causing palpations of the heart and an impending feeling of doom with delusions of grandeur and possible mental breakdowns. A tablespoon of nutmeg might just ruin your week, so to speak. But it tastes nice as a spice so it’s in most houses and grocery stores because pretty much no one ever wants to use it as a fun time drug.