BillibusMaximus

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[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think it would be more interesting if you could change at will. Wake up and pick your gender line you pick your outfit for the day.

Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn't work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn't be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren't backups unless they're tested.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Not sure if you're being pedantic, or if you don't know about hemolymph.

Oh, for sure it is. But as another poster mentioned in a comment, it's not just cookies - pretty much any baked dessert goes well with milk.

That might be part of it. My experience is mostly with the Midwest and southeast US, where there are a lot of dairy farms.

But I totally agree.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I'm in the US. It seems to be pretty common in the Midwest and Southeast, at least. I'm not sure about other parts of the country.

Thinking about the places outside of the US that I've been to, I could certainly see it not being that common. Maybe it's mostly a US thing.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Maybe it's regional and/or cultural.

If I had to guess, I'd say I've probably had milk with cake more often than I've had milk with cookies.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess that heavily depends on the games you're playing

I think this is the key thing.

If you're always buying the newest GPU to play the latest tech- envelope-pushing AAA title that requires the latest greatest driver, then you're probably not going to have a good time with gaming on Debian.

But some of us don't care about those types of games, or maybe in some cases we do but are willing to wait a while to play a particular title (hello Patient Gamers). In that case Debian is a nice, rock solid gaming platform.

Anecdotally, I probably do 85+% of my gaming on Debian (the rest being my steam deck). And it works fine for me because of the types of games I play and/or how long I tend to wait before getting new titles (giving Debian time to catch up).

It's definitely not for every gamer, but I don't think it's as unusable for gaming as people often suggest.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Plus queens are often dewinged so they don't fly away.

Not dewinged. Beekeepers don't go around pulling wings off of queens.

Some beekeepers will clip part of a queen's wing, similar to how people with pet birds will sometimes clip a wing. This doesn't hurt the queen just like it doesn't hurt the bird.

That said, I don't think it's as common of a practice as it once was, as its benefits are pretty questionable (especially vs the risks). I expect when it happens, it's new/hobby beekeepers who read about it in a book somewhere and don't know any better.

I've heard, but have next to no proof, that in winter, drones are suffocated because they will eat the honey that they make instead of humans getting it.

That's ridiculous. You've been lied to.

It's true that drones die in winter, but it's because the hive itself makes the decision to evict the drones - the workers force them out and then they starve, freeze, or are eaten by predators. This is true of wild colonies as well as managed ones, and is how the life cycle of the honey bee has evolved.

Humans have absolutely nothing to do with it.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've read that there are some 3rd party launchers that will let you bypass the account requirement for solo play. I haven't dug into it to figure out which one(s) though.

[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

Of course it doesn't look like one... They're robots in disguise.

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