qyron

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

They accomplish that and the already diminutive presence they have in the world will shrink even more.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 months ago

I should consider having one of these made to hang on my door.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 33 points 4 months ago

The French Foreign Legion is an elite force, open to non french individuals to enlist.

Because it is, by nature, a multicultural force, the legion has a specific trainning regime to develop unit spirit. These are not cannon fodder: any individual that can make the FFL, can after three years of service request french citizenship.

Russia seems to be just trying to find bodies to fill the ranks.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Okay.

Now that we already know we are pretty much at the hands of one pupeteer, what options are there?

I already read about Kagi (apologies if mispelled) but I like to write as a hobby and 300 searches per month go fast.

What other options are there?

Edit:

For those who may be arriving now:

  • Kagi seems to be a good option for an alternative search engine; it is a paid service, for which I don't have the €€€ right now. Many speak very well about it.
  • SearXNG is a thing as well, to my understanding a decentralized search system. Worth the try, in my opinion. If it's something that is decentralized, it is worthy to support and divulge.
  • There is mojeek.com, supposedly not very good but any option that goes against the monopoly is worth the try! I'm going to try this one.
  • Brave.com is an option but is a bit shady.
  • You should try Ecosia if you want to support reforestation efforts. Read somewhere in the thread it is part of the Bing ecosystem.
  • Yep is a thing as well. Somewhere in the thread, a lemmy points they use the search results for AI trainning. So... That is that.
  • And it seems there is a search engine by the name of dogpile.com.
  • Startpage is another search engine (portal?) suggested by another user. I've used it before and like it. Read somewhere it somehow piped a standard google search but removed tracking and ads.
  • and I just remembered Presearch.com. This is a really shady one (crypto warning!) that I suspect is a fork/collab with Brave Browser. I've used it, they have reward-per-search reward system (or had) where they give you crypto for every search. Good results, some that don't come up neither on DDG nor Google.

p.p.s Should I start categorizing these from "shady" to "worthy"?

p.p.s 2 Does anyone remember StumbleUpon? I know it was never a search engine to begin with but it was the best source of good internet content I ever got acquainted to.

Can we get something like that back?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

It should. An open technology standard should gain traction over closed proprietary ones.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

If that is enough for your needs, that's fine.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes and nothing less.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

If that is so, I wish you a very pleasant day!

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you for that insight

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Help me on that. What it entails evades me.

I understand it as being obnoxious, rude and overbearing.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Can I butt in for a moment and actively ask what makes a male character more relatable?

I'm currently in the process of writing my first novel and that was something I never gave a thought about.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

That is one good story.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world
 

Here is my problem: I have an old house - nearly 100 years old - that I need to insulate but I have a few problems and concerns I need to deal with. The walls are essentially stone and an old kind on solid cement block.

I've been looking into the insulation solutions available in my market and it is basically a matter of gluing thick boards of styrofoam-like material to the walls.

On the outwalls this is not feaseable as the house faces a road with no sidewalk, so I'd be encroaching onto the road. Inside, adding 5cm of insulation would make small rooms smaller to the point some would be, for all practical purposes, rendered into generous pantries.

Because I live in a somewhat rural area, mice and rodents are a concern, so adding materials they can chew through makes no sense. It would be like supplying an easy to move through medium to run the entire house. I have seen houses and buildings with this kind of insulation chewed into, the moment the smallest of pieces of the hard plaster gets cracked, which is very easy. The added fire hazard is a concern as well, I'll admit.

I've already seen cork insulation but the base color is always brown and does not deal well with being painted on.

What other options may I look into? I'm in southern Europe but in an area with harsh winters.

 

Besides Libre Office, what other programs/solutions exist in the Linux world for writers?

(Please, don't suggest VIM. After all the memes and comments I've read, I've come to dread it).

I like writing but the standard Writer tends to send me in a constant formatting spree.

I want to get back to writing regularly and something that could help me stay focused and somewhat organized would be nice.

 

It's friday, so lets try to end the week in a positive note with a laugh.

My own: got the first compliment of my life after a locker room raid.

I was told I was pretty easy on the eye with no top on, with a smile and a wink to boot, after a few minutes of playing the toss the bundle around game.

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E será que nos deixam? (pplware.sapo.pt)
submitted 9 months ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/portugal
 

12 a 15 mil para fazer a conversão é uma bela maquia mas poder converter um carro que já é nosso e que provavelmente até gostamos parece muito bom.

Quando a conversão a GPL começou a ser uma coisa, era horrivelmente dispendiosa mas quem a fez dizia que compensava o custo rapidamente.

Porque não isto?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/portugal
 

Alguém se lembra do leite escolar, em pacote com essa específica designação, em vez de marca comercial?

Porque terá acabado essa designação?

Partilhem as vossas curiosidades e as vossas respostas para solucionar alguma se a tiverem.

E antes que alguém pergunte: ninguém sabe onde se encontra o vídeo de batatada no Batatoon.

 

And what do you recommend to hang on walls, for decorative purposes, besides family photos?

Mine are blank and barren, an empty canvas for the maniacal decorator in me, after carefully negotiated with the family.

 

A few years ago, almost out of despair, I moved away from Debian in order to be able to play a few games natively.

On those days, the main concern with running games on Debian came mostly from unavailable dependencies or older, incompatible versions.

Fast forward today, returning to Debian, all installers from GOG run smoothly, with no error, but many games report errors on launching.

So, as per the title, what crazy voodoo magic is cast upon Debian to create Ubuntu, Mint and others, making those derivatives gaming-capable but their base distro not?

Can someone enlighten me on this, please?

Out of many games I tried, I managed to run three: Kingdom Rush and the Frontiers sequel and Martial Law.

Other titles failed miserably, including Desperados, Eschalon and even Stardew Valley.

Because it's useful/required info:

system

  • AMD Athlon II x2 250
  • 8GB RAM
  • GeForce G210

It's a very reliable work horse, with maxed out memory. The GPU proprietary drivers are no longer available; running nouveau.

When launching from the console, I get this report (example from Stardew Valley):

start.sh: 7: Bad substitution

start.sh: 9: source: not found

start.sh: 12: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 13: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 14: get_gameinfo: not found

start.sh: 29: define_option: not found

start.sh: 32: standard_options: not found

 

At the bare minimum, as "Sir".

 

Pessoal, conforme o título, estou a formar a ideia de organizar um encontro de escritores indie para o ano de 2024.

Tudo está ainda em cima da mesa, só mesmo a localização é que já está decidida: Gouveia, na Guarda.

Não imagino se este será o melhor lugar para começar a divulgar ou mesmo se será um tema de interesse aqui mas em algum lado tinha de começar.

Se quiserem participar ou mesmo só divulgar, haverá brevemente uma morada de email que irei deixar aqui.

Obrigado pela atenção!

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