Yeah, I'm a Reddit refugee, and I heard a bunch of people complaining about there being no "centralized login", and I'm like--bruh, that's WHY WE MOVED HERE, lmao!

I use LibreOffice! Calc, Draw, and Writer are very user friendly once you get used to where the tools are. Impress is a pretty good replacement for Powerpoint: the stock graphics leave a lot to be desired--but that's a simple fix with a good stock image service. About the only thing LO doesn't do is notes, but I'd check out Xournal++ if you were looking for a way to replace OneNote. Plus, LibreOffice doesn't push OneDrive down your throat. It's been a win-win for me.

Another thing to consider if you really like typesetting is to learn LaTeX: it's a slightly steep learning curve(especially for advanced topics), but it'll do things that your typical WYSIWYG word-processing suite couldn't dream of doing. Plus there are a lot of templates available that you can adapt for your purposes.

Vlad is just a global embarrassment at this point.

Yeah, definitely an ADD/Attention-Processing issue. I used to read a lot as a kid, and after a head injury that aggravated my ADD and years of reading and talking in short-form messages (SMS, twitter, etc), it took me FOREVER to re-learn the skill of reading long-form text.

Luckily, with practice comes mastery, I was able to regain my abilities to read, and I'm currently working on a few textbooks and two casual books. It's still a struggle in distracting environments (loud children, hospitals, etc), but it's getting better the more I read.

One or two of the devs might have some strange opinions, but if one thing's for sure, they solved a bug report ticket I opened in just a single day--yeah turns out it was a simple fix, but that's a damn impressive turnaround. Just sayin'.

Yep, and the best way to make sure these places keep going is to contribute!

Also, if you can, consider donating to instance/server hosts and developers.

I love this thing that people forget about open source. Like the whole FreeCAD community, there's a whole group of people who don't even use the vanilla UI--because they don't have to, haha! Of course, it does take skill, but if you're skilled enough to make pull request...

I juried a case regarding long term care, and I have to say that some businesses definitely treat their patients as numbers. While this is not what happened in the case I juried, I do know that in many states elderly care has gotten so bad that some clinics will intentionally misdiagnose and mistreat elderly patients for no other reason than to keep rooms filled.

Solving this problem is easy, if A or D were correct, P = 0.5, if C or B were correct P = 0.25, since A and D require P = 0.25, and since C and B require P = 0 or 0.5 respectively, there is no correct solution that can be given, therefore the solution is "Undefined".

Anyway, have a good troll!

This, many times over, this.

To be fair, it sounds like poetry that an AI model would spit out after being trained on text scraped from the internet...

Mobile lemmy, yeah, this is a solid winner!

I deleted all my content and my Reddit accounts, I only use lemmy and kbin for discussions, now. I think I've visited Reddit a couple times from search engine results over the past couple of days, but my page visitation has dropped by a factor of at-least 100.

This is good, very good. That reminds me, I wonder if r/HostileArchitecture is going to or has arrive(d) in the fediverse...

Oh that's a really great method! I used to know a guy with ASD who did kind-of the inverse, he was super familiar with reading (specifically the bible), but he had a hard time with conversations. So he learned how to use the bible as a medium to conduct conversation.

Really, really cool discussions were born from that, and by the time I met him, he was almost independently conducting conversation, only going back to certain bible references when he got stuck or he needed to borrow a story or metaphor.

Nice! Yeah, I mostly want it for convenience of working with agar--but the need just isn't there yet. I'm considering a redneck version using one of the 4" thick MERV 12 filters, which are rated to filter 0.3um particles, just not 99.99% of them. I know for a fact it would be much better than my SAB in terms of contamination risk, and I'm considering building my own wooden impeller fan, so if I can scrap an old high RPM motor--I may be able to finagle a basic FFU together for under $50.

Not to mention the periodic spore clouds, haha! It would be really cool if it were possible though!

I wonder if it would be possible to get some radiotrophic fungi to absorb IR and UV, so they could functionally act as a thermal barrier, cooling during the summer and heating during the winter...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

A better question to ask is if a person is made entirely of what they eat, and the person only ate vegan meals, then would that person's flesh not also be a vegan meal?

Yes!

Random trivia: it's actually not the liquid water that matters, it's the water vapor due to the pressure-temperature relationship of water in the gas phase (since gasses are significantly more compressible than liquids). It's also important to note that water vapor does not behave like an ideal gas above ~1.5PSI, and it has a different temperature-pressure curve than gasses like N2, O2, and CO2, which is why you need to purge air at the beginning of the canning process in order to achieve a high enough temperature.

...and yeah, it's crazy how altitude and atmospheric pressure matters, the weight of the air around us is literally pushing down on the rocker weight, affecting the relative internal pressure.

Thermodynamics is pretty awesome! XD