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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Wine bottles. After thousands of years of drinking you would think humans would develop a bottle design that doesn't dribble down the side after pouring.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Light bulbs! I thought when we moved away from the traditional incandescent the new stuff was supposed to last forever. Why do they die all the time!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

What? No. How can that be?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Razzle dazzle root beer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Russ Feingold, or Thom Hartmann

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

A peck, equivalent to 2 dry gallons. Yay imperial units!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the clear explanation!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks, this is very clear.

 

Hi, I've been fiddling with PopOS the past year on an old laptop and I like it. I'm getting ready to convert my windows 10 desktop to Pop and leave windows behind entirely, before I do I want to be sure I understand a few security concepts.

I've read suggestions that say don't run as root, create a separate user account and only use root when necessary. Do you give that user account sudo privileges? If so, is that any different from just being root?

Also I've installed the ufw firewall but left it with default settings. Is that something I need to look into more?

Thanks in advance!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Real topics: Data Science, or maybe Quantitative Physiology

Topic near and dear to my heart: How to pick up a new hobby quickly and then immediately move on to the next hobby.