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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 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.

Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 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!?

US objects to calling out ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 statement on Ukraine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

What? No. How can that be?

What is the most bizzare opinion you have ever heard from a teacher or professor in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 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.

What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Razzle dazzle root beer

If you could choose who was president who would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Russ Feingold, or Thom Hartmann

What's your favorite volume measure? Mine's 1/2 cup or 125 ml. So handy. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

Sudo user vs root in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the clear explanation!

Sudo user vs root in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks, this is very clear.

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Sudo user vs root (lemmy.ml)
 

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!

If you had to teach a subject in school, what would it be and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [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.

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