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  • I love the idea your wife has about writing arguments down! Feels like it would help give structure too, so many arguments I have meander from disagreeing about detail to detail.

  • X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day
  • You can view some profiles (authwall for others) and some show all content (tried it out with bbc and forbes), others drop relatively recent content while some others only show ancient content from a year or more ago.

    The latter two were when I tried opening the twitter pages for some smaller podcasts I follow.

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  • As for dictionary definitions, youre right about what the first definition is, but many recognize what I pointed out (insects as animals). Definitions other than the first aren't wrong, they reflect that people use words in ways other than biologists do.

    anything that lives and moves, including people, birds, etc.: Humans, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all animals. Cambridge dictionary

    Any living creature other than a human being can be referred to as an animal. Collins

    any such living thing other than a human being. Dictionary.com

  • Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome! @lemmy.world Poplar? @lemmy.world
    (TIP) Linux comes with lvmcache, which allows you to easily setup SSD caching.

    I'm not sure how widely known this is, I'm hoping at the least some other beginners will benefit :)

    SSD caching is when an SSD stores the most frequently used contents of a slow (but usually larger) hard disk. When attempting to access something from your hard disk, it will be fetched from your SSD if available, otherwise getting it from your HDD. All the while you will be shielded from this complexity and pretend to work off of the HDD (transparent caching).

    Linux comes with lvmcache, which lets you do this with surprisngly few incantations in your terminal.

    I had fun installing a distro making use of this (as expected performance has benefited quite a bit). If you are, too:

    • Guides on lvmcache assume you already know the basics of Linux's logical volume manager (lvm). There don't seem to be any that bring it all together.

    • On setting lvmcache up, the lvmcache manpage was nice and clear. RedHat's guide was good too. Other sources meanwhile were lacking in one way or another.

    • A volume with lvmcache set up, I learn that Ubuntu's nice-looking new installer doesnt support installing on lvm logical volumes. Frustratingly, everything online was on using the old installer, leaving me wondering where I had messed up so that my lvm volume wasn't showing up on my installer. Heads up.

    Thanks for reading!

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    Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome! @lemmy.world Poplar? @lemmy.world
    Install only the "core" of the distro on an SSD, other packages on HDD?

    I use Ubuntu installed on a hard disk. My computer also comes with a tiny (16GB) SSD that I've another Ubuntu installation on. While a fresh install on the SSD worked great, this is too small to hold all the packages I will eventually need.

    Is there any way to only have the core bits of the distro on the SSD, and have all the other packages I later install on the HDD?

    I want this so I can have a fast boot (boots slowly using the HDD) and since I'm happy with the speed of apps as they work while now installed on my HDD, I'd like to keep using them off of it.

    All idea welcome :)

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