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  • Fal@yiffit.netto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGood night's sleep rule
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    6 months ago

    TV weather people saying that the temp will be in the 80s is less useful to me than if they tell me if it will be 27°C for example

    Well this isn’t really an accurate comparison. If they know an exact temperature, they would say it in both measurements. But they don’t. So “in the 80s” is the perfect range. Preparing for 80 degrees is almost identical to how you would prepare for 89 degrees. There’s no metric equivalent. The “20s” is way too big of a range. 20 vs 29 is a huge difference. Also, with it being base 10, you don’t really need more information. 80 is 80% hot. Think of the hottest weather you’ve been in. 80 degrees is about 80% of that. And before you say “I’ve been in 115 degree weather”. Yeah, so have I, I lived in arizona, and 115 is honestly not too much different than 100. After 100 it doesn’t matter much. Same with below 0. But the 0-100 range, each degree matters quite a bit





  • Fal@yiffit.nettolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSeen this countless times
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    6 months ago

    This means, that there isn’t that much testing before the release. This can cause lots of problems for the end user.

    Lol you’re buying into the FUD. ubuntu doesn’t test every possible combination of packages, nor do they test how updates actually impact the user. Generally updates are always good for users. They fix bugs. 99% of the time someone comes to a linux forum asking about an issue, the answer is “this was fixed in the latest kernel, try updating”. But because they’re using distros that use ancient, 3 year old kernels, they can’t.

    Unless you have a staging computer where you stage your updates, you’re living in an illusion about “stability”, and using ancient tools with ancient bugs for no reason





  • The arch wiki is the gold standard for Linux, not just arch. But it definitely talks specifically about arch.

    So, there are built in install scripts now. There’s no GUI installer, but it’s 1 command to get a full arch setup installed with a desktop environment. Arch is a 100% reasonable choice for a new user.



  • Fal@yiffit.nettoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world.........
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    7 months ago

    Untrained people shouldn’t be self-diagnosing based on hearing a list of symptom

    This is literally what everyone does. How else would it possibly even work? “Oh shit you mean my foot numbness is a symptom of diabetes?”. Like, this is just how human interaction works.

    And I don’t expect any one doctor to know of every treatment that exists for every illness, because that’s what collaborative knowledge bases are for. A carefully moderated medical Wikipedia that can be contributed to by doctors and researchers

    What does this have to do with what we’re talking about. Are you saying that the doctor should just input every symptom that every patient gives them to a medical Wikipedia? Because otherwise how would they know of new drugs? They may think they know exactly how to treat whatever symptom, but if they’re not continually looking it up very single time, they’ll miss new meds.

    But all of this wouldn’t make the pharmesutical companies as much money as peddling to hypochondriacs so instead we have ads.

    What you described is not even remotely a solution to the actual problem of 1. people not knowing their symptoms are potentially from a disease that has a treatment. and 2. doctors knowing that treatment exists