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Tuukka R

@ Tuuktuuk @piefed.ee

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A human being from a Finland.

  • I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • Back when I originally dabbled with using Linux on a computer of my own, maybe around year 2003 or so, I didn't know about rm -rf and was many years from being an adult as well. But I did know about /dev/null, and was really fascinated by the concept of the /dev/ directory!

    So, I tried removing a file by 

       
        
# cat filename > /dev/null  
 .  
The next time I booted my computer, there was... An error message.

    /dev/null: Not a file 

       
        

From the perspective of a person who has now used Linux since 1998 (first with only user rights on my parents' computer) this sounds like an absolutely bonkers solution for that problem, but yeah: it's er-em-dash-rm-ef-slash level of error. And those do really happen. It's good to keep in mind what a n00b can be able to do!

  • Spotify subscriptions should be boycotted as if it were a US-based company

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  • They get more money from advertisements if you use the free version. Is an adblocker able to remove the ads from Spotify's audio fred?

    (And if it does, does it block Spotify from getting paid for the ad anyway?)

    Using the unpaid version doesn't really deny Spotify much any income. Better just move completely away to better platforms.

  • 94.3° F

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  • 94.3 F is 34.6 °C. The body temperature is 36 to 37 °C. Therefore, the thermal camera shows the temperature a little bit wrong. It's unlikely that the butt would be much colder than 36 °C.

  • Featured

    Why this new community?

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  • I wonder if the community's name could be adapted to more precisely describe what the community is about? Is there one word that could be added to make it more clear?

    I do appreciate the sentiment behind creating this community. Awesome!

  • Don't believe them

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  • Works about 95 % reliably in Finland, though! And usually if it doesn't, there's been a warning saying "we have an exceptionally long queue; calling back might take over a day". When you hear that, you know there's a 50% chance that they will never call back. Once the queue gets three days long, they just delete it because so many of the calls would be useless at that point.

  • Is this true for Germans?

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  • More about this here. So yes, they do that. And nobody does that unless they hate their country. Or at least their lungs and climate because lignite is a catastrophe for both.

  • Broken promises: Indian students at a Berlin university face deportation instead of graduation

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  • I'm not sure it really does.

    Wikipedia does list this one under Universities of Applied Science (which, in itself, is not actually the same thing as a university). This university seems like a small organization. And it might exists primarily to scam people.

    There are other universities in Berlin that are of good quality. There is no sensible reason to enroll in this weird fake university.

    I'd assume the answer to your question is: "Because Oakley Capital founded a small institute that they call an university, and opening businesses like that is legal in Germany."

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • The search engines will eventually start getting it. For example web.archive.org now clearly has code specifically for archiving Forumverse posts, because they seem to rewrite all usernames to show @web.archive.org as the instance. (Which is super weird, I must say!)

    One search engine has aknowledged the existence if the Forumverse. Others are bound to eventually do the same. It might be weird to a crawler that the same content is on a hundred different sites, but it's easy to code them to "understand" the reason.

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • PieFed instances' admins have the option to automatically ban any user accounts that do this if the instance's admin so wishes. Hopefully the same feature will come to Lemmy soon enough, if it doesn't have it yet!

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • Won't using the search of lemmy.world pretty much solve this? What communities do they not federate? It doesn't need to have many users for one of them being from .world.

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • You can remember the usernames of people who do the nuking and avoid posts by them. At least on PieFed you can also write a note about the user to be shown to you next to their nickname over each post and comment they send. Might be possible on Lemmy as well?

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • What app do you use for Lemmy?

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  • I use Voyager, but I use it mostly for PieFed, not Lemmy.

  • New 20-point US-Ukraine plan to end Russian invasion

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  • This agreement has been coördinated with USA and i therefore not merely a suggestion by one side of the war.

    There are many parts on it that are known to make it impossible for the Russia to accept the agreement, and there are points that the Russia will abuse if it ever signs this agreement.Things that tell that the Russia is not expected to accept this:

    • 7] Ukraine would get a definite date of EU accession – apparently regardless of whether it fulfills the criteria or not
    • 13] The Russia would never agree to implement educational programmes in schools and across society as a whole that promote understanding and tolerance of different cultures. Especially eliminating racism is diametrically opposed to the base values the Russian government has been emphasizing in the school curriculum. If that was done, people in the Russia would notice what lies they had been fed until the yesr of signing the agreement and would be sure to revolt.
    • 17.2] Returning all detained children would be a tough thing to do because the "new parents" were promised by the Kremlin liars that they'd have the children forever. As their own. (As their own slaves...)

    (Furthermore, a Finnish translation talked about both sides ensuring their armies will filly respect the gemeva conventions. This would mean completely retraining all of the Russia's military, also making it clear to them that what they had previously been explicitly trained consists mostly of war crimes. How.would that show in their support to Kremlin? Heh. But, I cannot see that part anywhere in other sources, and the Finnish article said their text had been translated by an "AI" (and then "proof-read by a reporter" meaning that maybe this part was just hallucinated by the bot.))

  • ECB unveils proposed motifs for next generation of Euro banknotes

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  • I found articles with essentially the same content from May and June of this year.

  • Is there a redirector plug in

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  • PieFed has this out of the box. You click a link at your home instance once on the browser you use. After that, you can get from any post on an unknown instance to yours by adding a few letters in the front of the URL on that browser.

  • Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”

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  • It means that one side is has gained an ability that is extremely dangerous for the society. It is a real imbalance, but the solution must be to raise awareness of the danger.

  • How can I copy an installed Linux system to another PC?

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  • dd between two different hard drives?

  • [Ukrainian] Gripen for Ukraine risks becoming a hostage to US policy, which we must be prepared for

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  • Maybe they could design a plane that very extensively shares components with the current Gripens, but an engine is such a big component in such a crucial location that I would be very surprised if you could just swap them like that.

  • Bloomberg: People need a reality check. Despite common assumptions, traveling by bus, subway or train is actually safer than driving.

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  • Having worked at the railways, I would kindly request you don't mention what you just did.

    Every time we read in some newspaper that someone had died, we knew that within the next about three days, a colleague or two will get traumatized by having to see someone's last facial expression right before a horrible clattering sound coming from the bottom of the locomotive. It was a rare exception that a newspaper mentioned someone having jumped in front of the train and there not being at least one person who got inspired by that article. And then, a long time without such accidents or almost no such accidents. Until there's an article mentioning this, and then there will be a couple in the next few days. Again.

    And mind you, this is in a country with 5 million people. If it's written in a paper with tens of millions of readers, the article's killcount will be increased in proportion to the population difference.

    The train drivers were telling me how they still sometimes wake up in the middle of a night because of someone having used them for a suicide two decades earlier. That they can still crystal clearly remember the last expression on the person's face.

    Suicide is always an incorrect solution, because there's always a way out, and there will always be people who will be devastated. But at least, if someone absolutely must do the mistake of killing themself, then please, at least don't wreck anyone else's sanity by using them as an instrument for your death.I'm not sure if a post on the Forumverse will cause someone to alter a suicide plan to include a train, but it's always a possibility. And the results on others' minds are not nice to see.

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
    Tuukka R @piefed.ee

    He definitely belongs on the naughty list

  • Meta @sopuli.xyz
    Tuukka R @piefed.ee

    Are there plans to migrate Sopuli to another serverside software?

  • CoMaps @sopuli.xyz
    Tuukka R @piefed.ee

    What keeps routes away from residential areas?

  • worldnews @sh.itjust.works
    Tuukka R @piefed.ee

    Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme

    reason.com /2025/10/10/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-million-bond-for-posting-facebook-meme/