Notices by royal (royal@theres.life), page 4

@fuat2mb Mostly just lurking using the Lemmy web UI.

I have been informed that The Nightmare before Christmas is now a Thanksgiving movie.

#kids
#movies
#Christmas
#Thanksgiving
#Halloween
#timBurton

I have a problem with #Lemmy.
It is almost as effective as reddit at preventing bedtime.

Apple cider spice and pumpkin pie spice: the same or different? What spices would you use for cider?

#pumpkinSpice #appleCider #cooking #Fall #Autumn

Well, I'm now a lot less likely to want a Mazda.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/mazda-slaps-developer-with-cease-and-desist-for-diy-smart-home-integration

#homeAssistant #mazda #cars

@golemwire Yeah, it was a simple as that. Sudo to the rescue.

I'm having permissions problems getting to files on a USB drive in #Linux. Not sure what to do here.

Specifically, this is a USB boot drive for a Raspberry Pi 4 which no longer boots due to a botched OS upgrade; I'm mounting it on an amd64 #popos box; popos is #ubuntu based. The filesystem I want to recover files from is Ext4. The Pi had two users, and I want to copy both of their user directories to my local hard drive.

I would prefer not to force a chmod or chown on the files on the USB drive.

I get errors from the GUI:

The folder "whatever" cannot be handled because you do not have permissions to read it.

I appear to have Read permissions at this level, though, judging by ls -l.

Is there a way to force my local user to have read permissions on the mounted drive without writing to the disk I'm copying from?

I want to use an #RSS #Feed reader more. I've installed various readers on various hosts, but they all get out of sync.

What's the best way to avoid this and retain some ability for offline reading?

I use #Android #Windows and #Linux, and might also want to do #iOS.

I briefly looked into The Old Reader and Feedly, but don't see any Windows applications and I'm not sure they do offline.

What would you recommend?

Boosts welcome.

@rose_myrtle OnlyOffice maybe?

Maybe instead of setting up a page listing them, prominently flag their business listing as engaging in fraud and lower their star count to near zero?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/yelp-names-and-shames-businesses-paying-for-5-star-reviews/

What should I add to my "good morning now it's time to get up" #playlist?

Wake up, little Susie (Everly brothers)
Get up, Stand up (Marley)
Morning has Broken (Stevens)
Doki Doki Morning (Babymetal)

#music #songs #routine #morningRoutine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/bull-car-riding-shotgun-nebraska-watusi

#Texas #notTexas

@golemwire Home Taco Tuesday.

@golemwire A vital part of the overall package

Tuesdays are for #tacos

#tacoTuesday

#IsItJustMe?
I've noticed that in the #Fediverse, or at least on #Mastodon, people are endlessly open about exactly the topics of conversation you've been cautioned not to talk about in polite society.

Profiles abound with indications of their owners' political leanings, sexual proclivities, religious affiliations and biases, whether they use emacs and Arch Linux, and how many cats they have.

I made up that last bit. Cats are acceptable conversation even in polite society, no matter how much they make you sneeze.

This actually started as an observation that a lot of Mastodon profiles are extremely detailed but never tell you what country the person lives in. I thought that an interesting note on the assumptions of this worldwide distributed culture.

While the topics we consider not part of polite society are listed for a reason - our emotional reactions to them are often stronger than when we are talking about other topics - they're also important. I'm glad we have a place where those can be discussed; discussions here are often, but not always, more fruitful than in other social gatherings. Sometimes keeping to the rules of polite society is worth it to maintain a functional working relationship; but it's good for us to understand one another more deeply even if we don't always agree.

Country of origin or culture or residency is also important. If you ever do any #worldTravel you will learn, if you have not already, how very alike we all are. There are many differences; but people are people the world over. What you want for your family, your kids, your future is pretty likely to be a lot like what the rest of the world wants. A lot of that is evident in the Fediverse too.

#Android users in the USA:
What app have you had success building communication "groups" in among your nontechnical friends?

I've tried to invite a group into #SignalApp but so far no luck. I'm not really surprised. I'd really rather stay away from Facebook Messenger or anything by Meta.

It's problems like this that cause people to break down and buy iphones.

Bad news for those of us who want to own things.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/disney-just-delivered-potential-death-blow-to-dvds-and-blu-rays-heres-whats-happening

@rose_myrtle I have done that. Also I find paper lists much more effective than electronic ones.

@fuat2mb Thanks! Found one not too far away. What's it like?