TheTechnician27
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you use to make your home smell good?English551·3 days agoAs someone who doesn’t use these, the first things I think when I enter a home with them are:
- This smells nauseatingly, overwhelmingly artificial.
- This can’t be healthy (spoiler: correct).
- I wonder what they’re masking to want to spend money on these things.
- I would prefer to be outside right now.
OP, as the other comment said, keeping a relatively neutral smell hopefully is a good goal and then maybe add pleasant undertones later. Instead of trying to introduce positive smells (cook at home more often or grow some plants, and you’ll get a bit of that!):
- Make sure dirty laundry is kept in a hamper with a lid and washed at regular intervals.
- If you have pets, make sure they’re housetrained and that accidents are cleaned – preferably with an enzymatic cleaner. Bathe your pets regularly too. If you have small animals in an enclosure, keep that clean.
- Shower regularly, and clean your bedsheets regularly.
- Make sure the house isn’t excessively humid.
- Vacuum at least periodically.
- Make sure dirty dishes don’t just sit dirty out in the open for long periods.
- Make sure smelly garbage has a lid over it and is taken out routinely, especially if there’s stuff like meat scraps in it.
- Open the windows on nice days when it’s around room temperature.
- If it’s especially bad for some reason, an air purifier may help.
- Regularly clean your bathroom.
- Keep your fridge organized so food is less likely to go bad (or bad food gets caught quickly).
- If you have a shoe rack near the door and you want to be really extra, you can once in a while deodorize your shoes. Maybe I’m a freak that I don’t do this.
- Make sure the house isn’t excessively cluttered.
This isn’t all-or-nothing: any of these will help with the odor, and that’s the goal.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deportEnglish2·4 days agoBecause “asks them to leave” wouldn’t be as juicy to their fascist, racist audience as “asks them to self-deport”. The latter unduly connotes guilt in a way the former doesn’t and makes the regime seem more powerful.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Eight beavers in the Czech Republic did some public service.English2·5 days agoClearly these beavers don’t know the Rules of Acquisition.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Jeff Bezos and Other Billionaires Live on an Island Without Septic Tanks: Now They Want to Dump Their Waste on Neighbors… For FreeEnglish0·6 days agoHere’s the NYT article they’re aping instead of checks notes whatever the fuck the “Daily Galaxy” is.
Why is every, like, sixth word bolded? Like I know pragmatically why, but it’s so transparently designed for brainrotted zoomers who think 300 words is “long”. What a slop trough of an article.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•You don’t see articles like this about moms with two jobs who still manage to take care of their kidsEnglish1·10 days agoMaybe I can start building up savings if I work overtime by zoning out of movies and thinking about stocking the grocery store for half an hour…
Hell wait, if I just think about being Nvidia CEO, can I split Jensen’s salary?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Man who advised OK Gov. Stitt deported to GuatemalaEnglish1·26 days agoOP, for preservation purposes, could you swap your MSN rehost link out for the original: https://kfor.com/news/local/man-who-advised-ok-gov-stitt-deported-to-guatemala/
It’s not against the rules, but MSN is notorious for link rot. That link will likely be dead within months.
Edit: Thanks, OP.
sudo
is telling the computer to do this with root privileges.chmod
sets permissions.- Each digit of that three-digit number corresponds to the owner, the group, and other users, respectively. It’s 0–7, where 0 means no access and 7 means access to read, write, and execute. So
077
is the exact inverse of700
, where077
means “the owner cannot access their own files, but everyone else can read, write, and execute them”. Corresponding700
to asexuals is joking that nobody but the owner can even so much as touch the files. /
is the root directory, i.e. the very top of the filesystem.- The
-R
flag says to do this recursively downward; in this case, that’s starting from/
.
So here, we’re modifying every single file on the entire system to be readable, writable, and executable by everyone but their owner. And yes, this is supposed to be extremely stupid.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you approve sex work? Why or why not?English01·1 year agoMoreover, if you don’t want people doing sex work, then you probably especially don’t want people to be forced into doing sex work. But that’s precisely what happens when you criminalize it: you make it so that the only way the demand can be satisfied is through a shady black market where trafficking is orders of magnitude more likely to take place, and you make it orders of magnitude more difficult for victims and witnesses to go to the authorities to report it.
Flip Windows and macOS and I think the meme works again.