Asklemmy linucs • Now • 100%

Most people want to be special or unique but what are things in which no one wants to be special or unique?

I'll start with: medical conditions, everyone would prefer to have an average well known and curable disease than a special case or a unique one

Asklemmy linucs • Now • 93%

Kindle's screen is partially frozen with the screensaver, the rest of the screen works normally. Already reset it and factory reset it, does anyone know if I can save it somehow?

First of all, I know this is not the kind of questions that usually are done in asklemmy but I don't know where to ask, sorry folks. It's a 5th generation kindle and I really loved reading on it. :( Bonus question if the kindle is doomed: best e-ink reader on the cheaper side? I don't want anything super powerful or fancy, I just want to load my collection with calibre and read on it. - bonus points if it's a libre and or open source friendly.

4 ways of using it come to my mind: - Place hands on the inclined outer handles and do a pull up with arms open wide - Place hands with palms facing the wall on the "inner" handles and do a pull up with arms at shoulder width - Place hands with palms facing my face on the "inner" handles and do a chin up - Place hand on the handles which point out of the wall and do a pull up / chin up (sorry don't know in this case) Are these excercises different for the group of muscles they target? And if so, how? Is there any ranking among them from worse to better? Also if I can do chin ups just fine but I can only do negative pull ups, which ones should I choose?

Ask Science linucs • Now • 98%

Are there other human traits like light skin which people developed to adapt to the "new" environment they settled in?

I'm referring to the human race evolving in the African continent and then migrating to the rest of the world. Evolving in Europe made people light skinned to account for the reduction in sunlight exposure, are there any other traits which other ethnicities developed to adapt to their new environment? Or are the diifferent traits in different ethnicities just stuff that developed by chance and got somehow reinforced because of the isolation between populations? This question came to my mind first thinking about "Asian eyes", do they serve any "purpose"?

Showerthoughts linucs • Now • 87%

Dinosaurs wouldn't be that popular if they were small like dogs

Alternative title: Dinosaurs wouldn't be that big if they weren't that big

Asklemmy linucs • Now • 96%

What are your favourite RSS feeds?

Any topic, just explain what it is please

Ask Science linucs • Now • 96%

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine. I don't know if my question is clear enough but I hope so. Bonus question: are animals subject to the same contribution of light or lack of it to the quality of sleep?

Ask Lemmy linucs • Now • 99%

What are you currently excited for?

The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything

Asklemmy linucs • Now • 96%

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off. There are other cases in which if you didn't write the code and you don't read any additional documentation, everything is not clear just by looking at the variable name e.g. is_person_standing, when true it's clear what that means but when false, is the person sitting? Lying? Kneeling? I'm obviously not talking about cases in which there are more states, boolean would of course not be a good solution in those cases. I'm talking about programs in which there are only two states but it's not obvious, without external knowledge, which ones they are.

Arch Linux linucs • Now • 100%

The "Arch Linux Ports" RFC has been accepted and merged

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/32

Would I receive notifications for new comments on posts I saved?

Ask Science linucs • Now • 79%

Is there any scientific study about where should the bed be facing?

This is something I always wondered because some people have a bunch of theories about whether your head should face north or south or whatever, because of the earth magnetic field. Is there any science in this or just "superstition"? Also, would it be better to have the head towards a window or away from a window, even if closed (e.g. in winter)? I'm basically asking whether there exist "recommendations" on how to structure a bedroom backed by science.

Ask Science linucs • Now • 95%

Why did groups of human beings migrate to northern zones of the world, and how did they survive?

After reading the abstract of the paper mentioned [here](https://lemmy.world/post/11436624) I started wondering, why did human groups migrate away from southerner (warmer) places towards the north which is far colder and has less possibilities to grow crops and wild animals to hunt? Was the population density too high? And after they migrated, what did they mostly survive on? Were they hunters-gatherers? Did they cultivate? Was it not more difficult to survive in colder climates?

Asklemmy linucs • Now • 90%

Can anyone recognize these chords?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_yaCcyvNc Kimyan Law - Mortal Life, the chords in the first part of the song remind me of some song but I can't remember which one, can anyone recognize them?