What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?

https://lemmy.world/post/5566950

What's something you just learned, that you should have known for a while? - Lemmy.world

I just learned that in the sky there are things called contrails, and they are made by machines that fly high in the air called aeroplanes.
Contrails

xkcd
These frogs aren’t gonna make themselves gay!
What a beautiful face I have found in this place
I told my nephew that’s how they make the isobar lines for TV News weather maps, but he didn’t believe me. Little dude’s awfully cynical for a six-year old.
That if they stop loving you, they won’t start again no matter how hard you try.
This one hurts. I’m sorry, friend.
But what if I…
PBR is made with sulphury water and that’s why PBR farts smell so bad. Beer made from good water doesn’t give you wicked bad farts! never again
That kinda does sound like a feature though, ngl.

The sulfury water may be part of the appeal to those who like it.

There’s a handful of other sulfury foods that I love, but usually avoid if I know I won’t have enough alone time for the embarrassing afterparty.

When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
When I had this realization after googling my partner said that PBR smells like farts out of the can and they thought that’s why I liked it!!! I never really thought about it tbh but the beers I switched to taste almost like light beer in comparison and I guess that’s the main diff.
Don’t mess around with partitions on your disk when it’s past midnight, you’re extremely stressed, and you don’t have (easily accessible) backups.
Yes, that does sound like good advice even from a morning, first coffee is brewing kind of viewpoint.
Yeah, all I did do right was have Windows on a USB. That’s important because I don’t have another Windows machine. Manjaro can be downloaded as a .iso and burned onto a flash drive from any OS, but not so with Windows.
On Linux I use github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB to create windows flash drives… works uhh most of the time? :D In case you hadn’t heard of it :)
GitHub - WoeUSB/WoeUSB: A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux - WoeUSB/WoeUSB

GitHub
!!! Thank you for this!
Glad I took the time to comment ☺️
I am in this comment and I don’t like it.
Are you me, I have experienced this 2 days ago
I am so sorry… is it okay now?
It went okay but I had trouble sleeping
Classic, “what the fuck did I do here and why did I think this was a good idea,” material.
Ha, I don’t fuck around with anything that make break my PC or phone until a weekend with no commitments comes up.
That’s smart.
Additionally don’t do maintenance on your computers when tired, learned from experience
Okay, almost done. rm -rf ./*. Wait… pwd. Shit.

Let’s just say I was doing inside maintenance on a old laptop of mine where I fried a cable because I plugged the battery in and forgot to plug that cable in but I forgot to unplug the battery before plugging that cable in and ended up frying a cable when plugging it back in

Luckily it was only the cable that got fried

But that’s in the past now

I once tried partitioning the disk i was running on because i was new and didnt know that wouldn’t work, cfdisk now has a warning if you try to do that
😭😭😭 imagine you’re the reason why
Maybe, at least i submitted a github issue about that and it got fixed

I had to extend the boot drive on a VM that also happened to run the application our entire company used to make products. This was back in the day when extending VM drives took forever because of the way the hypervisor worked. I only had a small window to do this between our Europe plants going offline and the US plants starting up.

So I used a community tool that would extend the drive in seconds. Turn the VM back on and queue “NTLDR is missing”. I also discovered that the backups for that server hadn’t completed successfully in so long there was nothing to restore from. In my effort to save 30-45 minutes, cost me 8 hours completely rebuilding the server and a day of lost production in the US plants.

I am so sorry for this ordeal. It’s so funny though.
Or df in Diskpart.

When you’ve been a good terms with a person close to you and they die, the pain will be like nothing you’ve ever experienced before and there is absolutely nothing you can do to make it stop.

But: Those are waves. At first it’s just constantly all over everything with no end in sight but then there’s suddenly a first moment of calm and then it starts again. Those moments get longer with time, for now, endure.

My brother passed away in November - it hit me worse than many losses I’ve experienced. The calm and waves of sadness is so accurate, but nothing can prepare you for it; I spent years preparing for my brother’s death, but it did nothing when it actually happened.

I spent years preparing for my brother’s death, but it did nothing when it actually happened.

I had about a week between my dad being placed in ICU and his death. I saw it coming and I tried to get my mind into a place that would somehow hopefully cushion the impact when his final moment would be there and you know what, it didn’t do shit.

A few minutes ago I feel apart when I cut a breakfast sandwich because that’s what he used to to for me when I was, maybe fourteen. It was one of the things he tried to do to make things easier for me. I can’t fucking cut sandwiches without crying right now. It’s all just fucking shit.

I never liked taking pictures of friends and family when traveling, cos I could see them anytime I wanted, but the places I was visiting didn’t plan on going back to.

Comically sad when I found out it was the other way around.

Thank you for sharing this.
Economics. I never understood it that well having taken two years of high school classes for law and government, then watched a single Economics Explained video and understood so much that I hadn’t understood before.
I’m doing a bachelor’s in economics, trust me I have this feeling all the time. There’s so much to learn.
Link to the video?
I skimmed through the channel and believe it’s this one based on the fact it had Japan in it and was recent, but I might be missing something. Titles and thumbnails change often as a form of clickbait and that gets confusing when going back to something.
The Inequality Problem Nobody Likes To Talk About

YouTube
I found out that I could disassemble my vacuum’s dirt container further so I can clear it out easier. The container has a big plastic tube that runs through it and I’ve been squeezing my hand around it to grab clumps of pet hair that get stuck. The other day while I was trying to clear the container, the plastic tube fell out. Turns out I just needed to twist and pull the tube. I’ve had this vacuum for 8 years.
Lmao nice. Here’s a similarly embarrassing story: my refrigerator light was burned out and I was too lazy to replace it for a few years. When I finally got around to it, it turned out I had the exact replacement bulb in my possession the entire time 🤦. Ofc replacing it also only took ~30 seconds.
Aren’t you supposed to turn fridges off when doing that to avoid potential shock