• Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    19 hours ago

    I got to feed endangered African penguins once at an aviary! They just swallow whole fish (whether in the water or tossed to them though the air), no need for prep or plating.

    Fun fact, they secrete all that fish oil right onto their feathers (it helps them glide though the water), but that makes them little stink monsters! Seriously, penguins smell rather terrible haha.

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      i grew up near Marine World Africa USA before it got bought out by six flags. It was the Standard Second Grade Field Trip out here to go to Marine World and go see the animals and ride the teacups that i swear disneyland ripped off and made better (yes i made this part of the story up when i was in second grade shut up). But the park was not opened up for the summer yet and all us little shits got to run around. And at 2pm they had a penguin feeding and I told my teacher I loved the pengies at the Portland Oregon zoo, so we went to see the pengies and get a special lesson from the pengie trainer. I don’t remember most of it but i got to throw a fish at not to (let’s be honest i still throw like an uncoordinated 6 year old who should have been drummed off his tee ball team) the penguins.

      It was neat
      i had an onion on my belt

      first song i ever wrote that was good was about one of their elephant trainers, who was a good friend, but that’s another story

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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      That must have been really fun! The Toronto zoo has an awards plaque for “Nice Penguin of the Month” and “Naughty Penguin of the Month” which leads me to believe that they must be characters

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      15 hours ago

      Added fun facts: they have teeth in their throats to haul the fish down, and the fish oil secretions are stored in a gland near their tails!

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      18 hours ago

      Weird that they keep flightless birds in aviary, but penguins are my spirit animal so I’m jealous.

  • ratel@mander.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don’t have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.

    I use Ubuntu btw.

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      There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn’t the place for it.

      Debian here. IMO “btw” is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.

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        22 hours ago

        When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can’t deal with it at the moment.

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          Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.

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            If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree

            Dude, right? I’ve thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can’t bring myself to give up ostree.

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          22 hours ago

          I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.

          I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu’s gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up

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            19 hours ago

            I love a boring OS that just works for 90% of things and you just live with whatever the other 10% is - usually some driver quirks or peripheral funk.

            I’ve never used the gui for upgrade but I also have a hard time remembering do-make-release.

      • Dymonika@beehaw.org
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        14 hours ago

        you know which one it is.

        As of the latest dumpster fires over there, they’re wanting to hide it nowadays!

        • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Dumpster fires? Do you mean the untrusted repository of user-submitted build scripts getting malicious user-submitted content? :P

          Keep your official packages and AUR separate, if nothing else at least don’t pull from both sources with the same command

          • Dymonika@beehaw.org
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            I don’t know how Arch works as a Minter here. That’s good that there’s a separation line… Not sure if Mint’s Software Mgr has that…

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      18 hours ago

      I use Ubuntu at work. I don’t even care, it’s legit 500% faster than my work Windows laptop, despite being objectively lower-speccd.

      I use nobara at home. Windows free in my personal life for like a decade at least now. I wanted something solid out of the box, not atomic (I like the idea I just think it’s overkill for a home workstation. The sheepdog is a pet, not part of flock), fedora based with good brtfs support.

      But Ubuntu is good enough. Not as if “better than windows” is a particularly high bar, though.

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Same, one LTS to the next, and all online tutorials assume you’re on it. My years of messing with fstab, alsamixer and such are long behind me.

      (Started on mandrake in about 2001 btw)

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    22 hours ago

    He must have given her the shiniest pebble on the planet because that looks fucking delicious ngl

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      18 hours ago

      And as a fellow seafood lover, I want some of what you’re smoking.

      I mean what the hell is going on in the top and bottom right quadrants? What’s with that bright orange, Kraft-colored noodle slop? And I can’t even begin to describe what the other thing is supposed to be. Also, no cocktail sauce for the shrimp? No butter for the surimi? The shrimp doesn’t even appear to be deveined! IDK about you, but I don’t want to eat a bottom feeder’s digestive tract along with all the nasties inside of it!

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        Bottom right Mushroom wild rice, top right is wasbi mayo. I think the fish are smelts. The imitation crab and shrimp im not sure about.But the rest of the plate I can say is indigenous cuisine and native to my area. Very delicious for the most part epsiecally the wild rice.

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            It often does because even commercial wild rice is expensive and cutting it with regular white rice makes for a much cheaper dish. And the bland white rice offers no extra flavor to the dish.

            But there are those of us who have access to real wild rice that has been hand harvested and hand parched over an open wood fire. That’s God tier wild rice. And I would never disrespect that wild rice in such a fashion.

            • starik@lemmy.today
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              That sounds delicious. But I don’t see any rice in the the picture above, wild or otherwise.

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        I want some of what you’re smoking.

        Is the pun intended?

        see: Smoked seafood, smoked salmon

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      16 hours ago

      You’re taking the piss? That looks like a dog’s breakfast. Like bile at the back of the throat.

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        11 hours ago

        You get that different cultures have different cuisine preferences, right? That honestly looks pretty good to me accompanied with a plate of rice.

  • homes@piefed.world
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    22 hours ago

    Yo, can I be a zoo penguin, please?

    At least I’ll die happy