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  • On my Mint 22 Wilma setup using Xfce, using Firefox 139.0 (64-bit) mint-001 - 1.0, when I click the “upload image” button here in lemmy, I see small thumbnails for .jpg and .png files, but not for .webp.

    Maybe the .webp format is too new?

    Ctrl++ doesn’t work in my “File Upload” dialog box to make the thumbnails bigger.

    Edit: I always rename files I download to give them descriptive file names, starting with the most important word first.



  • JacktoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    Scientists didn’t become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

    When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn’t big enough to clear), they realized it wasn’t a planet.

    When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn’t a planet.



  • It’s sad that Burgess was attacked by the officers leading to him being sent to a hospital where he may have caught Covid-19 and died, but the officers

    1. were called out on “a grade 1 call, meaning it was treated as the highest level of emergency”,
    2. may have heard that Burgess “was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife”,
    3. may not have seen or been told Burgess couldn’t reach them if they stayed a few metres away.

    If Burgess was in an unlocked room, then the officers were criminally rash.

    If however he was in a room locked from the outside, then they may not have known that he wasn’t much of a threat.

    They should be charged with excessive force because they didn’t assess the situation before using force, or people at the site should be charged for lying and making it seem much more dangerous than it was; but this is not like the headline makes it sound.






  • JacktoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat was your first Linux distribution?
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    If I remember correctly I had the same start: tested Knoppix, tried Mandrake for a short time, then Ubuntu which I used for several years until Gnome 3 when I switched to Xubuntu for several years, but when snap happened I tried Debian, then Mint for a while, but I’m now trying MX.



  • According to Sayidina:

    66.2% of these were high school students (349), 
    30.9% middle school students (163), 
    02.8% elementary school students (15).
    

    Causes cited (multiple causes means these total to more than 100%):

    349 Academic struggles, concerns about future paths.
    284 Mental health issues, e.g. depression, 
    148 family-related problems. e.g. conflicts with parents.
    

    This is from a non-paywalled older article from 2025-01 which gives the total of school-aged children’s suicides in Japan in 2024 at an all-time high of 527 (the 2 more in the newer article probably corrects cases incorrectly classified before).

    “A notable increase was observed among female middle and high school students”

    “In 2024, the number of suicides [for all ages] in Japan totaled 20,268, marking a decrease of 1,569 from the previous year and reaching the second-lowest level since records began in 1978.”


  • “If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.” – Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social

    Can anyone post a link and the date+time? I don’t want to go to bsky because of their unethical policies like link tracking.

    (Wouldn’t it be better to copy paste the texts of things like this, instead of screen caps?)


  • In South Africa, the law determines that if something’s labeled “Product of South Africa” it can’t have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

    “Produced in South Africa” can have imported ingredients - and I’ve been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It’s easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.



  • If you value your time, then maybe only watch finished shows with excellent word-of-mouth/ratings? If it declines instead of ending while still good, then stopping where people suggest? Possibly also skip the initial seasons if it only gets good later.

    If you want to talk around the water cooler about the most popular zeitgeist shows, then maybe make exceptions for those that are the buzz after their 1st few episodes like Game of thrones, tho you should be prepared to quit the show after a few consecutive poorer episodes indicating its almost certain decline. (PS: I’d recommend stopping before Game of thrones’ 6th season).




  • “Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating.”

    Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I’ve found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples’ actions.

    Rubio’s lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.