I even ran MemTest86 and it showed things to be all fine. I recently bought new memory (2 GB) for the netbook.

Last week I released the blog post I mentioned previously. It’s now in Finnish and English.

I have an old netbook from 2011 that I have used as my home server since 2017. It has a 1 TB SSD, and for some time it had weird problems such as “Remounting filesystem read-only” and “EXT4-fs error”, usually leading to crashes. After rebooting, Ubuntu’s boot screen would not always appear. According to SMART, the drive was however all fine. At first I replaced the file system’s journal and ran fsck. That wasn’t enough, and the problems persisted. I was about to RMA the SSD, when I put Gparted Live on an USB stick and used that for fixing the file system. And it worked, now the home server has worked all fine for over three days!

Not quite, the community is mainly geared for plugins that are used for tweaking and enhancing Lemmy user experience, whereas themes are only for aesthetic purposes.

As much as it’s overused, “every accusation is a confession”.

This seems to be like a recent moral panic here in Finland about therian kids in schools.

Since Lemmy has gained a bit more traction in Finland recently, I started writing a guide in Finnish that will later be published on my blog. The structure is as follows:

• What Lemmy is, short history
• The 2023 Reddit blackout and its consequences, my own experiences
• Communities and how to find them
• Lemmy’s interoperability with Mastodon and other Fedi platforms
• Instances and communities to be recommended

What might be the repercussions of doing this?

Oooh, absolutely nothing! No side effects whatsoever, it really improves your quality of life!

Yes.

He’s getting really well into the Linux and FOSS rabbit hole. And he’s also serving as a “celebrity role model” for people interested in switching to Linux. This can have lots of potential!

This headline might as well be from The Babylon Bee.

It’s sickening how politicians and healthcare influencers are silent about long COVID and how the society as whole tries to pretend that there is no pandemic. The price for all that will be paid if H5N1 becomes a global pandemic.

I may have used Skype for the last time in 2014 or so.

Didn’t know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.

Actually Sopuli was founded in February 2021. Few months after Lemmy’s federation got out of beta phase.

Excatly. Sopuli has become the instance for all things Finland, so that community would be more than welcome!

Execpt herd immunity doesn’t apply to viruses that mutate heavily and where the immunity isn’t durable. Dr. Anthony Fauci previously believed that herd immunity could be achieved with COVID, but he has since changed his mind:

So, with regard to that issue and something you mentioned earlier, how should we define herd immunity with respect to COVID, I mean, how do we think of it?

I wrote a paper on that. It was a simple paper [9]. It stated that we cannot apply the standard criteria of herd immunity. It’s not applicable with SARS-CoV-2. And the reason is, it’s simple. I can synopsize the paper in 30 seconds. One is that herd immunity is dependent on an immune response that is durable, measured in decades to a lifetime, and a pathogen that does not change. So, you have clear-cut herd immunity with measles. Why? The measles that I got infected with as a child, because I was born before the measles vaccine, is the same measles that’s killing kids in the developing world today.

Number 2, if you get infected with measles or you get vaccinated with measles, the duration of protection minimally is decades and maximally is lifetime. Those are the criteria that you need for herd immunity. Because if you have a pathogen that keeps changing like the multiple variants of SARS, and if you have a duration of immunity that’s measured in months, the entire concept of herd immunity is no longer valid. That’s the point.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11418601/

Considering how repeat COVID infections can cause cumulative damage, which includes immune system problems, one could expect flu waves to become deadlier. All those laptop class academics who preached about “herd immunity” via infection must be feeling great right now.

The impostor account has been banned from our instance.

Apparently they screwed things up, they try to get their domain back.