SyrusDrake

I feel like I'm losing my mind. For context, I am an MSc archaeology student, so neither an anthropologist nor historian. But I know how to do research and verification of sources.

Today, I was doing Wikipedia rabbit-holing, as you do, and the "Boyd massacre" came up. For those not in the know, this was a 1809 incident where a European ship, the Boyd, was raided, and most of the people on board killed, by Māori. This much is fairly uncontroversial. The wreckage still seems to exist, and contemporary sources agree that a ship was lost with almost all hands. The Wikipedia article also confidently states that almost all victims were eaten by the Māori, either directly on the ship, or at nearb

I got a 0.2 mm nozzle for my Mini a while ago, but I just cannot get it to work properly and I am running out of ideas.

I have switched the setting in the printer's menu to 0.2, I have tried two different filaments, Bambu and third-party, both at 250°C, I have made sure that the nozzle itself is not clogged (the tip of a needle becomes just about visible if I stick it through from the top). The "default" 0.4 mm nozzle works just fine.

When I load filament, it goes in fine until it's about three-quarters or so into the nozzle, then the feed wheels start slipping (it starts making a loud clacking noise). Afterwards, it also can't unload it anymore, making the same clacking noise when retra

I recently installed Manjaro on my laptop, mostly because it was the only distro that would play nice with the trackpad. I'm using KDE on my desktop as well, but am new to Arch. For some reason, I can't seem to edit the app launcher/start menu through the menu. When I add an app or edit an existing one, it just do anything (yes, I am saving). I can add and edit them through /usr/share/applications/ just fine, but it's a bit of a faff.

If I create a new entry through the KDE menu and do "open containing folder", it opens ~/.local/share/applications/ but there's no new entry in there, even after saving. If I manually create a file, edit it with sudo nano, and try to save it, I'm tol

I recently installed Manjaro on my laptop, mostly because it was the only distro that would play nice with the trackpad. I'm using KDE on my desktop as well, but am new to Arch. For some reason, I can't seem to edit the app launcher/start menu through the menu. When I add an app or edit an existing one, it just do anything (yes, I am saving). I can add and edit them through /usr/share/applications/ just fine, but it's a bit of a faff. Am I missing something?

I just finished a one and a half day AuDHD assessment. Both came out negative. ADHD was neutral for me, I just wanted clarity. But the negative autism diagnosis is a bit of a existential shock for me, if I'm honest. Granted, it's right below the positive threshold, but still. It irks me because I feel like a lot of the tests and questions focused on purely positive/negative, if I (can) or can't/don't do something, and not on what toll it takes on me. It also seemed like it made no difference between learned and "instinctual" social/emotional behaviour. Basically, it didn't consider whether and how much I was masking.

Right now I feel like all my perceived flaws that I could have explained w

I installed Linux Mint on my HP x360 435 G7 today. At first, everything seemed to work fine, but after completing the setup, suddenly the touchpad stopped working. Long story short, it...

• ...is always working in the BIOS menu
• ...is enabled in the Linux Mint settings
• ...is working only after a BIOS factory reset

As soon as I reboot the system once after the reset, it stops working again. I reboot, go into the BIOS menu, do a factory reset, and it works again.

I already installed synaptics drivers, which made no difference. A plugged in USB mouse works, so it's not an issue with the mouse in general.

Any ideas what to try? Because I'm at my wits' end.

Recently, I was browsing the website of my local electronics retailer, and they tested the DJI Neo 2. It seemed interesting for someone like me, who has never owned a drone, but always kinda wanted to get one (although the descriptor "selfie- and vlogging-drone" kinda threw me off).

On the same website, I then found a second-hand offering for a DJI Mini 2 Fly More Combo for *less* money. To me, the Mini 2 seems like a more "professional" device (as opposed to aforementioned selfie- and vlogging-drone) and about $360 for the entire set seems fair to me.

Is the Mini 2 still a "usable" device, especially for a beginner. Or would you recommend something newer?

Because I have multiple projects I really should be working on, I recently made the obvious choice to waste time on something entirely unimportant: I was wondering which letter position in English words has the most uniform distribution of possible letters. I'm no linguist and only a hobby programmer, so I'm not sure if my results are correct. But it seems entropy reduces relatively uniformly over word length, *except* a significant dip on position 2, where vowels notably dominate.

I used Pyton's NLTK and the ABC News corpus. I only analysed the set of the tokens, i.e. each unique word is only counted once. The "uniformity" of lett

I'm not officially diagnosed with AuDHD yet (in the process of getting an official diagnosis), so I'm not sure if this is allowed here.

Due to my (suspected) AuDHD and my depression, everything I do takes a lot of time, I am slow and need frequent breaks. So it has taken me an embarrassingly long time to get my degree. I'm currently in the early phase of my master's thesis, but it might still take a few months to get my degree. During my education, I have lived with and have been supported by my mom.

Yesterday, and not for the first time, my mom has pointed out how she's running out of patience with me and is sick of having me around, pointing out I'm taking too long to get my degree. I k