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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I discovered the USB boot by accident and thought my laptop bricked for no reason!

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Pressing random keys as an 8yr old while booting till the computer makes the funny beep noise and the screen turns into a .txt document

Hahaha! I’m sorry.

Gods. Floppies were a PITA with this. The default was (reasonably) to boot the floppy first, but there was no fallback for when the disk was unbootable. So, if you were saving your work to a floppy and left it in when you shutdown, the next time you turned the computer on it would just sit there saying “hey! Your floppy didn’t boot” until you ejected the floppy and powercycled it.