• Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
    58·
    2 days 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.

    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      2 days 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!

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Fish oil secretions are stored in a gland

        … and the gland doesn’t just store it, it converts it to a waxy substance that comes out somewhere and the penguin rubs it all over to help waterproof their coat.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      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.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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

      • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Oh most definitely, this species at least was full of personality. They were very well cared-for so they were little divas and had all kinds of interesting relationships with one another (the caretaker told it like a soap opera).

        They would also ignore the fish we tossed that they didn’t prefer and wait for their favorite. So the caretaker had to go around and pick up the extra fish when food time was over lol

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

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

  • ratel@mander.xyzEnglish
    581·
    2 days 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.

    • xep@discuss.onlineEnglish
      421·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • ratel@mander.xyzEnglish
        15·
        2 days 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.

        • adr1an@programming.dev
          English
          4·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            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.

            • axx@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Silverblue manages to be exciting yet boring.

              As in, it is great for everyday work yet still uses newfangled tech under the hood.

              • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                17 hours ago

                I think I’m lucky in that I only had about 1.5-2 years of experience with an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) before switching to Bazzite, so I didn’t have to unlearn years (if not decades) of traditional Linux work flows before trying to grasp the new tech.

                And I love it. Anything that I’ve wanted to tinker with so far has been tinkerable, it’s often just a different process than on a non-atomic or immutable distro.

                And aside from that, it’s insanely stable. It’s almost impossible to break it by accident, and if you do, it has instant, failsafe rollbacks.

                Anyway, I know I don’t have to sell you on it lol.

                The other day I was looking into “Blue Build” which allows to build your own custom Universal Blue spins, as I was wondering if it were possible to have Bazzite but with the Cachy kernel.

                I think that’s a bit over my head at the moment though haha

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          14·
          2 days 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

          • ratel@mander.xyzEnglish
            3·
            2 days 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.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 days 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.deEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          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.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            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…

            • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              22 hours ago

              I suspect Mint might just not have anything like the AUR.

              AUR stands for Arch User Repository, and it’s a place where anybody can create a package. But those packages aren’t going into a regular repository, instead they’re kept as build scripts, simple code that describes how to make a package.

              This is useful for two reasons - it allows users to share packages that aren’t making it into the official repositories (because not everything will, there’s just too much stuff out there), but it can also have things which can’t go into the repos due to licensing (because the AUR doesn’t distribute the software, just instructions on how to automatically get it)

              There’s no official utility to install packages from the AUR - you have to find a package you want on the site, clone the repository, and run makepkg to build and install it. And for updates you have to pull changes and rebuild it manually. And you’re supposed to check yourself to make sure what you’re installing is safe. But there are popular unofficial utilities that are intended to replace Arch’s built-in package management, automatically finding packages both in the trusted repositories and the untrusted AUR, with no separation.

    • M137@lemmy.todayEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      I’m forced to use it so it’s easy to hate it because of that, every little thing that I know isn’t a problem or as hard to do on other distros just makes me long for those.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 days 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.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days 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)