• Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
    60·
    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.

    • 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
      4·
      1 day 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·
        23 hours 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

    • 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·
        3 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.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

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

  • ratel@mander.xyzEnglish
    611·
    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
      451·
      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
        16·
        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.devEnglish
          4·
          1 day 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·
            1 day 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·
              22 hours 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·
                7 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
          15·
          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
            4·
            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·
          1 day 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·
            1 day 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·
              12 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
      11·
      23 hours 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)

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 days ago

    He must have given her the shiniest pebble on the planet because that looks fucking delicious ngl

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      2 days ago

      And as a fellow seafood lover, I want some of what you’re smoking.

      I mean what the hell is going on in the top and bottom right quadrants? What’s with that bright orange, Kraft-colored noodle slop? And I can’t even begin to describe what the other thing is supposed to be. Also, no cocktail sauce for the shrimp? No butter for the surimi? The shrimp doesn’t even appear to be deveined! IDK about you, but I don’t want to eat a bottom feeder’s digestive tract along with all the nasties inside of it!

      • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.caEnglish
        92·
        2 days ago

        Bottom right Mushroom wild rice, top right is wasbi mayo. I think the fish are smelts. The imitation crab and shrimp im not sure about.But the rest of the plate I can say is indigenous cuisine and native to my area. Very delicious for the most part epsiecally the wild rice.

          • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            It often does because even commercial wild rice is expensive and cutting it with regular white rice makes for a much cheaper dish. And the bland white rice offers no extra flavor to the dish.

            But there are those of us who have access to real wild rice that has been hand harvested and hand parched over an open wood fire. That’s God tier wild rice. And I would never disrespect that wild rice in such a fashion.

            • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              That sounds delicious. But I don’t see any rice in the the picture above, wild or otherwise.

      • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        I want some of what you’re smoking.

        Is the pun intended?

        see: Smoked seafood, smoked salmon

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      54·
      2 days ago

      You’re taking the piss? That looks like a dog’s breakfast. Like bile at the back of the throat.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        You get that different cultures have different cuisine preferences, right? That honestly looks pretty good to me accompanied with a plate of rice.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 days ago

    Yo, can I be a zoo penguin, please?

    At least I’ll die happy