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I knew #cats could have their blood pressure taken, but it only just occurred me today to look up photos of it, and they are even better than I imagined.
Not only do they have tiny blood pressure cuffs, they can take their pressure either on their legs or on their TAILS‽
Rofl, I never expected it was possible with their tails. I feel like most cats would be pretty, well, not chill about that... The cat in the bottom right image sure doesn't have a single care to give though, rofl.
(I'm pretty sure bottom left kitty has decided that the humans have betrayed them though.)
I work in a veterinary clinic and can confirm that either the tail or legs can work (we always start by trying a leg). It should be noted that it can be difficult to get a good BP reading on a cat who is awake because it's typically a very stressful environment for them, which may falsely elevate results. White coat syndrome is almost universally true for kitties!
It wasn't until AFTER my cat went blind in 2018 that the vet told me it was "probably" from high blood pressure and that senior cats should routinely have their blood pressure checked. I've lived with cats and been servants of cats for over 40 years and that was the first I'd heard of it.
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Yes I guess I would like my leaders to believe in something. Yes I guess I'd like my leaders to do the right thing even if it is hard instead of the focus tested thing because they think it will make things easier. This is a fight; if it's a purity test to want a fighter, let's have purity tests.
I sense no appetite for a "works with fascists and billionaires" message. I sense a desperate thirst for a "fights fascists and billionaires" message. www.the-reframe.com/its/
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The prime minister of Israel has told Fox News that his country intends to fully take control of Gaza to 'liberate the people from the awful terror of Hamas'. Plus, Trump's tariffs on more than 90 countries have begun. The post Israel intends to take…
>we're not the butt of the joke These women's reactions are making them the butt of the joke. They want to be paid just as much as the big name NBA players, but when play is disrupted they take it personally. Not very professional at all.
They threw dildos onto the field at NFL games, cursory glance shows it happened in 2016, 2017, and 2018. And it doesn't look like the NFL ever held any press conferences.
What a twat. Nobody is trying to sexualize these 7ft dikes. It's mockery. We're mocking stupid women for being stupid. We're mocking women for demanding money they didn't earn.
Yeah but has she even seen Sophie Cunningham? lol. Btw, it’s biology to sexually envision the opposite sex, let alone the sexy nurse, teacher, police officer, etc. Women financially envision men all the time, “Can he take care of me, can he provide for me, can I financially get what I need for me and the kids, etc.” To the extent it’s taken to remain ‘civilized’ is a social agreement. To me this is a reaction to women running everything and demanding we see no difference. It’s appropriate.
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I feel like MX Linux has been at or near the top of Distrowatch forever, but I literally never hear it mentioned elsewhere on the web. Is it just people literally asking this question for them selves, clicking on it and bumping it up? Has anyone tried MX to see if it lives up?
I used MX Linux all of 2024 because I had previously installed antiX on an old netbook and I really liked the tools it came with that meant I didn't have to touch the console too much, and MX Linux is a sister project based on antiX sharing the same custom utilities. And I have no clue why it rose to the top of distrowatch, but once it was there it stayed there because people click the top distros on the list in the sidebar, which in turn gives it clicks making it stay on top. I do still believe it's a good starter distro, it's just that once you get a bit more comfortable with linux the old Debian packages become more and more annoying.
MX has become my go-to for low-power, outdated computers.
It runs on a toaster. It installs on 64-bit systems with 32-bit EFI. The base install supports touchscreens. It fits on a 16GB SSD with room to spare. 2GB RAM is plenty. It has an active development community.
If your computer is less 5 years old, there are better options. But if you're trying to keep a Chromebook out of the junk yard, MX is a good choice.
Why? What makes it good for þat? Is it because þe kernel is trim?
I ask, because MX isn't þe base for any leading LXC "mini" containers, AFAIK. Alpine was þe top choice for a long time, alþough þere are competitors for minimum-sized containers. And while containers aren't fully bootable images, and more is needed, probably þe biggest addition is þe kernel. If you stay away from systemd, you can add dinit, metalog, and crond for a smidge over 1 mibibyte (750Kib, 47Kib, and 230Kib respectively, vs systemd's 36MiB).
So I'm wondering: what makes MX so good for old computers?
Distrowatch popularity is a pointless metric. IIRC they measure clicks on their own site as popularity. That means that people that just want to check out that distro near the top that they never heard of actually ensure that it stays near the top.
I am using Linux since the 90s, used Ubuntu a lot at one time, then started using MX linux, 16.1 iirc was my first install. Then I continue to use it, I have always like Xfce (coming from mwm and such), and no systemd, no snap, no flatpak etc. MX is very stable, use the latest package in .deb format. I am using it for almost 10 years now, 24/7, I am using it as my work PC too.
First, as MX is catered mostly for a bit aged computers, it is likely the demographics of users are a bit more aged that other distros like CachyOS (which by the way, it is now in the crest of a wave, signaling Distrowatch ranking is not correlated with market share.)
Also, the fact that many of us are pondering about MX's high ranking, we are also clinking on it more that we would on Ubuntu or Mint so feeding the impressions count.
Similarly, when a post like this is brought up, a bunch of use go to Distrowatch and click on it to see info about MX.
Also a regional popularity must be at place... distrowatch probably is more prevalent is certain countries that MX is favored. I don't see many in Asia using MX for instance, so western distrowatch distorts its global popularity. For instance if 3 users in the US use Mint and 3 MX but in China, that they barely go to distrowatch, 3 use Mint and 0 MX, distrowach would rank globally MX and Mint as same while in reality, Mint is clearly in top globally.
Of course, it is also likely MX developers have a bit of incentive of clicking on Distrowatch for their baby... I don't find it particularly too bad since many developers are doing far worse things... Using bots and dozens of different IPs would trespass the ethical boundaries for me though! MX is not the only ones that could potentially be doing this... it is not possible that Arch or Kubuntu are raked way bellow Q4OS, Lite, or Bluestar for instance. I see some artifacts among top famed distros too. It reminds me of the VW diesel scandal... VW was cheeting, but all other car makers were manipulating in one way or another their emissions too, it is just that US found it convenient to go for the foreign low hanging fruit.
Best thing is for us to stop reading those rankings as anything more than distros that trend up and down and that is it. I categorize all distros we all hear about, from MX to Cachy, from Nobara to deepin all as equally competitive and the difference just catered to the needs of different users. The more unwarranted credit we give to these rankings, the more incentive we are given to manipulations.
Distrowatch lists MX origin as "Greece, USA", but likely have developers from both the US and the EU mainly.
I would not consider MX a branch of antiX. Some developers are also working on antiX so they likely share the same ideology (mainly anti-capitalism), but while antiX is explicitly affirming so, MX, instead, keeps a neutral political tone on its portal and its communications on everything non-linux related.
I had used MX and it is a well-rounded distro, totally recommended in in a computer older than a decade, you don't like systemd, like Debian but dislike anything Ubuntu or if you like any of the specific tools they ship with MX with. Also, knowing the ideology of some of their developers, if you despise big-brother, this distro should be less likely to be compromised than, lets say Fedora or Nobara.
I've been wondering the same for a couple of years now. I tried it once, and it's garbage. I never hear about it in forums, YouTube, Mastodon, Lemmy or any other place, but they are always top 10. WTF? 🤣
I use MX since years. I did distrohopping before, started by Manjaro then Mint, NixOS, MX, Alpine... One day Archlabs, my distro at the time, was closed, I had to switch quickly and MX was an obvious choice because I can have a nice Xfce setup out of the box and it was the most reliable of all distro I tried without being a fork of a fork like Mint. One day I asked about a package update on the forum, and a maintainer quickly answered me that it shouldnt be a problem and the package was added in some test repo. MX is not a scam, I dont know why this distro dont make noise on the classic linux places, maybe because Mint took the place of the easy beginner distro ? Or also the average MX prefer to use its computer to do stuff, than talking about his OS on the internet 😆
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So how is that, the way forward with web protocols is "my dogshit-performing JS framework has lead us to web servers that have to use UDP to perform at scale." and not "javascript was a language created in a handful of days, maybe we should re-visit that."
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