AnAustralianPhotographer @ AnAustralianPhotographer @lemmy.world

Photographer and open source software fan.

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The details of the Boulton Paul Defiant mk1 might be floating around somewhere... And a Catalina too.

Some owners were tamer. Burnouts weren't required. They sometimes had a parade through the city, blocking off streets and cops as part of it. I did notice at the end of it was a truck with a tilt tray so a break down of a car just doing 40-50kmph along a city road was planned for.

Might not be what your after, but the cars I'll point you to run well ... Until they don't.

We have an annual car show over here, have a search for "Summernats" for videos. They have a burn out pad where you can melt some tyres.

Some people restore cars and take them there for show. Some have excellent paint jobs , but a typical Summernats one has more horsepower than the original. This usually leads to a few redlining on the pad and exceeding a limit so that they catch fire or can't be driven home.

Or at least, so I've heard...

And Dave likes free USB sticks.

This is just the warm up. HAL 9000 is up next.

Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat. https://youtu.be/wBoRkg5-Ieg.

Not a bad option. A service call from the NASAA would take over a week. Easily.

Is that a 1st edition Chonk Chart?. Didn't know they went back that far.

The Swedish Chef. I only have some of the ingredients to his chocolate moose recipe .

I'm just now realizing it's Sesame Street.... Well it's my favourite from the expanded Sesame St Cinematic Universe.

Spiral is my favourite pre-Escher period staircase type.

Mmm. Dimmies. Nicely shot too..

Did I fail to mention my previous character had many siblings?

The death star canteen. https://youtu.be/Sv5iEK-IEzw

The front fell off https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

USA tests novel ASW attack platform.

"For the peace of the kingdom!"

When you have a computer, you have hardware which is the box in front of you but on that box you can install different software. E.g. windows, macos or Linux.

Linux got its name from Linus Torvalds who was what I'll say the architect and substantial worker of the kernel, ther very core of the operating system

The computer has a few layers. If you write a program, it may do something like let you read emails,but this program is at the top layer and when you do something like save a picture to your desktop, it tells the operating system that the email attachment is to be written to the disk.

Now the hard drive of the computer is managed but the operating system, and the operating system negotiates with the hard drive on where to actually store it on the hard drive.

In a sense the operating system is like a person you give a photo to and say file this away for later.

That person was there when you got the hard drive/filing cabinet and keeps track of what sin which draw and in which removable folders.

Later when you ask the operating system to show it again, it goes back to the filing cabinet and gets the picture without you or the email program having to know the nitty gritty of it was in the 2nd draw , nearly all the way up the back.

The operating system also does thing like operate a the WiFi a bit like a radio and schedules when tasks run on the computer.

Im stretching the analogy here but imaging an office where only one to four people work there. the operating system keeps track of all the things they need to do and make the system function well.

Microsoft made Dos (disc operating system) and windows. Apple made Macos , a long time ago on early mainframe computers there was Unix and Linux is an operating system originally made to replicate the look and feel of Unix.

But it's build under an open source licence so you can download and see all the internals and change them if you want.

Android phones and tablets run Linux.

It's versatile and can be adapted. I've got some 10 year old computers I've reconfigured as a server running Linux that wouldn't be able to run modern windows operating systems.

Edited to add People make up different distributions like flavours of Linux.

Debian is a version which is old and stable. It's not bleeding edge, but their releases are tried and tested.

Ubuntu is one which Ive bee using for a while and I'd call it user friendly.

Gentoo is a distribution which the installation compiles it's source code optimized for each computer it's installed on to be as fast as possible.

Kali is a distribution focusing on network security.

Arch is another distribution.

I hope it helps.

They swim now ???!?!?

Bring back Dot Matrix!!

Imma add 'take photos' to that suggestion list.

You should do alphabetical next.

I've just tried after checking mine was up to date (didn't check version#, but play store says no updates pending).

Do you have another device of similar configuration?.

Could you browse to it in incognito mode?

There would also be some network issues like a failed DNS lookup, but I'm not sure how likely that would be...

Edit: what about tethering a computer to the ohi e a d see if it can hit the site?

As to how to fix, all I can think of now are

Uninstall and reinstall app? Maybe an intermediate step of clear caches.

And the nuke from orbit option of factory reset the device....