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  • Hi Astrophysics,

    I always wondered why they draw black holes like they do in that the accretion looks like it's drawn in two planes. I would have thought it would have looked a bit more like a saturns rings? Or is it exactly like saturns rings but we see the whole ring bent round the top because a black hole bends the light around so we can see it? Or is it something else entirely that they are trying to depict here?

  • A Plover, New South Wales, Australia (2nd image in post)
  • These fucks nested in my front yard. Then when their chick got stuck in a drain I rescued it while being assaulted (swooped is an understatement) constantly. I had to gear up with a bike helment, glases, towel and stick to fend them off while doing it. FYI they have sharp spurs on their wings and they know how to use them. They would also just swoop me walking to and from the car. They also make a lot of noise all the time.

  • Pew pew pew!
  • We all like to think that way. But your not going to build a bridge, fix a road or fund a hospital are you with your money? Also I am talking about taxes in general not specifically the US.

  • Go No Further
  • Off the top of my head, rope to put down Gide lines in case you get silted out so you have something to follow to get out.

    Also extra everything, if your open water diving and you run out of air (or other critial equipment failure) you can roll the dice on the bends by going straight to the surface, not so with cave diving; your just going to drown.

  • Year of Linux on the Desktop
  • I got my CNC router working via wine about 2 years ago. Was very happy when it not only worked but worked well. Thought I was going to need to setup a dedicated windows PC for it but I can just use my workshop/tinkering laptop.

  • Year of Linux on the Desktop
  • People are lazy as fuck. Provided it plays their games they don't give a shit about features updates, patches, bug fixes etc.

    They probably have no ideal what version of windows is even installed on their machine.

  • Year of Linux on the Desktop
  • I've done it. I agree it can be done very easily. But is relying on all new users entering the right question into google and google returning a correct answer for their distro that is not 7 years out of date the best strategy in the long run?

    Any distro that does not offer a option during install or on first boot to just install this stuff with a promt is not new user friendly.

  • Year of Linux on the Desktop
  • I second popos and mint. I love fedora but if he is a gamer you want something that will just work (navida built in or a very easy one click mechanism to get it). If he has to research PPAs and installing rpmfussion it will get all too hard very quickly. Also do some expectation setting before hand, research what games he plays work on linux, better he finds out now rather than after 2 hours of pain or getting band for "hacking" because of proton triggered an anti-cheat thing.

    Edit: I run fedora on all my machines except my gaming rig which is popos. Fedora works too but popos is hassle a free experience.

  • Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
  • I tried helping family and friends as well however the reasons why I wanted to switch (privacy issues and getting served start menu ads) where not shared.

    Most people don't care how something works or the moderations behind it just that it works and more importanty that it works exaclly the same way each time.
    Ignoring an ad or slightly modifying your tolerance for a increasing shit process is more easy that trying a completely new approach.

    The way Mac OS overcomes this is with "buy in", its expensive so people are more motivated to actually learn the Mac OS way to do things so their purchasing choices are validated. There are more reason but this is a big one.

    Just keep yours expectations reliatic. Just because someone complains about windows does not mean they are ready to switch.

  • "The People"

    I watch the WAN show, as it seems to be the last LTT property approaching genuine (if you skip the merch messages). But Linus use of the "for the people" really rubs me the wrong way. He can't be a big boy and take a position or make a decision without outsourcing it to "the people", seems to prove he is completely out of touch.

    No hate to Luke or Dan, I like them. Luke deserves a fucking metal for the "hard R" save.

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