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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cool, thought for a long time there it was just an artistic liberty; but this is much cooler.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

The FEC filing for the donation matches the shooters address: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-donation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

How many goes have that had with the hulk and spider man movies?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Take a deep breath and look for the text that follows "password:" Self defeat is sell fufilling! Think of it as ASCII wheres Wally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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entering the right question into google and google returning a correct answer for their distro that is not 7 years out of date the best strategy in the long run?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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have not used windows on my personal computer and laptop for 3 years now. I still game, proton is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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