I believe the image is from one of the poles, rather than the side view we usually see.

I love where he goes on a bike ride to show relative sizes and distances in the solar system.

But if I had to come up with my favorite obscure Bill Nye reference, it would have to be this spoof of a 90s dating gameshow on Almost Live.

Imagine starting your career at the beginning of this game’s development, and after a third of your career, it’s still just in alphas.

He has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to MIT, where he dropped out to act.

Any idea how to access the pop-up text on a phone?

Ah, yes! That’s much better!

Did anybody see what happened to the spider experiments box over near the airlock? I could have sworn that was where I left it.

“has fur”

Displays list of mostly non-mammals.

EDIT: lacks “has fur”. Makes more sense now.

It please me that you have a ready answer to this question.

It concerns me that I have not heard of them until just now. However, I’m getting old enough that that may not be relevant.

This is my mantra. Maintainability is king. I can’t convince anyone designing our systems that this is more important than fancy 3rd party libraries that add some capability that only a couple of people will ever understand how to use, but will find it’s way throughout the codebase and be a thorn in the side of bug fixes and new features for years.

Depends on the hardware, but generally, yeah.

(It’s a joke)

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I’d be interested to see what people have to say regarding VR setup, but the Oculus gets little use anymore. I have a few games that were never ported to the newer, self-contained systems (I have a Quest 3), and we’ve downloaded a bunch of custom Beat Saber levels that I might feel bad about, but the sensors are a big enough pain to set up that I don’t know that I’d feel that bad.

Truth. Full system would be easier.

I’m pretty sure anything of value is already backed up to my NAS. I’m just paranoid that my kids might freak out that I destroyed their state fair winning Scratch project or something.

I have an old (2017) Windows 10 box that is ineligible for Windows 11. Originally purchased to run my Oculus Rift, it now just streams YouTube and Twitch and plays some old Steam games and occasionally school related stuff (Lexia, Scratch, stuff like that).

I started thinking that, rather than worrying about an unsupported Windows OS on my network, I might upgrade to Mint or Ubuntu.

So, my question(s) is/are, how much of a hassle will such an upgrade be? Will I need to wipe the drive, or can I keep my files without having to back them up first? Can I run Windows games on Steam with Wine? Are there good 3D card drivers nowadays?

I’m reasonably versed in using Linux as a user, less so as an admin, in case that affects the way you answer.

Attack the judges, jury, and executioners? Bold strategy, Cotton.

Ah, man, Baghdad Bob! I haven’t thought about that guy in a while. He was good entertainment.

I love the skull subtly lurking in the sand.

I mean, if they pull it off, I’ll be impressed, but it seems like the “why?” is something they should answer before this project is undertaken. Sure, it could be used to power a moon base or something else, but I would expect that need for a power source to be the lead, not the power source. And if they don’t really know why yet – it’s an extremely expensive solution looking for a problem.