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  • For something that I think an app or service could actually solve, I wish there was an online database of PC hardware where people could submit hardware compatibility reports for various OS’s as well as workarounds or solutions to get things working.

    Something that would be a cross between PCpartpicker and protondb in terms of functionality. For example, if you’re buying a new PC you could go to this hypothetical site, list out the hardware your considering (or if it’s a prebuilt pick that), and get a list of user reports for compatibility with various Linux distros, BSD distros, and Windows versions, alongside suggestions for how to get things working. Or conversely, pick an OS and filter your hardware options by that.




  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBanana
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    16 days ago

    You have to eat approximately 10 bananas for rdv of potassium.

    rdv for potassium is 4500mg. A banana contains approximately 420-550mg of potassium.

    While 70 bananas is probably not going to kill you, ld50 for potassium is 2500mg/kg, that much potassium can exacerbate some heart problems.








  • I had been using linux in some capacity (dual-boot, alternate computer, homelab, etc.) for close to twenty years, but there was always some functionality (mostly gaming) that held me back from switching fully. Then something like two or three years ago Proton/Wine finally got to where basically everything I wanted to run was able to run with no more effort on my part than doing the same thing under Windows. At that time I had been dual-booting Windows and Fedora for a little over a year and Windows/Manjaro for about a year prior to that and hadn’t had to boot into windows for almost six months. So, I formatted the Windows drive and haven’t looked back.



  • not for D&D, but in wargames with minis and terrain and stuff, I absolutely want to know the trajectory of the artillery shells being fired on my position. As well as the blast radius of the detonation and (if applicable) the size of the fireball and radius in which any shrapnel might be an issue.

    Gotta know how many of my men are left and if their fortifications are left standing.



  • The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can’t start fusing.

    Maximum size is harder to answer. It’s determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass.

    It’s thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there’s some evidence to contradict this, as we’ve seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be.




  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzGood news. :)
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    2 months ago

    Throw in British Columbia and Alaska while you’re at it. Just take the entire west cost of North America.

    And what should be the east coast, since if the international date line didn’t do that weird curve at the end of the Aleutians, Alaska would be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state.