Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I suppose you could get a shape like this if you tried to draw a square by true headings and bearings near the North pole of a sphere. “Turn heading 090, travel 10 miles. Turn heading 180, travel 10 miles.” and so forth. Start at a spot close to the pole and this will be your ground track.

    Actually no it isn’t, because attempting to make a square you’d make four turns in the same direction, this would require turning left, right, right, left.



  • I saw the first one, enjoyed it…not sure I could explain the plot or what happened in it. At the time having the dinosaurs brought to life was spectacle enough; they could have made a movie about the park working correctly and it would have sold tickets.

    I watched the second and third one back to back with a girl. They were alright. I don’t care to see them again. I’m not watching any more of them.








  • Yeah actual error messages with helpful information are a thing on Linux.

    The last time I tried to install Windows on something, there was some problem with the BIOS config, and Windows would get part of the way through installing and then a “FAILED TO INSTALL ERROR 0xA9BF4DAFDEB99B7AD46” or something. Installing Linux on the same machine said “Unable to install due to BIOS config. See here for details.” “here” was a hyperlink to the Ubuntu wiki, which you could open in Firefox because this is a live session with the whole desktop there, not some useless installer environment, nevertheless it gave a QR code to the same wiki page so you could visit it on a mobile device if you wanted to.

    It’s like it’s meant to be used by humans, not the Borg. And not even like Borg Queen Seven of Nine Borg, like TNG era Borg.



  • I’ll admit to liking the look of some gaming PCs, with a custom loop with clear tubing, colored coolant, coordinated lights; it hits the same way a well done build in Satisfactory does.

    I’m not really interested in gaming peripherals like a big chunky mouse with a bunch of angled plates on it trying to look like Gigatron’s jock strap. Some RGB can be kind of cool, I kinda wish I could do more useful stuff with it, like I always throught it would be cool to have RGB lighting that varied from blue to red with component temperature or something. I’m not the biggest fan of just unicorn vomit for the sake of unicorn vomit.