Fallout Nee Vegas has crash on startup issues day one on PC. Lots of folks couldn’t play it and I believe an unofficial patch came faster than an official.
Is youtube cracking down on gun channels or something? Wouldnt shock me.
Looks like their attempt at a video streaming app, separate from youtube.
The icon is also “different”. One has the Microsoft teams logo in white on a purple background, the other has the Microsoft teams logo in purple on a white background (forgot which and which)
They do the same thing with PowerBI. THe cloud version is one icon, the PowerBI for Reports Server (aka locally hosted) is for the on-prem version. Pretty annoying.
I work with Teams (Business version) daily. Have never even seen the other one.
While this account is an alt, I still interact with beehaw daily, including posting etc.
That said I, too, have tempered my activity. To put it bluntly, largely because of the news and politics posts. I have seen where even mods are calling anything right of european left "far right" and extremists.
I am not particularly left leaning, but it entirely depends on the topic. On many social topics I lean left, on other things, im quite moderate. On fiscal stuff Im either moderate or right. But calling sources like thehill.com far right extremist trash (See the post about young men leaning right), or anything remotely libertarian (which in its own is a spectrum of people) far right doesnt jive with me. I find it antithetical to the principles here. Its done in a perjorative way and one thats clearly not meant to encourage conversation or discussion.
So in a way, Beehaw is not as inclusive as they really want to profess or open to discussion or others opinions (if they are the wrong ones). And rather than getting cajoled or even have mods ban me I have simply pulled back.
Finally I have also seen some communities (and here again Ill point out news@beehaw or politics@beehaw) suddenly having moderation tactics that are HYPER focused (ie: US politics only, but not something that is used as a political football, or US News only) And frankly theres not the scale or participation ot have UK NEws, Canada News, US News Europe News etc.
Couple that with point 1 and again, I have just kind of pulled back a bit
Heres the rub though. If thats what Beehaw wants, Im all for it. Its their call. I am one that doesnt mind having my views challenged if its done in good faith and in a respectful way. That is waht I came to beehaw hoping to get. But it does seem that the mob mentality is taking root and the "us vs them" stuff hasnt been shaken.
That’s fair. It seems like pop_os is trying to be a DE, the rest of the parts (kernel, drivers, packaging system of choice etc) are just a means to that end.
I wouldn’t consider pop for its kernel selection and immediately want to install AwesomeWM or something. For that I would just go straight Debian.
I know this thread is a tad old but I’ve been considering a framework for the family laptop for a while. Problem is stocking and this recent 16 model run also had 13 orders run too. I won’t pay for a unit months in advance. It ruins certain protections from the merchant (like failure to deliver).
Instead I got a thinkpad t480 for like 400 bucks. It will do fine as a laptop mostly used for chrome, paying bills or zoom calls etc.
There are third parties (mostly people with 3d printers) selling enclosures to turn an old laptop mail board from framework into a mini desktop.
I think most of their stuff is open source. So the main thing is the barrier to entry to design things like modules etc for the laptop.
What don’t you like about popos?
I quite like it. Having used gnome, kde and even things like awesomwm or other des or window managers, pops de is quite nice
He was. One of the better dogs I’ve ever owned. Was in effect a therapy dog for our other pup that struggles with people. And always more tolerant than he should have been with the kids.
It was a long time coming. He had tumors in his throat and nose and eventually his quality of life suffered too much. Just sucks.
He’s also the first death that hit my youngins hard. My 5 year old has struggled the most. Has some disturbing anecdotes since. Having to choke back your own thoughts/processing to explain it to kids is hard. Harder than I thought
Agree. I just got my invite today. BUt now im....concerned.
Also flipping houses often covers up major issues with "lipstick", eventually i think this will make them less desirable to buyers, because if they see a house only owned for 6mo-2 years it may indicate some VERY janky bones were ignored to stick granite and hardwood in etc.
Prior to 2008, it was RARE to make any money on a house owned under less than 5 years. If you broke even you were REALLY lucky.
Its a terrible article and a terrible hottake. If hes 31 now, he was likely 16 when the first bubble popped. This is a sign of youthful ignorance imho.
The housing market, especially in Florida and ESPECIALLY in south florida is a giant bubble right now.
This has happened before. The early 2000's saw a similar bubble that finally popped ~2008. In the early 2000's I saw a ton of people ditching their careers to get their Real Estate license. Didnt pan out well for them and its not gonna pan out for this guy.
This bubble is a bit different in that its not so much fueled by mortgage backed securities and pushes to get people on variable rate mortgages to they can be pumped and dumped into credit default swaps. This one is much more, at least in florida, tied to folks trying to escape regulations and lockdown from COVID up north and coming down to florida where properties are historically cheaper per sq ft and acre and buying up real estate in cash. But still, its going to pop. Many locals cant afford to buy now, or even rent in some cases as many arent even buying a primary residence here just vacation/airbnb homes. But its still a bubble that will see some major regressions. Especially if the urban sprawl problem gets taken head on (which I dont see happening anytime soon givent he current political climate).
Even then I do this with gmail in the web client. That said i dont really BYOD or work from personal stuff. So there is that.
Not to belittle the heat wave, the effect of the water break change doesn’t come into effect o until September. So they aren’t really related as of yet, other than shitty and coincidental timing.
There’s multiple sources mentioning this. But here’s one.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/
My trait is I think cars are too digital and should be analogue. Giant touch panels are distracting and have generally bad UI design. You can control an A/C with 3 dials, 4 if you have zones and don’t need to look down at all. Pinnacle of engineering.
I will never own a car that has features behind a paywall or that I can’t directly control. Computer cars are fine as long as I have root.
China's Zhurong rover measured the magnetic environment on Mars, which is helping scientists narrow down when its global magnetic field disappeared.
![Mars Lacks a Planet-Wide Magnetosphere, but it Does Have Pockets of Magnetism](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/fdf9bd98-2582-4d8d-9a50-77694d437c3a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the Oort Cloud. Larger objects and planets were probably hurled into the Oort Cloud too, and some might have been kicked out of the Solar System entirely. If a similar situation happened in o...
![There Could Be Captured Planets in the Oort Cloud](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d693b87a-0cfb-4d78-944c-8c68e2cbc38a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
SpaceX is changing the approach for separating the two stages of its Starship vehicle to increase payload performance before its next test flight.
![SpaceX changing Starship stage separation ahead of next launch](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/cd511cbe-c85c-4bc4-8b96-c76772588464.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Oh yeah. There was a show years ago called Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan where EOD techs were on deployment detonating roadside bombs. The robot they used was controlled by an Xbox controller and the guy best at the job was their youngest team member because….video games
Same for me. Its aweing what they find, but I totally need "explain like im 5" levels of reduction for it to make sense as to how they go about it.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is easily the most exciting collection of exoplanets ever discovered by astronomers. The system contains seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. Several of the planets are in the star’s habitable zone. With the James Webb Space Telesc...
![The Suspense is Killing Us. The Next Planet in the TRAPPIST System Gets the JWST Treatment](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/92699d69-bb96-414b-ba09-fb4d5cd9eb64.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
And even professional ones. Yvette Cendes has posted on Reddit how they interfere with ground based radio satellites.
Starlink is increasing the amount of satellites around earth by a large factor.
We've filed plenty of reports here at UT warning about the potential impact of Starlink and similar satellites on the field of astronomy. We've gone so far as to point out that the granddaddy of space-based telescopes—Hubble—has already had some of its images tarnished by passing Starlink satellites...
![Even though they're bigger, Generation 2 Starlinks are fainter than Gen1](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/074559f2-bd94-4ef3-b1b6-2b1c06727328.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
European space probe will capture images that will provide insights about what the universe is made of
![Scientists hope Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/96df9765-37a1-4ea6-b26a-cec9e2d1b702.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Thanks to a well-placed gravitational lens, a team of astronomers was able to observe a supernova four times!
![Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lens](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/97dbcd5c-82b5-4247-b5c0-0356bbef3945.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Heres another article that popped up in my feeds on the same event with a bit more detail too>
https://astronomynow.com/2023/06/19/supernova-magnified-25-times-and-split-into-multiple-images-by-galactic-lens/
Pulsars emit deadly radiation, disintegrating DNA and making them dangerous. Surprisingly, some have planets orbiting them, defying current theories.
![A Pulsar With Planets](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/334514b1-93fa-4f39-a8ab-43eb04c79237.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Some links from the article
Motion of solar system through the galaxy
The birth of a black hole created the brightest space explosion ever seen
On October 9, 2022, telescopes around the world captured the brightest cosmic explosion of all time, a gamma-ray burst dubbed “BOAT” so rare scientists couldn’t explain it. Now, an international team, led by the University of Washington, has published an article in the journal Science Advances in which it explains why this outburst, which was dubbed the “Brightest of All Time” (BOAT, for its acronym in in English) was so dazzling. Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent and energetic explosions in the universe, capable of releasing the same amount of energy in a few seconds as the Sun throughout its lifetime.
On October 9, 2022, the outburst GRB 221009A occurred after the collapse of a very massive star and the subsequent birth of a black hole. all of this caused an immensely bright flash of gamma rays that was followed by a slow glow of light. To analyze it, the team examined a large amount of multi-wavelength data from BOAT and came to a conclusion: The initial explosion (GRB 221009A) headed straight for Earth, carrying an unusually large amount of stellar material with it. The researchers found that the jet from GRB 221009A had a narrow core “with broad, raked wings,” a feature that set it apart from the types of jets seen in gamma-ray bursts produced by other cataclysms. That feature could also explain why scientists continued to see GRB 221009A’s multi-wavelength glow for months after the explosion, the study concludes.
This finding is “a huge step forward in our understanding of gamma-ray bursts and demonstrates that the most extreme bursts do not obey the standard physics assumed for ordinary gamma-ray bursts,” said Brendan O’Connor, a graduate student at the University of Washington and lead author of the study. O’Connor’s team used one of the two telescopes at the Gemini Observatory in southern Chile to observe the event last October. “GRB 221009A could be the Rosetta stone equivalent of long GRBs, forcing us to revise our standard theories of how relativistic outflows form in collapsing massive stars,” O’Connor says.
source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/brightest-cosmic-explosion-ever-detected-had-other-unique-features
How does simple communication and the rollout of new polices remain so very, very difficult for Amazon’s Twitch platform? Over the past several years, we have written up many posts of all the…
How does simple communication and the rollout of new polices remain so very, very difficult for Amazon’s Twitch platform? Over the past several years, we have written up many posts of all the ways that Twitch has sucked out loud when it comes to communicating with its creators, particularly when it comes to policy changes the platform decides to make. It changed how it responds to DMCA takedown requests without bothering to tell anyone about it, for instance. Then it turned its vaunted affiliate program into essentially a pay-to-play scheme. All the while, creators have been subject to DMCA abuse, Twitch started playing silent games demonitizing some creator content, and it failed to promptly inform creators that it had banned as to the reason for those bans.
Has it gotten better? Not really, no. The most recent news is that Twitch decided to change up its rules and policies on how streamers can partner with advertisers on the platform in a manner that has the potential to have massive effects, before quickly retreating from its own announcement.
Does swapping your password regularly make it a better password?
![Thoughts on scheduled password changes (don’t call them rotations!)](https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/d31e920c-c71e-418e-a3fe-485b21e8e58c.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)