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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We pray for pacman to deliver as he often does.

All hail to pacman!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What concerns would those be, that the few US chip companies would have to be compete again?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I once got this advice and got so offended by it that I tried rerouting the bullies to target him instead.

It worked and never did I have so much fun proving someone wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last player alive in a 50 player survivor tournament in a 2D space shooter.
I can't remember the name of anymore.
SpaceHQ or something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For me, I would say around 2020 and knowing the US was responsible for blowing up the pipelines the around summer 2021, considering the news at that time I could already tell. Not in detail, but enough to know it a high likelyhood, with doubts in between.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh wait, I see that vmlinuz file has a version to it. I couldn't remember if vmlinuz was the kernel or not, because I used to have multiples of them, but these days I only have one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

GRUB gets installed on your harddisk in your root partition, it's configuration file on the boot partition and finally into your boot sector if I'm correct. UEFI is a standard for your firmware located outside your harddisk. You go from firmware -> partition layout -> bootloader (grub) -> kernel.

The firmware is closed source under BIOS or UEFI or if you're hardcore open source, libreboot/coreboot/'other options' and is located somewhere on your motherboard on some chip.
Then there's the partition layout and bootloader that are located inside /dev/sda I believe, so inside the device itself, which can be read if you want to take a peek at it.

Now the bootloader located in the boot sector /dev/sda loaded by the firmware located in some chip in the motherboard, has access to the boot partition, where it loads the bootloader's configuration file usually located at /boot/grub/grub.cfg for GRUB. I remember UEFI having some kind of standard bootloader by itself, so it doesn't even need a bootloader if I can remember correctly.

This what I recall as it was quite complicated for me too. Especially with software being called firmware and not being called motherbootware or pre-bootware or anything that indicates that this piece of software is the very first thing that starts running during boot.

But you look at /boot and what you can find there. There will be at least two files there called initramfs and vmlinuz, which were also part of the boot process, but I forgot what role those two played.

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

Not exactly a hobby and not exactly a year,
but 1998-2009 for movies & television that was not anime.

As bad as all the nostalgia-bait is today,
it's no Idiocracy which was not a prediction of the future,
but a reflection of what the media-landscape was turning into,
during that era.

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

I think the OP meant when were YOU embarrassingly proven wrong.

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

The more detailed pictures will be of these type of objects(stars),
the harder it will be to ignore their large sizes
and thus theories about them.

Too many of these space objects are not behaving as they should have,
and so any crutch theories about them will be crushed.

Stars simply don't work the way we think they do.
Planetary and star formation simply doesn't work the way we currently think they do.

And the clearer the pictures are of these space objects,
the more clear it becomes that what scientists theorized
of what they thought they were looking at, just isn't it.

One of them that should have alarmed scientists,
but hasn't, is how comets suspiciously look like asteroids,
pure rock, while they should have looked very icy with
some dust sprinkled on them.
You might even say that they look the same, but are just
traveling in different orbits.
And that would explain why the Philae lander's harpoons
wasn't able to penetrate "the ice" and instead bounced back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Diva covers of songs that don't fit the emotional tone of the song because they're too busy showing off their vocal cords.
And people who love these songs.

I can't currently think of any particular women responsible for this,
or particular songs, but I'm quite sure it must have been Christmas song covers,
turning "Jingle Bells" into Aretha Franklin's "Dr. Feelgood".
The only particular song I can come up with, is Michael Bublé's "cry me a river"
and whoever plays the instruments during his version,
so this is not just a mostly female phenomena.

[edit] I'm pretty sure it's Ariane Grande now.
Great singer but not very adaptable.
And probably missing the point of Mariah Carey's christmas song popularity,
the original one as I've just seen newer Hallmark music video
where the video theme no longer matches the song.

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