I'm just saying, while a #CarringtonEvent during this #solarmaximum would likely destroy a lot of our electrical infrastructure, it would also basically eliminate light pollution in affected urban centers while drastically reducing our collective carbon emissions in the process.
for a while now, when playing Mario Sunshine on the Switch, I've been frustrated by simple mistakes that have stymied my progress in the game, forcing me to retry the same levels over and over again.
Running off ledges, mistiming backflips, etc. I thought I was just bad, had lost my edge, or was just getting too old to still be good at 3D platformers.
It got to the point where I took a hiatus from playing on the Switch for a while.
@zrb yes, #Vernissage will be an entirely independent image sharing platform (in the fediverse ecosystem). At the beginning for individual photographers or small groups of photographers. With limited functionality, focused on sharing photography.
Vernissage for Pixelfed will change his name to something different, maybe better 😉.
I've been drinking #matcha every morning for months and I just learned last week that apparently you're supposed to aerate it with a bamboo whisk? Reportedly this step is highly important to produce the desired texture and flavor.
I just want to enjoy my morning grass water, but now I gotta go buy a DLC attachment for it I guess
Heard what sounded like two distinct sonic booms immediately after totality started on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Some friends in Portland, Indiana verified they had heard the same thing there, too.
Even though #Jupiter only has about 1/1000 the mass of the Sun, it stores the majority of the angular momentum in our solar system. Not only that, but the entire dang planet, ~11 times the radius of Earth, whips around once every ~9.8 hours.
The effects of tides and Coriolis forces must be impressive. I wonder what it would be like to fly through the surface cloud layers in person.
"Parts of High Plains Aquifer, including the well-known Ogallala aquifer, have a point of no return — some farms and communities have already crossed it — and the damages that ensue can come with little warning.
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The trouble is not limited to Kansas, experts say. There are thin spots on the aquifer all across the plains, particularly in states south of Nebraska, at risk of the same water crisis."
6-month update in #tilingwm; I've been using #Hyprland quite happily and have absolutely no regrets. The display scaling, touchpad gestures, and clean animations make the UX a joy to use.
The only issues I have are with software that doesn't jive with #Wayland (mainly Steam, Electron apps, and the Nvidia driver). For those use cases, I can switch to a #GNOME desktop on #xorg
just a reminder, large language models are not AI. They're predictive text engines, nothing more. You could maybe call them "pre-AI", but that's a stretch.
Anyone who refers to LLMs as AI is either unaware of or doesn't care about the technical details underpinning the technology. Or, they're trying to market to you with exaggerated phrases.