After seeing pictures of it and voting for it on multiple occasions on the contests held here, I got to see a Eurasian eagle-owl in person today. I was a little far away so the picture isn't that great, but I was very impressed.
I also got to see a Barn Owl, and it was beautiful!
Linux Mint
... or maybe it was Ubuntu, but it didn't last long so I don't really count it. Linux Mint stuck for a number of years.
You should be able to see everything now. I ran a database command to enable English for everyone.
August 16th, 2025
Another very nice 2.5 pass shave. Now I'm wondering if I can go straight to ATG using other types of razors :-)
This has cut down the amount of time it takes me to do a straight razor shave which is a nice bonus.
I have 3 tubs of Tusk and I'd like to kill one or two of them to make room for other soap bases. This 30mm knot really helps with that mission, I think!
Why not now? Do you use the computer for school or work?
Linux is very easy to try, without even installing it. You can load Linux Mint on a USB thumb drive, then the hardest part is setting your BIOS to boot from it.
The survey in question is in regards to personal computers, so it depends on how the question was asked, and how people answered it. If people consider their Steam Deck to be a personal computer that runs Linux, I suppose they could answer that way. But, I don't think that's very likely.
Good question. It's an actual survey (not analytics data) which asks specifically about PCs, not handhelds. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Survey data isn't always the best data. Linux users might be more likely to take the survey in the first place, for example, while Windows users might not care to.
It's recommended to not begin boarding until it's finished, but one person moving around, gusts of wind, etc. don't bother it.
I've been trying to think through how it would determine longitude based on rotation of the earth and I agree, that's not really possible. I wonder what other tricks it uses to find the initial location.
PieFed can't control the content or political leanings of the users, but it has tools to sort of keep it professional, if you will. If someone shares a crazy conspiracy theory, a slur filled racist rant, etc. it'll get downvotes, and beyond a certain limit (in user settings I think?) the comment will be collapsed. I'm happy to not see or read anything like that.
I've also seen a few users with the "low quality" tag next to their name and I like that. They aren't hidden, but it cues me up to read what they're saying with caution.
Now we just need photo uploads in comments for SOTDs! That's supposed to be coming in a future version.
Wow, very minimal difference in the pictures for being 2 weeks in.
This sounds pretty fancy.
Commercial aircraft get their location from multiple places including GPS, ground based facilities (VOR's), IRS, etc. IRS is what I'm used to calling it, but it's the same as INS, which is what this article is talking about.
It determines location by keeping track of rotation, acceleration, etc. It's often called "dead reckoning" because it just gives the best guess, and you don't know how accurate it is. There are multiple of these devices on each aircraft, and they compare their locations to the other sources and if one is drifting way further than the rest, it gets ignored. That's a very basic explanation because how it really works is way above my knowledge level.
It's very cool how these devices find their location, though. When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can't reset it when in motion. Based on what it feels it can determine your exact location on the surface of the earth.
Finding the Center of Gravitas.