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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • how do you see complaints like this helping fix hardware support issues?

    it’s not like people don’t know that wlan support on linux isn’t great, or that nvidia drivers are bad, it’s just that the community doesn’t have enough resources to fix them.

    if we want real fixes we need to either have the companies making these products start writing drivers for linux, or more volunteers writing drivers, neither of which sound like something that’ll come soon.


  • I’ve honestly rarely seen negative responses to posts actually asking for help (at least here), the only reason people are responding to this post negatively is because OP’s post can sound arrogant and ignorant.

    ignorant because they are restating a common complaint that everyone’s heard many times already (that some devices have bad support) and arrogant because they are pointing the blame at volunteers rather than the companies making those products that don’t support linux, volunteers that a lot of people here respect

    I’m sure the responses would’ve been very different if it was a post asking for help rather than a post of complaints















  • The moon has just a little bit more speed than the Earth can hold onto

    Unfortunately that’s not how orbital mechanics works :(

    If the moon had instantaneously more speed than the earth can hold onto (e.g. more centrifugal ‘force’ than balanced by the gravitational force), the moon will accelerate up, until the forces become balanced. This makes a elliptical orbit, like this:

    elliptical orbit gif

    Apparently the reason the moon is getting further away is that it’s gaining energy from earth’s tides

    anyway you should play ksp