BenM2023

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[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Point of order - the electrical grid can be really handy as a navigation aid when walking; it rarely changes (though, perhaps sadly, some long established routes are being buried here in the UK) and is fairly/very visible. Whilst the power line running down your street might not help, the line of towers across the local hillside might be the difference between wandering lost for hours and a fast route out. Map the heck out of it.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeh the F quickly forms a stable compound with whatever it can because it is really keen to donate it's electron. Cl sort of bimbles about, breaking up ozone left right and centre, lending it's electron then going "ah no I think I want that back, ta" then eventually finds something with which to bond.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes - Chlorine ions don't just react with methane, they try to react with everything, including ozone... There used to be a big problem with a lack of ozone due to the use of CFCs in aerosols.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The trouble with Nvidia cards and Linux is that Nvidia decides to stop supplying the BLOB drivers at, seemingly, random. Obviously once that happens any hope of distros supporting that card with an Nvidia driver vanishes fairly rapidly. You may find the non-Nvidia driver works well enough, you may not.

Fundamentally it's an NV problem, not a Linux one - I got caught out many moons ago with a truly ancient Quadro card.

You could argue that a distro should check your driver and refuse to install/update if it's not going to be supported but that isn't going to happen soon, or ever, because it's not a distro problem it's an NV one...

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Never heard of it. Lived in England/Wales for 59 years... Will ask wife, who was a chef.

Ok. So now I know it's what is used in steak sandwiches.

I have never heard or read its name before - mostly because it is sold in places I don't frequent (or by food wholesalers) but also because I don't often have steak sandwiches.

Every day is a school day I guess.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Close...

The original "This day is good in order to die" is better though in context - the present is a Bat'leth pizza knife so addressing the pizza such is both a statement of intent (killing the pizza) but also I n the Klingon historical context the beginning of a mating ritual!

Thank you so much for the inspiration.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

If he does it won't make much difference to traffic flow - it's usually at a standstill!

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am too. I have a birthday present that needs a Klingon message...

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Because the Vikings settled and formed The Russians around Ukraine, from where they spread and eventually formed Russia.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What a small volume... Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Err NATO-Restricted isn't one of the highest security ratings. It's one that's sorta kinda a problem if it gets released rather than a "omg oh noes I am so dead if the leak gets traced to me" type problem.

It's also actually a caveated protective marking. The NATO bit tells you that only NATO eyes can see the materiel which itself is marked Restricted.

The trouble is there are at least 3 classification/protective marking schemes that I know of and in one Restricted is used to describe materiel that is called Confidential (or is it Secret? It's been a while) in another.

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