ShaunaTheDead

ShaunaTheDead , 6 months ago to Star Trek in An old Hallmark commercial for Star Trek Christmas ornaments, with Leonard Nimoy (1992)

I don't think I have that one, but I have a bunch of them! They're my prized possessions and it's such a delight to hang them up every Christmas :D

ShaunaTheDead , 7 months ago to Ask Science in [Solved] Trees supposedly take 30 years *before* they absorb CO₂. Why?

This site: https://8billiontrees.com/carbon-offsets-credits/carbon-ecological-footprint-calculators/how-much-carbon-does-a-tree-capture/

Has a little calculator you can play around with to see how much carbon is captured by a tree based on various factors.

ShaunaTheDead , 7 months ago to Linux in Execute commands for multiple files using fish

Pretty unrelated, but I just wanted to say that I love how bash scripting uses if to open an if statement and fi to close it... makes me giggle every time lol

ShaunaTheDead , 7 months ago to Linux in X11 app returns error upon closing

I've seen similar errors before. It's referring to what the xorg server considers to be "monitor 0". Maybe your xorg.conf file has an error in it, or perhaps that monitor is unplugged? If you're running an NVIDIA card, you can run sudo nvidia-xconfig for it to overwrite your xorg.conf file which is in /etc/X11 on my machine, note that the X in X11 is capitalized.

ShaunaTheDead , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Replace spotify

Spotube is pretty good. You login through Spotify and it uses the Spotify API to import all your playlists and recommendations. It does have a few flaws, but overall, it's a better experience than the Spotify app imo.

You can also get Spotube on the Google Play store and other stores I'm assuming. Or you can get it from F-Droid which is a free and open source alternative to the play store.

ShaunaTheDead , 8 months ago to Linux in Is there a "check disk" utility for Linux?

fsck is probably what you're looking for.

ShaunaTheDead , 8 months ago to Star Trek in Alright, where do I begin?

I'd just like to add The Orville to the list, somewhere after either TNG or DS9. Could also maybe add Galaxy Quest to the list for the TNG vibes.

ShaunaTheDead , 8 months ago to askscience in Blackhole Warfare Strategy

Time moving slower inside a black hole's gravitational field would have the opposite effect from what you're thinking. Like in the movie Interstellar, when they go down to the water planet they say "one hour on this planet is equivalent to 7 years on Earth".

So any civilization within a black hole's gravity well would actually be at a huge disadvantage and have considerably less time to prepare.

ShaunaTheDead , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to Linux in screenshot software with hotkey support

There's a few, but I really like Gnome Screen Recorder if you're using a gnome-based distro. I've also used Peek before which I believe has shortcuts as you said. To install Peek if you don't have the repository on your distro.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peek-developers/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install peek

ShaunaTheDead , 10 months ago to Linux in I realized why I enjoy Linux so much and why I've stuck with it all these years (slight vent)...

Hell yeah! I haven't tried Mint in awhile, it was my first foray into a Linux distro and I wasn't quite ready at the time, mostly because gaming on Linux wasn't where I needed it to be. It sure was a beautiful distro though!

I love that Linux has taught me how to debug programs and since open source is more common in Linux environments, if there's a problem then I can fix it myself rather than waiting for the developers to patch it.

Oh yeah, and PC Express and all the groceries stores are such bullshit! Galen Weston... heads (of lettuce probably) will roll!

ShaunaTheDead , 10 months ago to Linux in Stuff stopped working

Try purging your graphics driver. I think Arch based distros use pacman and I'm more familiar with apt so I'm not sure how to do that. Purge the driver and the configurations and try installing the 525 version of the driver and see if that fixes anything.

ShaunaTheDead , 10 months ago to Linux in Stuff stopped working

I'm not super familiar with Endeavour but are you sure your graphics card drivers are installed correctly? Looks like Endeavour gives you a command line program called Nvidia installer. You can also usually run "nvidia-smi" in terminal normally to check if they're working.

Also, are you on a laptop that uses integrated graphics? Maybe try switching to your dedicated NVidia graphics card.

And I'm seeing that Endeavour lets you choose which desktop environment you run, try switching to another desktop environment like Gnome or Cinnamon.

Edit: Maybe this post will help? https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/233674/rtx-3090-unsupported-graphics-card-or-driver-opengl-3-3-or-higher-recquired/233677#233677

Looks like you might be able to select which video card takes priority in the Nvidia Control Panel which you should be able to get to by running "nvidia-settings" in the command line.

ShaunaTheDead , 11 months ago to askscience in If photons don’t ‘experience time’ how do they experience space?

I found this channel (Science Asylum) really helpful in explaining things very simply. He uses space-time diagrams in this video to explain how gravity is an emergent property of time and how the two are linked together.

ShaunaTheDead , 11 months ago to askscience in If photons don’t ‘experience time’ how do they experience space?

It's a bit more easily understood if you look at a space-time diagram, but essentially it kind of boils down to the speed of an object through space and the speed of an object through time are related and they must add up to 1. So if you're traveling at 50% the speed of light through space, then you're traveling at 50% the speed through time compared to an object at rest. So if you're traveling at 100% the speed of light through space, you're traveling at 0% through time, or not at all.