Are you mounting a FAT32 disk by any chance?

Australians love to turn our birds in to pie! Pied Stilts, Pied Currawongs, Pied Oystercatchers, Pied Butcherbirds, Pied Herons, Pied Cormorants, LIttle PIed Cormorants… So much pied bird!

TIL, hiking to Mordor can be dangerous :P

https://walkingintomordor.com/lord-of-the-rings-road-trip/

New Zealand. The whole country feels like a national park especially the south island. However, you would need to rent a car to get to and between a lot of places.

I’d just re-install Windows over the top of the fucked up install normally. It was a bit easier to recover from, and a bit harder to fuck up

It was similar for me, but not quite the same. The thing I hated was starting from scratch. I’m very much not a distro hopper. Back in the day, I enjoyed the challenge of trying to troubleshoot issues and get the system working again, and that kept me interested, but eventually, I’d hit a problem I couldn’t resolve, and I’d have to start again from scratch, and at that point, I’d just go back to Windows.

Now, I still get to do the same thing. If I break it, I get to learn how I broke it and try and fix it, and I find that process compelling. But because I’m using btrfs restore points now, I don’t get to the point where I have to start again from scratch. So I can work at solving it to the limit of my abilities, with confidence that if I can’t work it out, it’s not a huge issue.

That also sounds like a good way to stop learning!

I think this thread of replies largely denying it happens, or arguing as for why there’s a good reason that it happens should give you an idea why the issue happens in the first place.

The “starting over” part is what made it take so long for linux to “stick” with me.

Once it became “restore from an earlier image”, it was a game changer!

so please leave any politics

You say, as you wade in to a topic that only exists for political reasons, and is actively driven and sustained entirely for political reasons

The early universe before cosmic inflation, was nothing but high energy sub atomic particles. Cosmic inflation kicked in, and dispersed that matter and energy. Cosmic background radiation is the remnants of that process. It comes from all directions in the universe, because it predates inflation.

Which is to say, your question can’t be answered, because cosmic background radiation exists only because of inflation. It was created before inflation kicked in, as part of a singularity, with no spatial dimensions. As a result, today, it’s everywhere, all the time, from all directions. It wasn’t far away when it was created, because far away didn’t have any meaning in a singularity without spatial dimensions.

It’s a configuration option.

TikTok basically invented shorts. Maybe Snapchat.

That would be Vine

If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it’s me. I’m a lot of people)

I’m from Australia, but saw lots of these guys when I was in NZ in February. They were quite common even on the waterfront in the major cities.

I do a lot of bird photos (including ducks). Mostly waterbirds, but really, anything with feathers :)

The OM-1 MkII is easily the best birding camera I’ve owned. I never used the MkI though, so I don’t know how it compares.

An OM-1 MkII. My main lenses are the 12-100 F4 and the 300mm F4

Ah. It’s probably a female mallard!

Aotearoa/New Zealand by any chance? Or maybe Australia?

It looks like a Pacific Black duck hybrid, probably Pacific Black Duck x Mallard