AnAustralianPhotographer @ AnAustralianPhotographer @lemmy.world

Photographer and open source software fan.

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Mmm. Dimmies. Nicely shot too..

Did I fail to mention my previous character had many siblings?

The death star canteen. https://youtu.be/Sv5iEK-IEzw

The front fell off https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

USA tests novel ASW attack platform.

When you have a computer, you have hardware which is the box in front of you but on that box you can install different software. E.g. windows, macos or Linux.

Linux got its name from Linus Torvalds who was what I'll say the architect and substantial worker of the kernel, ther very core of the operating system

The computer has a few layers. If you write a program, it may do something like let you read emails,but this program is at the top layer and when you do something like save a picture to your desktop, it tells the operating system that the email attachment is to be written to the disk.

Now the hard drive of the computer is managed but the operating system, and the operating system negotiates with the hard drive on where to actually store it on the hard drive.

In a sense the operating system is like a person you give a photo to and say file this away for later.

That person was there when you got the hard drive/filing cabinet and keeps track of what sin which draw and in which removable folders.

Later when you ask the operating system to show it again, it goes back to the filing cabinet and gets the picture without you or the email program having to know the nitty gritty of it was in the 2nd draw , nearly all the way up the back.

The operating system also does thing like operate a the WiFi a bit like a radio and schedules when tasks run on the computer.

Im stretching the analogy here but imaging an office where only one to four people work there. the operating system keeps track of all the things they need to do and make the system function well.

Microsoft made Dos (disc operating system) and windows. Apple made Macos , a long time ago on early mainframe computers there was Unix and Linux is an operating system originally made to replicate the look and feel of Unix.

But it's build under an open source licence so you can download and see all the internals and change them if you want.

Android phones and tablets run Linux.

It's versatile and can be adapted. I've got some 10 year old computers I've reconfigured as a server running Linux that wouldn't be able to run modern windows operating systems.

Edited to add People make up different distributions like flavours of Linux.

Debian is a version which is old and stable. It's not bleeding edge, but their releases are tried and tested.

Ubuntu is one which Ive bee using for a while and I'd call it user friendly.

Gentoo is a distribution which the installation compiles it's source code optimized for each computer it's installed on to be as fast as possible.

Kali is a distribution focusing on network security.

Arch is another distribution.

I hope it helps.

Bring back Dot Matrix!!

You should do alphabetical next.

Laptop and Camera.

No expert, but I believe the picture is of a wasp.

The pictures in this Lemmy worlds SuperbOwl (my capitalisation) are always top notch and its good to see many different birds. I don't know for sure but I think one of the main posters works at a wildlife sanctuary.

We don't celebrate it. I think if you buy a calendar, it'll have the day marked in it.

As a nation we aren't heavily unionized. Maybe it's because we.would have just had a public holiday.

Aussies have a public holiday on the 25th of April to remember the sacrifices of our soldiers. The day is called ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) day and there are dawn services.

The day was chosen as the day of the landings at Gallipoli in World War I and was seen as a bit of our emergence of a country in our own right than just another colony of the British Empire.

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

I stopped watching the Big bang theory around season 3.

And I think I've only seen one game of thrones episode...

Picard, the treaty in abeyance!.

Raspberry pi os , it can also be run on non raspberry pis*. all the recommended packages in its menu (libre office?) that should get you a nice os.

Some torrenting software to ensure you can help share it around.

I recently heard of something called a 'Pirate box' which is a WiFi router without a password and storage attached for people to upload and download stuff to / from .

I wouldn't do it myself, but if it was a country town, it could be something similar to a virtual notice board in the pub.

• Might as well get Debian and Ubuntu too.

The main things i learnt from vim are Escape :q and ^Z. Not a dig on vim, but it was quite a learning curve at the time when nano has been good enough for just about everything i do day to day.

I dont know what that acronym means. I just use nano as a basic text editor, its automatically showing me different colours XML now. I have used it as a text editor for code before, but if i knew i was going to be coding lots, id look at others like vim and emacs. Me using it is a result of it being the quickest tool to get the job done at the time 'efficiently' and i know there are more powerful ones out there.

nano ftw.

Lamingtons are a cake dipped in chocolate sauce dipped in dessicated coconut, sometimes filled with cream (you might know it as thickened cream, or whipped cream. I've heard shows where people put cream in coffee...)

I just had a look at their menus and they don't have Chicken Parmigianas which is common in pubs over here.

Oven cooked chicken. Covered In crumb, then put under the griller with a marinara (tomato) sauce on top and cheese. Chicken Kiev (crumbed chicken with garlic/herb butter inside).

Fairy bread isn't exactly a good, but something that could be found at a kid's birthday.

If I was travelling up North id want to try Poutine and a real Deep Dish Pizza.

I imagine most people's reaction to Vegemite is like my recent first reaction to Wasabi. If I get too much out of the jar with the knife, odds are it is t going back in.