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If you live in the UK, Lidl's in-house cola brand, Freeway, is better than Pepsi or Coca-Cola, IMHO.

Bloody scientists! What have they ever done for us?

They don't have lights, but they reflect light from the sun at certain times of day. Another way to think about it: these satellite can be experiencing broad daylight hours after the sun has set at the surface. Similarly, when you're seeing the Moon at night what you're actually seeing is daytime on the Moon and it's often enough to light up the landscape around you because you're looking at an object that is experiencing daytime while you aren't.

The question then becomes: can't the satellite be made darker? And the answer is they are already pretty dark. The moon, for example, has an Albedo (measure of reflectiveness) of 0.15, which is similar to asphalt and it can still dominate a night sky. SpaceX satellites have an Albedo of about 0.11, so astronomers are essentially having to deal with thousands of tiny and unpredictable Moons drifting across the sky. I can't find the article now, but I recall reading that the albedo would need to get down to 0.002 to become negligible; I just don't see that happening.

I'm changing jobs at the moment. I accepted a position at a UK office of an American company which I was a perfect fit for but they wouldn't tolerate remote working or flexitime. A few days after, I was offered a job at a UK company offering 80% remote work and very generous flexi but for £5000/year less. I let the American company know I wouldn't be starting with them after all. Honestly, it this day and age flexible hours and such aren't a big ask for most information workers and work-life life balance is too important.

Mr. Blobby being a Lovecraftian harbinger of the endtimes actually seems to be pretty on brand.

"In a statement read out by a spokesman, the polka-dotted monstrosity denied the allegations saying, 'That wasn't my cock in the photo, that's just what I look like. This is yet another example of discrimination against nightmare-inducing, diseased-penis-looking, boggle-eyed motherfuckers like me and it needs to stop.' "

To be honest, this is the whole reason I've been telling people that the story isn't nearly what is being reported. If I was attacked by someone that I knew worked at Tesco, I wouldn't write to Tesco to demand they investigate, I'd go to the police. So why involve the BBC? Why involve The Sun? If the "dossier" that The Sun has is so definitive, why are they not handing it over to the police like the BBC has with their evidence? Then, as the story developed: why did the step father change the complaint to the BBC after more than a month? And are we supposed to believe that this change just happened to occur less than 24 hours before The Sun's front page headlines?

The problem is that the allegations are playing second fiddle to a dangerous, damaging witch-hunt clearly being played out to cause maximum damage to a public service broadcaster for the benefit of not just any tabloid, but a nasty, vindictive tabloid backed by one of the most sinister and manipulative people in the world. Murdoch will never face anything like justice for the evil he's caused, but I seriously hope that this whole shitshow massively blows up in his face.

Plus you've got WSL2 if you need Linux. Much more convenient than dual-booting.

I feel like I'm commenting about WSL2 a lot in this thread. I'ma stop now.

I spend most of my time in Linux but IMHO I don't think any desktop experience comes close to Windows. WSL2 is a lovely way of bringing the two together.

If you're interested in the virtualization angle, I can't recommend ProxMox highly enough. It's insanely slick and powerful, and totally open source. It doesn't handle file sharing well natively, but you can easily spin up a file server VM. It can also do GPU passthrough, though it does require a little bit of fanangling in the terminal.

Windows 11 Pro with WSL2 Ubuntu

PowerShell is my preferred terminal shell on any OS and I've never found a Linux desktop I get along with (don't get me started on the bloated Fisher Price playcenter that is MacOS), so Windows 11 with Ubuntu in WSL is perfect for me.

This is one of two feature I really want in Lemmy. The other is the ability to migrate accounts (and, potentially, communities) between instances seamlessly like you can with Mastodon.