Crossposted from https://mander.xyz/post/31996365

Have your fingers ready for scrolling! Or you can click the little icon in the bottom right to have it move automatically at the (scaled) speed of light, but at this scale it’s slow. Or you can click the symbols at the top to jump directly from planet to planet.

Thanks to this YSK post https://lemmy.ca/post/45600167

This person on reddit had a BIOS that took 4 hours to update... then 10... then 24... then 36, so they started a livestream for people to watch. Now it's been over 100 and it's still not done!
They even started a fundraiser and got more than enough for a new motherboard when (possibly if) it gives up and breaks.

I feel like this is going to be an inside joke for a while on the PCMR sub lol

Here's the thread with more information Here is the thread with a FAQ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1jcmm86/100_hours_of_updating_my_bios/
And i'll just copy and paste it for those who don't wanna, (but it might be out of date):

Update

the computer went black and is no longer working 🥲
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1jd8yqo/welp_were_done_here/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29462285

I only just found out about this from Boing Boing, but it's really cool!

Interesting blog with cool animations and toys to understand some science about the Moon

https://www.famous-trials.com

Heard about this one on this video on Steve Lehto’s second channel.

In 2003, these guys found a secret nook in a shopping mall. They secretly built an apartment in there and squatted it. This lasted until 2007.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/3251000

"The Landsat series of satellites has been observing Earth for over 50 years, collecting breathtaking imagery and invaluable data used to study our planet’s changing surface.

With a new online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images."

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23900616

Look at it all. The low-res background that doesn't scale right. All the styled UI as just tables of images. The awkward typography.

Slappa da eel mon

The hardest riddle available on the internet

Neat open source implementation of Carcassonne, supports multiplayer and self-hosting

It's a small part of it overall, but this made me really get imaginary numbers

More than you ever knew you wanted to know about gears

Windows93

An interactive web app that shows you how much Mercator distorts the Earth by allowing you to set the center of it anywhere you'd like.