The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries

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bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · 76 pts · 22h (8 replies)

Is there a version of this with, you know, just one more space in the text? You know where.

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 22h (5 replies)

Not sure what you mean. I don’t see an issue with the spacingon this meme

molten_boron@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 20h (1 reply)

Is c/keming a thing?

llii@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 19h

!Keming@lemmy.world

djmikeale@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 20h (2 replies)

I reckon it's a reference to Linuxon

tyler@programming.dev · 9 pts · 19h (1 reply)

They know, reread their comment.

djmikeale@feddit.dk · 9 pts · 18h

Ah yeah I see haha

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 18h

LinuxON Operating Nystem

RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 8h

I use Linuxon btw

Seimhe@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 22h (9 replies)

If that’s a real photo, I have to know more about it!

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 22h (8 replies)

Probably fake. Only found 2 links back to some sort of original post, one to x and one to Facebook and both had some bs story to go with it. I did find a 10 second clip on YouTube to some bullshit music and some motion, but idk.

I mean, who leaves their tent open in the Antarctic?

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 22h (6 replies)

You are probably right, but just as a fun fact; Penguins exist far outside Antarctica:

Penguin range from Wikipedia.

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 20 pts · 19h

But Australia would be even worse!

Have you seen Australians?

TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 17h (1 reply)

Those look like emperor penguins, though, which are actually endemic to Antarctica.

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 10h

I guess that proves the fakeness then though because emperor penguins usually stand around 4 feet in height.

lena@gregtech.eu · 7 pts · 20h (2 replies)

Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks!

myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20h (1 reply)

There is a great show about penguins in south africa, called Penguin Town. Highly recommend!

Seimhe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14h
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 18h

I mean, who leaves their tent open in the Antarctic?

Not saying it's real, but... Someone who wants to take a photo like this? In the summer (which it would be since it's light out) it's not thaaat cold near the coast. Maybe -10 C, but probably more like +5 these days, sometimes much warmer. Additionally, for a single-walled tent, ventilation is extremely important or else moisture build up will condense on the tent and get you wet, which you really don't want when it's cold.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 21 pts · 12h (5 replies)

They never got to the installation stage because they couldn't agree on the distro

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 8h (4 replies)
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7h (1 reply)

Huh! That's wild. How have I never heard of this?

I've frankensteined distros before, but without the help of Bedrock. An employer asked what OS I'd like on my work laptop and I asked for a Linux system, but of course they didn't offer me my choice of distro or anything. It came with KDE Neon. I wanted to run Artix and I wasn't going to let UEFI Secure Boot stop me even if the PC Support department wouldn't share the BIOS password. Now, KDE Neon uses the Ubuntu kernel, and it booted on the laptop in question, so I knew the secure boot trusted the signature on the official Ubuntu kernel. But Artix uses the Arch kernel which isn't signed at all, so the laptop wouldn't boot that. So I made a PKGBUILD that would download the Ubuntu kernel .deb file from the official Ubuntu repository, unzip the .deb file, and build an Arch/Artix package containing the kernel image and initramfs and CPU microcode and such. The result was a system that was entirely Artix except that it used the Ubuntu kernel. Worked perfectly. I'm sure the folks at PC Support were confused when an Artix box showed up on their Nessus asset management software.

teslekova@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 47m

"But we didn't give anyone an Artix box!" "Life... uh, finds a way."

notthebees@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 7h

this is sick. I'm saving this for later.

Fancy gaming debian (with openbox) here I come.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 7h

huh TIL bedrock

Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 21h (1 reply)

Upgrade his workstation Rico!

xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day · 5 pts · 18h

And what about me, skipper? 🐧

strop@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 19h

Me, whenever someone's not asleep or asleep

Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 20h

This is wholesome!

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 18h (1 reply)

Would these guys peck at you?

RealisticBroccoli@piefed.social · 2 pts · 13h

New fear unlocked. thank you

qyron@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 21h (4 replies)

If this is biggest danger of Antartica, book me a flight.

But then there is the obligation of preemptive apendectomy in order to go to Antarctica. And I try to avoid being stabed to life as I can possibly manage.

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 18h (1 reply)

Pretty sure that requirement is slightly overblown, just don’t travel near the winter months and you’re likely fine.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 14h

Also, afaik, it only applies to the doctors, because if someone else gets appendicitis, the doctor can remove it. And while a non-zero number of doctors have removed their own appendix, it's not really medically recommended.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 14h (1 reply)

I think there might be a few other risks, like say, freezing to death.

qyron@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 13h

If that is what it takes to have my devices hacked and installed with Linux by penguins, that is a risk I'm willing to take.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 12h

Made me chuckle right after I woke up. Great start to the day. Closing Lemmy on a high note.

reader@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 23h (6 replies)

OK, but which distro?

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 23h

Hannah Montana Linux of course

laurelraven@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 21h

Gentoo. It is, after all, the fastest penguin.

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 22h (3 replies)

"Mother of god" - must be TempleOS

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h (2 replies)

TempleOS is not Linux

reader@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 13h (1 reply)

gnu is not Unix

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h

TempleOS is neither

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 12h

I wonder how it feels to hold a penguin.