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Missing MS Paint on Linux? Here's 5 Alternatives to Try  How-To Geek

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  Yahoo! Voices

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  How-To Geek

Chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe "and in any hypothetical ones beyond it" can be estimated by a new theoretical model, reports the Royal Astronomical Society. Since stars are a precondition for the emergence of life, the new research predicts that a typical observer [i.e., intelligent life] should experience a substantially larger density of dark energy than is seen in our own Universe... The approach presented in the paper involves calculating the fraction of ordinary matter converted into stars over the entire history of the Universe, for different dark energy densities. The model predicts this fraction would be approximately 27% in a universe that is most efficient at forming stars, compared to 23% in our own Universe. Dark energy makes the Universe expand faster, balancing gravity's pull and creating a universe where both expansion and structure formation are possible. However, for life to develop, there would need to be regions where matter can clump together to form stars and planets, and it would need to remain stable for billions of years to allow life to evolve. Crucially, the research suggests that the astrophysics of star formation and the evolution of the large-scale structure of the Universe combine in a subtle way to determine the optimal value of the dark energy density needed for the generation of intelligent life. Professor Lucas Lombriser, Université de Genève and co-author of the study, added: "It will be exciting to employ the model to explore the emergence of life across different universes and see whether some fundamental questions we ask ourselves about our own Universe must be reinterpreted." The study was funded by the EU's European Research Council, and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. This year the world is on track to put 41.2 billion tons (37.4 billion metric tons) of the main heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere. It's a 0.8% increase from 2023, according to Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track emissions... This year's pollution increase isn't quite as large as last year's 1.4% jump, scientists said while presenting the data at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan... The continued rise in carbon emissions is mostly from the developing world and China. Many analysts had been hoping that China — by far the world's biggest annual carbon polluting nation with 32% of the emissions — would have peaked its carbon dioxide emissions by now. Instead China's emissions rose 0.2% from 2023, with coal pollution up 0.3%, Global Carbon Project calculated... [Although its growth rate now is "basically flat," O'Sullivan said.] That's nothing close to the increase in India, which at 8% of the globe's carbon pollution is third-largest carbon emitter. India's carbon pollution jumped 4.6% in 2024, the scientists said. Carbon emissions fell 0.6% in the U.S. mostly from reduced coal, oil and cement use. The U.S. was responsible for 13% of the globe's carbon dioxide in 2024. Historically, it's responsible for 21% of the world's emissions since 1950... Twenty-two nations have shown steady decreases in emissions, O'Sullivan said, singling out the United States as one of those. The biggest emission drops from 2014 to 2023 were in the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Europe, which accounts for 7% of the world's carbon pollution, saw its carbon dioxide output drop 3.8% from last year — driven by a big cut in coal emissions. Some interesting statistics from the article: Burning coal, oil, and natural gas is currently emitting 2.6 million pounds (1.2 million kilograms) of carbon dioxide every second..." In the last 10 years, emissions have gone up about 6%. Global carbon emissions are more than double what they were 50 years ago, and 50% more than they were in 1999. "If the world continues burning fossil fuels at today's level, it has six years before passing 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the limit agreed to at the 2015 climate talks in Paris, said study co-author Stephen Sitch. The Earth is already at 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit), according to the United Nations." Yet "Total carbon emissions — which include fossil fuel pollution and land use changes such as deforestation — are basically flat because land emissions are declining, the scientists said."

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6 Linux Distros for Visually Impaired People  It's FOSS

SimRacing on Linux: A New Reality  BoxThisLap