Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot my motherboard’s HD Audio device just not showing up at all in my hardware devices? I’ve made sure it’s enabled in UEFI settings but it just appears to not even be enumerated by the hardware scan.

My previous mobo’s HD Audio also didn’t show up at first, but that one fixed itself by the time I came around to troubleshoot it (maybe an update?). Had to replace that mobo because of hardware damage, but I didn’t bother reinstalling the OS as I didn’t think it was necessary.

Other then hoping the next round of updates resolves this, I’m out of ideas.

Or maybe they are bright and colourful to distract from all the bodies.

Probably depends on what isle it is. Long Island? No way. Too long. Short island? Maybe.

If you want anything other than personal anecdotes then you might have better luck doing a study than asking people in a forum. Most people just have their personal anecdotes and personal speculation.

Digital should be the better for either one because both can be normalized to a normal exposure, in which case over should still be more accurate (assuming a static scene). With film, you open the shutter and then allow light to hit the single piece of film, which makes up your full data for that image. Digital could record time data with the light data and essentially keep a record of the full exposure, which can then be averaged and normalized to the length of the exposure.

As long as no pixels get blown out by the exposure, linearly scaling brightness would handle the normalization. Though one of those “take 30 pictures real quick” would also work if you average them together, maybe add a little positional correction if the first frame and last frame are far enough apart that the spacecraft has moved significantly in that time.

What’s the context here? Like should you care about it to learn it or do you mean if you should oppose any resources being directed towards anyone learning it?

If it’s the latter, it doesn’t matter. Plenty of animals survive fine without understanding any of those topics you listed, and more importantly, the rest of us get along fine despite those animals not knowing any of it and we’ll be fine no matter how much you know.

But for the second one, geology (and its related fields like paleontology) is basically the evidence of natural history on this planet. Everything we know about pre-recorded history comes from geology, from what we know about how the planet formed and how the planet and life on it evolved. We can use various dating methods to determine the approximate age of layers of rock, and then determine that anything embedded in that rock is at least that old (though with some exceptions, since there are processes that embed newer rock in older rock). We know that dinosaurs existed because of geology, that there were once insects with wingspans greater than a meter, and that they predated grasses and flowers.

They also let us determine more information about recorded history, which can sometimes be more political or religious than historic. Thanks to geology, we know that, while most areas on the planet have experienced major flooding at various times, there has never been a worldwide major flooding event during human times. But we do know that the sphinx is in an area that saw flooding since it was built and that the Sahara was once lush instead of barren during human times. It’s been used to determine a timeline of how we spread through the world, and to understand that we (homo sapiens) weren’t the only or even the first humans to do so.

Or, on a more practical side, geology can be used to get an idea of what resources are under the ground without needing to dig them all up first. It also can tell us how stable the ground is in a given area, like should buildings be designed to withstand major earthquakes to survive 100 years? Or should the entire valley be avoided because there’s an active volcano that might not erupt tomorrow but might so so next week. Or even understanding that this volcano is one you don’t want to be anywhere near when it goes off, while this other one will be a cool tourist attraction when it does.

And it’s currently being used to figure out if there was life on Mars or if it was even possible in the past.

Personally, I like understanding the world a bit more. Instead of rocks just being rocks, they are a sign of what was, of how much the world changes over timescales we can only imagine. That cliff needed to be deep underground at one point or it would have only been a hill, and that mountain rose up because it was pushing against other rocks and ended up going up, maybe with those rocks or instead of them. This canyon exists because glacial lakes would form as each glacial period came to an end and eventually the ice holding that lake together would melt or break, allowing that water to flow and it carved out this massive channel maybe in a matter of days or hours as that water swept everything on its way to the sea.

It really depends on your devices and what you want to do with them.

What I’ve noticed so far is that the generic drivers on Linux seem to cover more functionality (eg, my mouse didn’t show battery status on windows without the proprietary drivers but it shows up in Linux), but if it’s not covered by that, then odds are support will be more limited or none on Linux unless it’s commonly owned.

Though depending on what kind of data your devices are dealing with, it might not be that bad to get it working. Like audio data is just a time series of amplitudes (though codecs can complicate that if you’re dealing with some digital format), input devices are usually some combination of button press events and axis updates (and controller vibrate is pretty much just a lower bitrate audio signal). Video can be more complicated, but there’s likely software that can understand whatever stream of data it gives off. But this all depends on patience and skill, and if you were the type to gravitate to something like that, you probably would have already switched.

I meant like births, as in even if you can enumerate every single individual, statistics can apply to future members that don’t yet exist.

And yeah, it’s been a while and I remembered that the proof didn’t depend on the population size but forgot that it assumed a large population size in the first place. I was wrong.

I think they meant all those coasts that are man made. Still think we should have said no when they wanted to extend Florida so far out.

Wow, the AI models have really improved! If I hadn’t seen the original, the only thing that would have given it away is the unusually long wing on the flag that isn’t the crying stars and stripes.