I recently noticed that the default background for Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” has a purple star missing and now that i noticed it, i can’t unsee it. The one towards the bottom right is barely visible so that passes.
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You think that’s annoying, this is what the Ancient Greeks decided was a scorpion in the sky.
This is somehow a ram.
Psilocybin was likely involved.
Aries wasn’t even a constellation until some Greeks decided it was. They attached it to the mythical ram in the golden fleece myth. It looks a little ram-like with the full milky way behind it, but it’s not much of a constellation.
For some reason astrology bullshit has taken over the entire internet when it comes to researching star signs. The story behind the ram is mentioned (copy pasted) everywhere but fails to tell how exactly Ptolomy made the connection.
Isn’t that how all constellations came about?
That’s way more of a scorpion than some other constellations are their thing
Rotate it 90 degrees to the right
Why? That doesn’t make it look more like a scorpion.
I… see it now
“Close enough, fuck it.” — National motto of Ancient Greece
I’ve heard that not having access to actual dark skies free of light pollution makes it a lot harder to see/understand how people could see figures in constellations, and that extremely faint light from other stars, nebulas, etc adds to the experience. Allegedly it makes Orion’s belt easier to see. I’ve never had access to a sky dark enough to test it in person, though.
Is it really that weird? You can’t see half the stars these days, but it’s really not that much of a stretch:
Don’t forget that pre-electicity civilisations spent a lot of time looking up at the night sky. Any traveler had to learn how to use the stars to navigate, so if course they’d group stats together to create points of reference.
Gotta install the last star from snap, I bet.
Can confirm,
sudo apt install firefoxadded a new star
Better?
Yes but now fix the middle right tail intersection that is also starless.
If only there was some way to change it…
dual boot into a better distro
Literally unusable. 🤣
It might be available in Ubuntu Pro, with star support expanded to 10 billion years.
There is a star there. It’s just so far away the light hasn’t reached the wallpaper yet.
Fork.
Mint FTW
As OP stated, it’s still there, just barely visible. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Right, didn’t read.
I totally get you bro
This is why I prefer Linux Mint.
Wallpapers?
Wallpapers?
Most Ubuntu forks are about changing the wallpaper and other cosmetics.
No, they are about the DE not being Gnome.
as much as I hate it, I like the little nod to the imperfections of real constellations
Monster!
Constellations aren’t even real lmao
Yes, they are.
There aren’t literal lines in space of course, but the concept is absolutely real.
Constellations in real life
