How close to stars would you have to be to see them die in real time?

Sorry if this is a silly question! I'll do my best to explain.

I heard that on Earth, since stars are so far away, they could already be dead but we wouldn't know due to distance and the way light travels. This made me wonder how close someone would have to be to the stars to actually see the light fade in real time? Like, if I was on Mars for example, would I be able to see the stars close to Mars disappear?

In the same vein, when you're on a spacecraft or space station, are you actually traveling amongst stars? If one of them exploded or burnt out, would you be able to see that? This might all be very obvious but basic space stuff always seems to elude me.

Edit:

Thank you all for the responses! I do think saying “real time” without elaborating was a bit confusing! I did pretty much mean at most a few minutes delay, as in this hypothetical I wouldn’t die or be hurt. I think I mostly understand now, though. Everyone’s replies have been very helpful! It seems like the distance impacts the delay in a lot more simple of a way than I (for some reason??) assumed.

I made it a lot more complicated in my mind. Thanks again to everyone who replied!!

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u/bigpaparoid — 4 days ago

▲ 8 r/astrologymemes

Current planet placements causing old friends to reach out?

Hi everyone! I'm making this post because I was wondering if there's something in the air that's causing people from the past to make a reappearance, astrologically speaking? A lot of my friends have old ex-friends or ex-partners reaching out to them. Some of my friends have also been having the urge to reach out to people who used to be in their lives, too, and I've seen a few posts from people on socials, completely unrelated, that all say that people from their past have texted them for the first time in years, etc.

I, myself, actually reached out to my ex-best friend a couple months ago, before I knew the extent to which other people were doing that sort of thing! I was wondering if anyone might know the reason that this is happening so frequently lately? Is there an aspect between planets currently going on? lol this energy is crazy!!

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u/bigpaparoid — 16 days ago

▲ 176 r/survivorcirclejerk

DAE think the anti-Jonathan posts are too meanie :((

The wave of posts that are discussing his gameplay in the immediate aftermath of the season finale, ie the most appropriate time to be doing so, are making me so sad. It’s really mean to say that Jonathan didn’t have a good social game or jury management, even though we saw him have a poor social game and no jury management and other castmates confirmed it :( Can’t we all just get along and lay off, he’s so awesome and totally based irl :(( like yeah he was a little condescending to those women too I guess, but everyone knows they’re not fully realized like men anyway so can we blame him?? won’t someone think of how the total package feels?? :((

Fuck Aubry tho she sucks and has no brain and is stupid and she only won because the jury wanted her to win!!! I wish she’d smile more in confessionals instead of being such a bitch and outwitting/outplaying/outlasting Jonathan :(

u/bigpaparoid — 1 month ago

▲ 160 r/writingcirclejerk

How to write a Blood Type B character (as an AB- author)?

I’m currently writing my first ever novel (a genre blend of action noir and cyber-erotica) and my main character has blood type B. I, however, have some concerns as a person with blood type AB-. Would writing a blood type B character be appropriate or would it be considered appropriation?

Also, can anyone share their experiences living as a blood type B person? I’ve met some of them irl but never really gotten a chance to get to know one. How do they think? As a person with type AB- blood, I know what being AB- is like but obviously not B. Do you guys have any tips for a blood type B protagonist, a normal one but still with a clear personality??

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u/bigpaparoid — 2 months ago

▲ 1 r/techsupport

Ways to see laptop health/stability? (Did I fry it??)

Hi everyone! Computer newbie here. I have a Lenovo laptop that I recently switched to Linux Mint on (it was initially a Windows 11 device.) Apologies in advance for the length, it’s been a tough few days!

Being a total amateur, I royally messed some stuff up using sudo commands I found online. This was a multi day process of mistakes, wherein I would mess something up and, in my attempt to fix it, mess it up even more. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Mint OS genuinely 9 different times, accidentally deleted my root partition at some point, had to use nwipe to start over, let my laptop sit for 7 hours while it wiped everything, etc etc.

At one point after installing Mint for the nth time and restarting my laptop, it seemed to uninstall Mint on its own and got rid of all my data. I then reinstalled the OS again twice and it’s been running fine since then.

My question is, is there anyway to check on the health of my system? I’m afraid to get anything set up on there in case it randomly wipes out again. Any specific commands I can use to make sure the hardware is okay? Or would it be software? I’m using an SSD disk for all my stuff. Is there any way it could be permanently messed up, or a way to see if so? I’m just scared that uninstalling and reinstalling and wiping my laptop has made it unstable in some way.

Also, if something to do with my disk or whatever was corrupted, would files I backed up on a USB also be corrupted? I desperately want to write offline and back everything up to a USB just in case my laptop shorts out, but I’m not sure if a hardware issue can ruin files loaded onto an external drive?

Any help would be appreciated! This has been a multi-day odyssey where I have genuinely taken what I have learned and changed my ways. Just want to know if it’s too little too late.

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u/bigpaparoid — 2 months ago

▲ 5 r/linux4noobs

Any advice or tips for how to get these partitions fixed up?

Hi all! I made a post here a couple days ago regarding installing Linux Mint, and everyone was very kind and helpful there so I figured I'd reach out again for a new issue that's cropped up. Please heed the flair, I am essentially a newborn baby with a hammer when it comes to anything computer-related... or, like, your well-meaning grandpa who downloaded 500 viruses on his new computer thinking that he really did win $10,000 on a sketchy website. Something like that is the ballpark we're dealing with.

ISSUE

For reference, I migrated from Windows 11 on a LENOVO 82LX IdeaPad 1 15IJL7 to Linux Mint (Cinnamon.) I am so happy with my decision! However, my Lenovo originally came with a 1TB D drive on Windows that became 1TB of unallocated space after switching over to Mint. Being extremely new, extremely overwhelmed and pretty stupid, I panicked, believed it an error, tried to figure it out on my own, followed a soup of tutorials that ended up with me somehow partitioning my main disk (/dev/mmcblk0) in a way that seems to be permanent?

There is this 500MB slice of my main disk that I cannot for the life of me get rid of. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Mint (SO MANY TIMES), completely wiped my laptop with nwipe and tried to use GParted with my limited understanding of it and I can't manage to get my disk back in to one piece. In fact, using GParted I think I somehow deleted the disk itself and had to spend hours rebooting and frantically searching for ways to fix it. It seems much stabler now compared to the life support it was on a few hours ago.

I would really appreciate some advice for how to make it one whole again. It seems like the 500MB is connected to /boot/efi, which I think my original drive was on, and the rest of it is mounted to Filesystem Root. Absolutely NO clue what this means except for it seems like my laptop is hinging on this 500MB partition in order to function? If anyone knows what to do in GParted or even the terminal, please let me know. I just think it's time for me to stop running commands from articles and videos without having a better sense of what I'm doing because I think I seriously almost destroyed my laptop earlier.

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Image 1 is what my main drive looks like in GParted. You can see that the little sliver is green. I would just delete the big partition there (mmcblk0p2) and try to reabsorb it, but GParted/Disk Management doesn't allow me to do that. You can also see that there are key symbols? Not sure what that means. Also a little 1.00 mib that I can't absorb into anything! I mucked about trying to do so in Setup with GParted, but it caused some issues that I don't want to have spring up again.

(By the way, can anyone let me know if the current setup looks unstable or dangerous for me to use in the meantime? I'm worried about saving things to my laptop in case it collapses under the stress and has me reinstall the OS again or something and gets fully wiped. That happened earlier when it was in way worse shape and I still don't know what caused it exactly.)

Image 2 and 3 are views of my main disk as shown in Disk Management. You can see that they're mounted in two different places. If I try to do anything to either partition here, it says that I can't because they're in use.

Image 4 is the 1TB of storage that got me into this mess in the first place... tsk. If anyone has any advice on where to mount it, or if there's a way for me to just merge it with the first disk, let me know. The tutorials I've found haven't helped and I honestly want to quit messing with the system while following tutorials since it nearly bricked my laptop earlier.

(PS: Does anyone know why my main disk are those letters? Most tutorials I see have everyone else's be /dev/sdb or some such. I'm terribly confused why mine is different? I think in one tutorial it said it has something to do with the format of my hard drive or something, but I was confused about it.)

Thank you!

I am THE Meganoob, so apologies if my post brings down your guys' stunning IQs. I am but a poor computer illiterate and I sincerely thank you all for your time, kindness and help.

u/bigpaparoid — 2 months ago