Scientists have been working on models of planet formation since before we knew exoplanets existed. Originally guided by the properties of the planets in our Solar System, these models turned out to be remarkably good at also accounting for exoplanets without an equivalent in our Solar System, like super Earths and hot Neptunes....
Has anyone thought to contact Slartibartfast on Magrathea. Certainly someone, at some point a government has ordered a planet of solid gold and then the value engineering team suggested they could save quite a bit by just making it of pot metal and plating it. The manufacturer would have a record of who commissioned it and when.
90% of the experience is great. 10% of the experience is wondering why anyone sane would choose the UI or functionality as the default method and not provide any way to alter it. If you’re someone who wastes time on setting up your UI just the way you like it, consider it a bonus that you get that time back.
Oh, and if you get an LTE AppleWatch to go with it, the watch will occasionally “forget” that it has a plan and silently switch to bluetooth only - and can’t be re-enabled on the LTE network without the phone. Not that I’m bitter about that time it happened when I didn’t have my phone and I got stranded.
Yes, but will they sell replacement cases with USB-C for existing users. Ideally for less than it costs to buy an entirely new pair of buds with the C case.
The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...
TIL. Which is actually pretty bad considering I’m actually certified general amateur operator. They’ll let anyone with a little EE and law knowledge into the club these days.
The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Belarus to depart the country immediately and warned against travel there in a statement published Monday....
Just as long as we (the US) can write them off as a lost cause / FAFO fodder when things go south. I don’t want my tax dollars trying to rescue any people stupid enough to decide Belarus was a viable tourism or lifestyle destination following the stationing of Russian nukes and harboring of Wagner/Prigoshen within their borders.
I am looking to buy a 3D printer for my son (and for myself too). We want to print, not tinker, so it should be something that gives great results right from the start....
I’ve owned 3 printers, all cheap. For what I spent fixing it upgrading them I could have bought a Prusa. More than saying my next printer will be a Prusa, I can say that I actually have one on preorder.
Also, I will never buy a fdm without a bed leveling function. No, it’s not necessary, but if you want a low frustration printing experience, it is - in my direct experience - essential. Prior to having abl I would keep an eye on every print start. With abl I send a job to the printer and check on it when I get around to it.
Wait, so of the five apps they will “let” you uninstall now, one makes little sense to have in the consumer edition (remote desktop - which is effectively enabled in Pro only) and one is getting deprecated (Cortana - bye bye!).
Lots of them, but normal doesn’t sell advertisements or make headlines. I see by the downvotes (or whatever Lemmy calls them) that you’ve been visited by the Reddit groupthink. It feels weird when it happens. Some of us just want everyone to get along…which feels radical in its own way.
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
You know what would be brave? Making a round watch. A watch with a cool, raised bezel that would both protect the crystal and offer a capacitive interface like the old dial on iPods.
I think that’s too brave for the current design team, though.
This is the ideal response to a system threat of this type, especially if they didn’t know the vulnerability existed.
“It should be noted that the vulnerability identified by the students does NOT pose an imminent risk affecting safety, system disruption, or a data breach,” Pesaturo added.
That may be one of the most adult things ever said by an organization executive. Since they have a replacement system (hopefully more secure) in the works and they’ve used the data from he hackers to mitigate potential financial impacts to the system in the mean time, they’re being completely level-headed about the process. It’s a damned shame this doesn’t happen more often.
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
An amazing place on an island filled with amazing places, this was one of my favorite destinations in Iceland. Got to see seals frolicking around in the water too.
It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...
Many years ago I switched from iOS to Android specifically because android allowed you to circumvent carrier restrictions on hotspot functionality (at least unofficially). I guess Ajit Pai has bent the knee to telecoms now.
Im too young to remember pre-crisis age (before 2008) so I dont know if its new “normal” on market. Its a scheme that takes advantage of rapidly changing prices of everything....
Reminder - gas prices cannot be hiked by suppliers because they don’t own the gas. Petroleum products are bought and sold on commodity markets before they’re ever refined or even removed from the ground. These “futures” are bought and sold and the price at the pump is related to the current price to purchase the product from the commodity brokers, plus transportation and local markup.
There are legitimate uses for futures contracts, but much of it is just gambling and capitalistic opportunism.
And they’re probably still there. I haven’t gone back and looked lately, but I did the delete whack a mole for about three weeks until my account was empty save for my up/down votes. It’s still empty.
But I looked up something a couple weeks ago and went to the Reddit link …and one of my comments was right there in the thread. There were others I could find via google, but not search on Reddit. They’re only there in context.
Republicans (conservatives, generally) have limited empathy. Relatively few people will ever have the need to seek an abortion as a percentage of the population - only half are even eligible. The lack of empathy means they do not consider that it is a problem for them until it actually happens to them. For the base it’s a litmus test which allows the candidate to do or say almost anything and still guarantee a vote; for the rest who have never had to seek or don’t expect to need to seek an abortion, it’s a non-issue and they can cite more (American) moderate right policies like lower taxes and less regulation as their driving force.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....
Most of the things you say are missing are installed by default, though some require you to know how to use the command line. Which reminds me…how do you install the Netflix app on Linux? I’d like to watch some shows on my new laptop while I’m on the train.
Interesting. VAC is one of many problems I hope will be in upcoming headsets. Meta was working on this about 4 years ago and is in the prototype stage for both high res and varifocal accommodations. It would be interesting to compare the patents and the differing approaches to the problem.
Many of their services are quite good. Their management and business operations have been turned to utter shit (for consumers). They’ve been told they need to make more money every quarter and they’ve run out of easy things to make money on, so they’re now looking at their entire catalog with the sole focus of revenue generation and profit growth rather than merely being an impactful internet resource which is sustainably profitable.
You probably also don’t value your time using pennies or fractions thereof on an hourly basis.
I have no problem with people who enjoy roasting their own beans. The process is fascinating. But when I’m partitioning out my 24 allocated hours in a day, roasting beans makes neither the list of preferred recreational activities nor the top 10 money making (or saving) exercises.
I recently got my first 3D printer to my place just a couple weeks ago! I thought it would be really nice to keep a small sample of each of my filaments printed out so that I have a readily-available example of what each actually looks like....
Non-gas giant has 73 times Earth’s mass, bewildering its discoverers (arstechnica.com)
Scientists have been working on models of planet formation since before we knew exoplanets existed. Originally guided by the properties of the planets in our Solar System, these models turned out to be remarkably good at also accounting for exoplanets without an equivalent in our Solar System, like super Earths and hot Neptunes....
Starfield player doesn't understand how gas giants work (i.imgur.com)
Apple Reportedly Plans to Announce New AirPods With USB-C Charging Case at iPhone 15 Event (Gurman) (www.macrumors.com)
GOG’s Autumn Sale is now live and will include 4 free games (www.videogameschronicle.com)
For those who love to watch themselves eat (lemm.ee)
A very mirrored dining room: www.zillow.com/homedetails/…/43165790_zpid/
The false promises of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. (www.pbs.org)
The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...
iPhone 15 charging cable may be long enough to actually use (9to5mac.com)
TL;DR 1.5 m cable, instead of 1 m. Color-matched and braided.
US citizens urged to leave Belarus immediately (thehill.com)
The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Belarus to depart the country immediately and warned against travel there in a statement published Monday....
Please help me choose my first 3D printer, with the features I need
I am looking to buy a 3D printer for my son (and for myself too). We want to print, not tinker, so it should be something that gives great results right from the start....
Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
So much for that dream. (lemmy.world)
higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs (lemmy.world)
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
Regular posters, which communities are you currently focusing on?
Hello everyone,...
Gurman: Major ‘Apple Watch X’ redesign coming as soon as next year, testing magnetic band attachments (9to5mac.com)
This is the $300 Android phone to beat in 2023 - and it even has a stylus (www.zdnet.com)
Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides (www.wired.com)
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon (startrek.website)
An amazing place on an island filled with amazing places, this was one of my favorite destinations in Iceland. Got to see seals frolicking around in the water too.
What is the most attractive non-physical characteristic someone can have?
When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...
"Extreme bargains" during crisis era
Im too young to remember pre-crisis age (before 2008) so I dont know if its new “normal” on market. Its a scheme that takes advantage of rapidly changing prices of everything....
Reddit restored my posts and comments. (www.reddit.com)
Does anybody knows how do I get them permanently deleted or I’m powerless against it?
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‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/fj7IK...
How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?
I mean, the title is mostly it. I haven’t played DnD for…long enough that I know none of the rules and few of the classes. I didn’t play BG or BG2....
Bed, bath and beyond. (feddit.uk)
My local rental market go brr (www.facebook.com)
[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.
I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....
The world's first colour e-ink monitor is essentially a 25-inch Kindle (www.creativebloq.com)
When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps (reddthat.com)
From Steam’s self-published stats....
What ad blocker do you use on your iPhone?
Currently I use 1Blocker but I will switch to AdGuard. Somehow 1Blocker doesn’t work properly for me anymore
Vision Pro displays use tech designed to reduce eyestrain and motion sickness (9to5mac.com)
No ads, No tracking and Opensource (kerala.party)
geteilt von: kerala.party/post/68919...
Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)
Kuo: 'No Sign' of Apple Generative AI Technology Coming in 2024 (www.macrumors.com)
Roasting your own coffee is really easy and all you need is an oven, a cookie sheet and some green coffee beans
Why?...
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Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/834308...
Does anybody else do this? (lemmy.world)
I recently got my first 3D printer to my place just a couple weeks ago! I thought it would be really nice to keep a small sample of each of my filaments printed out so that I have a readily-available example of what each actually looks like....