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Possibly. What’s especially needed are better materials that can keep withstanding both a start/boost and atmospheric re-entry with little maintenance. Maybe with such super materials you can also build engines that are more effective and possibly transfom between modes, such as from turbojet to ramjet to rocket or hydrogen propulsions.

Seems like something quite a few decades off at least, and not super practical in general. The requirements for aircraft and space craft just go against each other, even moreso than with a plane and submarine.

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That would be sooo good

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Love these pics

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I’d guess different setups both of the phones and accounts. For example if one has enabled Google location in settings, and stuff like location sharing isn’t disabled, the phone will be pinged much more often. Same if you have office documents on cloud, synchronisation with phone book and stuff like that.

And yea it makes sense that an account that’s more active is of more interest to ping more regularly. Maybe also for security too. Tho I don’t know if it has to be an actual conscious decision by the designers of the systems or just some AI algorithms doing it.

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Good work but I hate how often people share screenshots… Screenshotted Instagram posts, screenshotted memes, tweets…

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It seems like most FOSS I’ve seen is a free, buggy, alternative to mainstream software, which resolves a problem the user had.

I don’t know what kind of sw you use, but usually I find Foss software to be sleek, functional, fast with good support and updates, while commercial software is ridden with ads, trackers, bloat and bugs. Exceptions on both sides but the notion that free software is generally worse is categorically incorrect.

Everyone can contribute, but how do they make a living?

So first not everyone can contribute. Usually people who also use the software and have personal (or monetary) interest in it, contribute.

And why does everything has to be about monetisation? Yes, both people and gigantic corporations make money off foss in various ways, I’m sure others have explained that already. But people also do things for other reasons than just money.

But I’m just baffled how people so often declare that foss can’t work or that it’s qualitatively worse, even though the entire planet has been dependent on foss for decades.

No, just because someone sells something directly, doesn’t mean it’s inherently better.

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There are dozens of apps and most have their own communities that are pretty active. Also, Combustible came out just recently.

Laptop in a 100-200€ price range

A family member of mine in Germany is looking for a laptop in the 100-200€ price range. It would be okay to buy used and it shouldn’t be one of those modern Celeron laptops. It should still have a fairly slim design and a processor at least good enough to run Minecraft at low settings with ~30fps on Linux. Is this even a...

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Look for local companies that buy used corporate laptops and refurbish them. Lots of barely used Lenovo, Dell etc. computers.

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The energy wouldn’t be lost, most of it would be used to heat the inside of the oven itself; and the air inside it, some of which can escape I guess, but that won’t make much difference whether there’s a pan or not.

However the pan itself needs to be heated up as well - or maybe not “needs to”, but will regardless, and that’s energy that will go into the pan instead of the rest of the oven.

So if anything, the whole thing will heat up slower because there’s more cold metal. It will also cool down slower after the heat is turned off, because there’s more hot metal.

If you’re not sure, take the question to an extreme: an empty oven vs. one with a huge 100kg block of metal inside it. Which one will heat up faster?

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I loved how the movies gradually changed from kiddy comedy to borderline horror. I’m more into the latter style so I’m okay with it but I can understand why it may be disappointing for those who fell in love with the former.

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Well that’s just stupid.

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You’re strong and wise and we’re very proud of you.

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Check out Like Stories of Old and Joseph Anderson, although the latter haven’t posted anything in a long time…

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Can’t say I didn’t expect it since Max can get away with anything, but still facepalm. I’m guessing Alpha Tauri had to lobby that the impeding wasn’t anything serious anyway.

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I wouldn’t be so stoked about it. Retail chains use alp kinds of dirty tactics to get products cheaper, this is probably one of them.

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Carlos ftw. But I anticipate either latte boy or crashappy Sharl may wipe him out on start tomorrow

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I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it’s nice to introduce people who don’t use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don’t know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that’s the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

Of course it’s up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that “Reddit moment”.

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I like both the piped bot and the tldr bot for the same reason: I don’t need to visit a horribly bloated, ads and scripts ridden web site, which most news sites are. So I take the bot as a really good service. Also consider that without it I’d say most will just read the title and may make conclusions based on that. I’d say that’s a bigger advantage than the downsides you mention.

(Yes I use adblocks and stuff. Most news sites are still a drag to visit and difficult to read.)

Of all the sketchy eCommerse sites (Wish, Aliexpress, Temu), which is the "safest?"

I always hear stories about the dangers of buying from WIsh.com, Aliexpress, and recently Temu. I’ve jokingly called them “buyer beware” sites even. Yet people still use them, and there’s just as many positive results as negative. But I’ve also heard about unexplained card charges, data hacks, pyramid-scheme-like...

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AliExpress is completely fine, nothing sketchy about it in principle. You can find trash on it since it’s a very open marketplace, making it the same as Amazon or eBay.

Except that unlike Amazon, AX doesn’t copy their sellers’ products just to sell them under their own brand and kick the sellers out, nor does it sign monopolistic pacts with Apple. Workers treatment is about the same I guess… So correction, less sketchy than Amazon or eBay.

Wish specialises in dogshit and review manipulation though. Not good for anything more than a phone case, and I’d rather buy those on AX anyway.

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I didn’t even know you can partition a card like that… But when I had a card with some problems and was trying different things to recover it, I learned Android refuses to mount a card as internal storage if it was messed with in any way, such as trying to clone the card onto another (unless they’re 100% identical I guess) or doing any sort of partitioning. It will just refuse to mount or even acknowledge it.

And since it’s not mounted, it won’t show up in any way, including through adb. The only thing available in the phone is to reformat it. Maybe with root you could do more, idk.

Maybe you can revert the partitioning with a separate SD card reader in your computer.

Ed: Btw another thing is that SD cards in general aren’t meant to be partitioned in the first place, since they don’t have their own controller or driver or whatever it is that can receive and interpret such commands. So if you partition an SD card, most OSs will recognise only one partition. Why even is there an adb command to partition, I don’t know, but it’s hardly good for anything practical imo.

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Isn’t feddit.nl defederated?

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Ah okay

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👍 but the joke has been done a few times already

Bridge set up between Matrix and Discord (lemmy.world)

We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well....

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Yea but I guess that’s something the lw/bridge admins would have to set up with the bot makers, wouldn’t they

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