[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

If you're meeting the cycler in its orbit, you're already on a free return trajectory back to Earth by definition. You need another burn if you want to stop at Mars and another burn after that to leave and get back on a trajectory to Earth. In any event, you need to bring all of that propellant one way or another through some combination of independent launches. I'm still not seeing what a rendezvous with the cycler craft is doing for an unmanned mission. Any delta-v you take from the cycler has to be put back via refueling or reboosting at some point or another.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

I did, when I bought the device. And if the manufacturer does a good job, I'll recommend them to friends and family and likely buy more of their products.

The FOSS community does most of the heavy lifting with security updates anyway. Most of these things are running Linux, so they've already helped themselves to that community's work.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

I don't have a problem with a streaming service doing that. Hardware, no. If I bought it, I own it and the manufacturer can fuck right off.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Pushed a software update that disabled third party launchers and disallowed disabling future software updates.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

It's absolutely blue bubble exceptionalism and both Apple and Google are to blame. Google couldn't focus on a single messaging strategy and has created and destroyed half a dozen workable cross-platform messaging solutions. Meanwhile, Apple did and pushed iPhone users into its walled garden while Europeans turned to Whatsapp which has the virtue of being multi-platform but it's owned by Meta which has its own set of problems.

RCS might've worked out if Google had just cut the carriers out from the beginning. It's not even that great of a protocol but it's probably the only one likely to supplant SMS as the lowest common denominator if Google gets its way with regulators and forces Apple to play along. It doesn't benefit Apple to bother until they're forced to.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It isn't as magical (or accurate) as it looks. It's just an extension of how various health tracking apps track food intake. There's usually just one standard entry in the database for mashed potatoes based on whatever their data source thinks a reasonable default value should be. It doesn't know if what you're eating is mostly butter and cheese.

How useful a vague and not particularly accurate nutrition profile really can be is an open question, but it seems to be a popular feature for smartwatches.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

There aren't really any good ones, just a few different quality tiers between "low" and "extremely low"

The ones with rising crusts usually have higher quality sauce, cheese and toppings and are more filling because they're breadier.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The Universe probably wouldn't fit in a sphere of any size and it very well may be infinite.

But looking at a very large spherical region like the visible universe from our perspective here on Earth, everything is moving away from us. If objects were being pulled towards one particular edge of our imaginary sphere, it would look very different. We'd see a clear drift in that direction, but it all looks pretty even across every direction we look.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

The plane won't take off. Their pilot's not going to fly internationally without filing a flight plan and they're not going to go on the lam with their client.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'd really like to see them bring Bruce Hemmer back as a new character. That's what I hoped for when I first heard we'd see him again in Season 2.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Even better, train an LLM on the output of another LLM. It's LLM's all the way down! Surely this is how we get hyper-intelligent AGIs and will not at all result in a nonsensical gibberish machine.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

It might be worthwhile contacting Fairphone support. Could be a driver or other software bug.

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