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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon started hiding ratings for some products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t really have less laws. Just far less enforcement mechanisms. For instance I am supposed to be able to use my own modem, the FCC rules prevent ATT from forcing me to rent a modem. But the FCC hasn’t given a shit about anything since the 80s. So ATT forces me to rent a modem. Laws are only as good as their enforcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astronauts are funny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget insanely lucky and well off enough to afford a masters degree before you’re in your 30s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Land where⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Starliner also lands on land, and I believe Dragon has that option or at least was gong to at some point in its design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you are saying, but the Saturn V was never intended to be an ICBM. Depending on what numbers you look at too, they weren’t actually that well funded. Some of the largest estimates that I’ve seen place NASA’s inflation adjusted budget between 1960 and 1973 at just under $600 billion. Or roughly half of what we’re spending in one year on the military currently.

  To put it another way, at its absolute peak budget NASA received roughly 4.6% of the current military budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that Windows 11 is Windows NT.

  They quit using the NT number when they switched from waterfall to “agile” releases. But 10 beta had an official release version of 6.4 and then they switched that to 10.0 which they have left alone since for 11 and the latest Server editions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you are saying. But the difference is more akin to Mint and Ubuntu. Where one started as a fork of the other, which itself was a fork of something else, but at this point in time both are so different from their original source material that they’re all three just considered different distributions of the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They just announced a partnership with Motorola.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article I linked:

  “This article is about the passenger rail service in Florida…”

  AFAIK the Amtrak route from Seattle only goes to Chicago, you would have to change trains to get to NYC anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like websites nowadays feels very broken compared to apps? Like you try to do transactions on the mobile site (eg: ordering food), and payments mysteriously declines...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 13 Mini and even Lemmy makes that happen sometimes but it’s gotten way worse for me since the update to iOS 26.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are being oddly specific with your definition of passenger rail, there absolutely is.
  Brightline for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did the back of a van stop counting as a trunk or covered boot? This sounds like typical insurance company bullshit. They are basically saying that they won’t cover it if you can see it though the window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But a picture is worth a thousand words!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't click my app controls!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this Voyager? Is it the Webapp or the App Store App? If it’s the Voyager webapp you may need to tell it you are on Android in the settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC the original Shuttle design called for an ejection mechanism around the entire cockpit. During STS-1 and I believe STS-2, which was also Colombia, there were extra emergency mechanisms present, but I don’t think the seats themselves ejected through the roof like a fighter pilot’s would. For the most part though these were useless as they could not be used above 30,000 feet or something like that so it could only be used during the first minute or two of the flight.

  Several of the safety mechanisms and other things that were going to be part of the original design that had not already been scrapped for weight (like jet engines for powered decent) were scrapped for weight when the DOD stepped in and offered NASA extra money for the Shuttle if the Shuttle could hit very specific, higher and less fuel efficient, orbits. This came from an offhand comment that Jimmy Carter made, and then had to make good on the threats and implications of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: Columbia, pictured with the white tank, was the heaviest shuttle and was not modified to have the airlock necessary to dock with the ISS because the performance losses compared to the other shuttles made it difficult to use for ISS operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me this just feels like the next step of ‘shipping a game before it’s finished’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slingshot is a nice detail 😁⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: Jupiter has rings too!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was honestly surprised when we got the Series. I was pretty convinced that they were done with consoles after the One X|S and that Xbox would become more of a Steam competitor as a brand. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Series ended up being the last console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not exactly sure what you are asking, it sounds like you want to be able to play music to a speaker or group of speakers without being in the same location, but then you wouldn’t be able to hear it. I think maybe Sonos stuff can be controlled like that but I am not sure. Otherwise why would you need the device itself to connect to the Internet and not the device initiating the casting? (Though in some cases they, especially the chromecast, will hand the stream to the casted to device rather than streaming it from the initiating device across your local network but I don’t think that’s what you are asking about either.) AirPlay for instance will just play whatever audio is currently playing on the casting device no different than if they were headphones. You can also set up AirPlay receiving on things like a Raspberry Pi if you want to try it out before buying dedicated hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are AirPlay and Chromecast devices you can get that will do that part. I have castable speakers in every room and not one of them also has a microphone or requires an app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨allium gang rise up 🌰⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨allium gang rise up 🌰⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t wrong but I also think people tend to forget just how much of what we grew up on were remakes and rehashes of stuff even from the radio era. Especially the cartoons that we watched as kids, so much of that was just recycled jokes and such with some jokes for the adults of the day thrown in too. Even Star Wars was an homage to the serials of the 30s-50s like Flash Gordon, which itself got an 80s remake (with an excellent soundtrack by Queen). The remakes aren’t new they are just more obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the warning. Any show that continues Discovery’s bullshit isn’t going to be worth a watch in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Picard didn’t leave him to die, he expected the ringleader to let him go back for the dude but she didn’t. The point of the scene was to show that she was an asshole not that Picard was heartless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure MacOS does this and that there is a Gnome extension for it as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How young do you think boomers are?