Abnorc

joined 1 year ago
[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

There's going to be a real resonance cascade in Massachusetts.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'd rather a simpler phone at this point. I don't think I've ever looked at my phone and felt that it's too small. I can think of other ways that I'd want phones to be more functional, like connecting to external peripherals and a monitor.

Lots of people are excited about folding phones too though, so more power to them if companies are willing to go that way.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

My school taught me C and Python for what that's worth. It was not for software development per se though. It was for physical simulation. I don't know if that was a departmental decision or a coincidence based on my professors.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 57 points 5 days ago (3 children)

For a $100k device, I would expect better long term support.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

But the steam network is still around. When steam actually shuts down and no longer has the infrastructure to provide downloads for games, I have no idea what their plan is. They hypothetically could provide a way to remove the DRM, but I doubt that it's something the publishers of games would allow.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I hope not. I’m not ready for the year of the BSD desktop.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

For some reason, it didn’t work on OpenBSD. I couldn’t install the file sets until I wrote the image to the flash drive normally.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do linux and privacy focused consumers actually make up a large portion of their market share? Linux users still make up a small portion of desktop users, and not even all of those really care much about privacy.

 

I am thinking of trying a new OS on my Pixel 8 pro, and I’m wondering if switching will require me to inform or update my cell service provider, Verizon, in any way to stay connected. When I just moved my SIM card from one device to another, I learned that it activates an anti theft feature after a couple of days of working normally. This was easily fixed with Verizon support, but it was a hassle since I’m still on my parents’ phone plan. Am I likely to have this or a similar issue after installing a new OS, or should my cell service and data continue to work?

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