EmptyRadar

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[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I love that this movie is always billed as "starring Mark Hamill", but he's a supporting character.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hated Kai Winn so fuckin much

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

That is discussed in the article:

The Discovery Channel series “MythBusters” featured episodes in 2004, 2006 and 2010 testing out scenarios for the purported death ray but ultimately declared the legend to be a myth when each test failed to light a wooden boat on fire. In 2005, a class of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inspired by the show’s first episode, was able to ignite a wooden boat once with a similar technique to Sener’s on a larger scale, but failed on a second attempt.

Sener said he believes that combining MIT’s findings with his own, the data could suggest the death ray was plausible, and Archimedes likely could have used the sun’s rays with large mirrors to cause combustion. But the technology may not work in cold temperatures or cloudy weather, and the sea’s impact on the ships’ motion affects the practicality of this device, he added in his paper.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

We're in that interim period where people don't understand the technology at all but still think it's capable of anything, so even people who absolutely should know better are going to be misusing it.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I'm just offering an option to replicate that streaming functionality here. As to versatility, that depends entirely on what you're doing. There are situations in which the Steamdeck would actually be the far more limited platform compared to what I described.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best thing to do is use an external monitor. You can connect the phone via whatever USB interface it has - there are cheap USB to HDMI adapters on Amazon which should do the trick.

 

Due to their proximity to Earth, minimoons are prime candidates for exploration. Now, some scientists want to use these tiny satellites to push humanity further into the cosmos.

 

Energy Performance Preference (EPP) updates for Meteor Lake.

 

Hot on the heels of a backlash against Diablo 4 portal reskins that cost the same as Palworld comes a new microtransaction horror: a horse bundle that costs more than Diablo 4 itself.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, always glad to see another user who makes an effort to submit content - I'm glad you're doing the same. I took issue with your title for this post, and I think I expressed that adequately here. Take care.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's definitely clear that you don't enjoy the MCU. I don't think anyone has an issue with you feeling that way. What I don't like to see is when content is misrepresented in titles when posted, it degrades the quality of the platform as a whole and encourages reactions which aren't based on the actual content.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did you read the article? "MCU" appears nowhere in it and Sony is mentioned 10+ times. This has nothing to do with the MCU whatsoever.

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I, personally, have been blocking the users submitting the spam. This isn't a good solution, but it does clear my feed out and make it so that I forget the spam is there until I see another user I need to block.

The other thing I have been doing is submitting content to my favorite magazines - if we actively engage the mags, we can force the spam down.

 

Doctor Who senior art director Crissy Howes may have hidden a robot from another sci-fi franchise someplace under the Doctor's nose.

 

Tails 6.0 anonymous OS is now available for public testing ahead of the official release on February 27th based on Debian 12 Bookworm.

 

PC gamers in the US report that imported red fire ants are occupying their PCs, and eating their components.

 

Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in between

 

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife preserve in central Kenya, lions and cheetahs mingle with zebras and elephants across many miles of savannah – grasslands with "whistling thorn" acacia trees dotting the landscape here and there. Twenty years ago, the savanna was littered with them. Then came invasive big-headed ants that killed native ants — and left the acacia trees vulnerable.

 

This site posts some good short sci-fi stories from time to time

 

Anyone here have a Linux phone? I'm super curious about the experience, if so.

 

Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue.

 

"For a long time, the number of rats in New York City was unknown, and a common urban legend declared there were up to five times as many rats as people. However, a 2023 study estimates that there are approximately 3 million rats in New York, which is close to a third of New York's human population"

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's such a good book. I hope the series lives up.

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