turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Regan is a monster, that was at least while the roof was being resurfaced and they just didn't put them back. They were just water heaters anyway, not photovoltaics.

This is solely spending more money to remove freshly installed government equipment for no reason.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's always Tasker.

It's stupidly powerful once you get used to how it works, even without root, and it can definitely patch into the default "share" functionality.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Are you looking for something like Pocket?

There are self-hosted things a lot like it. Vivaldi and some other browsers have similar functionality. Not sure about downloading the videos, but there are other tools for that.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Cans are actually recyclable. That's the benefit. The rest is marketing.

Red Bull doesn't give you wings either.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

👈😎👈

The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.

Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is the most "um acktually" of um actualities but...

For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the 70mm film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched again at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.

Granted I don't think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.

Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Terribly sorry, arguments are over in room 3B.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Switching to Starship, which is designed to get to space as fast as possible to beat their competition, is not better. Even if there weren't a conflict of interest the size of Jupiter.

The NASA moonshot has been choosing hardware that will do what is asked of it every time and has known failure modes and fixes. Not the shiny new thing. That's a good thing.

Starship or it's successors may in the future be a good option. For the first experimental mission(s) it's a ship designed for LEO and should not be pointed at the moon just because it is also rocket shaped.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Going to the moon should use technology that is tried and tested.

Another "Apollo 13" happening because the new strategy is "move fast and break things" won't have the same happy ending.

You shouldn't throw out all your hammers just because they were designed a "too long" ago. Some tools are fit for purpose.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The US Navy has done this. It can be helpful to have a nuclear powered city/airport sail up and provide electricity and aid.

Not sure it justifies having 10 super carriers and several "regular" ones scattered about, but it's good that they've done it.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe?

It's relatively easy to tell an American company not to provide a product, like they did with Google/Apple and TikTok.

De-listing a website on a national level is considerably more difficult, especially without something equivalent to China's Firewall.

It's why Pirate Bay still exists.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The people that invented the internet are still using it!

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

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