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NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemsEnglish
4·2 years agocan be should have been
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Medicine@mander.xyz•Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear for the first time
5·2 years agoI wonder if this treatment is permanent. They’re injecting the cochlea with the crispr fluid which changes dna in the existing cells, won’t new cells have the mutated gene?
Well as I wrote this I remembered cells divide themselves to grow, so maybe the fixed gene carries over?
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple iPhone 15 relegated to USB 2.0 unless you buy the ProEnglish
6·2 years agoThat phone isnt 6 years old, it was released in 2020. It wasnt $350 either but $800. Weird points youre trying to make…
All those are fair points. There’s not much freedom of choice because common people are struggling to live as it is, to splurge on something with a bad camera and battery life makes no sense (I believe those are some main points people upgrade their phones).
I’m running a 4 year old phone and probably will be going on 5th year because of economical strain.
In your analogy, it also doesn’t help that there’s only one ethical restaurant among hundreds of unethical ones. It’s expensive because nobody goes there and nobody goes there because it’s expensive.
Millions of people could afford this phone, they just don’t care about ethics.
Instead the Samsung S’s, Folds and iPhones sell by the tens of millions because they are trendy and give more “bang for the buck”.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followersEnglish
582·2 years agoIs the app seriously called NERV? 🤣
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@beehaw.org•Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions
9·2 years agoMaybe your phone runs out of ram?
Or is it the 4 hour idle setting?:

NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•Why you shouldn't use Brave BrowserEnglish
1·2 years agoThey used to change the url which the user typed into the address bar to include a referral code. The article mentions going to binance.us, the browser appended a referral link to the url.
That’s scummy as fuck.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverseEnglish
201·2 years agoThis is meant to work with the ActivityPub fediverse ie. Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Pixelfed etc. and you would be able to use your current lemmy.world account for messaging.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch?English
1·2 years agoI rocked a Casio F-91W for years, then a Huawei smartwatch a couple years before getting a Garmin Instinct 2.
Design is reminiscent of a casio digital, the display is always on and gets brighter if external light is shone on it, no touchscreen, contactless payment, a charge lasts me about 3 weeks.
320€ is expensive but is exactly what I need from a smartwatch :)
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.English
152·2 years agoThere’s so many flaws with a system like this, I can’t imagine how you could make it economical. I’m just gonna list a few that have popped up in my mind over the years
- Thermal expansion. Steel contracts and expands a lot depending on the temperature, railroads have regular expansion joints to account for this. But having expansion joints which withstand a vacuum in a 500+ km tube in a reliable way would be amazing. Imagine the maintenance cost just for those. Expanding, contracting, shifting left, right, up and down.
- Maintaining a vacuum. Maintaining a continuous vacuum over 500+ kilometers. There’s gotta be a lot of pumps using a lot of energy, considering it would be impossible to prevent leaks over such a humongous distance.
- Vacuum failure. With such a large distance, there’s bound to be failures along the hyperloop. The train can probably slow down along these sections, but they would need to be prepared. Reparation means many hours of downtime, for people who chose a vacuum train presumably to save travel time.
- Capacity. A regular long-distance train can take on hundreds of people, which makes the costs tolerable. All of the concepts show very short vehicles, with maybe a couple seats side-by-side. That’d make the cost/person very high.
- Embarking/Disembarking. The people have to enter the train somehow, either through pressurizing a very long section, or having very precise door section which the train mounts to.
- In the case of pressurizing, it would take a long time for pressurize -> passengers move -> depressurize, adding long wait times at the station.
- In the case of entrance doors, this hampers flexibility. There can’t be longer trains than what the station is designed for, the train design and length must always be the same, and any wear&tear on the train could potentially prohibit making a proper seal with the exit door.
- Related to the above point, long-distance railroads have many sub-destinations. Imagine having to pressurize->depressurize at every station, when a regular train just has to stop and open the doors.
I believe all of the above points would make a vacuum train economically stupid and impossible.
Just to escape the friction of air?
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: there's a type of common hallucination (often scary) that happens shortly after waking up. You can move and talk while seeing it and it can last between a few seconds up to a minute
1·2 years agoSame, though I’m more convinced and usually get up to turn the light on, and after a few moments realize it’s just a waking hallucination. Luckily I live in a country with no dangerous spiders and just one venomous snake species :D So that logic helps calm the mind down.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Technology@lemmy.world•Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid offEnglish
4·3 years ago+1 for logseq. It lowered my barrier to writing new notes.
Just add a hashtag of the topic and start writing to your daily journal.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Fediverse@lemmy.world•[@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) posting this from mastodon. It's amazing if this works!
19·3 years agoYeah but the different platforms still have to implement translation between the different data structures if I understand correctly.
Like peertube federation became available in May 2022
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fito
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Youtube alternatives | Foss and privacy centered alternativesEnglish
4·3 years agoSure ain’t adfree. Lately they’ve been getting past ublock origin too.
Here in Finland the Left Alliance increased votes by 10% while True Finns(hard right party) decreased support massively across the whole country. Only one true finn got voted in.
So at least we got that going for us…