LostXOR @ LostXOR @fedia.io

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Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

Generally yes, but if you spill it it can be very hard to clean up, and if you don't clean it up it'll evaporate over the course of decades and poison you slowly.

If you want a safer and cheaper (though less heavy) option, I can shoot you a DM once I start making mercury ampules.

You could make /tmp a ramdisk which probably has some speed benefits.

But are they virgin couch cushions?

I think I'm a bit spoiled with my 144 Hz monitor; anything below maybe 120 FPS starts to bug me. Thankfully my PC is pretty powerful and I don't really play graphics-heavy games (mostly just Minecraft) so my framerate is usually quite stable.

Spotify has DRM, but it's relatively easy to bypass with something like librespot if you want to download tracks.

Yeah it's a shame it's so dangerous. You can get alloys like Galinstan that are liquid at room temperature, but they tend to stick to stuff and aren't nearly as dense.

I bought it from this guy, $236 for a bottle. Please only buy it if you know what you're doing, as it is very bad for the environment and your health if it's spilled or handled improperly.

Of course, I will be very careful when handling it.

I'm planning to make small ampules of mercury and sell them to recoup some of the cost. But yes, the cool factor was a big part of it. :P

I've always wanted some, and an opportunity to purchase it arose. Set me back almost $500 but it's a pretty good deal considering how hard it is to get ahold of.

Mercury has a density 13.5x that of water, making a small amount of mercury surprisingly heavy! (And making these bottles feel very weird to hold).

Yep, people will fight hard to defend against a foreign invasion. We're seeing it with Russia and Ukraine right now.

Seems a bit cold to have most of your face exposed, especially while you sleep.

Just wait until webcams start cryptographically signing image frames to ensure their authenticity.

You can copy and paste the video URL into the Wayback Machine, if it's decently popular there's a good chance the title and maybe even the video itself is archived.

Yeah that got automatically enabled on my phone after an update... Guess how I found out?

That's not entirely correct, they did use a fiber optic cable to transfer the data, as the more detailed article linked in another comment states. Quantum entanglement itself can't be used to transfer data; you still need to send the entangled particles through some physical means.

From what I understand, the significance is that you can transfer the states around while keeping them in a superposition. Thus you can continue to perform computations with them even after moving them to a physically separate quantum computer.

A toilet paper roll is topologically a torus, which has one hole, so that's easy. The other ones though...