TheRealKuni @ TheRealKuni @midwest.social

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I don’t think so. If you watch Blancolirio’s video you can see the transmission is still attached to the main rotor. That shouldn’t happen in a mast bump as I understand it.

I don’t think this was a Jesus Nut situation. Blancolirio’s video shows a frame where the transmission is still clearly connected to the main rotor, which says there was a failure in the transmission. If the Jesus Nut failed or there was a mast bump, the transmission would’ve stayed attached to the helicopter (as I understand it).

an executive from European automation company Siemens . . . rich leeches who were getting rich from putting poor people out of work.

Are you saying that automation is a bad thing? Like, categorically?

Automation does reduce the number of people needed for some tasks, but in a way that improves dramatically the lives of those still doing those tasks.

I would much rather have automated storage and retrieval systems bring powering a goods-to-person station rather than making people run up and down shelves to retrieve stuff people ordered like we used to have. We used to hear horror stories of Amazon workers not being able to go use the restroom because they couldn’t keep up with quotas. Now robots bring the shelves to them, making the job significantly easier and reducing stress. Obviously reduction of quotas or hiring more workers could also have worked, but this way throughout remains high without the insane amount of burnout for human beings.

I would rather see conveyor systems bringing those picked goods to other stations in the warehouse rather than a person having to run or drive those goods from place to place. I’d rather see automatic sortation systems shuttle totes to their proper destinations than have a person have to take them individually from a source to destination conveyors.

Automation isn’t bad. Stymying advances in automation to protect jobs purely for the sake of the jobs is akin to breaking windows so the window makers have work.

The real issues arise because in most countries few people reap the full benefits. That issue isn’t because of automation, but because of our faulty systems.

Exactly.

Edit: though I’m sure that ratio is exaggerated.

Depends. At like, rest stops and gas stations I’d believe it because the clientele will skew male, so just by sheer number you’re more likely to get people who won’t treat the bathroom with respect.

On the road, sure.

But when I worked at a restaurant it was consistently the women’s restroom that was more work to clean.

I kept getting frustrated that the OP’s song never went to the next part. I kept trying to sing SOLVET SÆCLUM IN FAVILA.

(It was good though.)

So thank you for your remedy. 🤣

Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.

At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.

The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.

Worst day to publish a paper, Brown University.

Edit: (Not that I think it’s a joke, but you just know someone—like my parents potentially—will respond to the paper by saying it’s just an April Fool’s prank.)

Mentour Pilot did a video about the CFM RISE open fan engines a few months ago, they’re somewhere between a turboprop and a geared turbofan. Able to cruise at turbofan speeds, but much higher bypass ratios like turboprops. They’re not technically new, but they’re possible now due to material advances. Pretty cool concept.

Mentour Pilot did a great video on these open fan engines a few months ago. They’re somewhere between a turboprop and a turbofan. They’re better than traditional turboprops in that they’re able to handle higher cruise speeds like a turbofan, and they’re more efficient than turbofans due to a higher effective bypass ratio like a turboprop.

Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.

If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!

How am I s’posed to root two this?

(Aw, gimme somethin’ I can root two!)

D&D 4e was unpopular but honestly I loved how streamlined it made combat. I wish they hadn’t entirely done away with it when making 5e.

Until your trackpad is acting up a bit and you become so frustrated you smack it and now it hardly ever works.

Can u get pregante?

Those bastards.

Having a sensor means you can also trust your popcorn button. Technology Connections did a great video about this, if your microwave uses the sensor properly, the popcorn button starts by clearing the chamber of moisture by running the fan and the sensor. Then it turns on the microwave element, and when the bag inflates enough to open there’s a sudden puff of moisture into the chamber. The oven detects this, and uses a lookup to determine how much longer to run the microwave element based on how long it ran the element before sensing moisture, which accounts for different sizes and weights. You’ll hear a beep and see a few seconds left on the display.

This is nearly perfect in my experience. Every now and then the popcorn is very slightly burnt, but being able to just press a button and walk away is awesome.

Definitely watch the video, I didn’t realize mine had this feature until an earlier video of his about popcorn buttons (this one, specifically).

I just want a printer that doesn't require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.

Even on Bambu’s locked-down firmware you can just toss the gcode on the SD card and print that way if you don’t want to deal with their cloud service. Or throw it on a flash drive and plug into the USB port.

My previous printer could ONLY function via SD card, so I’m kinda used to that anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Bambu locking down their firmware and forcing everyone through their cloud service is shitty. But you can print without it still.

Inventing your own "standard" and forcing everyone to use it (lightning and webkit)

It’s like people don’t remember history anymore. WebKit was a joint venture between many groups. It wasn’t “inventing your own standard” any more than any web browser engine. The restriction to WebKit on iOS devices can be frustrating, but this practice is anti-competitive.

And Lightning replaced another proprietary port, the iPod 30-pin connector. That 30-pin connector was born in a time when standards for device-side connections were not very often utilized. Many devices used proprietary connectors. When Apple transitioned away from the 30-pin, the industry at large was operating with both Mini-USB and Micro-USB, which were both straight-up inferior to Lightning.

The problem with Apple and Lightning is that they didn’t drop it when they should’ve. When USB-C became the clear de facto standard, and they began transitioning all of their other devices to it, they should’ve moved the iPhone over and bit the bullet then. Not doing so, and continuing to charge for MFi certification was, again, anti-competitive. But the existence of Lightning wasn’t anti-consumer.

preventing consumers from having their device repaired from anyone else than a "certified technician" at 4x the markup

Right-to-repair is an important issue and Apple are really shitty about it. I agree. They are not unique, and this also needs to be addressed.

Google pixels are not OEM-locked and I can easiely install graphene or any other operating system on them. In the smartphone category, google is the only good vendor, ironically.

Like I said, “in many respects.” For your use-case, one that you must admit is infrequently utilized, statistically speaking, Google makes a better product that fits your needs. The vast, vast majority of smartphone users are not flashing alternate ROMs to their devices. Most people aren’t power-users, and even most power-users don’t bother. That’s not to say your use-case isn’t meaningful; I’m glad there are still solid options available for a world I used to be a part of!

People can damn well choose to not buy an apple device.

Sure, but does that mean Apple should be allowed to get away with anti-competitive behavior? With practices that seek to force others to use their systems, or to keep users they have from exploring other options? I don’t think so. Bad business practices need to be addressed regardless of whether users have an option to look elsewhere. Especially when the company has a sufficiently large percentage of the smartphone market to force developers to work within their walled garden to hit target audiences.