Thorry84 @ Thorry84 @feddit.nl

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I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all!

Enshittified used to have a very specific meaning in the lifecycle of a product/service. These days it just means "getting worse". And yes, everything is getting worse all the time.

Who cares about the legality?

If somebody's house burnt down, you give them whatever they need. Any company not giving somebody in that situation paid time off is a shitty company. I know for sure my boss would give me whatever I needed and ask if he personally could help in any way.

Employees are humans first and foremost and need to be treated with respect and compassion, not slaves to be exploited and punished.

That's what he always does right?

Wow that's kinda sad.

We had one that did that as well, but he was just dumb as nails. He would be laying down with his tail around him so it's at his face (looong tail). Then he would hit himself in the face on accident with his tail, this would piss him off so his tail would start wagging in his face. This pissed him off even more so he would grab his tail and bite it, but as soon as he felt that he would realize what he just did and start grooming his tail. Playing it off like he didn't just do something stupid, but was just grooming normally. He did this a lot, because he wasn't always the smartest of the bunch.

It's been a long road

Well they do that with their own tails as well, it's just hardwired for cats to become chaos

Please note you should NEVER flush any baby wipes or similar down the toilet. They should go in the trash if you must use them, but using washable alternatives (if you have a baby for example) if possible is better. Baby wipes contain a lot of plastic. If you flush them they might clog up the toilet, which you might not care about at work. But if it doesn't clog up the toilet, it gets into the sewer and causes trouble there, trouble your tax money / water bill money goes to fix. If it does go through smoothly it will in the worst case end up in rivers and oceans, floating around for a long time before degrading into microplastics.

Yeah I've seen this thing before and think it's a neat design but not really worth funding tbh. In the end it's just a Pi with a screen too small to be useful and a keyboard that would be terrible to use. Do we really need to fund more plastic crap? They could just put the designs online so people can 3D print them themselves, and put it on a service like pcbway for people that want a high quality version. People already do that all the time.

If they would design an interface for it as well, that would be really cool. Then it could be a useful thing definitely worth funding. But with a vanilla Pi Linux the user experience would be terrible.

Because when the Apollo project was ongoing, they only built what they needed to build. Everything was a prototype basically and there were usually different versions of everything going around. Afterwards a lot of the stuff was re-used for later programs, often modified or taken apart for parts. As the budget shrank they needed to be creative. Take a look at the work CuriousMarc and his team is doing with repairing and restoring old Apollo Moon hardware, along with documentation and preservation.

Why can't we simply build the Apollo lander today. Well a couple of reasons.

First of all, like I said it were prototypes, so you'd have to figure out what design to use. All of the documents back then were on paper and not all of it is digitized by a long shot. The amount of documents they produced back then was crazy. And a lot of it was lost over time unfortunately. Puzzling all of that together would be quite some task. Most folk from back then are since dead or at the very least retired. And I for one sometimes forget entire projects I worked on, so good luck getting small details out of those people.

Our idea of what is acceptable, a good idea and safe has changed since the Apollo times. A lot of the design back then included components that were very dangerous and toxic. Not only to be used, but also to manufacture, which we wouldn't find acceptable these days. And things we've later learned were a bad thing to do. So the design would need to be modified to be safer, which would probably cascade into an entire new design.

We've lost so much of the support infrastructure the program relied on. It's hard to understate how much this matters. This is a big thing when people say the moon program was fake. It wasn't just one rocket, one lander, one crew, it was millions upon millions of pieces of infrastructure supporting the whole thing. From jigs to electronics, test equipment, custom tools, handling facilities etc. All with their own backstory, design requirements, documentation etc. A lot of this has been lost, especially when it was outsourced at the time. You'd have to reverse engineer and re-create a lot of that.

Time has moved on and so has technology. Whilst the Apollo program had some cutting edge stuff back then, these days it's ridiculously outdated. It would be very hard to manufacture any of those components today. We're talking about the first generation of integrated circuits, on very expensive ceramics. Using crazy analogue electronics, only understood by the best gurus at the time. Even mechanical computers were used, a lost artform last used in the 80s. You could start redesigning stuff to modern equivalents, but again that would probably snowball into just designing a whole new thing.

Recreating something from that long ago is simply not possible I'm afraid. And even if we could, it would probably make for a pretty shitty lander compared to modern standards.

If I'd have a skirt around up above my navel, you could park a jumbo jet underneath the skirt in front of my cock

Well it all depends on what you want to do. I interpreted your question as we need to go there asap, what can we do? And then the answer is we can do an crewed orbit in about a year time.

If we just want to do it with a good chance of survival, building all the shit we need, but still get there soon, the answer would be different. If we just want to go fast, we would probably use all our heavy lift vehicles to build a moon vehicle in LEO. Then put a big ass engine on that and a bunch of fuel and launch the whole thing to the moon. That's something we could do within 5-7 years if we would put our minds and money to it. I feel the suits we currently have in development could be ready within that time as well. The lander would be a problem however, we don't have any of those in development right now. Blue Origin has their Blue Lander, but that's been on the drawing board for so long now. They did get extra funding to get it ready for 2030, but haven't shown their progress publicly, so who knows how far they are. On the other hand, if we want to take some risks for this special mission I'm sure we can get something together in 5-7 years if humanity unites and puts their weight/money/faith behind it.

However if we keep going like we've been going since Apollo was cancelled, we are never going to get there at all. The politics are complicated and the private sector has been hit or miss. Plus with the Musk factor, we don't know what's going to happen. I have zero faith in anything we have going right now.

At the moment, we just cannot.

We don't even have space suits that can operate on the moon. The stuff they use on the ISS is made to be used in a total vacuum only, not walking around in the dust and on sharp rocks. There are new suits in development, but nothing final as far as I know. I'm not sure if any are close to being finished, let alone tested and certified.

There's also no vehicle that can land on the moon with crew right now. Nasa is relying on SpaceX to get their Starship program to the point they can do it. People are divided on this, but anyone with technical knowledge I heard about this say the SpaceX program is very challenging and probably not feasible. Especially with the super optimistic timelines they've been throwing around.

In theory you could put a Crew Dragon with a big trunk of supplies on a Falcon Heavy, which has the delta-V to go to the moon. But obviously that's pretty risky, once you go you're committed. When working in LEO you almost always have some kind of disaster recover scenario available where you abort and get back to earth asap. If you are underway to the moon, there is no turning back. The Crew Dragon has very limited mobility. But I think a trans-lunar injection and orbit around the moon would be possible, with a free return trajectory. So if going around the moon is good enough, that would be possible.

Still it would probably take 9-12 months to put such a mission together and it would be very risky indeed. And like I said, landing on the moon is a total no-go right now.

We should ask Scott Manley to do a video about this, I would love to hear his thoughts on this.

I see projects move over to Gitlab a lot lately, but without porting over the issues. That means a huge amount of history and discussions are lost. If you want to find out why something is the way it is, old issues would be a goldmine. Sometimes they are still up on archived GitHub, but not always.

And then everyone at the table stood up and clapped #blessed

Joe could go out like a real chad if his last words as president are: "It's Joever"

Yeah the "Analog stick" is just a DPad, it doesn't have pots or anything like that, just binary buttons. And I have to say, it's terrible. It feels bad, it pushes your thumb upwards with a really awkward angle. For some reason it's really hard shiny plastic and the edge stands up so it digs into your flesh. It's concave instead of convex like modern sticks are (and even sticks back then were really). Doing fast inputs is impossible since you need to move it quite far before it responds and diagonals don't work very well at all.

So it sucks, but it just adds to the charm as far as I'm concerned.

One trip to my trusty room of boxes full of old shit and I found it!

Along with its official carrier case and TV out cable in original packaging. The screen protector has seen better days tho.

And it still works just fine: