I am still using connect, but long term I hope the development for "Slide" goes well. That is what I used on my tablet for Reddit and imo it was great.
Another example would be lichess.org , which manages to compete with chess.com (a comercial site) and even pays the main developer a salary. All based purely on donations.
I think it can definitely work even in the long run.
Yeah, the possibilities are definitely exciting. But i guess as far as Covid19 vaccines are concerned it was probably a good thing that none required their direct use.
As is we already had a ton of missinformation and fearmongering, i don't even want to imagine how bad it would have been, if gene editing was involved in any direct way.
If your question is whether crispr gene editing was used by any of the vaccines, then no none of them used it as a direct mechanism.
However it might have been used somewhere along the line in their creation, e.g. to knock out a gene in the viral vectors. But i couldn't tell you that with certainty.
Not all of them, but the most successful from Biontech/Pfizer and moderna are both mRNA based. However there were also others based on protein subunits or viral vectors for example.
Yes Titanium is more expensive. Also as already mentioned Aluminium is actually the lighter option. Titanium is just lighter compared to something like stainless steel.
It does have some advantages. Like you can get a nicer finish with it and it doesn't easily scratch whereas I can see aluminium pick up some scratches.
Personally I put my phone in a case anyways so I wouldnt care much, as do most people I assume. Just as you I don't see the need for it either, especially since it is more expensive.
But I guess those highend phones are not in a category where value matters and they are often seen as an accessory/status symbol. Because I imagine that >90% of people buying these phones would be served just as well by something like a Samsung A54 or pixel 6a/7a.
I guess it's simply just a feature that can be marketed well as being a luxury. And companies are in need for that to justify higher prices. Slightly better cameras or screens just don't sell phones, when last years model was already good.
However I can see it make more sense in applications like smartwatches, where you actually feel the material and use it without any case. There people might prefer one over the other. Either aluminium for the lower weight, or titanium/stainless steel for feel and the scratch resistance (which is a bigger threat there)
As the article mentions Euphoria is a HBO series starring among others Zendaya. Apparently according to Wikipedia it actually is HBOs 4th most watched show (behind Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon and the last of us).
I couldn't tell you much about it since I haven't watched it, but it's definitely not an obscure show.
I think it also often simply boils down to cost. A cheap touch screen or capacitive button is much cheaper than adding durable buttons with a satisfying click
Is samsung dex any good? I think my S6 lite actually got it with an update at some point, but i've not tried it out yet. Also not sure if the USB 2.0 would hold it back a lot.
There definitely are growing pains, but in think all things considered it is moving in the right direction. As much as I wish it were different, expecting lemmy to instantly match and replace reddit (that had a ton of time to organically grow) is wishful thinking.
Have you tried signing up on other instances? That determines a lot of the performance you are getting. Personally lemmy.world at the time I signed up was having issues (might be better now), which made me try out lemm.ee . So far it has treated me very well performance wise.
As far as apps are concerned I am on android so I can comment for its, but connect has been my choice this far. Works fairly well, although not perfect. However in all apps I've tried the speed of progress has been very encouraging.
Lastly concerning submissions without comments, lemmy simply still doesn't have a user base to rival reddit. So in some way we have to be the change we want to see, otherwise things will never change.
Personally I have given up on reddit, but I wouldn't fault you for using it alongside lemmy for a while. I'd just hate to see people like you stop using lemmy completely just because it can't instantly replace a platform that had such a massive head start.
I think the sweet spot is somewhere around the 300€ range. Below that you definitely already get perfectly reasonable phones, but you still have to make compromises. But at that price point you get most things and the missing features are not as important.
Past that diminishing returns are hitting hard.
The one thing that usually scales the most past that point is the camera. But a phone like the pixel 6a already takes amazing photos. And the only real difference you usually find are extra lenses (particularly zoom).
The only time i could ever see those 1k top phones start to make sense is, if we ever get to the point where phones can replace our personal computers and you just slot them into a dock at home.
This whole tax write-off thing definitely needs an overhaul imo.
For one thing as the article mentions it does seem extremely hard to value the worth of media assets like this. And I wouldn't trust the companies looking for a write-off to give an average estimate, considering they have a clear conflict of interest.
But more importantly those assets still exist and it really is just a matter of giving or taking away access. I think if a society is giving these companies tax write-offs, it should get control over them in return.
However I am still not sure how one would best make them available after that, while still making sure creatives are still getting their fair share. Which would be a reason to not just straight up make them available for free.
Maybe there should be some sort of auction where anyone (except the company looking to write them off) can bid on them? And then possibly even make the write-off based on that?
If we had an infinite supply of sustainable fuels that might make sense, but we don't. So we will have to use them wherever they are most efficient or where we do not have good alternatives.
Electric cars today are already a viable alternative to those with ICEs. So there is no need to use our limited supply there. In the same way it wouldn't make sense to use them for something like heating, as the production of those fuels wastes energy and we have viable solutions like heat pumps that do not require them.
There are on the other hand areas that have different requirements. For example in the airline industry energy densitiy is way more important, so until we have batteries that can match fossil/sustainable fuels those are much better used there. Another example are industries that actually use them as resources beyond just as a source of energy, like steel or fertilizer production.
It also says marketing, so who knows how much of that is actually for research and development.
I imagine spotify could research how to make their data centers and delivery more efficient, music suggestion algorithms, or just in general how to best retain and aquire new customers.
Not sure if I'd call it plagiarizing, but he did heavily borrow from "We" by yevgeny zamyatin. Which he actually wrote a review of not long before starting with 1984. This Wikipedia section is an interesting read.
Definitely worth reading both and compare what Orwell copied and which original ideas he added.
I think it'll be set around 20-30 years later and be centered around lucilius (Commodus nephew who was a child in the first).
I think they'll do a relatively grounded movie, but there were already plans for a sequel after first one got made that seemed a bit insane. The script for that one was made by nick cave and was definitely quite different. You can search for the plot (it had maximus go to purgatory, get resurrected and fight in all kind of future wars among other things)
I am still using connect, but long term I hope the development for "Slide" goes well. That is what I used on my tablet for Reddit and imo it was great.