halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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Keyboard, mouse, track pad, track point, all of them have limits. Sometimes just touching what you want to do is more convenient. And if you don't want to use it, then you can ignore it with no adverse effect. It isn't something that's in the way or prevents you from using other input methods.

And at this point the technology is so cheap there's no reason not to include it. Well unless your company's entire profit structure is based on charging exorbitant amounts for minor upgrades and making the lowest cost option almost always have some sort of glaring deficiency to try to push users to pay hundreds more than they need to for the "optional" upgrades that should have just been included and cost pennies on the dollar for the company. Then using your cult like user base to gaslight each other and outsiders into believing they don't actually want something you don't provide.

Expanding like that usually is indicative of moves to make the UI more touch friendly. But since Apple seems to be firmly against touchscreen laptops for some dumb reason, who knows what their justification is. Probably something with the word magic or courage.

I'm torn on this because that is correct, but it also means that the average person hasn't seen just how damaging those policies really are. The damage control is working well enough that many people aren't noticing there's much damage at all.

Hey is that the first Infrastructure day?

Ancestry stuff has been pretty popular in the US for decades, DNA testing for it is relatively new but just the next easy step.

To be fair, asking for civilians to help place them isn't a Constitutional violation, forcing them to do so is.

Either way it's ridiculous and already well past the line of bullshit, bit that wouldn't be a crime at all.

Someone never had to deal with mathematical proofs, only layman's definitions.

All properties of a parallelogram apply:

• Opposite sides are parallel
• Opposite sides are congruent
• Opposite angles are congruent
• Consecutive angles are supplementary
• Diagonals bisect each other

AND

• All angles are congruent
• All sides are congruent
• Diagonals are congruent
• Diagonals are perpendicular
• Diagonals bisect opposite angles

Actually the opposite. Our eggs need to be refrigerated, but the process also means they spoil slower if properly chilled. Washing also removes contaminants from the environment where they're laid, which is not very hygienic because they're fucking chickens, there's old feed, dirt and chicken shit everywhere regardless of the type of size of facility or backyard. Having them washed during processing means you generally don't need to bother washing them at home, you can just use them.

It's two different ways of operating, each with some advantages and disadvantages.

Ironically, one of the reasons we have to refrigerate our eggs is because they're required to be washed in the factory farm process which removes a natural protective membrane.

While the collective memory is staggeringly short, Trump 2.0 is entirely the Republican Party's fault. Their base will vote for whoever the fuck they put on the ballot, they clearly don't think for themselves. Hell even the politicians do what they're told by leadership. The party could have forced Trump out, cut him off from all support and made him an outcast, instead they decided to embrace him fully.

Adding additional backup communication methods is a good thing. Your home might be fine with one connection, but large businesses often have 2 or more separate physical connections for redundancy. I'm sure places like the White House effectively have as many as they can. One of the worst things for the White House is to be disconnected from communication with the outside world.

This clearly wasn't intended for that purpose, but I'm sure that's at least partially how they sold it to get it done quickly get it installed now for DOGE use and it can be added to those systems later, additional ongoing revenue as well.

Not sure that's gonna happen anytime soon, if ever. Elon made himself the face of the company,without exception and his foray into fascist politics turned away many of the most diehard Tesla supporters. The ones that had been around because of things like the environmental goals and shift away from fossil fuels despite some of his previous statements.

But now there are other viable options available on the market, and within a couple years most of the hold outs from legacy auto are finally entering the market with interesting options. Supporting Tesla directly now means supporting a clearly and openly out fascist company leader. There will be some supporters that stick around, and some will come because of that, but for many the two are completely inseparable.

Played for about 2 hours yesterday and that's exactly what is happening. The game prevents you from plopping your space right on top of another base but the blocked region around it isn't very large.

So they decided that magnetic joycons versus a new rail design were worth another set of drift lawsuits.

Because any potential new drift lawsuit is going to cite the old one as clear proof that Nintendo knew what would happen, had the opportunity to change the design so it didn't, and decided to do it again anyway.

Of course it is. Unless they switched to hall effect sticks, which they already said they weren't doing. For whatever reason, they still want to save the pennies instead of using the better component even after the previous issues and lawsuits. Why do companies insist on shooting themselves in the foot constantly?

Starlink provides service to areas where fiber is impossible. Like the middle of the ocean and actual rural areas where fiber runs could be tens of miles or more between homes. Those are area where no one will build out fiber unless the homeowner is paying for it themselves, the various government programs would never cover those actual rural areas despite what they claim. At best they might cover city outskirts for new infrastructure, where fiber nodes are already relatively close by. They're never adding fiber to existing rural farms and ranches.

They are not a 1:1 service comparison. You would need to compare It to other satellite providers, and there isn't a comparison because all of those are dogshit in comparison to Starlink.

There's a reason it's as popular as it is so quickly despite satellite internet in general not being new. The low earth satellite constellation means a massive difference in capability compared to conventional geostationary satellites. Multiple second latency, slow downloads nowhere near advertised double digit Mbps speeds, single digit Mbps upload speeds and often monthly data limits as low as 50GB per month are what the conventional satellite providers offer.

60 years of right wing propaganda edging us ever closer to outright fascism wrapped in an American flag stitched together with hate.

I'm not making any sort of excuse and nothing in my comment came close to that. You should check your reading comprehension skills, because they're clearly lacking.

I haven't seen anyone write up a breakdown of what the fuck the actual agreement with countries like El Salvador looks like. Just some general numbers back at the beginning about some costs. No breakdown of whether the payments are based on the number of people, a general monthly cost for everything regardless of occupancy, something on a per-person level, time limits for holding specific individuals, etc.

No information on whether it's purposely intended to be one way or not. You honestly think this Administration put in any sort of provisions for getting people back, or would they specifically word it as a one way deal? Something like we send you people and pay you $x per month, y minimum time, etc. and we never see them again.

Whether the prisons are considered US territory while occupied for this purpose, whether any US law enforcement has any jurisdiction, etc. You know, the types of things that normally are setup well before anything it built.

The entire purpose of these places seems to get the people out of the US and promptly forget about them, they don't need to actually deport them correctly if you just get them off US land and hand them to El Salvador or whatever other nation to do whatever they want with them. With that goal it seems entirely possible that whatever the fascists wrote up for an agreement doesn't have any provisions for getting people back, or might even have penalty fees for returning people because they never intended to do that.

There's some sort of a reason why we're seeing some people be retrieved from some places like Mexico and no returns from places like El Salvador. What is the difference?

I'm still of the belief that all of this is about the destruction of the US economy for Russia. He's a kremlin asset and has been for 40+ years.

He and the billionaires (because he isn't one) will make millions from short term panic in the market, just as they have already, and vacuum up everything they can to control it all directly and openly just like the Russian oligarchs did post-Soviet control.

This will make the US weaker both internally and internationally, where Russia can try and step in to some of the power vacuum that departure leaves behind. China as well as a side effect, as long as they can deal with the bullshit trade war in the beginning, which they can without issue honestly.

Agreed, but to be fair, looks like it started in 2023 in Mexico with a Cartel attack. Even with the bullshit, it's still probably the better option unfortunately.