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  • But in the U.S., most people use iPhones :(

  • Lemons are people too...

  • Dumbed down, your brain is also just a probability model.

  • I don't want it to have any JavaScript

    That's not going to happen. I also don't understand why you wouldn't want JavaScript. All the concerns with it are about the times when you access a website by a proprietary software maker and encounter obfuscated and opaque code that you can only with great difficulty reconstruct what it does. But JavaScript "in the right hands", like on a FOSS website, is perfectly fine and even required to make a webpage that can actually do something more than simply display text or images.

  • That's not the reason. The "PC" marketing term originated with the IBM PC, after which every non-Apple device attempted to make some name-wise connection to the former, spawning a series of so called "IBM PC Compatibles" that have principally lived on design-wise until the present day.

  • Unfortunately a temporary solution. But would it be possible to design an RNA or DNA virus that recognises and targets bacteria with certain antibiotics resistance genes and then lyses them or at least represses the genes in question?

  • As far as I know it is random in the sense that the shield-lasgun interaction can either annihilate the target, the laser operator or just culminate in a giant nuclear-like explosion. Therefore you don't know whether your move will have the intended effect or whether it obliterates only yourself while the enemy is fine. I think this is mentioned early on in the first book.

  • That's not their question though. Their question is about why build nukes when you can achieve the same effect with a shield and a lasgun.

  • No, they are not. Sovereign countries are bound by the WTO (World Trade Organisation), not US export laws.

  • How are these super low resolution screenshots taken? Is anyone still using phones with a screen resolution that low?

  • Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 (Pro)? I am not an "audiophile" at all so I cannot judge whether they are going to be satisfactory to all those people that imagine they can hear certain tiny frequency contributions (which they cannot, the "audiophile" community is just delusional), but they've served me well for the past two years.

  • I cannot confirm. The phone I'm writing these very words on is a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus from 2019 running LineageOS 20, and the AMOLED display is absolutely gorgeous and looks as good as today's top-tier smartphone screens. But maybe that's because this is a Samsung flagship, and Samsung is notorious for making kind of the absolute best displays for their flagships.

  • Very cool, especially that the expertise still exists within NASA to understand and debug almost 50 year old code from a now ancient seeming architecture. They are probably training their people assigned to the Voyager mission in these things.

  • How can Rust be faster than C? What is faster than unabstracted direct memory management?

  • Sounds like you would be a horrible parent. The last thing kids need is their father to snoop around in their web traffic and erode any kind of privacy. Children are still humans, and you should respect them as such.

  • Principally not a bad idea, but run a local model while at it!

  • The Tux reminds me of playing Super Tux Kart today... I really hate that GIMP mascot now,

  • Lol Lemmy socialists are so butthurt. Your statement is literally most reasonable and sane/rational, but lemmy.ml only knows cringey extremism.

  • Oh don't worry, TI will find another decades old CPU to put into their overpriced calculators!