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Not saying they couldn't/shouldn't but printers are a nightmare hellscape and it's a miracle, mostly of HP's marketing department, that they're a household object.

Well damn. Weird way to find out there's possibly a new Buffy.

Yes. Even with Plex I've had people just never log in. Or after I log them in and set it as a favorite they just never go to the unfamiliar icon.

Most of the problem isn't even Plex/Jellyfin/etc.'s fault, it's that the UI of smart tvs is a nightmare hellscape running on underpowered hardware and people just want to interact with it as little as possible. The absolute best thing would be to copy Netflix/Disney/etc and throw a QR code on the screen to sidestep that by throwing authentication to the phone.

They should, but government positions are to a PayScale. You get hired "as" a GS-9 or whatever. You can go and lookup what the location pay adjustment is for your city if you're curious.

Contractors are generally paid at least double digit percentages more for the same job but can be fired/not renewed much easier. In theory.

The tradeoff was that it's pretty hard to fire a full time employee without cause, and the pension / student loan forgiveness / etc.

Regan is a monster, that was at least while the roof was being resurfaced and they just didn't put them back. They were just water heaters anyway, not photovoltaics.

This is solely spending more money to remove freshly installed government equipment for no reason.

There's always Tasker.

It's stupidly powerful once you get used to how it works, even without root, and it can definitely patch into the default "share" functionality.

Are you looking for something like Pocket?

There are self-hosted things a lot like it. Vivaldi and some other browsers have similar functionality. Not sure about downloading the videos, but there are other tools for that.

Cans are actually recyclable. That's the benefit. The rest is marketing.

Red Bull doesn't give you wings either.

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The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.

Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.

This is the most "um acktually" of um actualities but...

For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the 70mm film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched again at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.

Granted I don't think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.

Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.

Terribly sorry, arguments are over in room 3B.

Switching to Starship, which is designed to get to space as fast as possible to beat their competition, is not better. Even if there weren't a conflict of interest the size of Jupiter.

The NASA moonshot has been choosing hardware that will do what is asked of it every time and has known failure modes and fixes. Not the shiny new thing. That's a good thing.

Starship or it's successors may in the future be a good option. For the first experimental mission(s) it's a ship designed for LEO and should not be pointed at the moon just because it is also rocket shaped.

Going to the moon should use technology that is tried and tested.

Another "Apollo 13" happening because the new strategy is "move fast and break things" won't have the same happy ending.

You shouldn't throw out all your hammers just because they were designed a "too long" ago. Some tools are fit for purpose.

The US Navy has done this. It can be helpful to have a nuclear powered city/airport sail up and provide electricity and aid.

Not sure it justifies having 10 super carriers and several "regular" ones scattered about, but it's good that they've done it.

Something like this ?

If you're wanting a mirrored classic numpad with the bigger enter/plus I am surprised it seems like an unexplored niche of custom keyboard stuff. Can't find any atm.

Could probably grab a numpad kit like this and mount the everything on the bottom of the PCB, but you'd need to do some soldering. On the other hand, that kind of kit is generally recommended as a first soldering project.

I settled on a SPH-10BT a few years ago. It didn't have backup camera support though IIRC there is a radar add-on, but don't know how available it is anymore.

It seems insane to me, especially with the prevalence of Apple/Android Auto, that no car company is willing to have the phone be the supplemental screen in the car.

That there's no built-in phone mounts in cars still bugs me. Put wireless charging on a spot on the dash, NFC/Bluetooth to get it to automatically snap into car mode. Don't have to develop an in-house UI that everyone hates and can focus on making a car.

Fortunately, there is a Tom Scott video.

IIRC it's not even the only sterilized insects US government air drops from planes. ( Fruit flies over LA? )

No I'm saying this is the dumbest trade war and even the possible positive outcomes, that are years away at best, are not worth the loss in the US's global trade influence.

It took less than a month to alienate a market the US has been trying to crack for decades, piss off every ally, and make the rising capability of China even more attractive to basically everyone. If only as a lever to pressure future US deals.

There are no short or long term national benefits to any of the tarrif bullying Trump has been attempting and the medium term ones are speculative.