[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

Tap to pay won't work at all? I've been considering Graphene for when Google locks the OS. I don't mind installing and running Play Store and Google Wallet, but I hadn't considered that I might have to go back to ensuring I had my wallet with me every time I left the house.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    I used to watch this after school at a friend's house while I waited for my mom to finish work. They were hooked up to a strange satellite service that (he thought) was connected to some kind of national feed. The result was that all of the local/regional commercials were missing. So, we got the show and one or two commercials; the rest was just blank.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

    I'm impressed that they correctly estimated the amount of space they would need for all of those words. Negligible clumping of letters to cram in the last bit. Even for just a short phrase, I sometimes have to write backwards to ensure I don't run out of room on the paper.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Based on the abstract of a research paper I found (the only source I found not interested in exaggerating things for clicks or commenting on mundane problems like nests and poop), crows know that dropping rocks is fun. The researchers (again, according to the abstract--the meat is behind a paywall, as usual) speak as if crows are always dropping rocks; the implication being that the presence of the solar panels is happenstance. Their research merely correlates cracks in the panels, and pebbles on the panels, with crows flying overhead. In the paragraph they don't even directly blame the cracked panels on the rocks, let alone the crows. They simply state the chain of events as a possibility.

    On the other hand, I've heard lots of fun facts about birds over the years and the underlying theme is that birds are bastardly and some, like crows, are intelligent. What human kid doesn't enjoy throwing rocks or shooting bullets at glass? I don't find it hard to believe that crows might similar mayhem enjoyable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Currently using a Pixel 7. Not sure what I'm going to do in a few months when Google locks the OS down. Probably, I'll finally have to get around to seriously investigating Graphene :(

    I currently figure my next phone will be either another Motorola (my Moto X was favorite phone ever) or something by Fairphone. More likely, Fairphone. Motorola hasn't really appealed to me since Google carved all the interesting tech patents out them and discarded the rest of the company. I suppose it depends on whether I like Graphene and whether Motorola follows through with their promise to support it. Anyway, I'll cross that bridge when my 7 dies.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I only care if I can hear and I consider myself fairly normal. In the car, 9 is usually where I can hear my podcasts over the road noise. 8 and I miss words. 10, and it eventually gets unpleasant. On the TV, I don't know: I run all the audio through a tuner and it's hard to see the numbers from the couch. Besides, I think it measures in dB, which I don't understand. For most shows, I think it's somewhere in the -30s.

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    We bought our first Le Creuset cookware yesterday (~40% off the outlet price, so almost reasonable) and, although it was probably a waste of money, we agreed to add the $26 bottle of cleaner. In reading the directions, it says it's for cleaning cast iron and stainless steel. I assume there's either laziness or poor translation at work, and I'm interpreting the "cast iron" in this context as "enamel." Why would it matter what material is on the inside? Or maybe it's for enamel and also for cast iron? I saw they also make standard iron skillets. But why stainless steel? Why would I want a special cleaner for stainless steel? Do they mean carbon steel? I never wash my blue carbon steel fry pan since I use that every morning, but if they recommend it for cast iron, it would presumably be good for washing my big wok-style de Buyer pan without stripping the seasoning. Since we've already done paid for this cleaner, I want to wring some value out of it.

     

    I picked up a map somewhere. I don't remember how or when. According to the wiki, there is a chance to discover a quest while reading it; that is, it's not immediate and automatic the first time someone reads it. As I said, I don't remember how long it's been in the colony, and I'd like to sell it if I've learned all I can about the quest. The problem is, I don't know how to tell whether that's true. Any tips?

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    I just completed my second chronophagy ritual in my current colony and it "healed" the guy's scarred eye. Everyone was pleased, of course, because he'd been blind up to that point. But he'd gained that scar in a tussle with a megasloth. How does this healing work, I wondered. Then I realized that the the bioferrite he'd been holding hadn't been an offering but a beacon. What does super-intelligent, artificial planet want with a small lump of metal? In fact, I concluded, my colonist was likely taken and replaced with a younger copy. Is it a construct, a body abducted from another dimension with a copy of my colonist's mind overlayed, or something else? I don't know, but so many possibilities fit the Anomaly theme more than "age -8 years and scar removed." And what happened to my original guy? What horrors awaited him in the archonexus's maw? I wonder.

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    Once I enter the mid-game it gets annoyingly difficult to find things in the various lists of craftable items. This is especially true at the trailering bench. I know there's at least one mod that puts categories in the list, but I'm not interested in adding more clicks; I like having it all in one list, but I didn't understand why it isn't alphabetized. After a couple thousand hours, I finally realized that headgear is mostly first, but from there the order appears random. I generally know what I want to build, so I would like to be able to open that list and find, for example, button-down shirts towards the top, and tribalwear towards the bottom. Anyone know of a mod that does this?

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    I opened my ancient danger a little earlier in my latest colony than I normally do. They were the first mechanoids my six colonists had faced, but there were only a few and we won fairly easily. There was a plasma sword on the floor and inside a hermetic crate I found...this. Hoo boy, did my wealth jump.

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