House Centipedes
  • ViperActual ViperActual 3h ago 100%

    I know they're harmless and help with pests. But they got away too many legs and move just as fast for me to be comfortable with them. I'll take cute little jumping spiders webbing things any day over these.

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  • Should you trust that doctor?
  • ViperActual ViperActual 12h ago 100%

    I'd gladly trust drinking a Dr pepper over anything to do with Dr Phil or Dr oz

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  • Growing a beard [Extra Fabulous Comics]
  • ViperActual ViperActual 6d ago 100%

    I don't like it 😢

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  • Starship IFT-5 Launch Thread! (First booster catch with chopsticks)
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1w ago 100%

    Freakin' phenomenal execution for this flight! Booster and Starship both performed exactly as designed! Successful catch for Super Heavy, and on target landing for Starship! Footage from SPI is also amazing to see!

    Edit: Bonus footage from SpaceX!

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  • The Test
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1w ago 100%

    Thanks for the link! TIL lemmy let's you edit the post URL!

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  • The Test
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1w ago 100%

    I miss that sub

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  • The Test
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1w ago 100%

    What sayeth thou?

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    Nap
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1w ago 100%

    I'm so glad my cat isn't a big snuggler. Blankets and pillows are a no go. Simple proximity is fine.

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  • Huawei’s new trifold phone costs more than a 16-inch MacBook Pro
  • ViperActual ViperActual 3w ago 100%

    Having the flexible screen facing externally on one fold seems quite reckless considering how fragile they still are by virtue of needing to be flexible. Having a Fold 4, the screen definitely relies on the thin film screen protector that the flexible screens come with. But because the screen is contained internally, it's protected by the device.

    Having it unprotected means any drops on a surface that is able to hit the screen directly will most likely lead to cracks in the LED layer and kill the screen. And the geometry of the folded part would imply that any impacts will most certainly lead to cracks. You can test this by folding a piece of paper in a similar manner and then hitting the folded part. It'll make tiny very sharp creases in the paper, and these creases are what kills the screen.

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  • Suffering
  • ViperActual ViperActual 4w ago 100%

    This is basically 2b2t

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  • NASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the way
  • ViperActual ViperActual 4w ago 100%

    At the rate things are going, just launch a kitted out Starship and have that serve as a temporary space station. That should tide us over for however long it takes to design, build, and launch a newer station.

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  • [OC] It's true, I really do have concepts of a plan. Beyond that..?
  • ViperActual ViperActual 1mo ago 100%

    Holy moly, I'm not big on politics but I had to look up the clip of this and in addition to the ridiculousness of saying this, he actually talks like how people meme his speech patterns. I thought it was embellishments and exaggerations.

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  • TIL Gravity is not about mass pulling other mass. It's mass bending ~~time~~ spacetime that makes other mass get closer
  • ViperActual ViperActual 2mo ago 100%

    Matter bends spacetime. Spacetime tells matter how to move.

    Using this logic, you can imagine that above a certain threshold, this can become a feedback loop. These locations are black holes, where enough matter located in a small enough volume of spacetime can create enough distortion to further force more matter into the same volume of spacetime.

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  • A tale as old as time
  • ViperActual ViperActual 2mo ago 100%

    Before you know it, you'll be juggling which mods work without crashing your game, and figuring out how much you want to destroy your wallet with the DLCs.

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  • A tale as old as time
  • ViperActual ViperActual 2mo ago 100%

    Stellaris a great game if you enjoy Civilization-style gameplay but at the galactic scale.

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  • OK.
  • ViperActual ViperActual 2mo ago 100%

    Stars don't burn anything anyway.

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  • FAA pauses Falcon 9 launches to investigate failed booster landing
  • ViperActual ViperActual 2mo ago 100%

    The fix could also be a software related issue considering this booster was coming in a bit faster than usual as per Scott Manley's video on the matter. The software change could be as small as keep the other engines lit for a tiny bit longer to correct for any observed flight deviations. Or better flight deviation detection. The difference in speed is small enough that changes to landing event timings could be tweaked by a single second for instance.

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  • https://api.starlink.com/public-files/DIRECT_TO_CELL_FIRST_TEXT_UPDATE.pdf

    >On January 2, 2024, we launched to orbit our first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities. Launch and early tests of the technology were all completed without issue. On Monday, January 8, less than 6 days after launch, we sent and received our first text messages to and from unmodified cell phones on the ground to our new satellites in space using TMobile network spectrum. This validates that our link budget closes, and the system works! I'm excited for this service as it'll be the most tangible rollout of new technology enabled by SpaceX's rapid launch approach to satellite mega-constellations to most people.

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    Scrolling to the top of a new post screen erased any post body you may have typed if you scroll back down. This only happens if you happen to have a tall image that you've uploaded to post. Normally the entire page displays without scrolling, which is why it may have gone unnoticed.

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    I was looking at the thread for Sync because I was wondering how the same issue might be handled in Connect. Seems like it has the same issue. RIF handled this by having a view more button that displayed child comments in a separate view once the nested levels hit a certain threshold so they weren't smushed against the edge of the screen.

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    Currently, Connect will ask if you'd like to open a clicked URL. You only have yes or no options. Adding a copy URL button would prevent having to view the page in order to access the copy URL option from there. Adding the standard share button isn't as useful to me since I'm only trying to share URLs to friends. But I noticed the lack of this when I'd backed out of a page and figured I'd share it. But ended up having to view it again just to do so.

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    This would be a local app-managed setting that adds a toggle to each community. When enabled, this toggle allows all of the posts from that community to be combined with all other communities of identical name, from other instances under a common category name. Because this is a per-community toggle, this lets you filter out communities of identical names from an instance you may be on, that you want to exclude from this category. For example, enabling this setting on the identically named (and themed) communities of **Fediverse@kbin.social** and **Fediverse@lemmy.world** would combined all content from both communities together under a single category called Fediverse. If there were another instance with a community of the same name but of a different topic, then leaving this toggle disabled for that community instance would exclude it from this category. Categories can then be treated like communities in the subscribed community list, under a separate section just like how communities are split between All/Local. `___` As an additional bonus, the app could ask the user if they would like to consolidate identically named communities. It would then provide a list of these identically named communities, with checkmarks beside them to quickly toggle this setting. To reduce spam, if a user wanted to submit a post to this category, they would have to specifically select the community instance they wanted to post to. `___` Lastly, if this idea of more app-managed consolidation is taken to the extreme, then perhaps allowing users to combine multiple accounts together across each instance could be possible. Where even if two instances defederate, if the user has an account on both instances, they can still view the content as normal. Perhaps this could be called global mode, where accounts only interact with the specific instance they exist on, but combines local feeds from each account/instance together.

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