technology Technology Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
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    7 days ago 22%

    We really don't. We can barely make it to orbit. Boeing is failing at even doing that.

    It's like saying your grandpa can climb Mount Everest because he can shamble to the local tesco. It's not even close.

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  • technology Technology Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
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    1 week ago 53%

    We can land corpses or soon-corpses on Mars sure. Getting people there and back reliably and in good shape is going to be extremely difficult if not completely impossible. And the benefit is near zero.

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    1 week ago 25%

    I honestly don't think any wetware human will ever land on Mars or even enter its orbit.

    We'll be posthuman cyborgs before that happens.

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  • worldnews World News Ukraine pressed to think about a plan B for war with Russia. As Russia advances, Western officials want Kyiv to spell out realistic war goals.
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    worldnews World News Iran backs China-Brazil peace plan for Ukraine war
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    1 week ago 70%

    The world has changed grandpa. China is a superpower, Iran is a major regional power and Brazil has a lot of attractive people.

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  • antitrust Anti-Trust How Joe Biden Engineered Apple's New AirPods
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    1 week ago 33%

    He didn't engineer anything, nor did he do any trustbusting.

    At best he half understood what day it was when they gave him some documents to sign.

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  • us_news US News TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials
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    asklemmy Asklemmy What are your best tips for finding quality stuff on AliExpress and similar?
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    Buying new, unreviewed products can save you money, since sellers often list things cheaper to get a few buyers and then increase the price.

    If you're buying something branded and it's less than 1/2 of the US price, be prepared for it to be different than in the photos.

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  • hardware Hardware Kind (and therefore trustworthy) mini PC manufacturers
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    2 weeks ago 83%

    Even if so, a Chinese CEO pays taxes in China and re-invests the profits in Chinese companies.

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  • hardware Hardware Kind (and therefore trustworthy) mini PC manufacturers
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    2 weeks ago 88%

    At least if you order from China you're supporting the people doing the work, rather than some shitty western bundler like Apple or Dell.

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  • privacy Privacy Can windows see files in the Linux partition?
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    2 weeks ago 95%

    We don't know.

    While Windows doesn't present the ability to read Linux filesystems to the user, that doesn't mean that it can't do it at all for some covert security state purpose.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Forums should not exist anymore in favour of Lemmy communities
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    Forums and lemmy have very different user experiences. Forums tend to have long running threads, sometimes with tens of thousands of replies over years. They also bump up threads when there's a reply.

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  • technology Technology Huawei looks to upstage Apple with product launch just hours after expected iPhone 16 unveiling
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    privacy Privacy Some DNS questions
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    palestine Palestine Special relationship at risk if UK bans arms sales to Israel, says Trump adviser
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    memes Memes Damnit, another year of disappointment. 27 years this year....
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    worldnews World News If Ukraine’s Invasion Of Russia’s Kursk Oblast Was A Diversion, It Has Failed
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    watches Watches After having left watch collecting about 10 years ago. The bug recently bit again... 🙈
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    Memes hackerwacker 3 weeks ago 89%
    America is a wild place
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    Linux hackerwacker 3 weeks ago 90%
    X11 WMs as plugins for a wayland compositor?

    Okay, Wayland is the future, blah blah. Would it be possible/make sense to make a Wayland compositor that would emulate a X11 server so a X11 WM could talk to it and be used to manage windows? I'm just thinking about how we could make sure that the tons of obscure but cool WMs survive the waypocalypse.

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    libre_hardware Libre Hardware MNT Reform laptop ordered
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    linux Linux Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs
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    4 weeks ago 100%

    I did that and a Windows update nuked Linux from the BIOS boot loader a few weeks ago.

    The only safe option is to have completely separate machines. Thankfully with the rise of ridiculously powerful minipcs that's easier than ever.

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  • linux Linux Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review
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    1 month ago 93%

    Why don't they reverse the axis on the "less if better" graphs so you don't have to look at the note on every graph...

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  • ireland Ireland Wasps ‘are putting people off recycling machines’ says Athlone politician | Westmeath Independent
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    1 month ago 100%

    It seems you could just quickly rinse cans and bottles before putting them in recycling to avoid this problem.

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    Memes hackerwacker 1 month ago 89%
    Great boxes thanks
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    Are PressTV and RT banned? Is there a list of banned sites and tech used?

    I can't seem to access https://www.presstv.ir or https://www.rt.com Are these banned in the UK? Is there a list of sites banned in the UK (whether by ofcom or any other agency or company)? I couldn't find any news stories or discussions about this. How does the UK banning people from being able to access foreign news sites apparently just fly under the radar? What is the technology used? Thanks.

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    worldnews World News China’s yuan leaps to 7-month high, led by stronger yen, unwinding of global carry trade
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    2 months ago 77%

    So what's the relevance of your comment to this story? Do you think they're making the numbers up?

    And did you know all media companies are owned by somebody?

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  • debian Debian operating system Moving Displays On X11 Means Reconfiguring Everything?
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    2 months ago 66%

    Just change your laptop res to 1920x1080, to get the screen DPIs closer. Fun fact: you don't have to run displays at the highest resolution.

    (you said your laptop is 3840x1080, but I assume you meant 3840x2160)

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  • memes Memes Inappropriate for some users
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    4 months ago 23%

    Wow thank you kind stranger, I only believe things approved by the unaccountable billionaire donor class, not by a dirty government.

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  • globalsouth The Global South America breaks global rules as it defends the free world
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    4 months ago 100%

    As an organising principle for western foreign policy, the “rules-based international order” has long suffered from some disastrous flaws. It is a phrase that means nothing to a normal person. As a result, it is a deeply uninspiring concept. People might go to war to defend freedom or the motherland. Nobody is going to fight and die for the RBIO.

    We invaded Afganistan and Iraq for "the motherland"? We destroyed Libya for "the motherland"? We are running proxy wars in Ukraine and Taiwan and Israel for "the motherland"?

    Is "the motherland" in the room with us right now?

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  • linux Linux upgrading to xubuntu 24.04, another update
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    4 months ago 80%

    Why are you even bothering dude? Just back up your data and install it fresh. You'll be done in 30 minutes.

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  • politics Politics Biden Says He Was Still VP During COVID and Obama Sent Him to ‘Fix It’
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    4 months ago 88%

    “And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,” Biden said. “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’ Well the poor mayor, he spent more time with me than he thought he was ever going to have to. God love you.”

    Biden was referring to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who took office while Biden was still VP back in 2014.

    It sounds like he could only be referring to 2014 and later then? I.e. not swine flu.

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  • worldnews World News French Tiktok ban makes VPN usage soar in New Caledonia
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    4 months ago 53%

    This is an unprecedented move in Western democracies to block specific Internet sites

    Claim 1

    and is a worrying progression that they are flirting with the idea of censoring the Internet as a means of crowd control

    Claim 2

    I'm talking about claim 1

    Hope you get help with your reading comprehension problems.

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