Why would they work well? Their business model doesn’t incentivize dating apps to work well. They sell subscriptions so they’d rather their users stay perpetually single and become increasingly desperate.

Spooky

It’s so nice to be excited about my OS again. I remember as a kid, I used to be really excited about Windows updates. People were cynical about Microsoft even back then, but I remained loyal to Windows for years.

Only last year did I finally move to Linux as my OS (although I still use Windows for gaming). Since then every following Linux news is always exciting. New versions of distros, desktop environments and software always bring interesting improvements.

Meanwhile on the Windows side, most noticeable updates just bring more ads, tracking, forced Edge recommendations and forced logins. Ironically the last Windows feature I remember being genuinely excited for was WSL 2.

I enjoy lurking HN but many of the opinions I see there about cloud and AI are Luddite-level.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Exploring space will help with those problems. The way I see it if we can figure out how to settle Mars or the Moon, we will figure out better solutions for settling our own planet.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

We are not going to colonize all of space, at least not anytime soon.

The reason I feel this way is because I don’t think most media has my interests in mind. They have hidden motives, whether it’s advertising or political messaging.

Yep this has been my experience too. Maybe it works well in some homes, but I generally can’t recommend Powerline.

Did you test it? Don’t blindly trust the number on the box. My distrust of Powerline is based on testing different TP-Link sets at different homes; the speed was almost always slower than Wi-Fi.

I guess there are various factors that can affect this; I’m not an electrician but I assume that the way your home’s power grid is set up might make a difference.

YMMV with Powerline. In my experience it often has worse speeds than Wi-Fi.

No problem! Let me know if you have questions. Docker was new to me a few years ago, now I work with it professionally.

You need to learn how to write a Dockerfile (plenty of guides online). Not that a Dockerfile is different from a compose.yaml file (in development I use both).

Unless FTL travel is significantly faster than light, it’s usefulness would be limited. Kepler-452 is located about 1,800 light-years from Earth, which means it would take light 1,800 years to travel that distance. Even if our theoritical FTL travel was twice as fast as light, it would still take us 900 years to get there…

Once we get there, it is still unlikely that the planet would be habitable for humans. Quoting Wikipedia:

However, it is unknown if it is entirely habitable, as it is receiving slightly more energy than Earth and could be subjected to a runaway greenhouse effect.

There are closer exoplanets (closest one we know about is Proxima Centauri b), but even those are likely to be poorly suited for humans since we evolved to live specifically on Earth.

Where would we go? We don’t know of any other planets that we could easily live on.

Don’t they typically do minor anti-burn in changes during idle, basically having a built-in screensaver?

That’s what the display makers claim, in order to avoid too many customer complaints. In reality you’re still likely to get burn-in within a few years of monitor use, and when you ask for warranty support you’ll get denied claiming “you used the display wrong”.

With the increasing popularity of OLED displays, screensavers might make a comeback. Although I still think OLED displays aren’t worth it.

It’s not sleeping I’m worried about, it’s not waking up.

Lemmy doesn’t even have ads. If you’re that paranoid why even bother commenting on anything?

Yes it has actually.