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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These features are part of 3.11, not 3.11.7 ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

All of the people who can afford it live in cities that have perfectly good internet.

I think this generalization is far from valid

  • You're assuming US prices, Starlink can go cheaper and they have shown they will do market specific pricing
  • South Africa is one example where there are plenty of areas outside big cities where people could afford it
  • Starlink doesn't have to be ordered by individuals. Smaller rural communities could have a shared terminal

This is assuming it's not cheaper/faster to just use mobile service, which has had great adoption in Africa and will probably be true in a lot of areas as you noted. Still, there's a ton of people in Africa and a lot of area to cover. I think there is a good market there for Starlink

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean yes, obviously, that's the point of the mission?

Investigating the potential habitability of Europa is the main purpose of NASA's Europa Clipper mission

Although I definitely like the "Captain Obvious" type headline better than the usual clickbait

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Africa will be a huge market for Starlink I think.

Regarding the fee, probably the seller concerning the sale of the terminal. But Starlink would have to provide a contract, so they could be liable as well. Depends who the contract party is - in this case I suppose it is an abroad address. That should be easy to fix for Starlink by geoblocking for now

I guess the reason it works at all right now is due to RV type mobile contracts

[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I once collaborated with an exceptionally talented programmer who seemed so engrossed in his addiction that he would invent challenges where there were none, presumably to make his work more engaging and bearable. However, this often led to incomplete projects because once the stimulating aspects were finished, he struggled to find the motivation to continue. Clearly, this behavior was extreme and detrimental.

I think a lot of devs can relate to that

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

You should only pay full price if the release quality is great. And even then, there's a reason why #patientgamers is a trend. You save on hardware cost, game cost & get better quality games with extra post release content

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

"In the design plans for the system, the word 'main' was used inconsistently between the device that sends the electric signals, and the device that receives the signals," NASA said in a written statement. "On the signal side, 'main' meant the main parachute. In contrast, on the receiver side 'main' was used as a reference to a pyrotechnic that fires to release the parachute canister cover and deploy the drogue.

"Engineers connected the two mains, causing the parachute deployment actions to occur out of order," NASA said.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Metal and plastic is easy, controlling cloth is hard

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The funniest part is that Bezos got sued into paying Musk by his own shareholders

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While we're at it, can we please define enums for the standard logging levels in the stdlib

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's spell that out: Bezos is paying Musk to launch his satellites

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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If I want to quote a specific part of a comment to reply to it, that's not possible with Connect right now unless manually copy pasting the segment.

Ideally, the existing "quote" option in the editor should take into account selected text

 

Finally - only took them a full day

 

Just wanted to say I really like the link handling in this app. When I use lemmy on Desktop it's always a nightmare to navigate different instances, even with the Greasemonkey script. This app just does it out of the box. Barely had any cases where it doesn't work recently

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Note that it's still first half of August, that's why the numbers for August are lower

 

Which smartphones will get Android 14? Do we know?

 

Currently it seems the sidebar search lists search results from the fediverse, not from my subscribed communities. If I want to go to a specific community, I go to the sidebar. With a lot of subscribed communities you can't favorite all of them, nor do you want to search the entire sidebar list manually

Example: I am subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected].

When I search space, neither show up. Instead a bunch of smaller communities are listed, like [email protected], or occult (wtf?).

 

Maybe I've just not figured it out, but it's there a way to navigate the subs on a different instance without switching accounts? Like going directly to [email protected]?

Example, I'm on lemmy.ca but I want to subscribe to /c/linux on programming.dev. I'm struggling hard to navigate to this community, as it's not turning up in search either.

Edit: I found it on search, but it's made worse by the fact that search is not showing the instance of the communities, so you just end up with a bunch of communities and a subscriber count based on your local instance, which means pretty much nothing

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