chaosCruiser

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[–] chaosCruiser 10 points 1 month ago

Problem solved! I don't need to think about this premium stuff any more. Recently, I've been playing with the idea of paying for premium, but that's no longer the case. Specifically, the family pack is the one that kinda made some limited sense in the past. I can see the kind of game Google is playing, and I'm not planning to participate.

[–] chaosCruiser 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Last Airbender.

If you just forget about the avatar series for a while, and treat this as a bit of harmless fun, it’s not that bad. Well it’s not good enough that I would watch it again, nor is it bad enough to warrant all the abysmal reviews. If you expect this movie to fit in with the series, all of the hate and anger is entirely justified though.

It all depends on how you watch this movie, and I would argue that there is a way to enjoy it. It’s not all bad.

[–] chaosCruiser 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And that's exactly why we have flat-earthers, antivaxxers and "truthers" of various kinds. Although, due to the same phenomenon, we also have communities like !WhatsThisRock@lemmy.world, !capybara@lemmy.smeargle.fans, !NatureIsMetal@kbin.social, !captionthis@hilariouschaos.com, !HandmadeMarketplace and so many other interesting and quirky places. You win some, you loose some.

[–] chaosCruiser 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Internet is a pretty big place. There’s no such thing as an idea that is too stupid. There’s always at least a few people who will turn that idea into a central tenet of their life. It could be too stupid for 99.999% of the population, but that still leaves about 5 000 people who are totally into it.

[–] chaosCruiser 3 points 1 month ago

Glad I could help! This command is just so much nicer.

[–] chaosCruiser 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now you know why it’s called the Disk Destroyer.

Before using dd, I prefer to run lsblk first so that I can see what each disk is called. Before pressing enter, I also double check the names with the lsblk output.

[–] chaosCruiser 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least not publicly. What would people say…

[–] chaosCruiser 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The best thing about R is that it was made by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that it was made by statisticians.

[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 1 month ago

I was just thinking about that post.

What a legend. So, it’s technically possible, but not recommended.

[–] chaosCruiser 5 points 1 month ago

Switched from Fedora to Debian. Here are my reasons:

  1. That computer doesn’t need the latest versions. Debian is new enough for me.
  2. The update GUI has been broken for years. I fixed it once, but then it broke again after a year. I’ve been installing updates from the terminal, because I can’t trust the GUI. I realized I appreciate reliability, and that’s exactly what Debian is all about.
  3. Can’t be bothered to do much admin work like that.
[–] chaosCruiser 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, well maybe ships weren't the best example.

Low wear resistance of gold is a significant issue, which definitely limits the number of potential applications, but I guess gold alloys could still be useful. For example, titanium has a bunch of alloys for different purposes, some more corrosion resistant than others, while others were optimized more towards wear resistance.

Titanium can also catch fire, which makes it a very tricky metal to use. Putting out a fire like that is pretty much impossible, so if your titanium cladded reactor catches fire, all you can realistically do is try to prevent the rest of the building from burning down. The reactor itself is gone at that point, so all you can do is wish you had paid for the gold cladding instead.

Also, the electrical conductivity of gold is amazing. If gold was as cheap as iron, we would definitely use lots of it in various electrical appliances.

If you can mine gold from asteroids, you're probably also going to find silver and platinum. Those two have some amazing properties too, so I think asteroid mining has great potential to permanently revolutionize a bunch of industries.

[–] chaosCruiser 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

😂 This is exactly the sort of madness I came here for.

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