maybe it’s just because that’s the more memorable/unique parts of their name?
trump/biden is much more distinctive than donald/joe
clinton could refer to both bill or hillary
obama/kamala is more memorable than barack/harris (though maybe for obama that’s just because I’ve heard ‘obama’ so many times)
I’m not saying that’s definitely not true, just that there might be other reasons why
fellow noun->verb user :)
helix superiority however.
iirc wood was used by the chinese for their heat shield’s ablator or something?
there’s a few people I know that’s been affected btw
i get that there’s a need for 3g to be shut down but there’s no need to ban phones with 4g data capability that can’t call without 3g (lacking voip implementation), the telcos could’ve just provided an app to do it because voip is just a protocol over ip
it’s pretty fucking obvious that the telcos bribed the government into forcing them to block these devices because they get more money that way, they don’t have to pay for the ewaste they artificially create and they don’t look bad because they can just say that they’re ‘forced by legislation’ to do so
waydroid (if you don’t install a wayland based de)
iirc it’s all because of legislation that all 3 telcos have to adhere to so they’ll all do the same shit, also Telstra uses a shitty proprietary voip implementation so things like lineageos might not work
The statistic isn’t saying that 50% of Linux gamers use steam, it’s saying that Linux gamers are ~1/2 as likely to use steam for games when compared to gamers on other platforms. these are very different things.
~50% of Linux gamers using steam is only true if you assumed every gamer on the other platforms used steam
btw i hate the term ‘gamer’ but it’s just convenient to use here :(
oh damn that looks so nice
so a disproportionately large amount (2x) of Linux gamers don’t use steam? that doesn’t sound right to me with how good steam is on Linux
slippery trampoline
that would be nice but if it was led by NASA (aka contractors like jpl, lockmart and boeing) there’s no way the sats could’ve been produced as cheaply and quickly imo, because NASA’s strengths lie in experimental/science focused things, not operational things
also they wouldn’t get the in house pricing for Falcon 9 launches that spacex gets, and spacex wouldn’t be able to use starlink launches to test out new boosters for crew launches
i mean there’s nothing stopping NASA from doing it (aka Congress funding it and telling NASA to do it), it’s not like spacex is going to turn down customers for their rockets
this is just my opinion but taking away personality to appeal to a wider audience is one of the worst things modern megacorps do, the strength of the fediverse is the power it gives to individuals and communities over corporations with money, and so personality is one of the things the fediverse needs to maintain to succeed
wow that sounds so handy, thanks
chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
34 is 1 more than the amount of times Atlantis ever flew lmao
doing 34 consecutively is insane
for the royalty it’s only 2 of each
you all need to learn to distinguish between the people/the government/the country