Yeah, I skimmed the article. It’s not really relevant. Everything uses technology in some aspect, yet everything isn’t relevant in this community.

Respectfully, how is this relevant to this specific community?

Fair enough.

The investigation proposes the 50cm by 50cm hole in the Ursa Major’s hull would likely have been made by a Barracuda supercavitating torpedo.

Doesn’t seem like it’d be the South Korean one, though. Just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

What makes you think supercavitating torpedoes are involved at all?

What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?

I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.

Should have read more, I wasn’t aware that was part of the question. I’m just posting about niche usage apps I like. I don’t use them often, but they’re essential for their niche.

Idk if this counts, but I use the Reminders app on my phone to create packing lists for work travel. Very easy to uncheck everything then re-check off things as you pack them. Keep building a perpetual packing list and you’ll never forget things. Lists in general are awesome for offloading cognitive workload.

Merlin Bird ID - it’s Shazam for bird calls with a Pokédex for tracking what you’ve discovered.

See my comment above with the battery university link, small depth of charge/discharge and frequent cycling is optimal for lithium ion batteries. The longest longevity was many 75-65% cycles, followed by 75-25%, then 85-25%, and lastly 100-25%. There’s nothing wrong with small cycles on lithium ion batteries.

I don’t believe you’re correct. Small discharge cycles are not at all bad for the battery.

https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. The exception may be a periodic calibration of the fuel gauge on a smart battery or intelligent device.

If you look at figure 6, cycling from 75-65% was better than 75-25%.

You’re thinking of keeping the battery constantly charged at an elevated voltage, eg 90-100%. There’s nothing wrong with many small cycles. The most optimal way to use a lithium ion would be many charge cycles and the battery constantly going from 49-51%.

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As soon as most Android boot loaders were locked, I jumped ship. If I’m in a walled garden, I’d rather the garden be as nice as possible. Also, I don’t really want a customizable computer in my pocket, I want a communications appliance. I have a computer at home to tinker with.

Don’t care about file management, files app works just fine for sneakernet trading with coworkers.

Don’t care about deep customization, I think this makes most phones look worse, not better. It also makes troubleshooting harder when my parents or kid have changed everything.

With regards to price, I find Apple phones are cheaper in the long run; I can buy a refurb phone for my mom and it’ll get updates for 5+ years. My experience with Android was 1 year of updates. That alone was enough to push me away.

Ultimately I just don’t care about phones anymore. They all are boring and I want the easiest family fleet of devices to manage. For me, Apple is easier. I can fuck with phones less and do literally anything else more.

It’s very cool to hate on common core.

Alabama and Mississippi teach common core math same as most other states.

And yet the states with the highest scores are blue states that teach common core, and Alabama is consistently in the lowest 10-15 states.

The metric referenced in OPs meme is improvement, not raw scores. Alabama improved from really bad to below average. They’re not scoring better than NY or CA.

Alabama’s 8th grade math scores are literally 50th of the 50 states. The only lower grades are DC and PR.

Pausing time would be worse than living forever. I could not imagine a greater torture.

That’s not how bacteria are transferred. They aren’t just wafting off the turd and going airborne. If you place a shit in the vicinity of a Petri dish in a sterile field, it’s not going to grow anything.

Ain’t no way your FLAC albums are larger than uncompressed WAV. The only >2GB FLAC albums I have are massive compilations with 50+ tracks. They’re smaller than WAV, and that’s at max 700MB per CD. Spot checking, it looks like most of mine are ~500MB per album.

You’re not considering the iPod DAC which is higher quality than most cellphone DACs. Also, thinking 40GB fits 10 FLAC albums is stupid. This isn’t correct even for uncompressed WAV files.

I can’t imagine putting this much effort into complaining about someone using their media player of choice. People like vinyl and even cassettes because they’re a different experience, do you write up paragraphs about that too?

That’s regurgitation is how they transmit disease. Fuck mosquitoes.

Two words. Fuck, pretty easy to understand. Off, really easy to understand. Fuck off, Bobandy.