[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Driverless cars can work if enough vehicles are replaced with them. I agree that a few driverless cars in a sea of regular drivers is not optimal though.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

There's going to be a real resonance cascade in Massachusetts.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd rather a simpler phone at this point. I don't think I've ever looked at my phone and felt that it's too small. I can think of other ways that I'd want phones to be more functional, like connecting to external peripherals and a monitor.

Lots of people are excited about folding phones too though, so more power to them if companies are willing to go that way.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Terrible ability. Why would we want to clone gits?

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago

In Benjamin Franklin’s experiments, he came up with the convention that we use today to define a “positive” charge. As it turns out, electrons, discovered much later, are negatively charged according to the convention. Lots of chemical and physical reactions involve electrons as charge carriers, so lots of physical phenomena have this weird opposite thing going on. E.g. electric current or “conventional current” flows in the opposite direction of electron current. Chemical reactions are also weird. Reduction reactions involve a reduction in electric charge, but gaining an electron. The model works just fine, but it can be tricky and/or annoying at times.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

My school taught me C and Python for what that's worth. It was not for software development per se though. It was for physical simulation. I don't know if that was a departmental decision or a coincidence based on my professors.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago

I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 57 points 6 days ago

For a $100k device, I would expect better long term support.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

But the steam network is still around. When steam actually shuts down and no longer has the infrastructure to provide downloads for games, I have no idea what their plan is. They hypothetically could provide a way to remove the DRM, but I doubt that it's something the publishers of games would allow.

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submitted 3 months ago by Abnorc@lemm.ee to c/android@lemmy.world

I am thinking of trying a new OS on my Pixel 8 pro, and I’m wondering if switching will require me to inform or update my cell service provider, Verizon, in any way to stay connected. When I just moved my SIM card from one device to another, I learned that it activates an anti theft feature after a couple of days of working normally. This was easily fixed with Verizon support, but it was a hassle since I’m still on my parents’ phone plan. Am I likely to have this or a similar issue after installing a new OS, or should my cell service and data continue to work?

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 142 points 7 months ago

As always, there is a relevant XKCD.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 64 points 7 months ago

I appreciate the people who daily drive pinephones. They are paving the way for when they'll be viable alternatives for the masses. (Or verifying that they won't be, we'll see.)

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