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North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Explain that to the average car buyer who sees the lower number and rules it out.

TIL Morrissey wrote a novel that was published in 2015. It got a ton of negative reviews and won the "bad sex award for love scenes" that year. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It's like he wrote an already weird sex scene description, then right clicked every word and chose the last synonym on the list.

TIL Morrissey wrote a novel that was published in 2015. It got a ton of negative reviews and won the "bad sex award for love scenes" that year. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, that's a good burn.

TIL Washing your hands with plain soap is probably better than using antibacterial soap in the long run in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I managed to graduate having taken no chemistry classes lol.

TIL Washing your hands with plain soap is probably better than using antibacterial soap in the long run in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for explaining this simply. Somehow I never learned this in school.

TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Vindictus?

[TIL] The worst shark attack in history in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That poster art is at least a pretty sick classic movie throwback.

[TIL] The worst shark attack in history in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

All the WW2 movies and nobody in Hollywood thought to produce a shark-themed survival horror true story?

LineageOS 21 now officially supports the Nintendo Switch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm sure Nintendo intentionally throttles the Switch to improve battery life, preserve the integrity of the hardware, and provide a consistent experience. Not to defend their decision at all. I just think it's funny how people tend to react to learning about how much the Switch is artificially held back, as if Nintendo is just being stupid about the potential of their own console. I think it's very likely they did plenty of testing and concluded that the specs they targeted provided the best balance of positive overall user experience with the least amount of complications for developers. And it clearly worked because it's one of the best selling consoles ever with a massive catalogue of titles. The small handful of power users who want a Switch 4K Pro are just destined to buy a Steam Deck anyway. Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with that niche group of gamers lol.

LineageOS 21 now officially supports the Nintendo Switch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Taki Udon demonstrates a Switch emulating a Switch running Minecraft with better performance than Minecraft just running on Switch stock firmware.

Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.

TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

This also set a huge precedent for legal cases around AI image generation, didn't it? Since that also falls under "works not created by a human" and are therefore not copyrightable. We could have been dealing with a much bleaker AI art law situation than we have today because of this funny monkey photo case.

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