DebatableRaccoon

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What if Android didn't exist? (Or Google decided to develop a closed source OS?) What would this alt-timeline's privacy smartphone OSes looked like? (Since Android Forks wouldn't exist.) in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 4 points 1 day ago

And taking that a step further, I believe it was Blackberry that was proliferating the free text messages thing at the time (so long as it was to another Blackberry) so that could even have led to not enough market room for third-parties like WhatsApp and Kik to dominate the way they did.

Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix in c/pcgaming
[–] DebatableRaccoon 32 points 1 day ago

This feels like the sort of fix that should have been figured out prior to release given just how wide spread it is.

Stellar Blade released on Steam [Denuvo] in c/pcgaming
[–] DebatableRaccoon 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's fair. Thinking about it, I'm not sure if I've ever bought a game after the Denuvo got removed, I'd just stopped caring about the game by the time that happened so it'll remain to be seen if I still care about Stellar Blade by the time the Denuvo is removed this time, but it certainly won't be at full price like I'd planned to pay when the PC port got announced. It'll likely be with the standard 60-70% reduction that happens once a game has been out 1-2 years, depending how long it takes for this crap to fuck off. At that point, I don't think it's rewarding the dev anyway, my purchase certainly isn't making it onto a spreadsheet of consequence.

will it fit ? 👀 (OC)(F) in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 1 points 2 days ago

One way to find out...

Stellar Blade released on Steam [Denuvo] in c/pcgaming
[–] DebatableRaccoon 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And it'll be staying right there for as long as its carrying that infection.

Meta is under investigation for a privacy violation called localhost tracking. in c/privacy
[–] DebatableRaccoon 4 points 2 days ago

I know it's too much to hope for but 🤞

The "coin boys" in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 10 points 2 days ago

Just wait until the coin tells them to do both.

When I told my parents I wanted to be a comedian, they laughed. in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 1 points 3 days ago

I thought they were talking about the film, not citing it for the quote.

Remedy announces very friendly minimum specs for its co-op Control spinoff, FBC: FIrebreak. You only need a GTX 1070 for 1080 60 FPS play. in c/pcgaming
[–] DebatableRaccoon 7 points 1 week ago

*Relative to what we're seeing out of the Triple Ehh space.

Gwen Stacy and Spider-gwen [M/F] [Marvel] (Afrobull) in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 2 points 1 week ago

Embracing the ho ho ho season.

My body is so soft you could drown in it [f] [OC] in c/[email protected]
[–] DebatableRaccoon 1 points 1 week ago

That's... not how drowning works

Stellar Blade coming on Steam, demo available now in c/pcgaming
[–] DebatableRaccoon 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadly, the game will be infected with Denuvo at launch. I was looking forward to it until that stupidity got announced.

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Magnet Mount Classic Gen 5/5.5 (self.ipod)
 

I've just recently got my hands on a Video and put an iFlash Quad in it. I intend to use it as a music source in my car and I normally put my phone on one of those magnetic mounts that you shove in the air vent (like this) so I'd like to do the same with my ipod so it's accessible to replay/skip songs while driving. This in mind, my question is whether it's safe to put the ipod on the magnetic mount without borking the ipod? I know electronics used to be sensitive to this but my knowledge of tech tells me it should be fine now that there isn't a spinning metal disk inside it but I'd prefer to not find out the hard way.

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Magnet Mount Classic Gen 5/5.5 (self.ipod)
 

I've just recently got my hands on a Video and put an iFlash Quad in it. I intend to use it as a music source in my car and I normally put my phone on one of those magnetic mounts that you shove in the air vent (like this) so I'd like to do the same with my ipod so it's accessible to replay/skip songs while driving. This in mind, my question is whether it's safe to put the ipod on the magnetic mount without borking the ipod? I know electronics used to be sensitive to this but my knowledge of tech tells me it should be fine now that there isn't a spinning metal disk inside it but I'd prefer to not find out the hard way.

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Supernova Absorption for Nulification (self.nostupidquestions)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DebatableRaccoon to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

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A Fizzed Situation (lemmy.ca)
 
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Hi! Do you have snacks? (lemmy.ca)
 
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