halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 8 hours ago:
That’s a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.
The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.
The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.
All of those methods are flush, but only one isn’t visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 9 hours ago:
Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?
Yeah, but that literally just happened last month and doesn’t take effect until January 2027. It’s not like they did that years ago because they saw it coming.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 17 hours ago:
That exact issue killed Blackberry, the largest smartphone maker at the time. Even after they built a compatibility layer to run Android apps.
You think anywhere near enough people are going to go out of their way to try something that doesn’t have marketshare already to maintain an entire alternative hardware and software ecosystem? Where can I get wherever awesome shit you’re smoking?
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 day ago:
Not factory. But if Michael Reeves can teach one how to piss beer, I’m sure there’s options on the market.
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 2 days ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything. The owners care more about the news type aspects of these purchases, not the entertainment side.
Look at all the vocal MAGA Trek “fans” that seem to completely ignore the history of the franchise when trying to say it’s gone Woke and similar shit. Just because the owners are fascists that doesn’t mean the showrunners will be forced to avoid tackling topics indirectly. That’s what Trek has always done, sometimes less indirectly than others.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 6 days ago:
Oh it’s just a fan theory, but it makes sense and matches with comments Lucas has made with regards to the overarching themes. It also explains odd things the character does, which must have been intentional since he was a CG character.
Lucas will probably never confirm or deny it officially because it would confirm that either he got scared and made a huge mistake abandoning that plotline, or that he made a bad character a pivotal linchpin of the storyline since Jar Jar is the deciding vote that gives us the Empire.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 6 days ago:
Darth Jar Jar was the original plan, Lucas changed it after the backlash against the character. He was supposed to be the new trilogy’s foil to the goofy character in a New Hope, Yoda. Lucas has said that he was making the new trilogy rhyme with the original, no other character matches with that initial Yoda introduction. That is also why Grievous and Dooku come out of nowhere despite supposedly being big characters, to fill the gap.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 6 days ago:
That was almost certainly YouTube breaking itself. They do a lot of public A-B testing without notifying the user of anything, even if it could break functionality.
The chances of Librewolf breaking, and updating in 24 hours is basically zero. Especially if you’re on Windows since it doesn’t update itself, you have to choose to install the separate updater application when you install Librewolf, otherwise it just doesn’t update.
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/librewolf-winupdater
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/
How often do you update LibreWolf?
LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox. Updates usually come within three days from each upstream stable release, at times even the same day. Unless problems arise, we always try to release often and in a timely manner.
It should however be noted that LibreWolf does not have auto-update capabilities, and therefore it relies on package managers or users to apply them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Backup? Psh… That’s what the lab is for.
- Comment on Chinese carmaker, BYD, introduces new battery technology with 621-mile range, 620K-mile lifespan, 5-minute charge, and lower prices 1 week ago:
The current v1 blade battery has operated in the real world about the same as their original announcement, which also was viewed with skepticism.
These aren’t research laboratory battery advancements without real world scenarios attached. These are announcements for an improved product entering production. Like a new phone being announced, not just a white paper from a lab that hasn’t been scaled.
- Comment on Sometimes even the captain needs a little "me" time. 1 week ago:
Yeah, and Janeway has the wraparound couch and the replicator that requires walking around the entire room to get to from the desk.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 2 weeks ago:
That’s the same excuse as
“The Nazis genocide is so it’s fine if we genocide others”
- Comment on _uck _e _n the a__ ton_ght 2 weeks ago:
The number of contestants that don’t start with the most common letters is surprisingly high.
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 3 weeks ago:
That we know of. Apple doesn’t exactly have a clean track record of avoiding double speak.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 3 weeks ago:
At the expense of everyone’s privacy even if you don’t participate in the loot box economy, because you know the laws won’t be written for only if you access them it’ll be a blanket requirement. That’s not the way to get rid of loot boxes.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nostalgia and hoping to grab users as they abandon reddit, which is where the users originally moved in the first place.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Quintessential “works for me” response. Must be a software developer.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Well you clearly haven’t used the standard available download (non-beta/nightly release) consistently through last year. Waterfox was using ESR 128 since October 2024, kept that base until finally upgrading to ESR 140 last August. So that’s nearly a year of its base being out of date. And some sites really don’t like that since they’re looking at that version for support.
https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.5.0/ https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.6.0/
Twitch only supports the last TWO versions of Firefox officially and will actively block logging in from older versions. So while you might be able to watch Twitch, if you aren’t already logged in, you won’t be able to login.
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/supported-browsers?language=en_US
There are thousands of posts about it online for Waterfox other forks.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
Last time I tried Waterfox some sites like Twitch that actively block usage on old browsers, refused to work because the latest Waterfox release was based on a Firefox like 20+ builds behind.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 weeks ago:
Not many, but I don’t buy a lot of $25 products in this day and age. Sometimes electronics fail early, that’s why there’s a warranty. I also don’t go complaining about something when it would have been replaced by warranty either.
The fact they warrant the devices through their entire expected lifespan instead of only a year is notable.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 3 weeks ago:
You know those have a 10 year warranty right? Including the specific model you linked.
- Comment on Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile commercial shipping in international waters uses the worst fuels on the planet and has basically zero regulation. Emitting thousands of times the pollutants every day, but that’s not flashy and doesn’t involve SpaceX which is guaranteed instant clickbait.
- Comment on Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" 3 weeks ago:
Support your local Street Pharmacist, not Big Pharma!
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
I never said it was solely on them, but saying that has no bearing on it is ridiculous as well.
We also had COVID which many/most schools had no fucking idea how to handle. There’s basically an entire year of wasted education there.
Remote learning is a completely different beast. And digital social interaction is completely different than being physically at school with friends. Social interactions are a large part of learning as well.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
Blame it on the technology though, because admitting that Republicans plan are ALWAYS terrible for anyone below the 1%, without exception, somehow is impossible.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure the systemic defunding and dismantling of the public education system across the United States at the hands of Republican lawmakers over the same timeframe has absolutely nothing to do with it.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 weeks ago:
In the same vein… Maraschino cherries aren’t red, they are golden.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 4 weeks ago:
The greatest adversary of the US, literally in a cold war using space as a proxy for active fighting, with every reason to expose any lies… Were in on it.
If they believe that they’re a lost cause. They can go back to their tin foil hat.
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 4 weeks ago:
It’s even simpler than that. The Soviet Union was the biggest US enemy at the time. They obviously would have tracked the flight from launch to landing. Why would they go along with a US conspiracy? Wouldn’t they be the first to say it was fake?
- Comment on I'm in! 4 weeks ago:
A reminder that’s exactly what Reagan did in California, with NRA support. The Black Panthers started to arm themselves and cop watch and that couldn’t be allowed clearly. California gun control really started with Reagan.
