We could spend the rest of our lives trying to make a search function less useful than what Microsoft puts in every single one of their apps. Fucking up a search bar is the new fucking up an instant messenger.

Folding phones work great for selfies, you can use the front screen to compose the shot and and the quality of your rear camera.

I’d say they are slightly better in terms of watching videos. It really depends on the shape of the phone. Most of the time, the full screen is only slightly larger for widescreen content, but the big benefit is that there is a lot of dead space where you can hold the phone, or see captions without obscuring the video.

Folding phones are surprisingly much better for web browsing and reading. Larger views for web pages navigate much more easily, and the double-wide screen gives a lot of eye relief when reading e-books, and you spend less time turning pages, which does add up.

If you use any kind of remote desktop application from your phone, having the wide screen of a folder is a godsend. I do a lot of remote desktop shit on-call, and most of the time I just carry my phone with me instead of a full laptop.

Source : I use a Pixel 9 fold as my daily driver.

Sort of. You have to exist to observe, therefore you can only observe a reality that you exist in.

I kinda like the idea that what we experience as reality, choice, and consciousness is an “average” all possible realities. Free will exists because your sense of self exists across multiple realities, there is a different reality for each decision (or probability based event) than you make. When you make that choice, it prunes your reality from all the other possibly realities, and the infinite tree of possible future outcomes gets smaller yet again.

I’m like this without any drugs at all. Don’t let your kids read pulp books by theoretical physicists. It fucks with their head.

Wifi bounces too.

We already do, and that causes problems, so we invented dentists to yank them out.

Yes.* They’ll close off their gills and open their mouths, which creates a vacuum and sucks the food deeper into the mouth, then they close their mouths and open their gills to flush the water out but keep the food.

Morays on the other hand, have two little holes on the sides of their neck, and those are the exits for their gills. That’s why they always look like they are gasping or yawning; they are trying to force more water over their gills.

*There are a couple different structures for biting and swallowing food in the fish world, but a lot of fish simply open their big mouths and suck in nearby prey.

They swallow their prey whole, and they don’t have large gill slits to vent out water in their mouth, so they have secondary set of jaws to pull food into the throat.

If you really want to get impractical, we breath and eat through the same tube, and that causes all kinds of problems.

I have a cursed mouse.

Not like a taxidermied mouse, but a cursed computer mouse.

It looks and functions like a normal wireless mouse… Until you get to a page where there is horizontal scrolling capability. Instantly, the mouse will scroll the page all the way to the right. This is especially fun in spreadsheets. The mouse will do this even if it is turned off. The problem is really the wireless reciver, not the actually mouse, but it is still a fun cursed object that I hope to someday unleash on some unsuspecting sibling.

You should re-evaluate your crisis planning. Communication is a key safety item, even if it is one-way. I’ve got a pair of GMRS walkie-talkies that can pretty reliably broadcast a little over a mile. Put them in scan mode and you can pickup chatter from other sources. This has fuck all to do with an AM radio, but they also have the ability to pick up the automated weather reports from the airport. So when it looks real stormy out, I turn one on (to test it) and to get continuous updates directly from the weather station instead of waiting for the news to catch up. Communication in a crisis, even if it’s just one way, is still a critical lifeline.

Too good. Only a matter of time until off-duty cops have punisher and helldiver’s skulls on the back of their spotless F150s

Yeah, I’ve seen a lot more hot takes on the topic, but none of them seem to be here today.

You’re really missing out. One door to rule them them all.

If the beatles were fingerless or deaf, or had never heard music before, you might have a point.

True. But a lot of people praising something more than merited does.

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Pivot doors, sliding doors, rotary doors pocket doors, lifting doors, double doors, screen doors, storm doors, front doors, back doors, garage doors, The Doors, Mordor…

Gull-wing doors, scissor doors, morphing doors, iris doors, hidden doors.

Lots of doors. What more innovation do you want?

No, because they are moons. Planets are (roughly paraphrasing here) the dominant gravitational mass in their orbit.

So Neptune is the reason Pluto is no a planet.

Automotive racing is a sport.

Still overrated. Right place, right time. If it wasn’t them, it could have just as easily been someone else.

Better to mention that each device has a Bitcoin in it. Which is about 80k right now.