Yeah definitely the latter, but phrasing it as generation is very very wierd. Literally physically impossible.

Oh my god if you are a new user please do not go straight to Arch or Manjaro. By far the two distros most likely to breaky irreparably.

Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article’s from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.

Can’t speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it’s in there.

Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.

Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them – for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I’m pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.

I’m guessing that’s a mini-ITX? Yeah I can forgive a case which is highly optimized for small form factor, but this case is if anything the opposite.

For a $240 case, no review is going to make me want to buy it, but god is it funny to watch Steve’s frustration with it.

Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:

ᚅᚖᚙᚗ

The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.

Does anyone know why the only public transport option is “subway”? I don’t get why they would only index subways.

Yeah…Eternity 0.2.1 doesn’t work, Voyager can’t even find beehaw.org in to log into it, and so I’ve been using Jerboa as a backup. Turns out downgrading to 0.1.2 does work, but meh.

Look, I tried to solve this with Wolfram alpha, desmos, and nunerical integration in Python, but what does a subscript e even mean?? None of the methods I tried even returned a solution, which is kinda unsurprising…how do you integrate with respect to e, when e isnt a variable??

Darktable if you’re ok with a steep learning curve, RawTherapee if you prefer an easier-to-use UI with a few less features.

I mostly really dont like the use of “depicts” here. Depicts means is a representation of, which is just wrong and feels a little too close to creationist. “Resembles” would be better.

I think those are actually mole crabs. Sand fleas are usually about 1/3" long everywhere I’ve been.

I use zettlr – it’s pretty good! The only issues I’ve run into are with the table editor, and with occasional lag on large documents; the latter just comes with the territory on an Electron app. I know Nathan’s working on both, though.

I’m not familiar with fwupdmgr, so I’m not sure either about it delivering bios updates. A good tool to know about for sure, though!

I don’t mean use the RSS feed to actually deliver, I just mean a blog-style announcement. Of course, to be security conscious you shouldn’t follow any links in that announcement to download it, but still.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten bios updates via apt…not sure if that’s a laptop thing, a manufacturing thing, or what.

Yeah! I only discovered them a couple of weeks ago through this community and they’re fantastic.

Specifically to make something which is not mission-critical reliant on any underlying software…but that’s almost impossible. Not reliant on the base operating system would be a nice start.