Messing around is how blow jobs were first invented. If we’re ever going to discover the next major sex move, we’re all going to have to do our parts and mess around a lot while we’re cleaning the starfish.

Ah. I read you backwards, by bad.

Homeopathy often dilutes by taking far less than half of a solution and diluting it in a large amount of fresh solvent. One process repeatability empties the entire container and refills it with solvent.

If you were diluting something by replacing only half with solvent, you’d have to do many more steps to get as pure solvent as homeopathy produces.

Homeopathy is a tremendously wasteful way of washing a container. It’s hugely wasteful, and being a homeopathic environmentalist is oxymoronic.

You mean less steps. True homeopathy dilutes until there’s no measurable amount of the substance left; it’s just pure sugar/water/alcohol. You’re supposedly getting benefits from “the vibrations.”

Of all the pseudo-science quackery, homeopathy is one of the most idiot-prone.

They are. They’re really expensive in the States, when you can find them, but almost every modern window (in Bavaria, at least) is one of these. They also come door-sized, so you can either open an outside door to walk through, or tilt it from the top to circulate air.

OP is probably just too dumb to figure out how to work them; they’re fantastic, and I wish they were common here in the States.

You’re underestimating just how brave astronauts need to be. A second reason there’s less padding there: to make room.

Did someone mention Russia?

All hail our new Zeppelin overlords!

Yes. Let’s give credit to Infinity War which did not end with the heroes winning. Despite clearly being a 2-parter that the heroes would eventually win, it was a complete story arc and if you were one of the 16 million Americans who died in the 5 year gap between the releases of Infinity War and Endgame, you’d have died knowing only that the heroes lost.

Endgame was pretty effective, if heavy-handed, at manipulating my emotions, so it’s hard for me to count it as a pure win, but that’s just me.

However, yes: Infinity War is an exception that proves the rule.

I’m lucky to know I’m a smart dumb person, because

1. I know several, and have encountered many, truly smart people.
2. I’ve known a great many clever dumb people.
3. I know my father, and believe genetics is a strong influencer (not determiner).

For the sake of argument, maybe the balls are not insulated to improve radiant cooling. Who wants sweaty balls in space?

The jet pack jets are not visible, but evidence suggests they’re there.

Sound does conduct, though.

I think the laptop really does matter, and it’s because chipsets are not all equal in how well their sleep modes are supported in the OS.

I’ve been buying XPS13s for over a decade; I’ve had four (three personal, and one requisitioned for me by my job), and sleep and suspend have worked almost flawlessly on them under Linux. In the office, most everyone else would move between meetings or to their desks with the lids almost closed, to prevent sleep and the problems it caused, but I’d just fearlessly close my lid; it was ironic to me that running Linux on the XPS I had more reliable sleep behavior than the Windows people on their laptops.

For OP: low power, initialization, and restoring state has to be implemented by each chip, and there are a lot of shitty, poorly implemented chips. Then the OS also has to store and restore state for each chipset, and even if the chip implements it well, the OS has to do a good job restoring power in the correct order and restoring the state for each chip. If anything goes wrong in either the chip or driver implementation, you get a broken state.

This is aggravated by the fact that Linux is a monolithic kernel, and if any device drivers get borked it usually borks the whole kernel. This wouldn’t be as bad a problem if Linux were a microkernel architecture and drivers could just be killed and restarted.

The package archnews2 also provides an arch news reader. This issue was also announced in Arch forums before it was rolled out - I saw it in Lemmy.

But, yeah, you really do have to read archnews release notes. Frankly, it annoys me a bit - pacman should have the concept of breaking changes and show related news before upgrades. I think one of the news packages (maybe archnews2?) has a config setting that always displays news before upgrades, but it’s only annoying because it is ignorant of whether the news item affects any given system, so it’s often just noise; I think I turned it off because it kept showing me the same news every time.

It’s the worst part of Arch, and it’s poorly handled. I don’t know of a rolling release that handles informing the user of, breaking changes better, though.

Do any of you know another solution to stream audio from my phone to my server

I use snapcast throughout my house and devices, but there’s no snap_server_ for Android.

I’ve been meaning to try roc, for which there is an Android client that will both play and serve.

Sonobus also claims to be many:many; I haven’t tried it either and it doesn’t look particularly active.

I don’t use UPnP or DLNA because of the security issues, so I can’t offer a suggestion about that. I thought DLNA was a pull oriented protocol - like, to send music from your phone you’d have to select and play on your computer with a DLNA client. Can you push media with DLNA?

I admire your bravery, and your determination. I hope you and your family, your friends, and your community stays safe and well.

Rust needs to be reduced back to ore, using a reactive, usually coke. Coke is purified coal. Coal is a fossil fuel. You can do it with charcoal, which can be made by burning wood, so it’s possible without coal, just not as efficient. This assumes you can gather the rust - it tends to break down and disperse into the environment, but if you broke up concrete to get at rusted rebar and could collect the rust, you could reduce it with charcoal.

Again, it’s a matter of scale. We mine iron and deposits because we can get large amounts in seams. If you’re trying to harvest rust and reduced it with charcoal, you’re producing iron on the scale of making knives and swords, not cars, or combine harvesters, or more rebar.

It’s a chicken-egg problem. We have been able to come as far as a have because oil, coal, and iron were just laying around on the surface, in huge quantities. Those are gone, and now you need the big tools first to get at the reserves that are left.

Any worked iron product rusts. If we’re talking about evolutionary time scales, any exposed metal - which is most of it - is going to be unusable within thousands of years, and even rebar embedded in concrete will be gone in millions. Heck, our concrete isn’t even as good as the Romans’, and even that’s going to break down in thousands of years.

We’ve stripped the raw, surface, easily accessible stuff and worked it into things that will degrade. There may be some scavenge, but nothing that can be gathered in any quantity to build an industrial society on. At best, future societies will be like medieval Japan, where iron is rare and steel precious and hoarded, only unlike Japan, there won’t be a future where they can import huge quantities of the stuff from China or Australia, because getting to the deposits now requires an industry and advanced mining equipment… which is all made out of iron they won’t have.

Gold will be interesting. Again, it’s not just laying around everywhere just under the surface. Instead, there will be isolated pockets of huge piles of the stuff. Gold doesn’t degrade, but it’s all hoarded. There’s a bunch in electronics, but in tiny, tiny amounts in each device; trying to salvage that is really hard, and yields trace amounts. No more nuggets the size of your thumb, or your fist. If a future civilization could build a global economy, then gold wouldn’t be an issue. Uranium will be hard, as will platinum, and platinum is a useful, but consumable, catalyst, and rare even today it’ll be almost unheard of in a perpetually pre-industrial post-apocalypse.

Fossil fuels are going to be the big issue, though. What’s left will simply be inaccessible, and without fossil fuels you don’t have plastics, industry, fertilizers at scale, global transportation, or the ability to work whatever metal you can find, at any scale.