* Posts by Zebo-the-Fat

278 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2011

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Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?

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Never!

I have never bought a phone new, I have an old Samsung S9.. checks emails and web browsing works fine... it can even make phone calls! battery is a bit past it's best, but an overnight charge lets it last a full day. What more do I need?

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant

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Scott Manley did an excellent video about this, it seems to lost one of it's engine nozzles while hovering at 50 M. there is a picture of it on the surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFiJvbKyPs&t=625s

40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes

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ahhh... happy days (and lots of late nights!)

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

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Question

If I watch prime video on my PC, will UblockOrigin be able to remove the ads?

In my opinion, the only word for this is GREED, I already pay for the service and now they want to ruin it?

I think they may be loosing a customer very soon.

BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required

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Jingle Balls

Merry jingle balls and a happy Winter Foodfest!

Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'

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Clouds in space??

Clouds in space??

the main problem will be cooling, maybe large external radiators like the ISS?

I can see how something like this will be needed in the near future though

Raspberry Pi OS goes goth

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I don't read books printed on black paper with white ink, and don't want to that on a screen!

Bezos might beat Musk to Mars as NASA recruits Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket

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But...

This is a company that hasn't managed to put anything into orbit yet!

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

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Grumble

I was using Vivaldi browser for a long time with Ublock Origin... no ads for crap I won't buy, suddenly I get the "3 views left" message. Clearing the cache and updating Ublock worked for a week, but now it's unusable. Switched to Librawolf, all good again.

Watching ads for crap I will never buy is wasting my time and theirs, if things get worse I will give up on YT completely... then they will be sorry!

Boffins claim invention of rechargable, biodegradable, supercapacitor drug pump

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Hmmm...

You spelled sulphide wrong!

NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away

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Optical

I suppose, strictly speaking Semaphore flags are optical communication!

Seriously well done to everyone involved, next thing is space will be shark lasers!

As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock

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Only one option left

Only one option left... WD40

Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now

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I have never ever cracked a screen, but all my phones have been kept in cases to protect them, but I have watched people with iphones "spinning" them on a table and thought "you paid a lot for that, why are you not looking after it?"

Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

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Nice!

I got a 2009 imac for a silly price on Ebay, got it working on El Capitan, used Open Core Patcher to install Ventura, works well but a little slow opening apps, will replace the spinning rust with an SSD soon, that should help.

There is a nice Youtube video that walks you the install, step by step... works well, but I thought my machine was stuck in a boot - reboot cycle... after about 40 minute if finally arrived at the bootscreen :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOqHMo5WSQ

DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs

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Re: Something OTHER than Lithium

Lithium ion batteries actually contain very little lithium, when they catch fire it isn't due to the lithium just the large amount of energy they store... it has to go somewhere!

Rocket Lab launch streak goes up in smoke with 41st mission

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It's hard

Rocket science is easy... Rocket engineering is hard

pointy end up, burny end down, better luck next time !

Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations

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Pointless

Until I read this I never even noticed that android had a lower case "a" I also don't give a damn about the logo, it makes no difference at all to the way I use my phone.

So a pointless (and probably expensive) waste of time

India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole

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Re: Milestone moment

Must be cows, where else would the green cheese come from?

Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit

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Why?

What technical reason do they give for locking out the scan function when the ink runs out? (apart from an attempt to take your cash)

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

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but can it play wax cylinders?

India's space agency set to launch lunar lander, rover

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I hope they succeed

California man's business is frustrating telemarketing scammers with chatbots

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After many many calls from a firm asking about the accident I never had (once 3 times in the same day) I asked to be removed from their list, when they called again a said "I hope you get cancer and your children die in a fire" For some reason they never called me again... was it something I said??

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

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Cheaper?

Is this cheaper than zero G in the vomit comet, or does the zero G last longer?

One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim

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Happy

I'm so very happy not to be living in the hell hole that America has turned into!

Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in

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Why

Why would I click cortina or whatever it is then talk to the 'puter (risking misunderstandings) to launch a program when I could just click on the shortcut for the program? (when did programs turn into apps anyway?)

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

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Never used!

I have a webmail service that offers IMAP, so I just use a local email client (Postbox) and never, ever get to see the wonderful advertiments that are splattered across the web client... works for me!

Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards

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Will it?

But....

will it run Doom??

Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note

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How much?

$1200? don't be silly!

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

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I used Firefox but switched to Vivaldi (with Ubloc origin) a few years ago, works well for me

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Why

Why should I be forced to watch an ad for some crap I have no intention of buying, letting it ruin the flow of the thing I actually want to watch?

I gave up on live TV years ago because of the ads spoiling the programs.

ESA's Jupiter-bound Juice spacecraft has a sticky problem with its radar

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Simple fix

Simple fix, just needs a little percussive mainainance!

Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

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What is the life of these super batteries, how many charge - discharge cycles??

Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?

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Lies

As usual ads = lies

Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at

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If it produces an image of what the subject is looking at, all the images should show the inside of the scanner!

Smart ovens do really dumb stuff to check for Wi-Fi

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Question..

not having any smartcrap, what happens if you just don't give them access to your wifi? Do they just sit in a corner and sulk?

Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

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Infected? Re format, restore from (off line) backup. back in business

Mixing an invisible laser and a fire alarm made for a disastrous demo

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What's wrong with a water cooled laser?

Huawei teases bonkers gadget combo

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Why?

Why bother?

Never felt the need for a Smartwatch and I am able to survive for more than a day without earphones in.

NASA's Artemis mission finally launches after faulty Ethernet switch delayed countdown

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Amazed!

I am amazed that it worked, pleased - but amazed.

I don't see how this can be a long term system though, it's mainly a collection of ex shuttle parts, apart from the capsule very little new stuff being made to replace the bits that just get thrown away on every launch.

Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!

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Problem

The problem would be the loud moaning of the Karens, they think that 5G causes cancer, so what will they say to orbiting microwave ovens beaming death rays at them?

Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey

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You spelled sulphate wrong ... again!

NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap

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Re: ...developed a hardware solution...

Always know where your towel is!

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

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You spelt sulphuric wrong!

Those screws on the Apple Watch Ultra are a red herring

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Me, I don't feel dressed without a watch. ~It goes on when I get up in the morning and comes off when I go to bed. No need to mess about pulling my phone out of my pocket every time I want a quick time check, so much easier. (but then I'm classed as an official old fart!)

Teardown shows Apple iPhone 14 Pro is not pro-repair

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This kind of thing is why I don't own any Apple crap and never will

Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

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While I'm no fan of BO's up and down space ride, it is good to know that the escape system works. Looks like a rough ride, but not as rough as staying with a failed and burning booster

Startup wants to build a space station that refuels satellites by 2025

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Oops!

Minor typo, geostationary orbit is 35,785 km not 300Km small difference, but probably important when you are low on fuel!

NASA identifies landing sites for America's return trip to the Moon

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Wilfull ignorance?

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Re: Return to the Moon?

We did in 1969, the landings were in the middle of the cold war, you can be sure the Russians tracked the Apollo capsule every inch of the way, any fakery would have been headline news in Pravda.

Someone put the laser retroreflectors on the surface (they can still be used today)

We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps

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When?

When did programs turn into apps?

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