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I remember my eyesight was 20/20 all my life until I started playing more and more with phones and tablets, now I can barely see any font in a regular browser tab at 100% zoom so I…

A macbook air at $999 is always more attractive than one at 1000, 1015 or 1021. After taxes sure it will go over 1000 but usually when we're browsing for prices first impression al…

I live in a tropical zone over 100F year round and use shade cloth to keep grass and plants green. Wonder if that could be used to cover big areas in the desert?

I use Brave, never seen an ad in ages

To expand a bit more, energy is the fuel of civilization, since we won't have oil at surface level and solar won't be possible without panels, we should concentrate in generating h…

Ten years Water wheels for a start, then dams, hydroelectric power and industrial revolution around the corner in just a year. Then ethanol/corn fueled engines and we'll be sailing…

It was never a nice idea, but there is nothing better for the moment

On the Android side of the fence, Xiaomi car looks nice: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/this-is-xiaomis-first-elec...

Things fly because of thrust, not wings. Rockets, missiles, don't have wings and yet they still fly even longer distances. Shut the engines of a 747 and it will fall like a rock, n…

I do the same grouped by week with some personal markup like: FEB 18 - todo x done ! important ? optional FEB 11 - todo x done ! important ? optional

Curiosity, we waste time learning a thousand useless 'shiny' things at the same time, then we apply all we learnt solving problems easily

It is not absurd. It depends on the type of beings at play. Plants don't kill each other, but animals do on a daily basis, from whales to mosquitoes, they're all part of a macabre …