Soft disagree. I use the Qi charger to charge my phone overnight or while it’s sitting on my desk. The USB cable is when I need it charged quickly.

This way, my phone’s charging port is protected with a plug when I’m not using it and it is immaculate and unlikely to fail while I have it.

(My previous phone’s charging port almost failed and would stop working if I used it for all charging. Using Qi for the bulk of the charging kept the port working for when I needed it, like in the car or to the computer.)

N95?

Passed through earlier this year specifically to visit Caldea mineral springs. Absolutely worth it if you’re nearby.

‘Renegade breakaway province’

I’ve had success with Focalboard and noticed nobody is using it here! Should I look at alternatives?

YouTube awareness ads some dystopian black mirror shit

Me: how many applications have you got installed? SimplyMepis: Yes.

First OS was DOS, though my parents used a computer with Windows 3.1 on it before we got the dos box.

Excluding Damn Small Linux, first real Linux was Mandrake 9.2 (download edition).

Got these near my house. Actually it’s the grey headed flying fox. Cutest bats of all time but their shit is not something you want on your car

Go visit in winter, it’s spectacular. Go away from where tourists go, it’s an incredibly intimate country to visit.

Wasn’t the point of IPv6 to remove the need for GCNAT?

Just been diagnosed but haven’t started treatment yet. I’m excited for the next stage of life!

I mean, Australia is one of the best places in the world to send nuclear waste. Seismically inert, sparsely populated in remote areas, strong regulatory competency to ensure a compliant industry. With it buried deep underground, life on the surface won’t be affected nor will the hydrology.

Know when to ask for help. You can’t always hold the world on your shoulders.

Confidential projects, etc. amirite?

Thank you!

Please someone ELI5 what this metric means

When I think of AI ruining humanity, this is how I picture it

But was it drinking raw milk?

Oh we already know this. There are parts of the genome that, if even slightly changed, cause terrible, terrible things.

Mutations can happen anywhere, but serious mutations (that may affect the basic things a cell needs to do in order to exist) result in cell death and therefore don’t manifest in the population — the population continues on as though the mutation had never existed.

In this way, natural selection conserves some parts of the genome while less essential parts can vary more freely without being deleterious to the organism.

For example, most non-bacteria (including all plants, animals, fungi, protists) have special proteins called histones. Histones are used to package the DNA together and wrap it all up. Cells can’t function at all without a these proteins, and the most important histone proteins evolve so slowly that they’re almost identical between a human and a pea. (Humans and peas shared a common ancestor over half a billion years ago.)

ETA: My molecular biology knowledge is rusty, but IIRC the way DNA is packaged and unpackaged can also reduce or increase the risk of DNA being exposed to potential mutagens. So if it’s wrapped up, it’s harder to access and tamper with