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  • If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.

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  • He must be fucking with you if he says the sun got replaced by an LED. Forget about the color stuff, ask him how the sun got replaced.

  • 120hz on Apple MAC computers - very important or not?

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  • 120hz on Apple MAC computers - very important or not?

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  • Fyi only the first letter in Mac gets capitalized

  • Kindness

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  • Dogs definitely can

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    Baby animals

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  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • I tried to install it on a friend's 2012 macbook air, but the wifi didn't work even after trying different distros and trying suggested answers like installing several additional wifi drivers.

    I realize 2012 is a quite old machine, but the reality is that many (most?) people are going to be trying Linux for the first time on their very old computers. So having showstopper failures on old machines probably leads to a good amount of people thinking Linux doesn't work well.

  • TIL that Tron: Ares is a movie made from the third act of the original, scrapped sequel

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  • Nah, the film grossed 240 million. Even if they spent 100 million on marketing then the movie still earned 140 in profit. If you like you can even throw another 40 million in there to account for any other costs, and that means it still pulled in 100 million in straight profit. By every commercial measure the movie was a financial success.

  • TIL that Tron: Ares is a movie made from the third act of the original, scrapped sequel

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  • Seriously, i hate when people speak in an authoritative voice when they don't know what they're talking about. By every measure of commercial success that's commonly considered, Tron Legacy did well. It made over 200 million in profit. It was expected to make 40-50 million on its opening weekend, and perfectly achieved that when it took in 43.6 million. It was the number one movie at the box office. It had a 170 million budget and earned 410 million at the box office, netting 240 million profit just on ticket sales.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy

    I don't even care much about the movie, i just hate when someone talks in an authoritative voice about something they're completely wrong about

  • Wasting your life because you just can't let it go

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  • I'm in this picture and i don't like it

  • Printing Paywalled Sites

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  • Screenshot works on my phone

  • Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI

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  • Yup, everyone (including me) strongly wants to deny the usefulness of ai, but the fact is that ai is already quite useful, and is only becoming more useful over time. There are a zillion moral problems with ai, but the usefulness of its output is obvious.

    E.g. For years I've been considering paying someone to make a small app for me that does one specific thing, but recently i asked ai to do it and boom - it created an app that did exactly what i wanted. It even suggested some good features which i then said yes to and it made the app even better. And when i think of a new feature i just say "add this new feature", and it does. Occasionally the outputted app doesn't work, and i just say "now the audio doesn't work, fix it" and it does. So far there was only one one feature i asked it to do that it failed at.

  • Conspiracy theorist antivaxxer struggling with comprehension

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  • Real

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  • It works great for me. I don't know if it looks odd keeping my hand in a specific shape though, but i think it's worth it

  • Shawarma preparation, Lebanon, 1950

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  • Omg you're right! Is there some while other aspect of shawarma that we've been mowing in the modern world?!

  • Dutch Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

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  • Awesome!

  • Real

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  • I shape my hand into the first letter of the word i want to talk about, that way i can engage in the current conversation and also remember what i want to talk about when the opportunity opens up

  • Menger cheese = string cheese

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  • This is a denominator numerator trick.

  • This is what Central Park looked like a few years ago

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  • Last time i was there (which was a couple years ago), the paved roads were still there, but there were no cars on them except for an occasional cop car or ambulance going at moderate speed. And iirc the painted car lanes have shrunk down to a single lane, while painted lanes for pedestrians widened and bike lanes were added

  • This is what Central Park looked like a few years ago

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