I think for the Voyager launches the planets and the sun were aligned in such a way that the probes could be slingshotted around them to gain speed. I think such an alignment is quite rare?

My friend’s dad had one with a remote that when you changed the volume on the remote the volume knob would move. I thought it was so cool

When Trump gave his inauguration speech there were lots of articles about translators saying it was impossible to translate.

What’s green and smells of pork?

! Kermit’s cock

It’s a number of reasons. One I don’t see already mentioned is that Apple and Google require apps to target the latest versions of their OSs and libraries. For example Google released a new version of the Google Play Billing Services library. All apps were required to update to the newest version by mid August (you could request a two month extension). So to the end user it seems like nothing has changed. But under the hood the app is now using the latest apis. This could also apply to non-Google/Apple apis. Maybe a change of the developers own api was necessary.

I think Americans call it a pacifier? The thing a baby sucks on.

Paracetamol and acetaminophen are two names for the same thing

Some have speculated that it’s the origin of the Apple logo but Jobs confirmed it wasn’t.

Works great here with almost 100% coverage

제주닥새우? But they taste sooo good

Thanks for all the replies everyone!

I’ve always wanted to get into the discworld series but the number of books is a bit intimidating. Where’s a good place to start? Is there some overarching narrative or can you read them in any order?

Because there are two types of mac users:

• People that are buying them with their own money because they’re trendy and just using them as glorified Internet browsers. 16gb is plenty.
• People using them professionally so their company is paying and Apple can over charge for the necessary memory upgrade

I’ve been using Niagra for a few months now and love it 👍

Thanks for the explanation. I’d never heard it before and assumed it was a lemmy thing.

What’s a “tankie” instance?

https://youtu.be/J-v1zV8n0cA

It’s not even about profits. If companies don’t have to pay for expensive office buildings they can save money. It’s all the middle management realising their jobs are are unnecessary.

Here’s how the conversation could go without sounding like an ass:

Him: Cool shirt. Do you like Iron Maiden?

Her: No, I just like this shirt.

Him: That’s cool. They’re one of my favourite bands. If you wanna hangout sometime I’d love to introduce them to you?

Maybe not the last sentence but can you get the difference in tone?