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New comment by chainingsolid in "Starship V3"

chainingsolid — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:03:56 +0000

Rockets are classified ITAR. There 1/2 of a ballistic missile.

New comment by chainingsolid in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

chainingsolid — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:49:25 +0000

2/3 of the big browsers are open source, you could just change it this year! (Assuming your mobile device isn't from the former personal computer company turned status symbol manufacturer).

Harder problem is getting the economic system that relies on this information swapped out. Have fun when 99% of web doesn't 'work'.

New comment by chainingsolid in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

chainingsolid — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:42:02 +0000

Ya, I'm not running my Pinephone's display at x2 cause its a high end display on a $200 phone.....

New comment by chainingsolid in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

chainingsolid — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:12:38 +0000

My advice to anyone doing motherboard shopping is to read the manual off the manufacture's site before deciding. The pcie lane tradeoffs tend to be in the block diagram next to the contents page.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

chainingsolid — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:09:41 +0000

Well to be fair processors, ram and modern storage are lithography required to make parts. Not sure how much lithography the chipset requires.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

chainingsolid — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:03:51 +0000

The only 2 parts that even make sence to "future proof" are power supply and case.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

chainingsolid — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:21:50 +0000

I remember one of my math teachers claiming only TI showed up to the math text book meetings or something like that, so guess what calculator the book recommends...

New comment by chainingsolid in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

chainingsolid — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:10:13 +0000

Almost identical boat here. Had a borrowed TI-83, freshman year wrote 2048 && 1/2 of chess with only knowing basic variable usage, if, goto, and matrix indexing. Found out about actual loops and the ability to call a basic program from another latter.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

chainingsolid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:42:09 +0000

I've contacted my congressmen and I would also advocate for telling/explaining this to non technical people you know. They either won't have heard of this or won't know whats bad about it.

New comment by chainingsolid in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

chainingsolid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:09:17 +0000

Even if code is mechanism and not speech, I'd hope being forced to tell anyone you ever interacted with online your age would be compelled speech..

New comment by chainingsolid in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

chainingsolid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:06:25 +0000

I doubt it's the only option, just one with benefits to those with interest to censor and control others. I imagine some more tweaks in the algorithms could do quite a bit.

New comment by chainingsolid in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

chainingsolid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:03:13 +0000

As someone who would vote for voter ID, I would also vote just as fast to provide tax payer funded help so any US citizen can vote, regardless of financial situation.

New comment by chainingsolid in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

chainingsolid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:43:17 +0000

So how would you recommend ensuring only citizens vote and only do so a max of once per election?

New comment by chainingsolid in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

chainingsolid — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:44:24 +0000

At 3.5 mil pounds that has to be the full rocket. But quick [1]googling is giving an even higher total mass number...

1. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sls-5640-sls...

New comment by chainingsolid in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

chainingsolid — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:38:27 +0000

Mass higher up the rocket costs several multiples more mass in propellant and propellant handling lower in the rocket. And the more deltaV you want the higher the multiplication. (If I remember right some weight issues of some kind on the Apollo capsule and or lander required a common bulk head in the first stage to make up the performance loss!)

However cameras probably fall into the variance in astoraunt weight somewhat.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

chainingsolid — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:34:43 +0000

I've used a Pinephone on 2 diffrent carriers for at least months each already.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

chainingsolid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:32:04 +0000

I was thinking 1984, or if I can return a float, NaN.

New comment by chainingsolid in "Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices"

chainingsolid — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:37:20 +0000

To be fair while the Pinephone is quite common, it's SOC is so bad you only get opengl ES2.0 I would not blame anyone for ignoring it early on. You'd have to make sure the graphics stack works on it in particular.

Written on a Pinephone.

New comment by chainingsolid in "D Programming Language"

chainingsolid — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:33:36 +0000

Noteably for me at least is the 'new' keyword and resizing arrays with the length property.

https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#nogc-functions

New comment by chainingsolid in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

chainingsolid — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:57:17 +0000

I'm not sure this is an unpopular opinion. I've seen it suggested multiple times, and IF done correctly (open/transparent) would solve most of the complaints with the ring-zero anti cheats. Still won't solve every cheat, especially hardware, social and perhaps good VMs. I would require the app/game to disclose what it requires to be true.