Fun fact: People abbreviate it “heli” or “copter”, when in fact the two parts of the word are “helico” and “pter”. (Think: helical or pterodactyl)

Try pronouncing it helico-pter, and pronounce the P and make it rhyme with “tare” as in pterodactyl. You’ll sound like you have a French accent, or something.

I buy e-bikes with money. How is that going to change?

Turns out that’s not even the title of the article.

I Rode the New Specialized Levo 4 and Here’s Why I Think It’s Gonna Change the Way We Think About E-Bikes Forever

Yeah, it looks like you’re right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:

Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.

So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from “ancient”.

Any Prusa

We need to start heavily downvoting censored memes. If it came that way, it’s OP’s obligation to uncensor it before posting.

I have Play Protect turned on, and I have no problem installing apps from Droid-ify or Obtanium.

Yes, it’s egg-fried rice.

You can make all the claims you want about your training and knowledge. It doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about.

I’m in first grade, English my third language, and both my parents refused to speak to me for the first 4 years of my life, and even I know you’re wrong.

You’re the one making extraordinary claims. You need to back them up. You said the data in HDDs only lasts 2-3 years unless they are plugged in. That is patently false in both ways. No, they don’t, and no, keeping them plugged in doesn’t help what data loss does occur. Error correction occurs when reading the data. And data is only read when asked for.

The firmware doesn’t “control” the charges. They just sit there. When the drive is powered but not in use, it sits there. Nothing is being done to “maintain” the charges.

If you don’t consider a static magnetic charge on a platter to be “permanent”, then no magnet is permanent. The only impermanent magnet is an electromagnet.

Just stop. You have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re the one who needs to google how HDDs work.

They are not permanent magnets. They lose their charge and thus the data, slowly over time, while not being plugged in. A plugged in drive gets electricity to maintain the charge on the disk.

I mostly figured that’s what you thought, and it’s completely wrong. They are permanent magnets. As permanent as any ultra-tiny magnet can be.

Hard drive platters are made of glass or aluminum, and have a thin layer of a metal alloy in which to store a magnetic charge. There is no electricity flowing through the platters of a hard drive, ever. They are 100% passive.

I didn’t google it because I can’t google, “tell me what false belief this person has.”

Explain how a hard disk loses data from being unplugged. More importantly, explain how it retains data specifically while being plugged in.

Very, very new news to me. I’m glad we have people like you who know everything. I just wish you would share your knowledge more.

A year-two update on the how-long-can-SSDs-store-data-unpowered video series

Absolute banger of an example of a sentence that needs more hyphens. The author was kind enough to say “year-two”, but then tortured us with trying to figure out the rest of the sentence.

Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.

This is a dumb one, but I’ve watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like “Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah” Yeah… It was made up in the 50’s 1910s by some dude.

I’m all for FOSS. Thanks for letting me know about TetherFi. However, what do you mean about an EasyTether “plan”? Do they no longer charge a flat $10 for the app?

Rationing? In today’s day and age? I have unlimited mobile data with Visible for $25/mo. It even has unlimited (slow, 5 Mbps) tethering.

If you use a cheap VPN (I use Mullvad), your video bitrate doesn’t get throttled. But the tethered device also needs to be signed in on the VPN because WiFi tethering on the phone doesn’t use the phone’s VPN, at least on Android.

If you use Android, and you’re clever, you can USB tether to a properly-configured Raspberry Pi using EasyTether, and have that give WiFi to all your devices at full speed. I have a 4k Apple TV, and I get 4k video on my $25/mo plan.

For a single device like one PC, all you need is EasyTether on that PC, and then you can USB tether your phone to get unthrottled tethering. EasyTether costs a one-time $10 payment for the phone app. The PC app is free. You need both.

Looks like they have a new $35 plan that doubles the WiFi tethering speed (to a whopping 10 Mbps) and allows 1080p video without needing a VPN. That sorta seems like a sweet spot for price vs. hassle.

It appears to be a wallpaper. TinEye found a bunch of results on various wallpaper websites.

This bastardized version is… something.

That’s a hoverfly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly