WeirdAlex03

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey wait a minute, this isn't [email protected]!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's just your OpenStreetMap username, doesn't have to a real name. You can set "your name" to be some anonymous gibberish if you'd like

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wikipedia hasn't been updated, confirmed definitely not dead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Only 6,000 blinks? That's nothing but a watered-down scam-in-a-bottle preying on the naïve drivers trying to buy blinker fluid for their very first time. It has to be good for AT LEAST 10,000 blinks before I'd even consider putting in my car

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (5 children)

There's a new protocol for smart home devices called Matter, that let's them work across ecosystems (so for example smart lights set up with Google Home could be controlled through Apple HomeKit via Matter). Thread is part of how Matter devices communicate with each other (instead of e.g. WiFi or Bluetooth). The new iPhones can directly use Thread instead of needing another devices to act as a bridge to "translate" the commands

A fairly niche addition, but definitely not useless. And a big plus for those into smart home stuff

[–] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Worth noting, for those that aren't going to bother reading the first line of the article, this is ABC the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not ABC the American Broadcasting Company

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The "unsinkable" actually came from its sister Olympic, after it came out relatively unscathed from a collision with the Hawke (Wikipedia link)

damage to Olympic and Hawke - Olympic has a hole in the side of its hull, Hawke's bow has been completely mangled and now looks pug-nosed

Fun fact: Between the 3 ships of the class, Olympic was the only that survived to retirement. Britannic was sunk by a mine in WWI after less than a year in service.