Skip Navigation
Second oil company CEO conspired with OPEC to keep prices high, FTC charges
  • There are conspiracies after all, but they're just the usual 'capitalist assholes screw the rest of us over' kind rather than the 'three-assed aliens kidnapped me and forced me to watch naked while they fed pineapple on a pizza to my dog' kind.

  • NASA’s latest discovery about Earth deemed ‘as important as gravity’
  • Key Points

    • A rocket team reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields.
    • First hypothesized more than 60 years ago, the ambipolar electric field is a key driver of the “polar wind,” a steady outflow of charged particles into space that occurs above Earth’s poles.
    • This electric field lifts charged particles in our upper atmosphere to greater heights than they would otherwise reach and may have shaped our planet’s evolution in ways yet to be explored.
  • Random Crashes
  • Crashing has not been an issue on my deck. I'm 3 days shy of my 2 year anniversary with my steam deck. I can recall it crashing maybe 3 or 4 times, each of those linked to some custom game launcher and all in the default mode rather than desktop. For a while it used to hang when woken from sleep, but that hasn't happened in 6 months so I assume was fixed in an update.

    I'm using desktop for emulation and games from GOG and Epic.

  • Removed
    How the right wing defeated socialism through petty rentiers and what to do about it (slightly uk specific)
  • Interesting. I was brought up in the '80s and '90s thinking I belonged to the middle class. Tory-voting, Daily Express-reading, shares-owning parents, father a professional with his own business, living in a safe, blue seat.

    It took me many years to realise that I am in fact working-class. The social mobility my parents thought we had has been quickly disassembled for mine and following generations, and despite having a 'good job' with a reliable employer, I live hand to mouth and can never dream of even saving money, never mind investing in shares.

    From your post, I can now understand why my parents thought they were middle-class Tories, despite one of them growing up in a hugely deprived town with a very basic education and the other being an immigrant.

  • Google is getting ready to bring exclusive Pixel 9 features to older Pixels (APK Teardown)
  • TL;DR Photo editing features on devices back to Pixel 6.

    We’ve spotted evidence suggesting that Reimagine and Auto Frame, the two new Magic Editor features, could soon be available on Pixel 6, Pixel 7, and Pixel 8 series phones.

  • Chinese Engineers Achieve What Australia Thought Impossible in Indonesia
  • TL;DR Indonesia has vast amounts of low-grade nickel and cobalt ore that were considered too difficult to process. 3 Australian firms tried, and failed, to make the process work. A Chinese firm stuck at it and succeeded.

  • Yes Ash Tyler, I can hear you!

    Accessibility text: Character Clem Fandango from Toast of London saying, "Hello Burnham, this is Ash Tyler, can you hear me?"

    9
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)IC
    icerunner_origin @startrek.website
    Posts 3
    Comments 110