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  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzForbidden Gummies
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    1 month ago

    As someone who grows figs in their living room:

    Most commercial (and even hobbyist) fig varieties are parthenocarpic, meaning they don’t require pollination.

    And fig wasps don’t look like that. They’re tiny little guys that most people would probably mistake for a very small ant.

    And even if the fig was pollinated by a wasp, it uses enzymes to break down the insects body, to protect itself from mold and other pathenogens that such may cause.

    Basically; fig waps are itsy bitsy wittle wupies, while figs are digesting their dead mothers corpses, because they are metal as fuuuuuck.



  • What is the point of paying for the pipe if you don’t use everything you can?! There is no reason they shouldn’t push it through faster.

    This is the reason why I leave the shower running in every hotel I visit. And at the buffet, I tell the waiter to fetch me a trash can so I can actually get rid of the whole thing. If I can, I usually leave both a heater and an air conditioner running in the hallway.

    Edit: Wow. I had completely forgotten about this comment. I really didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. I work with networks. I know we’re not literally going to run out of internet. But everyone treats bandwidth as this freely available resource. Advertisers, consumers, creatives and Jürgen. Fuck you, Jürgen. We both know that downloading 6 fucking MB every time someone wants to queue up the database is fucking insane, as is your reliance on client-side bullshit.

    Anyway, whenever a anything loads slowly, think about why. Bandwith is not free. It’s a maintained resource.



  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.orgich💀iel
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    2 months ago

    DSW:

    Eine helle Nutzerschnittstelle in einem hellen Zimmer schont die Augen. Anders rum, anders rum.

    Pluspunkte gibt’s für einen Bildschirm, mit vernünftigem Weißpunkt und einem automatischen Nachtmodus zum Abend.

    EDIT: hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl hat eine enorm wichtige Frage gestellt und ich schäme mich etwas, einfach so Halbwissen weitergegeben zu haben. Diese Weißheit hatte ich vor bestimmt 'ner Dekade (+/- 'n Jahr oder so) gelesen. Ich weiß aber aktuell nicht mehr wo und kann diesen “Fakt” schlicht nicht mehr mit vernünftigen Quellen belegen.

    Hinzu kommt, dass damals™ mein mentaler Medienfilter deutlich schlechter war. Joar. Ggf. erzähl ich Schwachfu. Recherchiert das lieber nochmal.




  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoMemes@sopuli.xyzEternal fire
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    For programmers: Air fryers have perfected the race to idle.

    For everyone else: Probably, but the insulation may not matter as much. Heating up a traditional oven takes anywhere from 15 to maybe 5 minutes, if you got a really powerful one. During that time heat escapes the device.

    Meanwhile air fryers usually heat up in about a minute and get the actual cooking done faster.

    So unless you are broiling something for a really long time, air fryers may still come out on top, just because they get done quicker, saving energy in the process.

    Oven pizza is a 22 minute job. My air fryer is done after 9.

    There’s also something about air volume and thermal mass, but you get the point.


  • I once had to look after a friend’s german shepard, and while we were out for a walk, some barking guinea pig suddenly decided to unleash all its fury on my friend’s dog; even tried to bite the poor guy.

    Luckily, my friend’s dog is an absolute sweetheart and just tried to flee, almost knocking me over.

    Meanwhile, the owner of that showbox-sized spawn of hell decided it was best practice to go “Nununu, we don’t do that, Nununu.” in a high-pitched voice, while petting the damn thing.

    Sure. That’ll teach it.


  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.orgich_iel
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    Denke das wird Sprengstoff gewesen sein. Li-Ionen Akkus haben nicht genug Energiedichte und reagieren einfach nicht schnell genug, um einen richtigen Knall zu geben. Die zischen und werden heiß. Schlimmstenfalls gibt’s da einen Brand.

    Somal in solchen Pagern so nur Akkus in der Größenordnung von einigen hundert mAh verbaut werden. Das ist imo zu wenig. Selbst eZigaretten mit 2000 - 3000mAh oder Roller mit mehreren Ah “explodieren” halt nicht so richtig.

    Denke mal, das wird schon irgendwas potenteres gewesen sein. Obligatorisch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash#Assassination

    Und auch noch obligatorisch: Ich rate auch nur.


  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldEarbuds
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    2 months ago

    Which cannot connect to a phone unless it’s unlocked, as accepting every USB-C connection carries security risks. They also require negotiation, which can fail at any time, meaning you have to unlock, disconnect, reconnect.

    I also have a nice, external (and still cheap) DAC on my computer. It has a headphone jack. This means I need to be able to disconnect the USB-C dongle from my headphones, unless I want to have two separate headphones for my phone and my PC. By extension this requires me to go searching for the dongle from time to time.

    I love USB-C. But the headphone jack had what companies and people claim to want: simplicity.

    Headphone jacks solved a single but extremly common problem very well. USB-C provides a workaround for it.




  • The initial comment resonated so much with me, that I feel the need to answer, even though I wasn’t even asked: YES

    A few years ago I was in a really dark place. I lost 3 kg in 2 months and when I wasn’t at work, I was lying in my bed on the verge of crying, half-listening to YouTube just to scare the thoughts away.

    But the thing, that finally got me out of the loop, was getting myself a houseplant, after watching a plant YouTuber for a while. And when I got home, rather than cry, I obsessively cleaned every speck of dust off the leaves, measured the soil moisture with a stick and just watched it be. And something just clicked inside me and I realized that I had found something I wanted to do; probably forever, if given the chance.

    Still have the same plant; cut, repotted and propagated. And while I’m at a much better place now - physically, mentally, financially - just thinking about giving that (houseplants) up feels like going back.


  • Luccus@feddit.orgOPtoHouseplants@mander.xyzCherimoya Fruit!
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    3 months ago

    Funnily enough, it’s my least troublesome plant.

    I got it as a impulse purchase. But the novelty only lasted a few weeks, so I pretty much dismissed it and put it in the bathroom to get more space for plants I liked better. But it endured for a entire year, thanklessly and without a single complaint. No pests, no fertilizer issues, no water problems, no rot or anything. And then it put put it’s first flowers aswell.

    This one really clawed it’s way back into my heart and I consider one of my favorite plants by now. It really earned it.