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    2 months ago

    The article you keep linking disagrees.

    Although having given its name to the word henge, Stonehenge is atypical in that the ditch is outside the main earthwork bank.

    An atypical example of something is still a “true” example of the thing, especially given that the very term derives its origin from Stonehenge itself.

    Edit: Oops, mistook 2 basic pedants regurgitating trivia as the same person.



  • Being able to fold down a larger “sheet” display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I’m kind of over all-in-one devices. They’ve turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.

    Obviously that’s not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I’d want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.




  • No. Soulseek is old school P2P. All you need to do is run the client software, set a local shared folder, and your are client and server in one. Funkwhale is more like running your own Lemmy instance and building a community. The difference between them is like the difference between using Airdrop or Syncthing to share files and hosting hosting your own domain and server.


  • Dune is speculative fiction, but science has VERY little to do with it. It’s more like space magic opera. I’ve heard it was a response to Foundation, but at least Foundation talked a bit about how science is related to the rise and fall of civilization. But Dune is more like space Jesus does some magic cocaine/oil, which fuels everything somehow too. Then space Jesus turns Hitler a goes on a zealot fueled murdering spree, taking over the Galaxy. Later his son would turn into a giant worm and rule the galaxy for a really really long time. After that things got really weird.

    Science = Magic in the world of Dune, not unlike Star Wars.