ELI5: Why is the recent LK-99 superconductor news a big deal?
Why is the recent news around the LK-99 room-temperature superconductor such a big deal? What material impact would those findings have on electronics and modern technology?
In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?
For example, if a lyric contains “that you”, it ends up like “thatchoo”. One example of this I can think of is in Karma by Taylor Swift (I know, I know, but it’s one of the most popular songs I listen to). The line where she sings “Karma’s a relaxing thought/Aren’t you envious that for you it’s not?” sounds...
Do you run a Custom ROM?
Simple question really! Are any of you running a Custom ROM? Furthermore, are any of you running a De-Googled ROM?...
There are going to be a lot of simultaneous cake days next May, June and July.
What’s The Strangest Thing You Do
What’s something you do that would make other people think WTF?
elon musk sounds like the name of a men's cologne
Some brand with the name being pronounced “eloh” “moo”. And it smells like ass, but for some reason it’s really popular....
Pirated game on Linux?
Moving to Linux soon, and wondering how pirated games work with it. I know about proton with steam and lutris for most bought games, but how would I run pirated windows games over there?
What are the connotations of Joe Rogan?
I know of someone who says they listen to Joe Rogan podcasts (political I assume) but I don’t know what this means or what the connotations are. Both this person and I live in east asia.
What browser do you use on your PC/Mac?
Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I’d like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don’t want to explain.
If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?
rt, will you ban it?
Chinese people picked the first logo they found for ARC having no idea what is that
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7a2bbe19-fb61-499c-bb13-2b4575f65792.jpeg
Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?
I’m not a parent, but going by pop culture, it seems like literally every child has the same fears....
Why do most newer phones other than pixels have little to no support for custom ROMs ?
I know that most customizability features that were once exclusive to custom roms are available for use right out of the box these days....
Just in case you didn't know, there's a bigger, more active piracy community in another instance...
I hope this doesn’t count as advertising, but come visit us at !piracy Free booty treasure! Bigger and better than any you’ve seen!...
What’s the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?
Boss and former coworker got into a very amusing argument over this and it got me curious.
What is your favorite domain name provider, and why?
Is it one that you just use and works just fine? Or one that has proven to be reliable and responsible if they do a mistake and only want to satisfy you as a customer?
What are some game genres / styles you like that aren't being made anymore, or are being mde but not very often?
For me it’s first person puzzle games. I can think of maybe a dozen off the top of my head that came out in the last decade. I especially enjoy when they’re open world. The ability to just quit a puzzle that’s stumped you and go try something else for a little bit is incredibly refreshing.
Refugee Redditors as they make the move.
Linux is amazing on my old Thinkpad
I have an old ThinkPad SL-400 with a Core 2 Duo processor and 4 gigabytes of RAM....
No web browser offers a good out of the box experience.
I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT....
How to pirate movies casually?
Normally I don’t have much time to watch movies, and for the occasional one Netflix is good enough. But once a coupple of years there is a specific one I want to see which is not on Netflix....
There's a new app that allows you to play Windows games on Android
The GitHub page for the project...
What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?
Have you ever played a game and wondered what if you could do something that it doesn’t really allow you to do, for example being able to move around blocks in Minecraft fluidly instead of in sectors, edit the world in Hogwarts legacy with spells, be able to fly in a world like Elden Ring or Elder Scrolls with epic sky...
if aliens come to America we will have to explain why we killed them in so many movies
There should be another lemmings like me out there who already annoyed their couple by talking about how awesome Lemmy and the Fediverse is.
Bad for her because I will keep talking about it though.