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Ghana warns against illegal Starlink services
  • All of the people who can afford it live in cities that have perfectly good internet.

    I think this generalization is far from valid

    • You're assuming US prices, Starlink can go cheaper and they have shown they will do market specific pricing
    • South Africa is one example where there are plenty of areas outside big cities where people could afford it
    • Starlink doesn't have to be ordered by individuals. Smaller rural communities could have a shared terminal

    This is assuming it's not cheaper/faster to just use mobile service, which has had great adoption in Africa and will probably be true in a lot of areas as you noted. Still, there's a ton of people in Africa and a lot of area to cover. I think there is a good market there for Starlink

  • Europa clipper could help discover if Jupiter's moon is habitable
  • I mean yes, obviously, that's the point of the mission?

    Investigating the potential habitability of Europa is the main purpose of NASA's Europa Clipper mission

    Although I definitely like the "Captain Obvious" type headline better than the usual clickbait

  • Ghana warns against illegal Starlink services
  • Africa will be a huge market for Starlink I think.

    Regarding the fee, probably the seller concerning the sale of the terminal. But Starlink would have to provide a contract, so they could be liable as well. Depends who the contract party is - in this case I suppose it is an abroad address. That should be easy to fix for Starlink by geoblocking for now

    I guess the reason it works at all right now is due to RV type mobile contracts

  • Newag accused of deliberate train malfunctions for profit
  • After a two-month analysis, the hackers revealed that Newag intentionally interfered with the software of the trains, causing forced malfunctions to secure lucrative contracts for their repair. They immobilized trains by implementing logic that prevented them from moving if stationary for more than ten days. Additionally, some trains had a “safeguard” preventing them from moving from specific locations in Poland, including service halls of competing companies.

    I hope they get sued into bankruptcy, this type of behavior is despicable

  • One After Another, Russia Blocks Candidates to Host Next Climate Summit
  • Just exclude Russia? It's not like they give a damn about their climate commitments anyway

    Russia's like that one kid that attacked another kid, is now having a bad day, and trying to make everyone else's life miserable for it

  • US and EU struggle to agree on funding for Ukraine
  • They are fighting a war of attrition, that will last for years until Russia yields

    You are forgetting next year's US elections, unfortunately. But if that doesn't go the wrong way, the Vietnam scenario is indeed somewhat realistic, with the difference that Ukraine is a lot closer to Russia than Vietnam was to the US

  • Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain
  • I once collaborated with an exceptionally talented programmer who seemed so engrossed in his addiction that he would invent challenges where there were none, presumably to make his work more engaging and bearable. However, this often led to incomplete projects because once the stimulating aspects were finished, he struggled to find the motivation to continue. Clearly, this behavior was extreme and detrimental.

    I think a lot of devs can relate to that

  • The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price
  • You should only pay full price if the release quality is great. And even then, there's a reason why #patientgamers is a trend. You save on hardware cost, game cost & get better quality games with extra post release content

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    Game Update Notes: September 26
    en-forum.guildwars2.com Game Update Notes: September 26, 2023

    09/26/2023—September 26 Release Notes World Polish Reduced the amount of healing twisted mender enemies applied to their allies. It is now a flat value rather than a percentage of the target's maximum health. Fixed an issue that could cause a mismatch between the Priority Strike rotation and rela...

    Game Update Notes: September 26, 2023
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    [request] reply to specific part of a comment

    If I want to quote a specific part of a comment to reply to it, that's not possible with Connect right now unless manually copy pasting the segment.

    Ideally, the existing "quote" option in the editor should take into account selected text

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    deleting a root comment takes the entire comment chain down with you?

    Is this accurate? I just deleted my comment and none of the child comments were visible anymore

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    ArenaNet is overhauling GW2
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    Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure – Amnytas Map Flythrough

    Finally - only took them a full day

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    Titan Quest 2 is on Steam
    store.steampowered.com Titan Quest II on Steam

    Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest 2, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.

    Titan Quest II on Steam
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    [appreciation] great link handling

    Just wanted to say I really like the link handling in this app. When I use lemmy on Desktop it's always a nightmare to navigate different instances, even with the Greasemonkey script. This app just does it out of the box. Barely had any cases where it doesn't work recently

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    Flink Fahrer dieser Welt, kommt das Trinkgeld auch wirklich bei euch an?

    Random Gedanke zur Mittagszeit. Gerne andere interessante Dinge aus dem Alltag eines Flink-Fahrers

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    Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Sigmatics @lemmy.ca
    up to date Lemmy user stats

    Note that it's still first half of August, that's why the numbers for August are lower

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    What’s New in PyCharm 2023.2
    www.jetbrains.com What’s New in PyCharm 2023.2

    Live templates for Django forms and models, Black formatter integration, AI Assistant, Run Anything, GitLab integration and more.

    What’s New in PyCharm 2023.2

    My personal highlight: black formatter integration.

    So convenient to just format on save.

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    Android 14 updates

    Which smartphones will get Android 14? Do we know?

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    A home for the advent_of_code community on Lemmy

    Hello and welcome to all fellow reddit refugees. Contents shall be focused on Advent of Code only:

    Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

    https://adventofcode.com/

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    [Request] Sidebar search should search own subscriptions first

    Currently it seems the sidebar search lists search results from the fediverse, not from my subscribed communities. If I want to go to a specific community, I go to the sidebar. With a lot of subscribed communities you can't favorite all of them, nor do you want to search the entire sidebar list manually

    Example: I am subscribed to !space@kbin.social and !space@lemmy.world.

    When I search space, neither show up. Instead a bunch of smaller communities are listed, like !space@lemmy.ml, or occult (wtf?).

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    Navigate to community on another instance?

    Maybe I've just not figured it out, but it's there a way to navigate the subs on a different instance without switching accounts? Like going directly to linux@programming.dev?

    Example, I'm on lemmy.ca but I want to subscribe to /c/linux on programming.dev. I'm struggling hard to navigate to this community, as it's not turning up in search either.

    Edit: I found it on search, but it's made worse by the fact that search is not showing the instance of the communities, so you just end up with a bunch of communities and a subscriber count based on your local instance, which means pretty much nothing

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    Search comments in post

    I saw a feature request for searching comments inside a post in this community, about 4 weeks old.

    Seems like a pretty key feature that is still missing. Is this planned currently?

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    New settings menu is awesome

    Just wanted to say, great improvement and nicely structured! Good stuff

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    [minor request] remove need to save settings

    This is quite unintuitive nowadays, as most interfaces don't require manual saving, especially on mobile. I've caught myself more than once forgetting to save and having to redo settings changes. I think what makes it worse is that the settings button doesn't stand out on dark mode, or change much when there are unsaved changes

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