bcoffy

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[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Agreed, I should probably check that with my pi-hole.

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Even though those show up on their website, none of the 4K models are available on Amazon/Walmart or at best have very limited/erratic stock. I only see the 75” one in stock, and only on Walmart. Furthermore, they are just simply worse quality than a comparably priced smart TV. For the same price as their 55” 4K HDR TV you can get a TCL that’s also QLED and has local dimming, plus HDMI 2.1 and google TV do you can put it in a dumb mode anyways. So really there isn’t a great reason to get one of these.

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I have a google tv, and the “Basic Mode” when you set it up or the “Apps only mode” both are a lot better than the overstimulation nightmare that is most smart TVs (and a google TV with normal settings)

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah but that just incentivizes them to move the retirement age up

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I did some research and couldn’t find any evidence that it does. That could be a capability that the Space Force doesn’t want to be public though

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

In all fairness, she does really, specifically, need an edge in Pennsylvania if she wants to win.

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like NASA has flown payloads onboard the X-37B before, so I think it is well within possibility that they could get some room on board for Mars samples during a return. They might not even need to "book" a whole flight as long as the mission has room/capacity for the samples aboard, and the sample container could probably hang out in a medium orbit for a while after getting back to Earth, awaiting an X-37B mission to come up at its own leisure since the orbiter could do all of the rendezvous maneuvering on its own

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Good point, actually the X-37B would make a lot of sense: it’s uncrewed, can obviously be up for a long period of time (years), and can go to pretty high orbits as well on a Falcon Heavy, plus it has an arm right? So it’d just be a question of getting the USSF on board

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If they’re going to “transfer to a space plane”, that to me sounds like a LEO rendezvous, so at that point why not just rendezvous with a crew/cargo dragon instead of designing a brand new spaceplane?

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What exactly is the bar a vice president needs to meet to be considered not a “nobody” for you? I feel like being a governor of an entire state or a senator is a pretty notable thing, especially if you’re a popular one there

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

AZ senator, former astronaut and navy aviator, husband of Gabby Giffords (a congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt). He is coming up a lot in speculation about Harris’ running mate and was one of the people contacted by her campaign.

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

If Mark Kelly was to become VP the governor of Arizona (a Democrat) would be able to replace him with someone else for the rest of his senate term

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