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ITS A SEMI-RIGID AIRSHIP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-rigid_airship

https://zeppelinflug.de/en

Not OP, but anybody can book a seat on a Zeppelin sightseeing flight in Germany. Most of them are in the ‘Lake Constance’/Bodensee area around Friedrichshafen, where this photo was also taken. Where I live you can see them all the time in the air.

He was “only” crown prince, not emperor. His father, Karl I., was the last emperor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg

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Your source is just a forum quoting manufacturer marketing texts.

In an accelerated ageing study blu-ray performed worse than other discs:

Overall, the stability of the Blu-ray formats was poor with many discs significantly degraded after only 21 days of accelerated ageing. In addition to large increases in error rates, many discs showed easily identifiable visible degradation in several different forms. In a comparison with other optical disc formats examined previously, Blu-ray stability ranked very low.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/res-2017-0016/html

Apparently blu-rays are even worse than other discs. This is from the abstract of an accelerated ageing study (sadly I don’t have access to the whole paper):

Overall, the stability of the Blu-ray formats was poor with many discs significantly degraded after only 21 days of accelerated ageing. In addition to large increases in error rates, many discs showed easily identifiable visible degradation in several different forms. In a comparison with other optical disc formats examined previously, Blu-ray stability ranked very low.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/res-2017-0016/html

The worst case I experienced was a disc that disintegrated after a couple years. It got an actual extra hole in it, in a way that looked like somebody spilled acid on it and the acid burned right through the disc. In reality it just lay in my drawer.

Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.

Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.

https://digital-archivist.com/how-long-do-dvds-last-and-cds

You think returning your mainstream movie ticket because the main character is not sexualized enough is not creepy? I think it tells you a lot about this person’s thoughts.

All Zelda Games since 1986 combined have sold way less copies than GTA 5 alone (over 150 million vs. ~230 million). I feel like people are severely overestimating the size and impact of the Zelda fanbase. And this is in addition to the fact that they are not even available on the same platforms.

(I am saying this as a PC-only person who does not care about either titles.)

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1389789/zelda-video-game-unit-sales/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion

Too scared to shoot, but brave enough to tackle a man with a shotgun.

How did they arrest him then?

Tinfoil hat answer: The fact that he is alive and did not even catch a bullet shows that it was staged. You want to tell me a guy with a shotgun runs towards American police officers and nobody even shoots him? Sounds fake. They must have had orders to not actually shoot him, stage a small gunfight and then just arrest him. The guy probably got a good paycheck for his upcoming prison time.

After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna

So the games are not actually gone, people will just have to start them directly via EA, GOG or Ubisoft instead of Amazon’s storefront.

They did not ban encrypted communications in general. They just banned the use of Signal for official purposes, because it is not fit for the job.

The article talks about how there were a multitude of cyberattacks and phishing attempts on EU officials’ smartphones and Signal accounts. With Signal, you have full control over the whole Account if you control the device.

The EU has their own encrypted communication tools with security and accounts managed centrally by the IT department.

Ah, ok I understand.

It is a replacement of SMS and MMS on cellular networks with more modern features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

I have no deeper knowledge of this topic, but to me it seems like Wikipedia is disagreeing.

No one enables it to “give Google data”, they use it to get apps to work that use it as a dependency.

Well yes of course, but you are still giving away your data, regardless of intention. And a privacy feature of GrapheneOS is that it redirects location data requests to the OS by default. Thats why you have to disable it in the settings if you want Google to have this data.

RCS is neither.

AFAIK it is specifically meant as a replacement for SMS and is used with regular pre-installed SMS Apps.

But if you’re using it for privacy-from-Google purposes you probably don’t care about those.

Correct, I am not using GrapheneOS to then give my data to Google willingly. Kinda defeats the purpose I would say. I think it is the right thing that this is blocked by default and you have to actively turn it on. (Edit: I am assuming that you are talking about the fact that location data gets redirected to GrapheneOS by default, which can be changed in settings)

also RCS

Is this a country-specific topic? I don’t know anybody who still uses SMS/MMS to communicate. Everybody uses WhatsApp or Signal where I am.