I purchased their Fairbuds as my first BT headphones. They were a big disappointment: switching between devices was a hassle, charging was unreliable, but the biggest problem was that if they ran out of battery or otherwise switched off, they would play a blast of noise at full volume, i.e. much louder than the music I was playing. I found that unacceptable so I stopped using them after that had happened 3 times in 3 days.

That's because in the Netherlands, we now have massive excess generation during sunny hours. It makes no sense to incentivize that excess.

No, the difference between a refrigerator and and air conditioner is two orders of magnitude in energy use. An AC tends to use more power than the rest of the house combined.

Thirty years ago, in the area where I live (.nl) there was basically no need for air conditioning: temperatures high enough that you can't function without AC were a once-a-decade occurrence, so installing it was seen as wasteful.

Today, there still is resistance to installing AC units, with the argument that they exacerbate the problem, both by making the outdoors hotter and by using lots of power which increases CO2 emissions. But debilitating temperatures are becoming commonplace, so we increasingly have no alternative to installing AC.

during assembly, they could power the instruments via the attachment point for the RTG: the RTG would be installed last. So there was no need for an auxiliary power receptacle.

Find the documentary 'It's quieter in the twilight'. And Scott Manley's deep dive on the recent Voyager 1 memory issue.

Remember, it's in *space*. It has no rudder. The only way to change its trajectory is with a rocket engine. If you want to stop it moving away from Earth, you have to thrust towards the sun until that 17 km/s is reduced to zero. If you tried to make an arc by thrusting at 90deg to its current vector, you're just *adding* momentum in that direction and not reducing momentum in the outward direction.

Even with Starship that would be a titanic undertaking. The Voyagers are moving away from us at 17 km/s. When you get to the Voyagers, you have to slow them down from 17 km/s to 0, and then accelerate in the opposite direction. You'd have to arrive at Voyager with thousands of tons of fuel.

The movies get it right: you do freeze quickly. Not because space is cold, but because the vacuum allows rapid evaporation of all bodily fluids. That evaporation draws a lot of heat from the body, causing it to freeze.

The Mars rovers (and various spacecraft) have had plenty of mechanical issues, for which having an identical system on Earth has been useful to essential to figuring out a solution.

Doesn't impact bystanders, except for the families and loved ones of the people on board the wreck.

Turing was also involved in Sigsaly, so it's not surprising he ended up working on a second-generation machine that removed some of the drawbacks of Sigsaly.

Here is what's missing from that MS document:

MS says this about it:

After inspecting the HIF and booster, BlueOrigin reported that both are okay.

What's more important is that the China Space Agency refers to them as astronauts, not taikonauts, so it's time to stop inventing new words for 'astronaut' for every country that puts humans in space.
We don't do it for any other occupation, so why needlessly complicate the word 'astronaut'?

That's not quite what I meant. I expect the Start menu to contain:
- everything that is part of the OS
- every application I install.

To me, the phrase "discover new applications" sounds like Microsoft intend to deploy shovelware, where the first indication that anything new has been installed would be new crap in the Start menu. That's what I don't want.

I used that extensively on older Windows versions, but the recent versions have enshittified the Start menu to the point where that no longer works. OpenShell remedies that.