Not being able to remove the battery suuucks.
Fyre, Fyre, Burning Skitter
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Ace Dreamer
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You can remove the battery, but...
(The laws about maintainability... may produce some interesting results. I once watched someone, at a Hackerspace, slowly and carefully repair a iPad, with a broken screen. Took them hours, over weeks, but they did it. Amazingly tiny circuit board... Apple having to back-down, over USB-C recharging, by the EU... (For once 'Apple Knows Best' failed.) 'Design for Maintainability' - quite important.)
Skitter tricks - using bugs to forage for food, edible roots, grains. Tricky to get them to meet catering standards of cleanliness, maybe? Also, cooking - maybe if you've got the distributed bug solar heating trick, with all those little mirrors to focus sunlight...
I'm always torn on this. On the one hand, yay for consumer choice and all that but on the other hand the usb-c connector is legitimately an inferior design. Makes me wish Apple had sub-let the lightning design to the USB consortium.
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From a fiddling-with-electronics viewpoint, the Lightning design is a real pain - though possibly specialist tools would make that easier? The other problem, Apple kept changing the details of the design, and the whole point about standards is you don't do that. (Microsoft, on the software side, have been particularly bad at this for decades - change may be needed/desirable, but standards changes need to be agreed.)
You think it's bad now? Wait till (if?) implanted electronics catches on - standards and biology, messy, messy, messy. Acrylics allergies will be the least of it. (They're used in dentistry, eye operations, etc., ...)
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It has already happened.
When standards are updated due to changes in technology I can see the line of thought. In this case it was so the company can make a profit without being tied to previous customers.
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Um... while interesting, this page and the last have been mostly off topic. Could we stop before getting a reprimand?
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Based on previous experience, do you think we're due a visit from that O'Make chap?
(I tried to figure-out an omake for FFBS, but, having to burn all my notes made it more tricky...)
((The cross-over with Bester's 'Tiger! Tiger!' (1956), just wouldn't gel...))
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For far-off-grid hiking, the "pro but still not crazy expensive" solution is stuff like Garmin's inReach, which are small text-messaging oriented Iridium devices, meaning they work everywhere on earth that has visible sky (and have non-trivial chance of working in low earth orbit).
They don't get some super duper bandwidth, but the most basic usage (and "data plan") is SOS devices (including possible subscription for dedicated team whose job is to coordinate local SAR services for you), to pricy but usable, somewhat slow "chat" service.
Iridium btw is essentially "Starlink but done 3 decades earlier", now owned majorly by US Department of Defense after original company flopped, but available as worldwide phone and data service. Essentially when you buy *good* satellite phone it's going to be Iridium.
They don't get some super duper bandwidth, but the most basic usage (and "data plan") is SOS devices (including possible subscription for dedicated team whose job is to coordinate local SAR services for you), to pricy but usable, somewhat slow "chat" service.
Iridium btw is essentially "Starlink but done 3 decades earlier", now owned majorly by US Department of Defense after original company flopped, but available as worldwide phone and data service. Essentially when you buy *good* satellite phone it's going to be Iridium.
Google-Fu said South Korea was in the lead in 2013 with 86.0% penetration rate. Japan was in distant second.
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I am unsure of that. Remember that he told McGonagall when they dropped Harry off at Number 4, that he couldn't remove Harry's scar, and wouldn't if he could.
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Of course not; it was required by prophecy, so likely had unknown significance.
If there is anything to learn from the Greeks, never try to act upon a prophecy.
Also, Dumbledore "knew" that Voldemort wasn't true dead more or less immediately.
Among other factors ... the distinct lack of Voldemort's corpse would have been clear indicator. Magic would make not dying even easier.
And Dumbledore almost certainly studied Snape's Dark Mark.
Plus ... dumping Harry at the Dursleys and not making sure Sirius got a fair trial, and not making sure Harry was well taken care of ... and arguably having a hand in the Dursleys getting away with mistreating Harry ...
All of that supports the position that Dumbledore was setting Harry up from the very beginning.
Another thing to note about Dumbledore's not immediately thinking Tom's dead, Dumbledore probably has tracking stuff on most of the wizards/witches of note that he has taught/come to care for/whatever. This leads to him having no doubt noticed that none of his tracking gadgets aside from the ones on Lily and James ended that night. He likely suspected that Peter survived what happened over the next couple days after the Potter's deaths too.
Though I doubt very much that sort of thing is admissible in court, or that the presiding judge (Likely not Dumbledore at the time) would do anything with it.
Though I doubt very much that sort of thing is admissible in court, or that the presiding judge (Likely not Dumbledore at the time) would do anything with it.
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A reminder that the first few books in the Harry Potter universe were written as children's books to set up Harry as a boy hero, with Dumbledore as the 'distant and wise old man in the background' who only exists to give information to the boy hero. Any deeper meaning you draw in the actions of the characters are not actually there - it's exactly as deep as it appears as at first look from a child's perspective.
And please stop discussing Dumbledore and his actions; MPpi has already established what his character is like in this story. If you really want to talk about it, please go to the relevant threads.
And please stop discussing Dumbledore and his actions; MPpi has already established what his character is like in this story. If you really want to talk about it, please go to the relevant threads.
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Yes, and? There's a difference in knowing that the scar has magical significance and WHAT the actual issue is. Dumbledore was fully aware of the former but only the diary provided him with a lead on the latter.
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Yup. Dumbledore. Cardboard-cut-out Headmaster. With all the motivation and agendas of one. As said before, you want more, then he's a puppet of some form of magic (the School? the Prophecy? a Curse he/his family, is under?), and if he ever thinks any more clearly, it's when he's away from Hogwarts.
Personally, I want to see how he handles Taylor's visit the Hogwarts, and the Forbidden Forest. What the centaurs do. What mysteries are buried, deep below, School or Forest...
And, Fyre. Will we learn more about what's going on with that???
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To paraphrase Mp-Pi : "Soon™." 😈
Or, whenever Agent C4T or Real Life let him.
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Ah, Real Life. That most evil of things that loves to steal all of our free time until we barely have any time to think, let alone do something fun.
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This makes me believe that the Obliviate spell was originally Greek (and it was how Greek wizards dealt with prophecy).
it would be the correct reaction upon hearing a prophecy for sure
"144: In case of prophecy, clean well under bed, promptly hide in new clean spot until prophecy unknowingly passes you by. Come out from under bed, clean the rest of the room to match. Have a nice day that's prophecy free."
If that doesn't work. Basically, run.
If that doesn't work. Basically, run.
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Upside of getting involved in Magical Britain? You get to learn about amazing magical possibilities. Downside? Magic gets to learn about you.
(And, include you in things like prophecy. Do you think prophecies can burn? Fyre wants to find out!)
(And, include you in things like prophecy. Do you think prophecies can burn? Fyre wants to find out!)
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IIRC, Dumbledore stated prophecies don't all come to pass. This implies they are not fated to be, but are merely (often very accurate) predictions, most likely based on current conditions, actions, and the nature of those involved. This in turn means any change caused by an out-of-context factor can easily derail them.
For instance, everything that came to pass about the prophecy in the books did so because of Tommy Boy's reaction to his partial knowledge of the prediction as driven by his nature. Had Snape never reported what he heard, the prophecy would never have come to pass.
This means the way to beat a prophecy is to react differently then would normally be in your nature. Not an easy thing, but not an impossible one either.
For instance, everything that came to pass about the prophecy in the books did so because of Tommy Boy's reaction to his partial knowledge of the prediction as driven by his nature. Had Snape never reported what he heard, the prophecy would never have come to pass.
This means the way to beat a prophecy is to react differently then would normally be in your nature. Not an easy thing, but not an impossible one either.