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[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, higher density means you exhaust more mass during those 2s, and therefore you don't have to pee so fast.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Aerospace engineer here. To levitate, the force of the exhausted mass flow (F=ṁ×v) has to equal the pull of gravity (F=m×g) on your body. The gravity of earth is g=9.81N/kg. Wikipedia says the average body mass is 62kg. It also says the bladder capacity of an adult is about 400ml, and I'll assume the density to be 1kg/l. You want to levitate for 2 seconds, so your mass flow needs to be ṁ=0.4kg/2s=0.2kg/s. If you rearrange the equation, you get v=m×g/ṁ=62kg×9.81N/kg/(0.2kg/s)=3041m/s.

So if you manage to pee with a velocity of about 3km/s, you can levitate for 2 seconds with an average sized bladder.

To achive that, your "exhaust" must be clenched to a diameter of about 0.29mm. This gives a cross-section of 0.066mm² or 6.6×10^-8m². Multiply that with the velocity of 3041m/s and you again get your flow of 0.2l/s.

Of course, during those 2 seconds you loose mass and therefore, earth's pull on you gets less and you start to accelerate to about 0.23km/h, reaching a height of 4cm. If you took your special bladder to space, we can use the rocket equation to calculate that this stunt would accelerate you to 3041m/s×ln(62kg/61.6kg)=19.7m/s=71km/h

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Long Dark? Offline single player survival in the postapocalyptic Canadian wildernis. There is a survival mode in which you can freely explore, but also a story mode and several challenges. In my opinion an extremely beautiful game and on the higher difficulties also extremly challenging.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can't say anything in regard to modern printers, but I don't trust any proprietary device conncted to the internet. I have an old inkjet and an old laser printer, both without network functionality themselves - but I connected them via USB to a Raspberry Pi, which runs a printer server and makes them available on the local network. I can print and scan from my Linux laptop, and I also managed to print something from my Android phone. Haven't tried Windows yet. Configuration of the Raspberry Pi was easy, especially enabling scanning via the network.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 3 months ago

We used Jitsi quite a bit during Covid, I was very happy with it, and I don't remember any complaints from other people.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an example? I am pretty sure that a FOSS license which requires companies to pay is impossible.

Open Source guarantees that anyone can give the software to a company for free:

"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale."

And it guarantees that the company can then use it freely:

"The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business [...]"

Quotes from the Open Source Definition.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

None. Those things are incompatible with each other.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

I've never used InqScribe nor any other subtitle tool, but alternativeto.net has a list of alternatives like Kainote or SubtitleEdit: https://alternativeto.net/software/kainote/?license=opensource There's even a short Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_subtitle_editors

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Never read something more wrong about the subject. I sounds like you don't actually know what Free Software refers to, and that it has nothing to do with the price.

[–] jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

Short and not completely true answer: Free Software and Open Source are the same thing, just with different reasoning behind them. Hence "FOSS" and "FLOSS" are also used, which combine both terms.

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