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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • nicerdicer@feddit.detoNews@lemmy.world•Hermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish
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    9 months ago

    “At the same time, I think we really need to understand the fact that we are living in a different era and animals are making use of what is available to them.”

    They just adapt. If the supply of snail shells is declining - probably because of the pollution of their enviroment - those shells become scarce. When there are plastic garbage shells availiable, the hermit crabs will utilize them instead, since it probably is easier to obtain them. They serve the same purpose to them.

    Since the lifespan of a wild hermit crab can reach up to 30 years, it probably will effect their health. When plastic disintegrates and becomes micro- or nanoplastic, those particles will cumulate in their bodies. These plastic particles are suspected of being silmilar to hormones, which can have effects on the ability to reproduce, among others.

    It should be rather concerning than cute.

  • nicerdicer@feddit.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can?English
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    10 months ago

    Despite not answering your question correctly, I have something where Windows is superior to macOS:

    When you start a Windows program and want the program window to fill your screen completely, you just have to drag the window towards the upper edge of the screen and the window fills the whole size of the screen.

    On macOS there is not such an option. You have to drag the program window manually to the full size of the screen. Although there is a full-screen mode (green button in the upper left of the window), when activated, the window is in full screen, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is hidden. However, at least macOS remembers the last size of the program window, so you don’t have to drag it to full screen size again.

  • nicerdicer@feddit.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?English
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    10 months ago

    A cheap phone last about as long and does 90% the same stuff

    This is true. You can get an almost equal performance out of a cheap phone. But I learned that more expensive or high-end phones recieve more software updates than cheaper entry-tier phones.

    For instance, I own an LG K8 (Model LG-M200E) from 2017. The battery still holds enough charge (although it is designed to be replaced), the camera works, the touch display still responds properly - but it only recieved one update (Android 7 --> Android 8) in 2018. I wouldn’t consider it secure and I certainly don’t have my online banking on the phone. Meanwhile it gets very hot and slow when I use Google Maps. Unfortunately, there is no way to replace its operating system with an alterntive OS, linke Grephene OS or Lineage. None of the many alternative operating systems offer suppert for this specific model.

    My next phone will propably be mid-price ranged.

    Edit: typos