Nope. We aren’t going to have a President who listens to the experts around him and tries to find solutions to the problems. Idiocracy is a movie about a timeline where we made terrible mistakes in the past but are trying to make things better with the limitations we now have. That isn’t this timeline.
A dial gauge can impart certain information that other ways cannot. I can notice a sudden change in movement without looking directly down, or see certain patterns of movement that simple numbers won’t. An old example of the loss of that was found in some classic luxury cars (my grandmother had a Cadillac that I noticed it in). The speedometer wasn’t a dial, it was an analog bar that would go right to left as your speed increased. It was very hard to judge change of speed by this, much like it’s hard to see from a few digital numbers that rapidly change. I’ve also noticed that even digital dial gauges can suffer from this if their refresh isn’t fast enough to simulate an analog accurately.
Doesn’t mean you can’t get used to a display or find other ways to get the same input, but dials aren’t just old nostalgia, they do have advantages. I would bet for some measurements an analog multimeter is preferred over a digital, and vise versa.
He’s reaching for that because he doesn’t understand a show of respect. He’s never gotten nor given such a thing, it’s alien to him.
Stop. Don’t. Come back.
Exactly my point, you’re tied to a specific server for your account regardless. There’s no shared federated user info that can be recovered if that happens. One solution is to make your own instance where your account lives, and then it’s just up to you to make sure it doesn’t get lost in a crash without a backup. But that’s more complex than the average user is willing to take on.
Same here. It still has the limitation of being instance-based though, so if you decide to move to another server or our existing instance shuts down, you can’t take your account stuff with you (like when I had to move from Kbin and “lost” the first few months). Which may never be possible given the design of federation. I recall the question came up pretty early when people were concerned about picking the “right” instance without any knowledge of anything, and some were throwing around ideas of a way to pass along user history from one account to another…but I don’t know the state of that.
Some Presidents got shot and still stayed for their speech. What a loser.