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🚀 Voyager 1 Is About to Make Cosmic History!

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It helps that we know exactly where to look for it the signal, but I agree it's insane that it's so far away and we can still communicate with it 49 years later. This was launched in 1977, it's running on half-century-old tech and still partly functional. And the main reason it's only partly functional is that we shut down features to save on power.

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Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration

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My understanding is that it was a marketplace seller, not Best Buy themselves, who sold the laptop to the customer.

At least the techs actually made an effort to diagnose the issue and figured out that removing the stick of RAM fixed it. They're not responsible for the sale of a laptop with more memory than the motherboard can handle.

All these marketplaces are a disaster. So many shady sellers posting the same items on every site they can, and nobody takes responsibility when an issue inevitably pops up.

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People don't hate on plane travel enough

While I agree that plane travel needs to be reduced, and trains should be prioritized, most people typically take a plane less than once a year. The problem isn't Joe Schmoe taking a vacation overseas with his family every once in a while, it's the millionaires and billionaires taking flights every other day on their private jets.