But not all electricity generation is based on boiling water. Wind, hydro and tidal don’t need to generate large amounts of heat to make steam that spins a turbine, they just use natural movement to do so.

Need to add ‘a long hot shower’ to this list.

I used to like small phones. I thought the form factor of my erstwhile iPhone 5 was perfect.

But then I got older, and my eyesight got worse. Reading small fonts on small screens is becoming increasingly difficult, but I’m not yet at the point where I have to wear glasses or contacts all the time. I also don’t like just increasing font sizes, as I lose screen realestate. So I’m kinda starting to see why some people like phones with bigger screens.

The irony of someone not wanting to use decimal points for their temperature setting isn’t lost on me, when that same person has to resort to fractions to measure anything thinner than a door.

I’ll hazard it’s because all your points sound like pseudoscientific nonsense that you basically just pulled out of your arse.

Dying on that hill doesn’t make you king of the hill. It just makes you a person who chose to die on that hill. Like I said, I won’t stop you. But I will still comment.

You have issues. Get help.

Whenever I think that I have seen it all in one of these °F vs °C threads, someone comes along and proves me wrong.

No, the F scale was not built around human biology, that is pure conjecture from people who can’t let go of their antiquated system of measures.

But you go die on that hill, I won’t stop you.

If half a degree Celsius makes the difference between being comfortable or uncomfortable for you, then you have bigger problems than being able to use whole numbers.

No shit. How have they not figured this out 15 years ago when every DVD had non-skippable anti-piracy messages?

I specifically said ‘one of the first’.

But if you want to be nitpicky, the Lynx was released two months after the original Gameboy.

What do you mean ‘enter’? Nintendo created one of the first handheld gaming devices that ever existed, and they’ve been known for handheld devices all the way through their history.

Apples and oranges comparison. The Steam Deck is PC-adjacent hardware that can access a back catalogue of thousands of games going back twenty years, well before the Steam Deck was even an idea.

The Switch is a game console with its own ecosystem, and it has existed for six years. Games have to be developed specifically for it. The only thing both have in common is that they’re handhelds.

Are you telling me they were able to measure those things, but not the boiling and freezing point of water?

Sure, let me just whip up that ammonium chloride mixture and travel somewhere where I can get it close to freezing so I can know the zero reference of that scale. What, did the just carry that NH₄Cl around for convenience?

Fahrenheit was proposed in 1724, Celsius dates back to 1742, so there wasn’t that much time between the two.

Because governments and corporations all over the world are trying to hollow out privacy?

The meter did not change, science has merely defined it more precisely and reliably over time. It is a measure of length, still one 40 millionth of the circumference of the earth through the poles. Other definitions like the speed of light definition will give you the same result. These newer definitions have reduced uncertainty and added ways to reproduce its length by natural means. But it’s not like the ‘original’ meter was shorter or longer than today’s meter, at least not by any noticeable margin.

Shifting the top end of a temperature scale by over five percent of the scale is a bit more arbitrary than that.

Zero Fahrenheit is the freezing point of brine (of a certain concentration). That’s water chemistry.

Originally, 90F was based on the average human body temperature, but that later changed to 96F, which just goes to show how arbitrary that scale is.

Maybe not the most unfun game I have ever played (I’ve played games since the late 90s), but certainly the most unfun I have played in recent years: Elex.

I liked Piranha Bytes’ old Gothic series a lot despite its weaknesses and idiosyncrasies. The Risen games weren’t that great, but the reviews for Elex were pretty promising. So I gave it a shot, and tried for about 16 hours to find the fun in it. I stopped playing when I realised:

• I couldn’t hold my own in almost any battle because I didn’t have good enough gear
• In order to get better gear, I had to join one of the game’s factions
• In order to join one of the factions, I had to perform a number of tasks for them
• The factions were all just dickheads, and I didn’t want to do anything for them, much less their dirty work

So yeah, no fun to be had with this one.