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  • This might actually work? I imagine getting up to altitude is the most difficult and energy intensive step since the engines are operating at a higher power and the air is thicker.

    Even if that’s only 10% or 15% of the overall energy usage, being able to drop the battery and have it return to the airport on its own for reuse could be a cool concept. You could also optimize that particular battery for take off & climbing, and have the main battery for cruising.

    It just needs to be able to pilot itself back to a landing / catching structure 😄












  • Welcome!

    For the rules, could you use different formatting? A lot of users use mobile apps, and some of them don’t format markdown the way Lemmy does. The spoiler tag in particular doesn’t get rendered in a lot of them.

    For example, this is what I see in Boost:

    Perhaps you can do something like

    ## Rules
    
    1: 😇 Be Nice!
    
    - Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: **friendly**
    
    2: 👶 Keep it at PG
    

    Which will format like this


    Rules

    1: 😇 Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly

    2: 👶 Keep it at PG


    You could also shorten some of them to make it more likely that people will read them. For example, moving this to the bottom of the rules section, or taking it out entirely:

    Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanantly banned from posting.

    I also liked the old sidebar’s guidance on “complete stories” because it sums up what this community is intended for and differentiates it from “comics” and “memes”. I don’t know if it needs to be stated explicitly, but you could potentially include it right at the top with the description line.

    I’m also happy to help out if the moderation load gets too much to handle. Feel free to add my LW account if at any point the team could use more hands: https://lemmy.world/u/otter







  • It was a full replacement for me, but I was only using it for personal use.

    If you need a unique and specific package, you might have trouble finding it since the LaTeX ecosystem has been around for decades longer. The other drawback would be collaboration and interacting with journals, where the people that grew up with LaTeX might be resistant to changing to something new. I’m not personally in the research side now, so I can’t comment on it much further. I would assume that adoption also varies by the field of research.