Like, why wouldn’t people be interested in knowing that the African slave trade of the colonial period actually started with Jewish kids, but they all died in the African climate of Sao Tome, so the Portuguese started buying slaves from the Congolese, which they captured from neighboring tribes, to work the fields??

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I wrote about it on that other website a couple years ago, I’ll link to archives of my posts there

      Here’s what I submitted to the Subnautica forum

      Here’s what I submitted to the Tasker forum

      Tasker is an Android application that lets you automate many different things. One of its features is setting variables for use in your tasks–for example, I have a task sets the variable %Wallpaper to a random number between 1 and 152, and sets my phone wallpaper to DCIM/Backgrounds/%Wallpaper.png every time I turn on my screen, because I don’t want to stay married to one specific wallpaper

      You can also do math with variables, which allowed me to program the trilateration algorithm on this webpage into Tasker. All you need to input is your current depth, and your distance to each of three specific landmarks (oceanmarks?), and it’ll do all the complicated squaring and adding and subtracting for you, and then give you a notification with your approximate coordinates–in testing, it’s usually accurate to within about 10 meters, which is more than accurate enough for us to see whatever we’re looking for.

      I wish I could actually understand why the squaring and adding and subtracting gives you accurate coordinates, but you don’t got to know what baking powder does to make good bread, you just gotta follow the recipe!