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Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?
The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.
These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.
These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.
Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.
Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.
Something about this post blows up my Lemmy client (Memmy on iOS); I tap the post in the feed, it slides to a black screen, and the scroll bar shrinks as the page grows infinitely. The comment window also jiggles up and down as I’m typing this. Does anyone else run into this? (Assuming I’ll be able to see replies, lol)
The images are hotlinked to tumblr, which might have something to do with it, but that's all I can think of.
Some apps don’t handle images as well if they haven’t been updated and I think memmy is one of those. Voyager works fine, so I would suggest using that instead (or others, voyager does have a few small differences to Memmy.)