

Love my Mach E.
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Love my Mach E.


Google+ was a great product when it first launched and was quite popular among the tech crowd. I remember having a G+ page and using it more than I ever wanted to use Facebook and co. It was a pretty well liked product among its niche userbase but then they tried to shove it into YouTube and force everyone to use it for YouTube interactions and then everyone hated it. Forcing your product where it doesn’t belong is a great way to dumpster your product’s reputation.


I used a Windows Mobile PDA (Dell Axim X50v) for years before the iPhone came out. It was great at the time. Few other things could provide video, games, music, and a web browser in your pocket at the time but WM2003 with the Opera browser and some other apps did quite well. I kept using that thing even into the Android and iPhone era.


I mainly use Blender and manually type in the sizes for things, make heavy use of the boolean operators to make holes and cutouts. I would like to learn FreeCAD eventually. I refuse to use proprietary products and services for my hobby projects.


I don’t know much about the Snapmaker U1 other than what’s stated on this thread and on their site. Just looks like a more open alternative to Bambu if you need fancy features like multi filament printing.
I buy most of my filament from Micro Center (their Inland brand) and some I’ve gotten from Amazon.


Ender 3 Pro is a completely offline printer. It has a microSD slot and a USB port, that’s it. No network connectivoty at all. It runs Marlin firmware which is a long-standing Arduino-based open source 3D printer firmware. It’s highly customizable and upgradable. I added a CR Touch bed probe to mine and rebuilt the firmware to enable the unified bed leveling features. It’s not the most user friendly but it’s a decent, cheap platform, fully open source, and puts out decent prints.


I’m happy with my slightly modded Ender 3 Pro, but if I ever upgrade the Snapmaker U1 looks nice. I’ll only buy from a company that supports open source firmware. Bambu is trash, unfortunately every 3D printing related YouTuber seems to have happily taken a sponsorship from them so they are everywhere now. I hate it.


Mine showed up as well. I wasn’t expecting it so soon since the count had already gone past the first delivery dates when I got my order in (about an hour after opening). Enjoying it so far, spent some time setting up the trackpad and gyro and experimenting in Marvel Rivals. I’ve actually been enjoying the trackpads a lot more on this controller than I did on the Steam Deck. They’re a bit more comfortably positioned and touchpad input works better on a 240Hz display than on a 60Hz one. I got a profile set up that has been working pretty well for me now and played a bunch of games today to experiment with controls and see if I could do anywhere as well as keyboard and mouse. I’m quite happy with the touchpads, though I don’t think it’s quite as accurate as KB+M but it’s way closer than a normal gamepad.


Hacker’s Keyboard and a Pixel Fold.


Open Termux, open Qt Creator and VS Code, write code, compile code, test code, fix bugs, git commit.


Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.


I just wish they had done the same in the US. Every day there’s some article about some car manufacturer cancelling EV plans to keep making garbage that burns unstable, polluting dinosaur fuel. I don’t want Tesla but they’re one of the only options anymore. I hope Ford keeps making the Mach E as I love mine.


I had my first account on .ml because “hey this is the official instance run by the devs, that sounds like a solid starting point” but after seeing how strong the anti-west, pro-authoritarian nonsense is on there (especially leading up to the 2024 election, the apathetic “both sides” people were out in full force), I decided to move to a different instance.


It went out of stock multiple times but after spamming checkout for 40 minutes it finally went through at 1:09PM CST.


The OG Deck preorder was this exact same nightmare. Payment processors crashing out, availability flickering on and off, chaos. They’ve learned nothing.


If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.


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I recently got a Pixel Fold so I’ve been using Termux to run Plasma Desktop on it and Qt Creator, Visual Studio Code for development work. The larger screen is great. I prefer using Linux phones for development (postmarketOS) but unfortunately pmOS isn’t available on any foldables and the screen size is really significant.


This is a great feature, I will definitely be using it to keep all my PCs up to date on downloads.
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