JustEnoughDucks

But that is why here in Belgium it is mandated that doors have a minimum gap for ventilation while also keeping the door closed and also outside ventilation

Snapmaker seems to be Bambu from a few years ago, promises, good hardware, but all proprietary and as locked down as possible hatdware-wise. I am fairly confident they will follow a similar path even though they have made some software source - available.

The only 2 tasks that have been worth automating for me on my phone is time-based volume/vibration switching and VPN turn-on and off when I am on home internet or away.

No need to steal people’s water to do it.

Holy shit is Unvanquished a remake of the old Tremulous game? I used to love it. It has now been kept updated on github

Yes, but 90% of ISP supplied modems around the world are modem + router + WiFi access point with a unified firmware.

You also can’t take the antennas off of those and they are required in order to receive internet.

Yes you can use your own router (I have a Unifi cloud gateway ultra myself and one access point in the middle of the house), but that doesn’t mean that disabling the WiFi on the ISP web-software bullshit actually disables the WiFi and doesn’t just hide the SSID and make it un-connectable and still use it for this kind of thing and identifying nearby devices.

It also doesn’t mean that all the routers themselves like my Unifi aren’t using the access points to do the exact same thing (or will in the future). The only way you can actually control that is with openwrt or similar.

Do you think every country has its own router hardware manufacturer and commodity chip manufacturer? 😂

The 2 giants that make 95% of consumer routers around the world and the few companies that design the chips for them are both in heavy surveillance states.

That is just the normally enshittifcation process. Many enshittified companies started as genuinely innovative or decent companies. I mean, they went into ads quite early on and tacking, but other than that…

They definitely haven’t unenshittified.

Hell, I find the easiest workflow for me is literally on one computer:

• scan with skanpage
• save
• drag/upload via web UI to paperless server

Then you automatically have a 2 location backup (and 3 with 1 off site if you have a backup server implemented) and it is very simple for family to pick up.

Hollow earth? What sort of new-age conspiracy is that? True believers know the earth is a turtle.

Oh no, mullvad started advertising a bit 😱

Only print ads though IIRC

VPNs are to protect you against your ISP, that is about it. I guess sailing the high seas also since fingerprinting doesn’t apply as much. Also getting around authoritarian government blocks.

It is a small piece of the puzzle.

Wanted to setup opencloud but it doesn’t work without 3-4 additional containers and CNAMEs on the domain.

I simply wanted to spin it up locally and test it out, but it doesn’t accept any admin credentials whatsoever and wiping every file to completely restart leads to the same behavior.

If the simplest bit of startup flow local first time login doesn’t work, then why would the rest and why would I trust it? Also it isn’t a certificate error with not setting up SSL or something because I also tried it on my domain with all the correct certificates and got the exact same behavior. It doesn’t even allow you to try a different admin password when it claims that the last is wrong. You get one try and otherwise have to wipe the entire volume.

There are issues on github for it and workarounds with very YMMV results, for me none of it worked.

Yeah but I would honestly think that a revolution of the people is worth some plagiarism if that is what tipped everything over the edge.

The problem is that it isn’t ours to decide in many countries. Billionaires control everything, or at the very least have a 10 ton thumb on the scale and have a monopoly on violence.

Look at the US, vehement opposition to almost all datacenters over the entire country, the entire voterbase tells their politicians on every level that they all don’t want them. What happens? The politicians completely ignore the population and the people that voted for them, use the people’s tax money to build the billionaire surveillance complexes that will literally suck all of the water out of the ground and cause blackouts and create maybe 10 jobs.

We see that here is Europe more and more too, especially with anything having to do with banks. We data centers popping up everywhere and half of new automation engineer jobs are for data center pop ups here in Belgium with 0 option to even publicly dissent, much less vote against them.

True, many many companies have solid works because they invest heavily in marketing to universities, but holy shit it is slow, horrible, buggy, and crashes a ton, but it has a good ecosystem with Altium for mechanical+ electrical design so companies get locked in. It is all about marketing.

Creo (I think that was it) is really the way to go. Like FreeCAD, it is not very intuitive, but it can handle assemblies that would send solid works and inventor into the depths of error and lagging hell.

How big are these projects? It sounds like a nightmare to maintain or even finish!

It seems that you have only used Pre-1.0/1.1 FreeCAD from your description.

I have done some pretty complex designs with it, but the topological naming problem was really bad then.

It has improved greatly, has good defaults now, and I have yet to have any sort of crash at all and so far.

Sure, not perfect, nor even “great” and without all of the quality of life tools as F360, but it also doesn’t bend you over like F360 does. Development has sped up a ton in the past couple years too. I am hoping it is on par with what F360 was before enshittification in 5 years or so.

Sadly, F360 has been spiraling downhill for a while. Everyone who uses it a lot (and especially professionally) is complaining how terribly slow and buggy it is and gets worse with every update. Apparently rampant memory leak crashes, calculation crashes, and skyrocketing prices.

They need about 30-50% more space that Lithium Ion, yes. Of course, people love to compare this even though lithium ion isn’t used anyway for the same application because it only lasts for 500 charge cycles where first gen sodium already lasted for 3000.

But in a country where data centers the size of major cities are being put everywhere, space is literally a non-issue.

But that is comparing them to lithium ion and LiPo. They have a ton of advantages over lithium ion.

They are really competing against lithium iron phosphate which are EV and grid storage batteries. There, the very first gen still has like 20% less density than them but 2nd gen batteries are looking at exactly thr same density as lithium iron phospate. Now they are both fire-safe (sodium even better) and the difference is essentially cost (big sodium win), temperature performance (big sodium win, and discharge rate (LiFePO win over first gen) because they both have very high battery life.

The only reason sodium ion wasn’t picking up (and I mean the only) is because lithium prices crashed and 90% of the companies developing it were startups, so of course the venture capitalist parasites rug pulled the funding because they are so incredibly short sighted that they can’t stand not having immediate maximum profit (even though lithium prices will go back up eventually at a much, much, much faster rate than sodium and is significantly more harmful to mine)

There are so many people who are good at their jobs and have imposter syndrome. If anyone should have it, it is probably this person.

Roblox has A LOT of pedophiles and child predators/abusers that groom kids. Like a lot, one of the worst on the internet. It has been brought to the company’s attention thousands of times and they outright say they don’t care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pK1OGOENw

Not only that, roblox doubled down on supporting pedophiles and actively bans “vigilantes” that try to unmask them or report them to authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5PTomkX1gU