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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a bit more expensive and complex. Looks like this is configured with a couple of resistors for 5v from USB which is simple to get and a voltage reg to drop down to 3v3 optionally. Full PD requires a chip and active negotiation for higher voltage levels. Though there are chips that do that it does increase the complexity and cost and soldering skills a bit. Might not be worth it if all you work on is 5v or 3v3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figuring Out The Most Efficient Way To Reuse Bags Of Desiccant⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but doesn’t damages dessicant.

  As quickly*

  Some damage still occurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the RFID chips on their spools.

  They do quite a lot of things that are fine atm but are gateways to giving them a huge amount of control if they every want to flip that switch - like if they get brought out or their investors start wanting to squeezing them for all they are worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sovol V8 is a nice printer, especially for its price. Based on the voran v2.4 but pre-assembled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably nothing. This is more steamdeck related stuff since the steamos is based on ArchLinux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch normally immediately updates to the latest version of every program

  This is not true though. Arch packages new program versions as soon as they can - for popular stuff this happens quickly but not everything updates quickly. And when they do publish a new package it goes to the testing repo for a short time before being promoted to the stable repos. If there is a problem with the package that they notice it will be held back until it can be solved. There is not a huge amount of testing that is done here as that is very time consuming and Arch do not have enough man power for this. But they also do not release much broken things at all. I have seen other distros like ubuntu cause far more havoc with a broken update then Arch ever has.