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- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 1 month ago:
But what are the other options that aren’t from some random Chinese company? I tried a Beaglebone but it was so slow at a similar price point.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 month ago:
Just to manage expectations, the northern lights don’t look nearly as good in real life. They look like night clouds.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Amazon Prime is absolute dogshit anyway. Fallout wasn’t even that good, I don’t know why it got such a warm reception. Probably because people had such low hopes for it. Rings of Power was a billion dollar investment and only 30% of people finished the whole series.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 2 months ago:
Anyone remember when China routed the whole internet through their country for like nine minutes?
- Comment on Trust exercise 2 months ago:
Explain?
- Comment on [Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites 2 months ago:
On DuckDuckGo they’re the second result for “retro handheld news”.
- Submitted 3 months ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Advice wanted for a newbie on project 4 months ago:
I can’t speak for the new stuff because I’m using an old Prusa clone that’s years old now. I’ve heard good things about Bambu stuff.
- Comment on Advice wanted for a newbie on project 4 months ago:
I can’t answer everything because I don’t make models myself, but don’t buy a 3D printer. Getting it set up and calibrated takes ages, as well as the learning curve. Find a service online, you send them your file and they print it and send it back. PLA is the most common material for printing and I expect it would be fine here, I haven’t really used anything else and I have no problems. You can just make the plastic thicker to make it stronger.
The painting part should be fine but you’ll probably have to use a primer. Get a few prints so you can make mistakes.
Just find an online printing service and they should be able to answer a lot of your questions.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus 5 months ago:
Any alternatives that aren’t Chinese?
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 5 months ago:
Seems like a terrible investment, I can’t see what they can possibly do to add value. Everybody who wants to use Reddit is already on it and anything they do to try and milk it will just lose them users.
- Comment on Printer not moving to expected coordinate 5 months ago:
Maybe some setting to do with the size of the extruder? What happens if you increase the size of your bed?
- Comment on 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still 5 months ago:
I just upgraded from a 970GTX to a 2060S I bought on AliExpress. Bargain.
- Comment on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison 6 months ago:
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
- Comment on How can I set up a VPN that will use the client IP address for the connection? 6 months ago:
This can’t feasibly be done over the internet. An IP address must be unique as that’s how it finds it out of billions of other devices. There are situations where the same IP can route to different locations but that’s regional and way beyond what you’re trying to achieve here. It’s how something like 8.8.8.8 works without sending all the requests to a single location.
If your server is sending out traffic as 1.2.3.4 and then tries to send the encrypted traffic to the client at 1.2.3.4 the traffic would either be routed back to itself or the client would receive the plaintext traffic meant for the server.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
You’re probably as stupid as the rest. I expect there’s loads of stuff you’ve just taken at face value that is completely wrong.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 6 months ago:
Animals are idiots.
- Comment on Are you REALLY a fan? 7 months ago:
I think the people who name those ships have never even owned a passport.
- Comment on A former EverQuest producer, WoW vets and Elden Ring devs are making an MMO filled with AI-generated NPCs 7 months ago:
I was interested until I read the word “blockchain” in the first paragraph.
- Comment on I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform 7 months ago:
Most people understand how basic 3D printers are. They’d be way better if it wasn’t for all the 70s patents holding them back for decades.
- Comment on Don't allow others to consume you... 7 months ago:
I think most people already do this.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure every other country in the world just uses an electric kettle. That will just emphasise the convenience of instant over ground coffee.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 8 months ago:
It’s all I drink. But I only drink coffee for the caffeine, it all tastes like shit. If I want to enjoy it I have a cup of tea.
- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 8 months ago:
I already go to ChatGPT more than Google. If you pay for it then the latest version can access the internet and if it doesn’t know the answer to something it’ll search the internet for you. Sometimes I come across a large clickbait page and I just give ChatGPT the link and tell it to get the information from it for me.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 8 months ago:
Nobody should be talking about building on the greenbelt, that’s the point of the greenbelt. Where I used to live in London the council was constantly trying to get permission to build on the greenbelt when 500m away there was a huge plot of dilapidated concrete, I guess where there used to be a factory or something. But they were constantly talking about the greenbelt.
- Comment on Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders 9 months ago:
I remember when new iPhone releases would make headlines and people would crowd around computers to watch the live announcements. I remember sneaking out of work early once so I could be home in time to watch it with my housemates. Nowadays they’re so boring they barely get mentioned.
- Comment on Netflix password crackdown fuels jump in subscribers 11 months ago:
We cancelled. We got Disney Plus and we share my brother’s Amazon Prime and I realised that we hadn’t used Netflix in over a month. We’d opened it a few times and needed for while before switching to another service.
Netflix is absolutely awful now, we would just spend an hour browsing just trying to find something tolerable. The last thing that was good was Squid Games, and that was only good not great.
Tiger King was fucking mint though.
- Comment on Apple warns iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change 11 months ago:
This is never going to pass. It’s got so many hurdles to jump at this point and similar bills have never gotten any traction. There’s nobody screaming for this and it’s just been dreamt up by old Tories who don’t understand technology. I think I read it’s just been opened up for eight weeks of consultation and on day one somebody will explain to them that child abusers don’t use messaging systems that can be cracked by the government and they’ll find a way around it. No matter what they do they’ll never stop people just VPNing out if the country and away from these laws.