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This is a setting admins can change for both.

HOWEVER, I know marketing people and maybe the distinction presented there makes sense when talking about actual products on the market and under which product categories they’re sold…

Probably. There definitely is a big price difference between the two.

Ah, interesting. That definitly wasn’t the case when I worked in such a shop 30 years ago 😅

For rimmless glasses they have positive shapes supplied by the frame manufacturer that the machine can follow. But usually the shape isn’t that important for rimmless glasses so they can likely find a form in their stock that is similar enough to your current glasses shape.

That doesn’t really explain how you get the lenses cut to the shape of your 3D printed frames. I guess the local shop also does that for you?

Indeed. A long time ago I worked as an internship in one of those places, and cutting the glasses requires special equippment to follow the sample shape and get rid of all the fine dust that is produced while grinding them down. But the work done is usually quite cheap compared to the cost of the glasses themselves, so that is definitly not something I would DIY.

Opensense is based on BSD, which has a single threaded network stack. This means that low end CPUs can struggle to do >1gbit throughputs. Depending on your WAN this could be an issue.

Sure, but the point of getting a mini-pc is usually not that you have an open case with a second ATX PSU sitting on top to power some extra hardrives.

How will you power the drives?

And from what I have heard, these m2 to SATA adapters have over-heating issues.

You mean “mid” as in midi-tower? Because that sounds like the large version. Well maybe there is an even larger workstation version or so, but the normal medium sized Optiplex comes with one 3.5" SATA bay and one DVD drive.

Optiplex etc. with an Intel 8th gen “T” chips seem to offer the best bang for the buck + energy efficiency on the second hand market right now.

The main issue with these thin clients is the lack of SATA ports and power connections for them if you want to add some larger 2.5” SSD/HDD storage. Usually it is only one, but you can also use the DVD drive slot with an adapter in the mid sized versions.

I don’t know what kind of failed state you live in (Haiti?), but I am near 100% certain that they would be fine in any residential neighbourbood that I previously lived in and that includes places in 3rd world countries. There would be probably a higher risk of them being stolen than intentionally damaged.

A bit of graffitty should be ok, and solarpanels are surprisingly sturdy against physical attacks. But honestly, in a typical residential neighbourhood you will be probably fine.

Shitty webdesign. The arrows left and right cycle through videos and you probably accidentially pushed one of them before trying to watch the actually related video.

Yeah, it is a bit crazy and even if you are doing it yourself, the mounting often costs more than the panels these days, especially for roof mounts.

They started to get really pushy about the premium features, so I removed it again.

It will probably go down, but the process itself is kind of unavoidable for training LLMs, so I doubt things will go back to how they were before.

Not only wikis sadly. Anything that has public facing deep links that trigger extensive database operations are being hammered by these bots and few servers can take the load.

Ergochat in combination with Goguma, Halloy and maybe ObsidianIRC. But I would also recommend you look into other options than IRC for a family chat.

My recommendation would be XMPP with snikket.org

The current modern ones under construction or recently completed in the west are also prohibitively expensive.

China might have some scale advantages right now, but most likely it is just shoddy construction like how the French build their reactors cheaply in the 1970/80ties, which over their lifetime ended up being more expensive because of all the costly repairs that constantly have to be done.

Nuclear fission is a dead horse, and anyone investing in that right now is building white elephants.

Maybe fusion will turn out different but for the time being the best is to invest in renewables and grid extension.

Because nuclear makes no economic sense 🤷

Heh, that reminds me of trying to miniaturize origami folds when I was a kid. Yeah, don’t ask 😸

Interesting. Thanks for sharing as I wonderd before if it would be possible with peanuts.