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- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 day ago:
I disagree about this being a good solution. USB-C is not meant to take the strain of being used as an audio port when being used in the go so there is risk of damaging the port while a headphone jack is more stable and allows the plug to rotate. Plus I don’t want to have a dingle I can forget when in a rush.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ve used Vivaldi for a long time before switching to Floorp (based on Firefox) and recently back to Vivaldi.
Pros:
Vivaldi is fast with lots of features.
I like how it works much more than other browsers (e. g. Sidebar tabs, pinned tabs can’t be closed)Cons:
Still built on chromium. They have ways to customize the address bar autocomplete, but screwed up the implementation so every option doesn’t work the way I want it to. - Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
If you are running business critical applications on Windows 10 that is a problem. Windows 10 is only meant for end user machines. Other services should be running on OS’s that are meant for the application such as Windows Server or server versions of Linux distros running LTS kernels.
Not to mention, near every piece of software I’ve been involved with at work has required specific versions of Windows Server and whatever database it uses, if you want to upgrade the software you use, then upgrading the OS is part of the task.
- Comment on SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks 4 weeks ago:
This is definitely a problem in sectors that are boom/bust. You have senior engineers ready to retire and nobody is ready to move up into their positions because there just aren’t any intermediate level engineers in the industry.
- Comment on @chrlschn - Beware the Complexity Merchants 4 weeks ago:
I’m a big fan of the manta “Make your designs as simple as possible and no simpler”. Pointless complexity drives me nuts, but others take it too far and remove functionality by making things too minimal. It doesn’t help that a lot of businesses optimize for people who make changes, so the positive feedback loop is change for the sake of change rather than improving the product.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 month ago:
maybe, just maybe if we didn’t move the same settings 1-2 layers deeper behind some UI bullshit we wouldn’t have to look for it.
This trend pisses me off so much. Companies need to learn that for settings I’m likely to have to change they need to minimize the number of actions to change it. But people in all these companies find the need to reorganize things to make it seem like they are accomplishing something.
- Comment on Found This (and more in post) at the Cracker Barrel (US Restaurant and Gift Store Chain) 1 month ago:
I have a feeling that in many cases people’s work is being abused.
Yeah, a couple years ago I saw a stand at a flea market selling 3D prints. Took me all of 2 minutes to find the original at home with a non-commercial license.
- Comment on 3D Printed Downspout Makes Life Just A Little Nicer 1 month ago:
It is all rectangular items around it, wouldn’t be difficult to measure out the environment and route the design around it. Good CAD tools have cable routing tools that can assist with this as well.
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 1 month ago:
Run a temp town if you are worried about it, but i run all PETG at 265 on my P1S. 255 will tear like you show and print matte which means it isn’t properly melted.
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 1 month ago:
Wrong way to adjust, try printing at 265 and keep the part fan on ( aux fan off).
- Comment on shearing on outer walls with PETG in a bambu p1p 1 month ago:
That the default petg profile? Bump up your temperature by 10C and try again. Their PETG profile is too cold for the flow rate.
- Comment on cannot get an even first layer with a voron trident 1 month ago:
0.2mm flatness is very flat for a 3D Printer bed, I don’t even know if I achieved that with the Nylock mod on my old Prusa. This simply looks like a bed adhesion problem, clean your bed well with dish soap and water and then rinse well and make sure you don’t toch the surface. Check the first layer height and bed temp as well.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 2 months ago:
Yeah I recently started switching from SolidWorks to Creo in a professional setting, it is amazing how slow and clunky SolidWorks feels in comparison. The downside is that Creo doesn’t hold your hand at all so you better know what you are doing.
Coming from that side, I have a hard time with the free/inexpensive options available for makers, they just don’t work nearly as well.
- Comment on My imaginary children aren’t using your streaming service – Terence Eden’s Blog 2 months ago:
This is pretty minor on the scale of enshittification that it happening in pretty much every tech product, but stuff like this is just an example of features being added so someone at the company can point to “improving” the product (so they can point to it during raise or promotion time), because it is safer for kids ignoring that it degrades user experience for a large portion of the customer base.
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 2 months ago:
This isn’t new though, I landed after a long flight last year and had a notification asking me to confirm rebooking to another flight because mine was delayed.
Turns out that no the flight wasn’t delayed and luckily I mentioned it when dropping my bag because a person had to sort it out for me and rebooked me back on my original flight that was on time. So now I don’t trust the technology at all.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 months ago:
Nope, I’ve long worked in designing for North American electronics manufacturing, it’s still manual. We just outsource as many of those sub assemblies as possible to cheaper countries and design things with as few fasteners as possible.
That really is the least of the worries, there just isn’t the manufacturing infrastructure for all the raw material and individual parts, manufacturing those parts just isn’t feasible to do at a reasonable cost or schedule outside of Asia. China is still popular not due to cost, they are no longer cheapest, but because they have the infrastructure in place.
- Comment on Gmail Is Now Using AI to Sort 'More Relevant' Results, But You Can Turn It Off 2 months ago:
I don’t see how this could be worse than the current Gmail search. I have to use the sync tool to Outlook for my work email because outlook’s search is so much better.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
Vivaldi if you really need a Chromium based browser.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 2 months ago:
Much business oriented software just hasn’t had the work done on it to work on Wine. Really the only reason I have to run Windows now is the 3D CAD software I use and my best option at this point is running it in a Windows VM on my server. And no Freecad and Fusion360 aren’t suitable options, they both suck.
- Comment on Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers 3 months ago:
Time and motion studies can be incredibly effective. My company once wanted to automate some processes and sent me down there to watch the workers and identify the processes we could automate. Talking with the workers and filming a few of them gave me all the information to save well over $1M per year just by making the current process more efficient. Literally cost some people’s time to do the analysis, change some documentation and validate the improvements. Even the workers were happy because they had less waiting around for things to happen and were part of the process.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 3 months ago:
Obsidian files are just Markdown, so there is plenty of software out there today that can parse them. The only thing you might miss is plugins that don’t exist outisd of obsidian.
- Comment on Why your headphone batteries don't last as long as new ones. 4 months ago:
Yup, this degradation is all well understood. The only value I see is studying how a large portion of people use their devices to identify what the expected life actually is with the abuse they put their devices through.
- Comment on Any phone alternatives for the Bambu Handy app? 4 months ago:
No problems synchronizing with LAN only mode in Orca Slicer for me.
- Comment on Any phone alternatives for the Bambu Handy app? 4 months ago:
Dunno, I just log into the website.
- Comment on Any phone alternatives for the Bambu Handy app? 4 months ago:
Yup, you just need somewhere in your local network to install it. I’ve been using it on my P1S since I changed it to LAN only mode a couple weeks ago.
- Comment on Any phone alternatives for the Bambu Handy app? 4 months ago:
Octoeverywhere
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 7 months ago:
Yes it is a subscription to access the servers. But you also get a ton of access to other content forever (all the past campaigns and TOTD tracks released) so the value is still pretty damn good. Considering I’ve got 2000 hours in the game since release and it has in total cost me about the same as a normal game I’m not going to complain about it being a subscription.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 7 months ago:
Trackmania 2020. Great example of a game that is simple in concept but super deep in skills that you can both play super casually at your own pace or super competitively. Plus there is a great community and endless content to play.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 7 months ago:
Looking forward to see the 3D prints made to fix this “feature”.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 7 months ago:
Im picturing them sending “cash” with the amount written in comic sans.