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- Comment on STL vs Modifier quality 1 week ago:
The STL export will take your nice parametric model and turn it into triangles. The software defaults of most CAD systems are terrible for this. (I’ll die on the hill that STL needs to be phased out and STEP needs to become the default for precisely this reason). If you add a vector in the slicer then it has the context to be able to choose the right quality when slicing.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
If Windows overwrites your EFI partition then you won’t be able to boot into grub. It absolutely happens, I’ve had it happen with my main computer within the past year.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 weeks ago:
Windows generally works fine alongside Linux, but then randomly one day you could log on and it boots straight into Windows and to fix it you need to learn the “fun” task of fixing your system with arch-chroot.
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 2 weeks ago:
I suspect the Prusa issues were because you had a bunch of people not taking care of the machines. My Prusa Mk3S was just as reliable as my Bambu P1S.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 3 weeks ago:
Xbox controllers can be a bit unreliable on Linux in my experience. I’ve got an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless that I quite like. They are way cheaper than an Xbox controller, have hall effect joysticks, and low measured latency.
- Comment on Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on the type of person you are. Those machines you reference are in a class of machine where you are likely to have to put a lot of work into them to get them running reliably and probably more money than if you just bought a better printer from the get go. They are machines to recommend people who want the 3D Printer to be their hobby rather than designing and printing stuff.
If that doesn’t sound like you, just buy a Bambu or Prusa.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 weeks ago:
A cell’s voltage will change with how much energy it stores, but if you keep applying current to force more charge to move you can cause voltages to be quite far outside of the proper range. However you don’t want to do this as at minimum you are damaging the materials in the cell, or worse, cause a significant safety hazard where the cell could catch on fire.
You can look at the Discharge Curve of a cell which compares voltage vs capacity, as a rule of thumb, essentially the steeper the curve changes, the more damage you are doing to the cell by operating in the range.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 weeks ago:
Something is off with the link’s measurements. 3.7V is a li-ion cell’s nominal voltage, not its lower limit. Typical operating range is 3.0V - 4.2V. No battery chemistry I’m familiar with would have a lower cutoff as high as 3.7V.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 3 weeks ago:
Not an iOS user and it certainly seems like something they would be behind on, but with Android every password manager with a Android app will work since the hooks are built directly into Android. Other than websites and apps that don’t implement passwords properly it works pretty well.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 3 weeks ago:
I hate how many places don’t allow for + aliases. I want to know who leaked my email.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 weeks ago:
What you call 0% or 100% on a battery is an arbitrary number anyway. Absolutely never do this for safety reasons, but back when I worked for a battery lab I did experiments where I discharged cells to below 0V.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 4 weeks ago:
I bought a new phone a couple months ago and on the first setup it installed their app. Then when I traveled soon after the eSim I was using installed something else when I connected to that network.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 4 weeks ago:
Is this even a thing you can avoid anymore? You connect to the network with their SIM installed and it immediately downloads the apps they say you need.
- Comment on Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers 5 weeks ago:
This is what the Core One should have been from day one. I was wondering what Prusa was thinking when they released the Core One without doing anything to make it competitive in a market that had moved onto larger build plates and AMS units.
Their claims of larger print size always pissed me off, Z height is the least useful dimension on a printer.
- Comment on Delete only one 5 weeks ago:
Why would you delete a flagship? More choice and competition is always better, though these products are just way too similar, the industry needs more differentiation.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 month ago:
This is actually an interesting point I hadn’t thought about or see people considering with regards to the high investment cost into AI LLMs. Who blinks first when it comes to stopping investment into these systems if they don’t prove to be commercially viable (or viable quick enough)? What happens to the West if China holds out for longer and is successful?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 month ago:
Lots of people will, I’ve had the discussion with multiple people bemoaning that that will have to upgrade because their computer isn’t compatible who. Have zero interest in learning a new OS. Heck my father has a laptop good enough for everything he does already and was talking about upgrading his desktop because it isn’t compatible.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
Apple TV isn’t compatible with some of the services that I use so h That isn’t an option either.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
Kodi is the open source alternative and it is a terrible experience compared to the purpose made sticks. It is confusing to use, and worse, very unreliable (my install would regularly completely break and crash on startup).
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
I’ve been self hosting as much as I can for awhile. The one thing I don’t have a good replacement solution for is Google TV. At least with alternate launchers and being able to install APKs (for now) it mostly works as a decent experience.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Agreed, that they are just an android tablet makes them far more useful than most ereaders as you can install apps from the Play store. I probably use mine in the kitchen more than as a reader.
- Comment on I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser 2 months ago:
What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 2 months ago:
If your use case benefited from Quicksync then Intel was a clear choice.
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 2 months ago:
The problem is that Parametric CAD kernels are complicated and expensive. There are some recent open source efforts but they are slow going. Just look at how bad Freecad is after all these years to see how difficult they are.
I’m quite experienced with SolidWorks and have used both Creo and NX as well. I can’t stand the likes of Freecad or Fusion because of that. Luckily I have access to the professional ones for my day to day modelling.
One option to look at is Solid Edge, they have a maker version that is free and it’s a proper professional package many companies use.
- Comment on Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C 2 months ago:
Prusa also needs to fix their x-y build volume even if it breaks upgradeability. The standard has changed and it is hard to go smaller once you are used to the larger size.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 3 months ago:
The real issue here is that the systems that car manufacturers use for their vehicles are insecure and outdated. The Flipper Zero is just exposing their bad design decisions.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 4 months ago:
This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn’t locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 months ago:
XD, I totally did this to make a smart alarm clock a couple years ago. That said it is completely stable, don’t think it has ever crashed or locked up on me, unlike the echo show it replaced that did so frequently (not to mention it occasionally updating in the middle of the night and waking me up at full brightness)
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 months ago:
Lights are one of the areas where I think automation is genuinely useful, but my rule with anything “Smart” is that it has to be able to run 100% locally.
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 4 months ago:
I had to call into my bank recently and had to listen through what was effectively an ad to sign up for their voice authentication service. All the while I’m thinking, “How dare you implement this crap when you don’t even support TOTP or security keys.”