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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes. I made a slight edit; we’re largely making the same point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  However in reality, the number of restaraunts which track tips and actually make up the $7.25 difference is functionally zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because the UK has stronger wage protections than the US. Here the Federal minimum wage for “tipped positions,” which are their own special category, is only $2.13 per hour. The management literally expects you, the customer, to make up for their payroll shortfall.

  Related fun fact: The reason the US has such a tipping culture at all is, as usual, the result of post-slavery racism when business owners flat out refused to actually pay any of their newly freed black employees, and instead demanded their customers to do it for them. For those positions, tips were the only way those people got paid.

  So yes, US business owners would absolutely force their employees to work for no pay if they could get away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That, and the inevitable avalanche of community recreations of the basic shape that followed threatened to doom the original to irrelevance anyway.

  Trying to tell 3D printing and CAD nerds you can’t make [object] is a fool’s errand, because enough people with time on their hands will just reverse engineer your [object], possibly improve upon it in the process, and post it everywhere to be given away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m well into considering the build a car avenue myself. Since new cars are all bullshit now, I’m seriously tempted to just remove the drivetrain from my truck when it finally conks out and stick a kit built aftermarket EV powertrain in it instead.

  For reference, my truck is so dumb it has crank windows. I’d like to keep it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bought a glass too small for my fridge so I fixed it 3d printing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, one of the biggest killers of 3D printed parts is heat, and the other is ultraviolet exposure. If OP is putting this in his fridge I think it’s in the one place it’s going to encounter very little of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 3D-printed objects waterproof?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Watertight and waterproof are not quite the same thing.

  Almost all 3D printable materials are waterproof, in that they will not dissolve in water. (With the exception of, e.g., PVA which is sometimes used as a dissolvable support material.) I realize this is not the intent of your question, but a lot of people seem to get it twisted about various polymers absorbing moisture/being hygroscopic/becoming “wet” and therefore believe that they literally melt or soften in water over time or something. This is not the case.

  3D prints can be made watertight but it does not necessarily follow that all of them are by default. This will be dependent on your print settings and, to a certain extent, your print material. Some materials are more isotropic than others and the layer lines stick together more readily without gaps. TPU leaps to mind, which can be made extremely watertight very easily.

  Use a lot of walls – another poster recommended 4, that’s probably a good place to start. Don’t forget to increase your top and bottom layer counts as well. You may need more top or bottom layers than walls, because your layers are probably thinner in the Z axis than your nozzle extrudes in X and Y. If dimensional clearance is not an issue and in your case it seems it isn’t, consider increasing your extrusion multiplier slightly in the walls as well, to ensure that material is squished into any potential gaps. Avoid sharp corners or tiny points on your model, which upon slicing may be incompletely filled. Avoid long unsupported bridges as well, because the couple of layers where these inevitably sag will wind up non-solid. If possible, make the outer shell of your model an exact multiple of your wall extrusion thickness so your slicer will not have to guess at any areas and try to fill them with tiny points or similar. If you play back your slicer’s preview of a single layer you’ll see what I mean.

  If you really want to employ the nuclear option, instruct your slicer to iron every single layer. This will make your print take forever, but each individual later will be extremely authoritatively bonded together in the X and Y axes, with no gaps.

  If failure is not an option, coat your object after completion with Flex Seal or Plasti-Dip or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chip companies should package all the broken pieces in the factory and sell it as: "Chip Dust".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then what will they make Pringles out of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't need no app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And it wants permissions to:

  • Camera
  • Microphone
  • Location
  • Media
  • Contacts
  • Call History
  • Read SMS Messages
  • Make and Receive Calls

  …And will throw an absolute hissy fit and refuse to load without explanation if you deny any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are dwarf planets not considered planets but dwarf stars are considered stars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For instance, just wait until you get a load of what astronomers consider to be metals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hp hinge cover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took a look at OP’s machine and it appears to be one of those deals with one big central hinge cover with upper and lower clamshell halves. So, we’re both sunk. It’s symmetrical in this case, but there is nothing to mirror. They will need to have an existing one (or all the bits and pieces of their busted one, maybe) to measure up and clone.

  But yes, I have also seen laptops where the left and right hinges and/or their covers are different from each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hp hinge cover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if the parts are mirror images of each other for the left and right hinges, carefully measure the remaining intact one and flip it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re in the same boat as me, except swap 70’s for 1920’s. I have to tear down all the plaster – not drywall, actual literal plaster, on lath – to get at the ground floor wiring. I decided it’s fine where it is for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a useless pile of words spent moaning about ad clicks, specifically to gain ad clicks.

  Don’t talk, “organize.”

  Okay, how? How do we effectively organize to fight against an enemy who has already for all intents and purposes won, in a way that won’t get us rounded up and shot by the Gestapo? Please tell us.

  “We don’t know, that’s your problem. Just ‘organize.’”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You used the magic word, “modern.”

  Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn’t exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920’s or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn’t have all of our current appliances, TV’s, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

  So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn’t accomplish anything, especially in OP’s case.

  My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu lab A1 mini alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The deed is done.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still maintain that the first Goomba in 1-1 probably has the highest kill count of any single creature in the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bambu lab A1 mini alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Qidi X-Smart 3 leaps to mind, if nobody is offended by my constant shilling of Qidi printers. (Not for any particular reason other than having owned to, and having no trouble with them in contrast with other machines.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not buy a Razer if they paid me $120. Do yourself a favor and don’t. I’ve owned a fair few Razer products in my life and they’ve all been overpriced flimsy pieces of shit, and when they break Razer will do anything and everything to weasel out of doing anything about it. As a matter of fact, the last Razer product I had break on me was a Blackwidow Chroma, and not coincidentally it was the last Razer product I will ever buy. I think it made it a whole nine months.

  Anyway, I was in this very boat not too long ago and settled on the Glorious GMMK 3 100% for my wife, which is indeed available in white. It’s $140 USD list price, so I don’t know how that fits your budget. She got some nice cat themed keycaps for it and she’s having a ball. You can get it with various keyswitch options prepopulated, or even swap the switches around as you see fit. She got the “Fox” linear keyswitches which are not short throw but are definitely quiet.

  I use a Logitech G512 Carbon at the moment, myself. It’s not white but it has otherwise been bomber for over a year.

  This is a sterling endorsement for me. I don’t know if anyone’s noticed but I type a lot. Not just bickering in the comments, but for work as well. I am not rough on keyboards and mine never moves from this spot, but I will tickle the keyswitches on any 'board a couple of million times in short order and I probably find the service limit on all the keys that are not W, A, S, or D more quickly than the average penguin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two ways to do that, actually. You can right click on a cell and use its properties window to add an alias, too. The alias box in the upper right is fairly new-ish, I think. I don’t remember when it was added, but I seem to recall pre version 0.2 you had to do it the long way, which was both A) hidden, and B) a faff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FreeCAD Gridfinity Drawers - More Configurable Tomfoolery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never knew such a thing existed, but I’ll look into it.

  I don’t touch the workbenches much. Up until now I’ve never found a use for them, and most of the ones I’ve tried on a lark tended to be buggy enough to be more trouble than they’re worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell kills the XPS brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How prescient Orwell turned out to be.

  Premium Pro Max Doubleplus Good.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here's why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a single word of this article explains why. It only says that food prices will remain high, and probably go up more when the tariffs are enacted, and we should just suck it up and deal with it because there’s “nothing anyone can do.”

  Which is obviously bullshit.

  The reason food prices remain high is simple corporate profitmongering, and the (US) government absolutely could do something about it but they won’t. Food is a product – the product – with a notoriously inelastic demand, so retailers and middlemen in every step of the supply chain can and do pad their profits by as much as the market will bear plus a little more on top. Because they know they can get away with it and the vast majority of people will have no choice but to pay whatever it is, or starve.

  The margin on prepared packaged food items is typically in the order of 15-35% per link in the supply chain (supplier -> manufacturer -> distributor -> retailer). Everybody wants too big of a slice of the pie. The government absolutely could step in and pass a law stipulating thou shalt not charge more than 10% (or whatever) over your invoice, under pain of us confiscating every penny above that mark via taxes and using them to pay for soup kitchens. But That Would Be Socialism^tm^, so it’ll never happen here.

  (And yes, the margins on unprocessed foods like produce and meat are slightly lower.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  [Insert XKCD “Standards” strip here.]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear has its place in the world, and it’s pretty much a given that in order to maintain high availability and energy stability we will not be able to rely solely on one single source. It can’t be all renewables, but it can’t be all nuclear, either. We are going to need a mix of both.

  Nuclear can serve e.g. big time industrial, manufacturing, or other mission critical needs with large amounts of power that is reasonably clean and, importantly, very stable.

  We just need to keep it from falling totally into the hands of morons who want to waste it all on “AI” datacenters, or whatever the fuck else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, idiots can also spill a couple of million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Whoopsie doodle! I guess that’s just the cost of doing business, amirite? Good thing stuff like that always happens far away…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “But if you don’t pay into the grid, there will be no money for maintenance of the grid!!!”

  1. What, like all these private power companies have been doing a good job of maintaining that grid infrastructure anyway? Don’t make me laugh any harder. They’ve taken all of their profits from the last century, give or take, and largely done the corporate equivalent of blowing it all on hookers and cocaine rather than reinvesting any but the bare minimum back into their own infrastructure.

  2. If it isn’t profitable to run the grid, that’s great! To use an example, the sewer system in my county is run directly by… the county. It is not a for profit enterprise, because as soon as you pull your head out of your own ass you can realize that trying to make modern basic necessities like power, water, and sewer access private businesses is a moronic idea. One which leads to inevitable catastrophe, because capitalists are going to do what capitalists do. The fact that these idiots are straight-facedly behaving as if we “owe” them profits in perpetuity and expect us to swallow it is almost as bad as the fact that, by and large, the public still does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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