RememberTheApollo_

The only people making dumb jokes (that aren’t seriously just having a tongue in cheek laugh at history) are the same useless gravy seals resting on the laurels of the last “decent” war the US ever fought and saying “you’d all be speaking German if it weren’t for us!” kind of people.

The reason why civilization is what it is today is because people didn’t like what civilization was before. (Yes, drastic simplification and yes we have lots of problems today, but at least everyone is less likely to die of disease and starvation.)

TBF the problem was he kept promising gold and other wealth for the king and queen and instead he kept screwing the locals and not bringing home the cash that was supposed to support this very expensive investment the king and queen had made.

If he’d brought home the $$$ you can pretty much guarantee the royals would probably have overlooked his “eccentricities” for far longer.

Fully enclosed.

All makes sense, of course. If I want a “pretty” non-structural print PLA is always a top choice. Fine, smooth, easily bonded with CA glue. ABS is a lot more finicky, but strong.

Thanks for the second opinion. Sounds like ASA is on the menu for a couple tryout prints.

Yeah, PLA is easy, it just doesn’t have the temp resistance and durability of better filaments. It’ll warp on a hot car seat in the summer.

I did some reading before asking and ASA was mentioned as also having difficulties with warping. Has this not been the case in your experience?

Now overlay household income?

It can be. I’m generally very competitive. I like competitive fps games. I can do ok or well and I’m fine. But if I lose hard a few games in a row I am definitely not relaxed.

Aaaand that’s one of the reasons why I got rid of Plex. “Bought” it, then they found some other feature to paywall. Bought that, then another feature. Then it stopped playing files of certain extensions through chromecast. Fuck that. Put together Jellyfin and moved my collection over. Zero trouble since.

IMO it was my hardware on the first tries. Not sure what your problem was, but after digging around I found something that loosely indicated that my hardware was too old or something - it didn’t play well with the onboard graphics or similar. But the second hardware set I tried it on was far newer, and after all the installation was complete I got a black screen. Every time. No matter which guide I used, no matter what dependencies I thought might be missing or whatever I tried to get it working. A hair pulling experience indeed.

Don’t be smug.

Seconded it’s not a no-brainer. I spent days trying to get it set up with Docker on two different computers and three different distros. It wouldn’t install, if it did install it had errors, if it would even open at all with anything other than a black screen. Hours trying to search how to fix it. I gave up and installed it as a standalone app on a common distro. Not as convenient, but FML it finally worked. Really felt like I wasted my time. Personally, this is the exact bullshit linux fanatics completely ignore when they insist on how great linux is vs whatever. I’ve got a shitload of patience, willpower and modest skill to try to get something like this working, but 99% of the population doesn’t. That’s why linux will stay on the back burner. And if it ever becomes just as easy as Windows…guess what? You’ll have many of the same problem as Windows.

The beginning of enshittification.

Prices will keep climbing, functionality reduced in favor of service tiers, and of course ads, ads, and ads.

Hm. This is going to be happening to far, far more goods than just the cheap crap. I can’t find a reason to crow about it happening here. It’s the first raindrops of a hurricane.

I’m not trying to start any argument about either of them, I’m for getting off of fossil fuels, and more choices to better fit different needs is great. Hydrogen cars have their own issues, such as lower energy density and very high pressures for storing the hydrogen, along with high pressure vessels for transporting it. Energy dense storage is always going to have problems, but the electricity distribution system is already well established.

There’s no way around sacrificing range to heat the battery at this time. Only mitigating some of the loss with a preheat.

It could be as simple as the equivalent of a “block heater” that you would use on a ICE in a cold climate. These are not new technologies, many use these simple devices for cars in places where it gets cold, and I can’t imagine installing a correctly engineered device into the battery coolant system would pose much of a problem. Automatically turn on at a predetermined departure time or below a certain temperature while charging.