XTL
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- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 1 week ago:
¿Por qué no los dos?
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 week ago:
Yes, for some values of dumb. New ones? I don’t know. But many older ones have no connectivity.
librervac.org/Supported_Devices might be a good start (and maybe even end).
- Comment on How to Remove Burn Mark from (acrylic ?) Sink 1 week ago:
Your nice list doesn’t seem to have non polar solvents in case it’s greasy. Something like soap, alcohol, (turpentine, acetone, xylene).
But yeah, might not be a surface stain as the other comments suggest.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 2 weeks ago:
Wings3d is worth a look at as a modeller as well. I really liked that. Not as colossal as blender. Nice, focused features.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core 4 weeks ago:
And especially dosbox staging and dosbox x.
Apart from being different forks, of course.
- Comment on We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon 5 weeks ago:
Now it’s a weird looking airplane.
With too many fingers.
- Comment on The QNX Operating System - Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX 1 month ago:
It was an advertising stunt. They never intended to offer anything useful.
- Comment on Ender 3 V2 Causing Circuit Breaker to Trip (Even when PSU is flipped off!) 2 months ago:
Is the PSU in V2 any less shady than in old Enders? The almost naked industrial unit was easy to install with wrong screws that reach into the circuit board or have things fall into the contacts or through the slots inside.
I’d look at the cable and the switch and any connectors and connections there first.
- Comment on Restoring A Vintage Intel Prompt 80 8080 Microcomputer Trainer 2 months ago:
Very nice. There’s a lot more of interesting stuff on the site.
- Comment on Whats a good Resource on Learning 6502 Assembly, for someone who has little to no experience Programming? 2 months ago:
It’s a bit off the mark, but I’ll mention the Nybbles and Bytes youtube videos because I think they’re pretty neat.
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 2 months ago:
Most useful as in something I wouldn’t have otherwise is probably some gridfinite thing. SD and usb stick holders maybe.
Most used is probably a plain headphone hook for office. Daily use and storage for years.
Most saved time and money? Jigs and dummy parts at work which have helped avoid more expensive processes and mistakes in more expensive processes.
- Comment on New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access 3 months ago:
One more path for malware is that the system has a root hole and this is where the exploit hides the malware.
Or a hostile actor gets their hands on an unencrypted hard drive and installs this when the owner isn’t looking.
- Comment on Chrome is Finally Enabling Automatic Wayland Detection 3 months ago:
Detecting Wayland does mean it can (and probably will) leak that you run Wayland.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 3 months ago:
Looking at how many countries have started to have and even elect literal nazi parties, the education has been failing very widely and for a very long time (since WW2).
- Comment on YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds 3 months ago:
And most are paid subscription only and fragmented.
How about BBC or other local providers?
- Comment on Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart 3 months ago:
Fail
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 3 months ago:
All things were doable before. There point is that they were manual extra steps.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 3 months ago:
How about two gym memberships and a library card?
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 3 months ago:
Next step: the great wall of great britain. Protecting citizens from harmful foreign influences.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 3 months ago:
Beginning of genx is close or a few years after beginning of internet.
It wasn’t something Joe Random could use even decade or two after, but just mentioning for correct perspective.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 3 months ago:
We also desperately need a non-US archive.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 3 months ago:
I would add “downvote posts with no useful content” to that. (Report if you know the community has had the sense to forbid that kind of posts.) That does seem to cause some people to flip out, though.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 3 months ago:
I don’t think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.
- Comment on BBC News - President Trump arrives in Scotland 3 months ago:
Is the balloon ready?
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 3 months ago:
Spam in, spam out, profit in the middle.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 3 months ago:
It might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.
I don’t know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It’s a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 3 months ago:
I disagree on even that. It should be enough to have some trusted “notary” tick a box that they have verified your driver’s license as valid. It should not be stored out sent anywhere at any time. Just showed to a human. Regularly, if needed.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 3 months ago:
And/or windows admins.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 3 months ago:
I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.