grue

I would almost suggest some kind of system where you could set aside a certain amount of money, and it would donate automatically to all your installed packages, with some kind of weighting system I suppose.

Welp, now you know what Free Software project you should start!

I became a programmer because I was too lazy to not automate.

The truckers who aren’t MAGA morons understand that tainting their trucks with dyed fuel (which persists for a long time even after being heavily diluted with non-dyed fuel) is likely to cause problems in the future, after Trump’s bullshit order gets struck down or rescinded.

And that problem is even more true for truck stop owners, who will be very unlikely to want to taint their underground tanks with the stuff. Therefore, even the dumbass truckers who want to use it would have to go out of their way to actually get it.

I’ve done nothing to mine and have no reason to not expect them to work if I unpacked them and plugged them in.

If we recommend you a tracker tracker, soon enough you’ll just be back asking for a tracker tracker tracker. When does it end?!

Perhaps concrete but it can’t really dry inside a printed object right?

Concrete doesn’t dry; it hydrates and cures. It can harden underwater, let alone inside a container.

If anything, the potential problem with concrete is that curing is exothermic, so it might heat up and distort your part. It’d have to be a pretty big print for that to happen, though.

Last I checked (which, admittedly, was a few years ago) I literally couldn’t find any security cameras that weren’t compromised in some way. The only options are basically:

• Consumer models tied to “cloud” services
• Generic Chinese ONVIF cameras that probably phone home to who knows where unless you firewall them off from the Internet
• ONVIF cameras that might have a slightly better reputation than the previous category but are only sold through security system installers, not normal retail channels
• Analog (not IP) cameras that you hook up via coaxial cable
• Building your own goddamn camera from scratch with a Raspberry Pi or something

It’s ridiculous!

For TVs, there used to be the option of Sceptre dumb TVs, but even those have disappeared from the market in the last year or so.

I’ve been looking for a smartwatch/fitness tracker (and a bike computer, which is kind of a similar category) and the pickings seem very slim there, too. There’s the Pebble and the PineTime, which are open but maybe lack some of the sensors one might want in a fitness tracker, and there’s stuff that’s intended to be proprietary but supported by Gadgetbridge (e.g. iGPSPORT bike computers) . There might be others, but I don’t know about them.

The Slate EV also doesn’t actually exist yet.

How is “a closed variant of klipper” not a GPL violation?

I’ve tried to use ZeroTier because Tailscale still has centralized servers for starting the connection, but had trouble getting it to work. Maybe I should stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

My stuff is only accessible from my lab (because I haven’t figured out how to set up a tunnel or reverse proxy yet).

Good. Permissive licensing is for chumps who want to get tivoized and enshittified anyway.

I’m all for rewriting C code in Rust, but moving away from the GNU Project and (especially) GPLv3 in favor of mere permissive licensing feels like a trap of a different kind.

It’s shelving, not luggage.

I was planning to see The Voyage Home, but I was so frazzled by the end of Dragon Con that I thought it was on Tuesday, not Monday, and missed it. 🙁

3D in the sense of applying 2D scans to the surface of a rectangular prism, or 3D in the sense of handling things like bump-mapped embossing or strangely-shaped boxes?

Their life expectancy wasn’t that great anyway compared to now

Low life expectancy has always been caused mostly by high infant and child mortality, not adults dying young of natural causes. Augustus and Tiberius lived well into their 70s, for example.

Because it’s a spoof of the “think, Mark, think” meme from Invincible.

Also, ironically, Plato would’ve been the muscular one. ("Plato” was his wrestling nickname, given because of his broad shoulders.)

It’s almost as if the politicization of trans people is an entirely manufactured controversy.

If you’re trying to be true to the “solarpunk ethos,” do you really think this is the last repair you’ll ever do?

I, for one, have never regretted letting a ‘one time’ project be an excuse to get a new type of tool.

You accidentally pasted my quote again where you meant to put the link URL. What video were you trying to cite?

Yeah, that page renders with a single column of lists for me, and is also written in a bit of a confusing way. The author is definitely infinitely better at English than I am at German, but it’s clear it isn’t their native language.

Anyway, I have an Asus KGPE-D16 with a couple of Opteron 6272 (Bulldozer) CPUs in it, but I think that was because Libreboot had problems with the 63XX (Piledriver) at the time (since resolved), apparently, not because Piledriver was off-limits due to the inclusion of a PSP.

My goal was to get the fastest fully-trustworthy computer ever made [or reasonably close to it: IIRC, 6272s were much cheaper than similar chips with a few hundred more MHz], and that’s basically it. The absolute fastest would be a KGPE-D16 paired with Opteron 6386 SEs, I think.

That said, you asked about a laptop or mini PC. Brute-forcing performance with 32 cores of server hardware is one thing, but I’m not sure a 2/3/4-core desktop or mobile Bulldozer-family chip is going to have acceptable performance in 2026.

Why, of all of Batman’s rogues gallery, the Riddler? I feel like the Joker would’ve been the obvious choice.

I don’t own a gun, actually. Your assumption is bad and you should feel bad.

I am doing nothing but thinking about ensuring my ability to obtain one, should the political situation continue to deteriorate. That’s prudent, not delusional.

The only one here acting obsessive and unhinged is you.

Please explain how I can “do literally anything productive with my life” when I’m murdered by MAGA fascists because I had no means to defend myself.

Guess I ought to go find a set of machining schematics.

Neat, I would’ve assumed you’d need a mill or a lathe, not just a drill press. Link to instructions?

The fact that this meme is obviously from R*ddit (notice r/historymemes instead of !historymemes) is a clue.

A E R O D Y N A M I C

Even aside from the obvious (or at least, should-be-obvious) tyranny, there are so many problems with this as a concept. For example, WTF is supposed to happen when the OS is in a VM spun up by an automated system and has no human user to begin with?