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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.

We should refuse to even talk about “gun violence” in the relation to these 3D printer bans because that’s not even slightly what they are about.

They are 100.00000% about totalitarian surveillance and destruction of property rights. “Reducing gun violence” isn’t even an excuse; it’s an outright lie.

My last pair of lenses cost me 300€.

Ah, see, that’s what I was afraid of: Zenni is stupid cheap; the glasses I’m trying to replace were about $70. Granted, that was more years ago than glasses are supposed to go between prescriptions, but still, I was hoping for approximately an order of magnitude less cost for these DIY-cut lenses.

Hehe sorry, I’m addicted to that shape - not for the style, but because small, round glasses are the type of glasses that sit closest to your face, so you get a huge field of vision with small lenses, and you can rest your head on a pillow without breaking the temples. No other style of glasses gives you that.

I like the idea of pillow-compatible glasses, but I already have a bit of resemblance to Harry Pottery that I’m not exactly looking to enhance. I tend to go for rectangular lenses.

I’m curious about what your costs are in actual dollars, although Trivex isn’t right for me because my R~x~ is so strong that I need a higher refractive index. I also appreciate that your 3D printed glasses link included a video about how the lens edging machine works.

Do you know of any other 3D printed frames that look… less Harry Potter-y?

I haven’t asked a brick-and-mortar shop yet because I had found out that I couldn’t just buy identical new ones minutes before writing the post. I’ll try that, although I’ll have to do some searching to find an optician around here that isn’t a chain.

How does the process change when they’re rimless glasses (so the only things I need to be concerned about are getting the pupillary distance and axis right, and then drilling a few holes in the correct spots – the edge is just flat-ground instead of a V-bevel and can be whatever arbitrary shape I want)? Surely that reduces the need for a fancy shape-copying machine, right?

no more trustworthy than any other autorouter, but at least it’s fast!

LOL

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.

Clothing with a UPF rating just means its level of protection has been measured; it doesn’t necessarily imply unrated clothing doesn’t protect also. That is to say, I don’t think sun protective clothing has any high-tech coatings or other special sauce the way waterproof/breathable clothing does.

Just wear something made of synthetic fiber and/or with a dense weave, colored a dark color, and that covers as much skin as possible. And most importantly, a wide-brimmed hat.

Sources:

• www.skincancer.org/…/sun-protective-clothing/
• www.rei.com/learn/…/sun-protection.html

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?

Maps you bring with you from the present should still be pretty useful, as long as they’re topographical maps as opposed to road maps. And as long as you’re not going deep into geologic time, of course.