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You underestimate the power of propagan… excuse me, “marketing.”

I don’t understand the appeal of cigarettes, though.

Peer pressure followed by addiction is my guess.

I think it’s an attack on Free Software and property rights (what some people minimize as “right to repair”).

Locally, I’ve not been able to find anything that is certified food safe, only various epoxy fillers and primers for boats.

Call the manufacturer of the locally-available epoxies and ask them what they recommend.

I went looking for contact info for one common brand as an example, but found instead this product support article that suggests, to me at least, that their “limited food contact”-rated epoxies would be good enough for your use-case.

(I never did find a phone number or email for product support, but they do at least have a chat widget, so… 🤷)

“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.

Pretty sure he meant something like “not a nonprofit or government entity.”

The 2009 movie. Just, like, the whole thing.

Yes, when they’re called “awnings.”

Why does this need to be a hosted service/web app? Why can’t it just be a regular-ass application?

Or a circular saw.

My drill press has a little rubber friction-fit holder for it, but nothing about it forces me to put it back properly.

I started watching the video on Youtube, but almost immediately switched to an older video from the same guy that went into more detail on the metal-melting part.

TL;DR: normal sand casting, using a microwave to heat up the metal inside an insulated silicon carbide crucible.

I’ve both used CAD software professionally and worked on CAD software as a developer, and I also find FreeCAD weirdly frustrating. It’s not the crashes; it’s something about the workflow.

More like “vice signaling.”

I mean, it ain’t exactly The Honeymooners or Dukes of Hazzard, is it? That’s the standard that we’re measuring “woke” against these days!

Star Trek X was Nemesis, but who’s counting?

It was the first season (and only 10 episodes in, at that, because TV production is stupid these days).

Imagine if you could only judge, say, TNG on the first 10 episodes.

Looking at the downvotes, I don’t think anybody realized you meant “abandon Xitter,” not “abandon using their platform for the greater good.”

Admittedly I haven’t used Omada even though my gear supported it (before I flashed OpenWRT on it), but I don’t think it bears any resemblance to Ansible except in the most basic sense of being able to accomplish administrative tasks somehow.

What I was expecting was something that would provide a web dashboard showing all of my OpenWRT (and ideally, misc. other devices) at once, maybe with a nice diagram of the network topology and stuff like that.

Does there exist something more appropriate?

EDIT: I talked with a guy and totally forgot an important point, does reflashing the hardware prevent me from using features with the vendors i listed? I know companies can suck

If they’re software features and OpenWRT doesn’t implement them, yes. That’s not really the fault of the hardware manufacturer, though; that’s just a tradeoff you’ve chosen to make.

For example, I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to use Ubiquiti’s UniFi or TP-Link’s Omada software-defined networking to manage your OpenWRT-flashed device, but that’s just because OpenWRT hasn’t implemented it, not because installing it trips some kind of DRM fuse or whatever.

(I think OpenWISP might be the OpenWRT-compatible Free Software solution for that sort of thing, but I have yet to look into it myself so I’m not sure.)

Otherwise, I haven’t personally heard of any vendors intentionally sabotaging their hardware such that it disables itself when flashed with OpenWRT, but that’s not the same as an affirmative statement that it can’t ever happen.

Everything’s an outdoor activity if you’re exhibitionist enough! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

👆Why are you booing him? He’s right!

I mean, good for Valve for finally making progress on 64-bit, but it really is kinda absurd that it’s taken this long.

We know, for example, that dust from the Sahara circulates the globe and brings nutrients to US soils.

Eh, the Amazon rainforest survived the African Humid Period, so it’s probably fine.

More to the point, even if this thing is big compared to the average solar farm, it’s still small compared to the scale of geoengineering. For example, enough solar panels to power the entire US would only cover a small fraction of the Chihuahuan Desert:

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I have a domain, but all I use it for so far is email (with an email provider, not my own mail server, hosted locally or otherwise). I’d still call that “usable,” though.

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?

How to migrate your watch history, apparently: florianjensen.com/…/how-to-migrate-from-plex-to-j…

Like for example a finance management software that can hook into my bank

What software would that be? I’ve been looking for a viable self-hosted alternative to Mint (and now Monarch Money) since forever.

I just upgraded my Proxmox to 9 last night, too!

…from 7, 'cause that’s how long I’d been neglecting it. 😅

I’ve also been trying to get my old dual-Opteron server working again, after having abandoned it a couple of years ago due to what I thought was a bad motherboard (IIRC, it wasn’t turning on at all). I was gonna buy a new motherboard since I happened to run across a cheap Ebay listing, but I decided to double-check the existing one first, and lo and behold, it booted!

Then I tried to update the ancient Proxmox on it from 6 to 7, and now it still turns on but doesn’t successfully boot.

Also, I can’t get it to boot from a flash drive for some reason, so I think I might have to take out the SSD, reinstall Proxmox on it from a different system, and then put it back in.