I was enjoying the video until there was a sponsored segment for a commercial medical provider. Gives me the heebie jeebies.

It’s ok, they’re licked clean between use. What sort of barbarians do you take us for?

+1

Tiny filters are a scam in the soldering world too. A few mm thick sheet of carbon impregnated open-cell foam isn’t going to have even a 50% impact on the fumes. Proper rated fume filtration systems are between the size of a large dog and a washing machine; and cost crazy amounts of money.

Plumbing it outside is cheap, extremely effective, small and if something breaks you can tell immediately.

My family is scared of driving a smaller car because all the other cars are bigger now. I would not be surprised if fear is the core motivating psychology.

I feel torn. I also want to troll my friends. A bad UX is what they deserve, especially that friend who works in the printer industry and complains all the time about how badly documented many minecraft mods are.

One of the ways to get my portal to work was to hold exactly 7 items in your current hand. This is also how I want Firefox’s new UI to work.

I used to play a bit of Minetest, but it was hard to convince my friends to join. This is a compromise they are willing to do though.

Its not server-side modding (Minecraft has obviously had that for ages), its a full LUA interpreter with an in-game interface for clients to write scripts, and upload them to the server on the fly.

Nope. It’s server side modding. The clients don’t get to execute arbitrary lua on the server (unless they are hosting or opped) and only someone with access to the server filesystem can upload scripts.

“Yes I play nintendo. You mean romhacks, right?”

I don’t think shots were intended to be fired at the Mozilla corporation, who can’t stop talking about their default, opt-out AI, but it paints a stark picture of the difference between a company that preaches privacy and choice, versus a company that actually provides those things.

I think they’re also taking shots on telemetry. Firefox uses telemetry as evidence to support their decisions in ways that sometimes seem contrived or statistically incorrect (similar to only x% of people turned this default feature off, therefore it is good), making me feel as a user that contributing my telemetry to them is actually a bad thing that is encouraging their behaviour. Meanwhile TDF makes great software that follows what the community wants and needs without any telemetry collection.

Higher price != better printer.

My Qidi Q1 pro has has lots of print quality and reliability problems. I ended up fixing them by disabling lots of printer features, including filament width detection piezo bed height sensor. Despite it being housed I had to do a lot of modifications to duct it properly because it has lots of holes and fans.

My $300AUD bedslinger i3 clone has only ever had two problems, the non-metal hot end having PTFE tube expansion (great since I replaced it) and the gantry getting crooked (once I knew this it became 1000x easier to use). Not as fast acceleration as the Qidi but much more reliable.

I borrowed a Mk3 Prusa from work a few years ago. If I had to pay for it I would have been really pissed, out of the box it was really slow.

My old boss spend thousands on an even slower printer… lets not go there :D

I’ve heard that even the Enders are much better out of the box these days. Maybe try one of those?

Short answer: It depends. Doing full flash reads of your USB sticks and SD cards (dd if=/dev/XXX of=/dev/null bs=4k status=progress) may help for a lot of them. But not all. The only solution I can actually recommend (for any storage media) is backup them up and regularly testing/moving the backups.

If the read of the disk is particularly slow then that indicates the flash cells are degraded. If a second read of the disk is much faster then that indicates some action may have been taken by the flash controller IC to fix this.

Long answer:

NAND flash cells slowly leak charge, making their state indistinguishable. A flash controller IC (usually separate to the NAND flash IC or ICs) has the job of noticing and fixing this (by rewriting the data to another or the same cell) before it gets too bad. That doesn’t necessarily mean it does it particularly well.

Some (few?) flash controllers periodically scan for weak cells and rewrite to fix them. Some (most?) flash controllers notice weak cells only when you read them. Some (many?) flash controllers are shit and don’t do any of this.

Flash controllers also have a bunch of other features and jobs, like maintaining a spare pool of cells (over-provisioning) to swap out for bad ones and even forcing the USB stick into read-only mode if they think things have gone particularly bad. Again this varies a lot depending on implem, some do it, some don’t, and for different reasons (out of over-provis cells, corrupt mapping metadata, arbitrary thresholds, etc).

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Low_loss_magnetic_loop_antenna_100mm_tube.jpg

I’ve used Organic (now CoMaps) for a while now. Mostly been great. Interface is so much faster than OSMand (slow rendering) and Google maps (no networking needed).

Driving route planning doesn’t know about traffic, so it’s always optimistic about time.

Some rural towns in my country disappear unless you zoom in more, which is a pain sometimes.

(5minute in) When you have a quest market or a minimap, the player doesn’t take in the gameworld. They’re not playing a game so much as they’re sleepwalking through it. It becomes a monotmous grind, there’s nothing stimulating or exciting about it. Go here, pick up this item. Go here, talk to this person, rinse, repeat.

I hate minimaps with a passion and turn them off in games wherever possible. Otherwise I find myself playing the game primarily looking at the minimap, with the actual 3d world just being a background obstacle course I occasionally have to flick to. With it off I have a lot more fun, getting lost and learning new areas.

Flicking to a pause menu map or similar adds friction but I have not found a better way (EDIT: the video touches on this, where a lot of modern games are broken without minimaps and quest markers. There are ways the designers can fix this, like partial maps. I want to make a game now with some shadily hand-drawn maps…)

Unit pedant here: Just 166W. Watts are joules per second (they already have time in them, adding another unit of time confuses things).

This might seem silly, but it will help avoid confusion when you encounter Wh (watts * hours).

I am using this one. Texting or messaging my phone (on anything that makes a notification popup) with the text “fmd password location” gives me GPS coords. More than enough for me, and works even from a borrowed stranger’s phone.

Setup steps require ADB though, because in the phone ecosystem getting “unusual” permissions usually requires business deals with Google/Apple.

requiring a not insignificant fee to write the exam

What does this mean?

As long as it’s not gambling or a scam. (Points are most “technology” companies and their products)

I 3d printed my safety razor handle: https://www.printables.com/model/591133-tride-safety-razor

Pros: it works fine.

Cons: I have reprinted it about 3 times over the past two years because the top piece is thin and delicate. PETG seems to work better than PLA.

For blades: I’ve found that any name brand works OK, and the generic unbranded blades are garbage (painful tearing/snagging instead of cutting hair). I wish there was a way I could tell just by looking at the blades but I suspect its microscopic details on the edge. The sound and feel are very different though.