The man really is an alien

I’m going to pick a slightly more obscure one: Kane from Command & Conquer.

If that’s the case, then it should be trivial to prove and the EFF can force them to open source it.

Let’s not make baseless accusations, let’s get proof and hold them to it.

That’s not strictly accurate.

The slicer is Open Source yes, but not the printer firmware or software. That’s closed source and proprietary to Bambu.

Now there’s some contention there because a lot of the features and ideas that make modern 3D printing as reliable and great were developed in the open, under open source licenses and Bambu has definitely implemented many of them in their printer firmware, but they don’t infringe any licenses in the printer software itself (as far as anyone is aware).

This whole debacle centres around the slicing software, which is separate from the printer itself (though is necessary to actually use the printer) and it’s AGPL.

You should consolidate those 4 pensions into one pot and take more control of it. There’s an extremely high chance that the employer provided pension is performing poorly and not growing as fast as it could be. They pick the lowest risk by default so growth is massively stunted.

It’s pretty easy to open an account on something like vanguard and transfer those pensions in, you can then have control over how that money is invested - usually they make you pick a “risk factor” where highest risk has highest potential growth and lowest has lowest potential for crashing, but the TL;DR is over a 15 year period even if there’s a crash you’ll come out on top because it averages out.

Essentially what I’m saying is pool your pensions together and pick the highest risk factor for the next 8-10 years, it’s a bit of a gamble but it’s a better chance of that pot growing into something actually useful than you have right now.

He also claims having sex with women makes you gay.

I work in IT, been a software developer for decades.

I have a full on smart home, all the smart tech you can imagine. All connected and running locally via home assistant.

Smart tech isn’t bad, shitty tech is.

I’m the UK, 10kWh from a large brand (sigenergy) costs about £2k, but cheaper brands you can get about 3x the storage for that price.

Not the same guy but I’m having both installed right now. I’ll be buying cheap electric at night to fill my batteries and running the house all day from that, while exporting and selling anything from the solar as well as any excess.

Every unit I sell is worth 12.5p, the cheap rate is costing me only 5.2p. eventually that export rate will go away, I’m which case I’ll be able to be self sufficient about 2/3 of the year.

Exactly, hence why it’s very difficult to run a truly “private” DNS. Your best bet would be to run your own resolver on a VPS or something

You still have to perform lookups by reaching out to the root resolvers.

Plus people knew the increase was coming so I imagine there was a spike in sales just before hand.

We have faster charging speeds with lithium today, 800v cars that can charge at 300KW+ have been on the market for half a decade, BYD has launched cars that can charge at 2-3x that speed. The charging infrastructure is the bottleneck there, even if all new cars could charge at those speeds it wouldn’t mean much because hardly any chargers can support it.

Besides it’s almost moot, most EV owners aren’t charging via fast chargers like you would fill up an ICE car, they’re charging at home at much cheaper rates and only using fast chargers for particularly long trips.

Sodium batteries are real though. You can buy them today, their big promise was that they would be cheaper than lithium batteries because sodium is abundant and readily available whereas lithium is a rare mineral. Then lithium prices fell through the floor and the value proposition failed, at least for now. They’re also not as energy dense, which is probably what will hold then back from EV use for a while yet, but the claim around being safer holds up.

Jesus fuck. I was born and raised in Belfast, there’s absolutely nothing about the experience today (out in 2019) that even remotely resembles the 70’s.

You’ve done the hard work building the compose file. Push that file to a private GitHub repository, set up renovate bot and it’ll create PR’s to update those containers on whatever cadence and rules you want (such as auto updating bug fixes from certain registries).

Then you just need to set up SSH access to your VM running the containers and a simple GitHub action to push the updated compose file and run docker compose up. That’s what I do and it means updates are just a case of merging in a PR when it suits me.

Also I would suggest ditching the VM and just running the docker commands directly on the TrueNAS host - far less overheads, one less OS to maintain and makes shares resources (like a GPU) easier to manage.

You should look at restic or Kopia for backups, they are super efficient and encrypted. All my docker data is backed up hourly and thanks to the way out handles snapshots, I have backups going back literally years that don’t actually take up much space.

Congratulations! I’d suggest the next step is to start building up your savings and investments. A nice goal to aim for is to have enough saved up to pay off the mortgage (not necessarily to pay off the mortgage but having enough saved up that you could is very rewarding).

I’m in the UK but I’m less than 2 weeks my own solar and battery array is getting installed, can’t wait!

Indeed, in the UK (a notoriously windy place) wind currently far outpaces solar in terms of energy production and although it’s also variable, it works well in winter and at night.

During summer solar really shines (no pun intended), but wind absolutely rocks.

I am not convinced she was dumped. She’s walking directly into some cushy “private sector” role. She did the job that trump asked her to do and that’s her reward.

She’s the fall guy for sure but that was entirely by design and I’m sure she’s well aware of that. But who cares if everyone hates you when you got your golden ticket.