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bluewing

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  • Russia Not on US Tariff List Despite Broad Global Reach | Sweden Herald

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  • Yeah, it's hard to put a tariff on a country that you have already sanctioned and don't trade with at all. But that fact doesn't play well here.

  • Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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  • I grew up a poor farm boy, so we never had a VCR when I was a kid. And they really weren't a thing anyway when I was young. And according to my Father, us kids were the remote!

    Did you ever peer into the back of the TV when a tube would burn out and your Dad would pull the cabinet out, then remove the back and try to see which tube didn't light up when the set was powered up? It was a marvelous sight! It often took us a few days before we would get to town before we could stop into the local drug store that had a tube tester and had a selection of the common tubes to buy.

  • Clean butt

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  • That's what I love about mine. Automatic lid raise and lower as you walk in, heated ring and water, (both adjustable temp), air dry, (again heated), and charcoal filtered air filtration to minimize the stench from that drive through burrito.

    It's the posh life. Very nearly the equal to having your own chamberlain.

  • Clean butt

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  • You need to use the power washer setting. Takes the paint right off the wall.....

  • Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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  • I was thinking of even older things.

    The feel of the keys and staccato sounds of a mechanical typewriter.

    The sound of a wringer/washer machine

    The muffled sound of my am band 9 transistor pocket radio "hiding" under my pillow late at night for as long as the 9V battery would last (I loved the Mystery Radio Theater show that started at 10pm)

    The soft crackling sound of a tube black and white TV as all the tubes warmed up. (And the time it took to do so)

    The sound and smell of the percolator coffee pot in the morning

    The sound of a wooden screen slamming shut

    The smell and sound of a mimeograph machine printing copies in the school/church office (And the slight buzz you could get from copy fluid-- Petroleum aromatics Yum!)

    Doing my math homework with a slide rule.

    The smell of a fresh fired paper hull shotgun shell on a cold crisp late fall morning

    And so much more that no longer exists.

  • Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE

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  • A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can't even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren't missed at all).

  • They'll cast you back to the Windows realm with all their toxic might

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  • Nah, Tarballs are delicious!

    Compiling is only needed to solve dependencies when you get caught in rpm hell.

  • Virgin Physicists

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  • Maybe round it up to 4 just to be safe.......

  • When 'Pass the Interview' = 'Cancel My Flight'

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  • Yep. When buying a product, it ain't about the packaging, color of the paint, or the sticker/badge hung on it. It's all about the service when things go sideways. And at some point something will go wrong, it always does. That's when you learn just how good or bad a company is.

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  • And there is little reason to do input shaping on the start of every print unless you change the mass of the moving parts by a noticeable amount. And even then, it does nothing once the print starts. You get what you get anyway when the print is finished.

    What would be better is if a printer could measure and adapt to the changing resonances as the printer was printing. But I suspect that ain't going to happen anytime soon due the complexity and the ultimate question: "How good does good enough really need to be."

  • Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero

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  • Only if the lock isn't worn or dirty on the inside. I wouldn't trust this for any outdoor lock or older lock. Even cheap locks with poor fit and finish causing rough operation would not be a good idea. This is a fun gimmick that could easily cost you more money than it's worth.

    The only way I might use it is if I were to use the 3D printed key as a pattern to cast a metal one. And I ain't got time for that.

  • Software: For those who didn't know, Blender is a Dutch nonprofit organization

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  • FreeCAD or I will go back to my pencil, tee square and compass!

    I have used AutoDesk products, (anyone remember starting AutoCad at a DOS prompt? I do), and Solid Works professionally. I have tried Fusion, OnShape, (taught a class to senior high school students for a few years), Solid Edge, and a host of lessor open source projects. All of them suck in some fashion. They are all waiting to trash your 100 hours of design sweat, (I got all the tee shirts). And if that's the case, I'm not paying $50US a year for SW. I will wear the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD instead. At least it didn't cost me anything to lose my work.....

  • Software: For those who didn't know, Blender is a Dutch nonprofit organization

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  • 5 years of on and off trying and I still can't make the doughnut in blender...........

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • It's still the same function at the base level-- to deliver and install/remove, in an easy manor, whatever software package the user wants to use/remove. Whether it's a good system or not, is a separate issue.

    Every Ubuntu based distro I've tested allows snaps. The highly touted beginner's distro Linux Mint sure does. Even Fedora can use snaps and Ubuntu can use flatpaks if you want to be that silly. I have tested that both ways and it worked. But it was merely OKish. It's just Ubuntu pushes snaps and Fedora pushes flatpaks. So snaps aren't as insular as you seem to think.

    For the user, there isn't much difference between a snap, flatpak, deb, or rpm in use. The basic install or remove experience is meant to be the same, it's supposed to be a carefully curated point and click. Even Gentoo's portage is supposed to be simple for the user. The one other not quite as common, but a bit more universal installation method for users is the appImage package. I use several appImages because that's the only way they are available. And personally, over the nearly 3 decades of fooling with Linux, I've had issues with all of the package management methods. I still have PTSD from being repeatedly caught in rpm hell back in the day or needing to compile from source. (Damn, I'm old)

    The longer I use Linux, the more I think that whatever distro you choose, it's more a matter of how you personally vibe with that distro than anything intrinsically better than the rest of them. Just about everything else is window dressing.

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • So basically, Ubuntu just with a different name and paint job. (I've used them both)

    We are all at the most basic level, running pretty much the same kernel, one of the same small handful of desktop environments, and we choose from the same pool of software, (unless you need to get out into the weeds for a program on git hub). Everything else is either window dressing, (package mangers are window dressing-- they all do the same basic thing), or a choice on just how close to the bleeding edge we want to be, (rolling releases or immutable).

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • Celery is excellent that way. A peanut butter lover's dream

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • No! CheezWiz with raisins or nothing! Just like my mother used to make.

  • Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

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  • My Acer Nitro with Aurora Says Hi!

    (I'm thinking maybe going to Kinonite)

  • My Klipperized Mk3s and A1

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  • I think those linear rods and bearing are the weak part of the system. They are too prone to vibrations and whipping around at high speeds. But I'm too lazy to go after more upgrades on my printer at this point.

    I do have a standard flow .60mm ObXidian for abrasive filament, but they were a LOT cheaper then. Plus I already have a lot of brass Revo nozzles already. But...........I want.