I was a bit conflicted with the success of Bambu because they indicated their consumer hostility somewhat early on. I’d much prefer that for a company that furthers the ecosystem and encourages openness like Prusa or Ultimaker. Bambu kept making super compelling products though. I’m hoping that they see this as an opportunity to repent and reshape the company. It feels like they’re more likely to dig in their heels. Luckily this controversy is before they could really establish monopoly like Adobe.

Yeah the anti-bot measures are pretty strong. I’m hoping that they’re mostly there to stop AI crawlers.

Here’s an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124212903/https://smarthistory.org/eadweard-muybridge-the-horse-in-motion/

Interesting that the horses are drawn in the flying gallop position. The story of the change in how galloping horses in art was depicted is interesting, involving the founder of Stanford University and love-affair murder.

I suffer from impaction occasionally and used to irrigate with 2% hydrogen peroxide. The H2O2 reacts with the wax and helps break it up. It is one of the strangest sensations though, bubbles forming and popping en masse inside of your ear canal. Eventually I bought an ear cleaning otoscope and scoop out the wax manually every few months.

That sounds like a fun experimentation platform. Power shouldn’t be a problem except for the bill, the PSUs are meant to be redundant rather than for combined output. You probably won’t draw more than 300 watts most of the time. The drive controller probably has staggered spin-up to prevent over current conditions. The bigger factor in my experience is the noise, expect a jet engine during boot and a dull roar the rest of the time. SuperMicro boards often allow you to set the fans lower, but the PSUs will be loud all the time. If I were you, I’d install TrueNAS or ProxMox and play around with it. You may be able to triage the issues. You may need to set the drive controllers to HBA mode or flash an HBA firmware to them. It’s probably not worth running long term with SandyBridge, power to performance is pretty bad.

Successfully got an eyeroll from the missus, two thumbs up.

The can of tomatoes has chunks of garlic. We were out of garlic when we made it, but turned out fine.

I’m a garlic fiend too, don’t get me wrong.

I’ve been on a bean kick since I found bags of 15 bean soup mix for less than $3. The creamy large Lima beans are my fave. I toss the ham flavor in the trash and make a batch with whatever I have on hand. The following batch was my favorite so far:

• 20 oz 15 bean soup - soaked overnight
• Two small white onions - diced and browned with a pinch of salt and sesame oil
• Eighth red cabbage chopped and browned in a skillet
• 2 celery stalks diced
• 6oz crimini mushrooms coarsely diced and browned - finely dice stems
• 6oz white button mushrooms coarsely diced and browned
• 1/4 cup textured veggie protein
• 1 heaping tbsp chili powder
• 1 can fire roasted diced tomatoes with garlic
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp potassium salt
• 1 tbsp MSG
• Half tsp cracked black pepper
• Half tsp garlic powder
• Half tsp paprika

The biggest thing to remember is to make sure that you get the rehydrated beans in a good boil for at least 10 minutes to denature the toxic proteins, otherwise you’ll have an upset stomach.