So what would you recommend to someone who wants to get their hands a bit dirty and is reluctant to put anything on the network?

Also realistically the printer would live in my detached garage which I haven’t yet bothered to setup any sort of wifi in, so a connected printer would balloon the scope of such a project and cause it to intersect with and be blocked by other queued network projects, and sometimes I just don’t want to faff with networking after working how many hours faffing with networking professionally

Yeah the current marketing obsession with protein just screams fad diet. Remember “super foods” where you try to throw certain nutrient dense ingredients into all of your food? Whatever happened to that?

Jumping off of this, as someone who’s been adjacent to 3D printing spaces for over a decade now, what is a good beginner 3D printer for someone who would rather spend less up front and spend more time calibrating and tinkering? Is it still the Ender 3 Pro?

From my understanding Bambu is playing “who has the bigger pile of money” while others are stepping up and playing “who has the legal right to fork AGPL code?”

Eh, i rent i dont own

Having sex with hookers is still having sex. Book up or no sex!

Paper books are a carbon sink though. The carbon that is held in that paper is held there for as long as the book exists for until it’s either burned or composted at which point that possibly decades old carbon gets released into the atmosphere.

Wood and wood products, if sustainably harvested and grown can be really good for the carbon budget because trees pull far more carbon in from the atmosphere while growing than they do once they’re fully grown. Meanwhile computers have a comparably short lifetime and require regular hardware replacements to continue operating which consumes far more materials and expends far more carbon than books, plus computers require energy to operate which also has a carbon cost, meanwhile books have a one-time carbon cost of their production and never again

I have a similar mentality, but I do have some that are particularly memorable that I like to return to, like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for example. I also have certain books which are less for reading, like the Onion’s our dumb century or I have some railroad and travel books that have tons of cool pictures, but once I’ve read a book (especially fiction) if I dont forsee rereading it I’ll pass it along to someone or donate it to free up more space on my shelf for future books. And then my e-reader has a subset of my ebook library on it, with a mix of both re-reads and to-be-reads because that 32GB of storage will easily hold thousands of ebooks so there’s no stress to perfectly curate what I’m carrying with me on it

I still love how a movie about hackers completely made up what they thought hacker culture might look like, but instead of laughing off a bad Hollywood film hacker culture embraced this invented asthetic and hasn’t really let go since

I recently watched that film for the first time and holy shit that movie has aged like fine wine and makes me nostalgic for a bygone subculture that never really existed in the first place

There are plugins available for Callibre to remove DRM from ebooks if you want to hedge against Amazon or whomever pulling the rug on you

But do you have fuck?

Well you see, permits can be rejected, and the time spent getting a permit is time spent not making money, so by requesting a permit after they dump them in a city and get people hooked on the idea they can make money during that time and build a customer base to advocate for them. Because governments would never apply regulations to misbehaving businesses! What do you think this is, China?

Seriously though, the success of these scooter and bike share services just goes to show the innate demand for better public transit that our cities aren’t meeting, and by partnering with these micromobility companies they’re basically giving up on actually providing for their citizens needs

Dang I must be misremembering the specifics then!

Edit: looks like fingerprints are in fact different for identical twins so it must’ve been that they got fingerprinted on every visit (which is much more realistic for a parole and probation office to collect and test on-site, whereas DNA would have to be sent for processing which would presumably take days or weeks)

I only heard the tale secondhand like a decade ago so not surprising that some specifics got mixed up

I had a relative who worked at a parole and probation office. There were a pair of twins who had a long history of covering for eachother (which the courts had become well aware of) and one got a sentence including probation. Since twins have the same fingerprints, they were required to provide a DNA sample at every court-mandated probation meeting to prove that the correct twin showed up to every required probation meeting

Mobile gaming is the largest market segment of gaming. There’s probably billions of people who have a phone but do not have the Internet service to download games onto a computer or console

Most normies don’t have home Internet because the unlimited data they already buy for their phones is plenty good enough that they often don’t see the point of home Internet at all!

Depends on if you’re using an esim or physical SIM. The IMEI is the serial number of the cellular modem, so one cell phone service per IMEI except eSIMs can theoretically support multiple eSIM profiles, so each profile gets it’s own IMEI to prevent conflicts. eSIM modems instead have a different unique hardware identifier. Ultimately it gets…complicated fast with eSIMs and some of it seems to just be down to how it’s implemented in the real world rather than theory

But in short, IMEI is a hardware serial number to identify the cellular modem, and all of the phone manufacturers have collaborated on non-conflicting IMEI numbers so you can identify the make, model, region and sku of a device based entirely off of its IMEI

Lime is one of those scooter share companies that dumped a bunch of electric scooters in city centers overnight with QR codes to use an app to pay to unlock and begin riding them

In short, yes. Windows has a checkbox in the settings somewhere (I think the partition manager? I can’t remember now) to enable compression on a given partition, so you can in effect enable filesystem compression on the C: drive. Through the command line you can also compress individual directories with different compression algorithms and I had incredible luck compressing game files with LZX compression with some games compressing down by 3 or 4 times (these were notably games with 100s of gigabytes of user-generated assets. More normal games only saw around a 20-40% reduction in storage space usage, which isn’t bad at all)

Outside of Windows there’s popular filesystems like zfs and btrfs which support filesystem compression and general encourage it by default because the speed of (de-)compression after reading from disk is almost always faster than just reading the uncompressed data from the disk directly

Your gold club has an access fee? How pedestrian. Ours is a private golf club only open to shareholders to ensure that only the right people can access it, and none of those new money creeps can make it in

The mouse I was provided by work is an MX Anywhere 3S likely purchased around 2023, and I charge it maybe once a year? Infrequently enough that I honestly can’t tell you. There is a very noticable improvement in quality from Logitech’s ~$30 mice to this one, but the AA battery powered one it replaced lasted a good 3 months or more before it needed new batteries as well

I honestly was not! I’ve not paid too close of attention to the consumer hardware space for…about 6 or 7 years or so now