My local solar steam generator was shut down years ago as it was no longer worth testing direct reflector material anymore — even if they had gotten perfect reflectivity they couldn’t compete with photovoltaics anymore

Thinkpads are more expensive and far far less user serviceable

My Prusa xl printed tpu perfectly first go on its flex preset.

I have had a PLA print holding my bike light working for about three years so I don’t think that’s a problem

I wouldn’t buy Bambu. Too much of a vertical company. I don’t believe they’re upgradable, I don’t believe they’re hackable, I don’t think they’ll work well with random third party filament

I like Prusa. They are upgradable, they are hackable, they work fine on any filament

I’d go for a Prusa printer, they’re highly maintainable and easy to upgrade. Definitely not Bambu - they’re a closed source shitty company

Nozzle change is easy on new Prusa printers, Prusa have a how to on their website

My Prusa XL 5 tool is printing like a champ. So far I have printed a 2 colour PLA print that took the whole print bed and a flexible (TPU) print for my bike

It hasn’t missed a trick

I love Prusa

I also have an ankermake printer which I bought hoping their colour system would happen, but it never did. I’m tempted to replace it with a Prusa mk4s with their working multiple material unit (MMU) which is already in version 3

And it works with an open source slicer

And their printers have a history of being upgradable

Any printer I get in the future will be a Prusa

What were the best settings on that video?

Why do you use Lemmy, given the politics of its own source creator? Bit hypocritical.

So you won’t buy the most user maintainable and repairable laptop, that also comes with Linux and probably worth open source firmware in the not too distant future because you don’t like the politics of the owner of an open source project the company supports?

That really feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face

That’s odd, it’s not a story about religion, it’s about Brian who’s a very naughty boy

1985

Nearly 20 years into the Unix epoch

It’s nice to see humans and bonobos in the same sentence like that. Usually we only get compared to our other close related animal, the warlike chimpanzees

Ten and a half kilos. Fatso

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†

*What You Get Is What You Get

†What You See Is What You Get

I’m pretty sure every distro lets you pay if you want to. Many beg you to

If you came to my place, I’d give you free beer - I’m a home brewer but not much of a drinker

Mint upgrades have been pretty smooth for my partner and myself

My local butcher offers offal rich minced meat, I should keep a kilo in the freezer for every now and then