I didn’t know silicon carbide heated up in the microwave. I learned something from the article.

Well it’s okay: the illegal tariff refunds are coming. RIght? RIght?

Someone needs to start a business melting Trump coins back to ingots.

I’m paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I’d still choose the former

I try to apply the same logic whenever I can too.

For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it’s a very good laptop, but it’s literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.

And my cellphone is a Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch. I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it’s also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone with similar performances. And Ubuntu Touch itself comes with its own set of restrictions, but that’s the price of trying to be as free from the Android ecosystem as possible.

So yeah, you can do open, but the choice is very limited and you pay a lot for the privilege.

I have a Prusa XL, and the reason is, Prusa is (still) mostly open-source. And quite frankly it’s the only reason why I stick with Prusa, because technically they’re behind the curve.

That’s Washington state, not DC.

Surveillance capitalism and the fascists always find a way to debase everything good that people like.

With PLA? Really? What plate material / surface do you use?

Maybe change your design if the geometry of the part makes it exceptionally prone to warping at the base, and/or it’s too tall or top-heavy for the bottom surface if your printer is a bed slinger.

EDIT: nevermind, I didn’t see your image. This almost looks like your roll of PLA is bad. Maybe try another brand?

Microsoft wants you to work the street.

Ew indeed.

AI doesn’t have much to like on its face, but the terrible sonsabitches trying to ram it forcibly down everybody’s throats - chief of which Microsoft, followed closely by OpenAI - are really doing their damnedest to make it properly hateworthy.

Microsoft makes me hate AI the same way Trump makes me hate red baseball caps: they’re not really that terrible in and of themselves, it’s who wears them.

This is The Onion, right?

I can’t find any mention, but it’s so ridiculous it’s gotta be…

The answer to this question can be obtained by watching someone with a MAGA cap walking a dog.

Unlike American citizens, Kilauea doesn’t like being put under surveillance.

mega warehouse detention centers

Aka concentration camps.

Shame on you America. May you end a fiery end, you nauseating country full of nauseating people.

Leave cavities for steel things like big bolts, shaped so the bolts won’t rattle around. Add a pause to the print before covering the cavities. Disable support for the cavities.

When the printer stops, stuff the cavities with bolts, then resume the print.

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Translation: Pam Bondi is done shredding the incriminating evidence on Trump.

Ah right okay.

The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

Prusa partners with Israeli company

I was planning to buy a Prusa printer soon, but now I’m not so sure. This is disappointing.