I don’t think shots were intended to be fired at the Mozilla corporation, who can’t stop talking about their default, opt-out AI, but it paints a stark picture of the difference between a company that preaches privacy and choice, versus a company that actually provides those things.

I think they’re also taking shots on telemetry. Firefox uses telemetry as evidence to support their decisions in ways that sometimes seem contrived or statistically incorrect (similar to only x% of people turned this default feature off, therefore it is good), making me feel as a user that contributing my telemetry to them is actually a bad thing that is encouraging their behaviour. Meanwhile TDF makes great software that follows what the community wants and needs without any telemetry collection.

Higher price != better printer.

My Qidi Q1 pro has has lots of print quality and reliability problems. I ended up fixing them by disabling lots of printer features, including filament width detection piezo bed height sensor. Despite it being housed I had to do a lot of modifications to duct it properly because it has lots of holes and fans.

My $300AUD bedslinger i3 clone has only ever had two problems, the non-metal hot end having PTFE tube expansion (great since I replaced it) and the gantry getting crooked (once I knew this it became 1000x easier to use). Not as fast acceleration as the Qidi but much more reliable.

I borrowed a Mk3 Prusa from work a few years ago. If I had to pay for it I would have been really pissed, out of the box it was really slow.

My old boss spend thousands on an even slower printer… lets not go there :D

I’ve heard that even the Enders are much better out of the box these days. Maybe try one of those?

Short answer: It depends. Doing full flash reads of your USB sticks and SD cards (dd if=/dev/XXX of=/dev/null bs=4k status=progress) may help for a lot of them. But not all. The only solution I can actually recommend (for any storage media) is backup them up and regularly testing/moving the backups.

If the read of the disk is particularly slow then that indicates the flash cells are degraded. If a second read of the disk is much faster then that indicates some action may have been taken by the flash controller IC to fix this.

Long answer:

NAND flash cells slowly leak charge, making their state indistinguishable. A flash controller IC (usually separate to the NAND flash IC or ICs) has the job of noticing and fixing this (by rewriting the data to another or the same cell) before it gets too bad. That doesn’t necessarily mean it does it particularly well.

Some (few?) flash controllers periodically scan for weak cells and rewrite to fix them. Some (most?) flash controllers notice weak cells only when you read them. Some (many?) flash controllers are shit and don’t do any of this.

Flash controllers also have a bunch of other features and jobs, like maintaining a spare pool of cells (over-provisioning) to swap out for bad ones and even forcing the USB stick into read-only mode if they think things have gone particularly bad. Again this varies a lot depending on implem, some do it, some don’t, and for different reasons (out of over-provis cells, corrupt mapping metadata, arbitrary thresholds, etc).

I guess it depends on what you mean by bike lanes.

Good bike lanes = independent, spaced from a road, or barricaded if near either parking or roads.

Bad bike lanes = minimal repainting on a street, often ignored because they’re so unsafe, worse than sharing the roads.

I have a mix of all types in my area. Some of them let me go places cars cannot, others follow the car roads safely, others are designed by people who have never cycled and want to murder me (so I ride in the traffic lane instead).

Thankyou! Yes this is exactly what I’m after.

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Low_loss_magnetic_loop_antenna_100mm_tube.jpg

I’ve used Organic (now CoMaps) for a while now. Mostly been great. Interface is so much faster than OSMand (slow rendering) or Google maps (no networking needed).

Driving route planning doesn’t know about traffic, so it’s always optimistic about time.

Some rural towns in my country disappear unless you zoom in more, which is a pain sometimes.

TBH they changed the recipe a few years back and now taste far worse. But my brain has already been corrupted by the fandom, so I continue to use timtams as a way of visualising how much money I’m spending. $170 flight? That’s 510 timtams! Almost 2 a day for an entire year.

Hmm. I think you’re trying to lead me into niche investments!

What are they like? Texture & flavour similar, or completely different?

You free tonight? Or Sat morn, Sun arvo? I can try to drag you with with some other friends.

Going to try it with some friends soon (maybe tonight?). We loved PEAK, it was magical.

A particularly diabolical friend in PEAK:

DO NOT TRUST WHAT HE SAYS

Please don’t tell me you’re not using FIFA compliant LLMs? That’s negligence!

Make the variable a word size relevant to the processor’s memory access width (eg 32bit), don’t use atomic locks, mark it as volatile, write a comment about how things are perfect this way and lockers are losers; then rig the struct it’s in to have a 50% chance of misaligning the 32bits (so two cycles are required to read/write to it) every time someone changes and recompiles the code >:D

(Yes I no longer work as a programmer, no I don’t know why they don’t want me)

(5minute in) When you have a quest market or a minimap, the player doesn’t take in the gameworld. They’re not playing a game so much as they’re sleepwalking through it. It becomes a monotmous grind, there’s nothing stimulating or exciting about it. Go here, pick up this item. Go here, talk to this person, rinse, repeat.

I hate minimaps with a passion and turn them off in games wherever possible. Otherwise I find myself playing the game primarily looking at the minimap, with the actual 3d world just being a background obstacle course I occasionally have to flick to. With it off I have a lot more fun, getting lost and learning new areas.

Flicking to a pause menu map or similar adds friction but I have not found a better way (EDIT: the video touches on this, where a lot of modern games are broken without minimaps and quest markers. There are ways the designers can fix this, like partial maps. I want to make a game now with some shadily hand-drawn maps…)

o.o I had completely forgotten this.

Next you’re going to tell me that strlcpy() is not real. I will not believe you. I will choose not to believe you.

Unit pedant here: Just 166W. Watts are joules per second (they already have time in them, adding another unit of time confuses things).

This might seem silly, but it will help avoid confusion when you encounter Wh (watts * hours).

I am using this one. Texting or messaging my phone (on anything that makes a notification popup) with the text “fmd password location” gives me GPS coords. More than enough for me, and works even from a borrowed stranger’s phone.

Setup steps require ADB though, because in the phone ecosystem getting “unusual” permissions usually requires business deals with Google/Apple.

For extra joy #define ellen(A) ln(A)

We both think the other does all the work on the site. 😃

Secretly you’re both binchickens! Ty muchly.