greybeard

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on Some are still good though. · c/Risa · 9 pts · 2d

Seriously, SNW is probably the best trek since DS9, in part because you actually get time to learn about the characters, not just going one cliffhanger after another of a single plot taking the whole season. Star Trek was monster of the week show, right up until Enterprise, when suddenly season spanning arcs were all the rage on TV and Trek couldn't escape it.

I don't know if any TVs are actually using it, but Amazon Sidewalk is a form of LoRa, low power, low bandwidth, long distance communication. It's designed to let non-internet connected devices phone back home. I hear it is very popular with shipping trackers because you can put a small device in a pallet and have it send it's GPS back for free. I'm not sure it would support the GBs of data TVs are phoning home with each month, but it could certainly send some data home.

on 3D-printed lampshade · c/3dprinting · 4 pts · 16d

My Christmas gift to family members last year were 3D printed lamps. I got a super cheap paper lantern style lamp from Ikea and removed the socket and cord, then printed a new base (filled with sand for weight), and printed a shade using a lithopane generator to have photos shine through. I was quite happy with the results.

Snow Crash is a Sci-Fi book from the early 90s. It coined the term metaverse. It takes place in a post American collapse setting, where corporations have taken over. There's a lot of interesting points in the book, probably as interesting today as the day it was wrote.

But what stuck with me, and helped form my understanding of society and helped me build my career in tech was his observations on franchises. He posits that franchise are basically a living organism, who's DNA is written in binders. These binders cover every eventuality. They explain process, procedure, and expected results so that the humans in each franchise can keep the organism alive.

It was kinda a throw away set dressing just setting up the world at the beginning of the book, but it is the part that had real meaning to me.

Other way around. PrusaSlicer came first. It was originally a fork of Slic3r, then Bambu and OrcaSlicer forked it. Prusa certainly has back ported some features from OrcaSlicer, which is the way open source should work. Everybody wins.

I pay a premium for Prusa because I like their philospohy of making as much of it as possible in house, and their general openness, not just in code, but in how their business functions.

My first 3D printer was a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic. I'm very willing to spend if I think it will benefit the entire ecosystem I'm interested in.

Also, with Prusa, I get to feel like I'm DIYing it, but with great and detailed instructions, and an all-in-one parts sourcing. They are also great at supporting their devices after the fact, which is sometimes necessary, because they often come out a little too hot.

I disagree, it will be worse in almost every way for war than quad copter with a gun mounted on it. Once the brains catch up, maybe, but for now it's going to trip at the first slightly uneven flooring or raised threshold, and completely destroy itself on a power cable laying on the ground.

You are trusting them either way. If it is your router to their modem, or your modem to their local relays, either way they can view all the traffic you put across the line.

AT&T doesn't really leave me a choice, I have to use their stupid router/modem, but of course that's treated as a dumb gateway for my own router. I've turned off their wifi radios and enabled their equivalent to gateway mode. It's pretty much the best you can do beside put it in a faraday cage.

The notable step ups you can do is DNS over HTTPS, or full VPN tunneling, although I always assume most the VPN providers are doing the same spying, not to mention the performance hit.