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by esskay 4y ago
I've all but given up on smart home tech. Almost all of them use the old 2.4ghz wifi band which nothing else in my home uses, and for some reason despite being connected to (any) router that supports both they'll fail to communica
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by esskay 4y ago
Had a similar thing at my place. We spend extortionate amounts on AWS for a load balanced setup - we dont make any real use of any of their other services so its not like we're reliant on them for everything. The guy who set it up had
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by esskay 4y ago
That newegg interview was the strangest and most awkward encounter imagineable. The whole overly corporate feel of the company was exposed and just made them look even worse.
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by esskay 4y ago
Feel like I'm traveling back to about 2009 visiting that site. Tired looking design, forced 'Book a demo' (why? Just give me the damn product) nonsense, still using SVN for their opensource version, etc. It might be a great p
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by esskay 4y ago
In 99% of cases its not, people just mistakenly think they need a 'cloud' provider for everything these days.
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by esskay 4y ago
There were similar discussions in the PHP community, with arguments that were sensible and rather stupid on both sides of the argument. I'm honestly a bit torn by it. Yes, your code absolutely should be written in a way that keeps it t
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by esskay 4y ago
It is quite amazing that with the experience people like these co-founders have that they put that to use creating things that, on the face of it look like fairly obvious flops. It really does highlight just how many people get lucky with o
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by esskay 4y ago
They've not been too truthful with the community over their supply chain issues. At the peak they were still making north of 100k units a month. It's just that over 95% of those were being sold in bulk to direct B2B customers whil
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by esskay 4y ago
I'm aware, it was a general observation based on the misleading title.
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by esskay 4y ago
Not sure its a laptop at this point. All attempts to a multi-screened laptop seem to fail spectacularly and end up far too heavy for the brackets, causing it to flop down.
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by esskay 4y ago
'Hacked' probably isn't the right word.
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by esskay 4y ago
> Microsoft didn't miss mobile > They absolutely bungled it and pulled 3-4 various strategies that all seemed to fall flat So...they missed mobile.
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by esskay 4y ago
Rich Dad Poor Dad should always be mentioned with the caviet that: A) 99% of the book is fabricated B) It's based on methods which are significantly harder to do in this day and age The biggest takeaway from the book is the mental shif
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by esskay 4y ago
To clarify I was aware it was an older study, but there's been a pretty significant surge in 3d printing interest in the last couple of months with the Bambu Lab P1P and X1 starting a trend of new consumer grade 3d printers capable of
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by esskay 4y ago
With all the new materials that you can get I think a combination of both (plus venting to outside) is needed for real protection. The current hot new printer is the Bambu Lab X1. It's aimed at consumers and is capable of printing thin
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by esskay 4y ago
The filter in the X1 isn't good enough to filter much out at all really. It's more of a gimmick than a genuine filter solution. I've put mine in an out building and installed a shower fan in the wall which is connected up to
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by esskay 4y ago
Yup, pretty much the reason I shared it. The 3d printing community is going through somewhat of a transition with the 'next generation' of 3d printers (Voron and Bambu Lab X1 & P1P). The latter is a high performance, high prin
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by esskay 4y ago
Yep this prevented any commercial options. It's why the Ikea Lack became so popular as an easy and low cost enclosure to make - I've got one for my Prusa Mini+ and it obviously does nothing to help with venting.
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by esskay 4y ago
It is, but you still regularly see people showing off their latest 3d printer which is sitting in a kids bedroom running all day, or their office. Often when questioned, the existance of it being in a case or there being a cheap air purifie
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by esskay 4y ago
I know that smell, and rather annoyingly newer PLA's have somehow eliminated it. Which personally I dont see as a good thing. You used to know when someone was printing with PLA as it emitted a smell that was a mixture of a sweet popco
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by esskay 4y ago
There does seem to have been a slight shift in mentality over the last couple of years in the 3d printing community, with groups of users obsessing over statistics from air quality and particle sensors. One thing that is a bit concerning is
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by esskay 4y ago
I'm not sure it matters too much from the context of the article. I took it to mean commercial = any purchased printers (vs a self build). The end results in terms of VOC's and other nastiness is going to be the same regardless as
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Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)(eandt.theiet.org)
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by esskay 4y ago
So based on the rate of feature releases and bugfixes, this will take the active development team down from 2 guys and a dog to 1 guy and a dog.
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by esskay 4y ago
It does, I did a bit of digging after posting and it looks like you can get your GP to refer you to a private practice, pay them and then switch back to the GP once you've been diagnosed and started medication. So it looks like theres
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by esskay 4y ago
You're right, I've kinda been in a bit of denial about it to be honest. That needs to change.
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by esskay 4y ago
Thanks for this. I ended up going down a rabbit hole after my post and found out that we now have something called 'Right to Choose' which is where you can ask your GP to refer you to a private practice. From reading the ADHDUK su
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by esskay 4y ago
Ugh, wish it was easier to get hold of ADHD meds (or even a diagnosis) here in the UK. I've got it, well aware I have and have avoided even attempting to go to the GP to get medicated as from what I can see the wait times go into the y
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by esskay 4y ago
Not op, and not to be rude but honestly sounds like you maybe haven't. Meta's bleeding right now. Their attempt at Metaverse is failing hard. Meanwhile we've got Apple coming along with thier extremely efficient in-house chip
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by esskay 4y ago
Lets try this another way. You bought a display that exclusively integrates into Netflix, it can only display Netflix content, but you have to pay an annual fee to the display manufacturer for it to continue working. It's January and y

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