empireOfLove2

empireOfLove2 , 18 days ago

Do you use Firefox?
because Google intentionally nerfs loading performance on any non-Chrome browsers.

I usually find if startup buffering takes more than 2-3 seconds on my home Internet, just refreshing the page magically makes it go away.

empireOfLove2 OP , 20 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

There's tons of similar SBC's out there from Chinese manufacturers, like Orange Pi, Banana Pi, etc; usually using mediatek RISC-V or rockchip ARM processors. They're all poorly supported on the software and documentation side though and take more work to get going, which has always been where Raspberry shined- nobody else has made embedded computing so easily accessible with click and go OS options and continuous kernel maintenance.
Probably the only board closest to software parity is the pine64 boards... but it's still not quite as good.

empireOfLove2 , 20 days ago

Oh yeah. At in person networking events they are still a big thing. There just aren't as many in person networking events these days (like trade shows), although they're picking back up.

empireOfLove2 , 21 days ago

It federates...ish.

Some instances federate actions better than others, and even then it can be random which get properly federated- a lot of time site/community bans don't get federated to the modlog right but content removals almost always do. I have a feeling this is largely intentional.

The most reliable method is always to check the home instance of the community/user directly.

empireOfLove2 , 22 days ago

id still smash

empireOfLove2 , 23 days ago

A. Their software phones home aggressively.
B. Their software embeds unique digital fingerprints in every file created with it. If other legit Autodesk software opens those files, it knows. They can and will use that to track pirated users. The neat part is, they don't care about your priated software until you're verifiably using it to make money, at which point they will open up your asshole with a speculum and go fishing.

empireOfLove2 , 23 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Adobe is lax about it because they care about being the industry standard monopoly. When more people use their software and become proficient in it, more companies want to buy it so they have better hiring prospects, and Adobe wins.

The stories I've heard about most CAD companies, especially Dassault, is that they don't generally care about the pirated software, and if they do, the worst they'll do if you're just a hobbyist is send you a "cut it out dude" cease and desist.

The problems arise when you start using their software for anything that makes money, like sending models/drawings to other companies/clients or whatever. If youre trying to run a business with pirated software they will absolutely pin your ass to the wall with lawyers and go after every cent you earned using their software PLUS the cost of a full license PLUS whatever damages they feel like pulling out of their ass.

empireOfLove2 , 23 days ago

You can never share any of the software specific formats ever (.ipt for inventor, .dwg for Autocad, .sldprt for solidworks, etc). All those formats include fingerprints inside that are not user visible or modifyable but include detailed info about the copy of the software license that created it. If anyone else ever opens those with a legit copy, the software itself phone home about it and they'll know, because whatever license the pirate copy shows will not exist on Autodesk/Dassault/whatever's side.

Platform agnostic formats likely embed this kind of Metadata too somewhere, but it can probably be stripped, and most of the time when sharing an agnostic for.at like .step/.stl the opening software is not made by autodesk or whoever.

Finally it could just legit be a user report. Companies like autodesk have a reporting system to send evidence of suspected pirated software use directly to their legal teams. It doesnt happen often but if youre using like a 7 year old copy of Inventor and something feels off... yeah. So you're never truly safe if you have to share your models at all.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Hope that Canada or one of the Nordic/EU countries have job openings for an engineer.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

The main hurdle is really experience (I am <5yr) and family (my parents are aging and may need my intervention in fewer years than I think). Firms usually only hire internationally for skilled engineers and there's no guarantee my accredited degree from the US is valid anywhere else. And if I went someplace other than Canada, the travel costs would likely result in me only coming back to see the rest of my family once every two years, which sucks and could pose actual problems.

Don't get me wrong, I honestly do like the idea of going someplace with real human rights, but unless it becomes clear there is actually a threat to my existence I can't justify that big of a change. I love my family too much.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Of course, but the people who are constantly talking about "Stocks" and "The Market" are usually constantly trading, wheeling, dealing, doing all sorts of shit and then trying to brag about how smart they are cause they're "hustling" while... barely keeping up with or not keeping up at all with those broad index funds you already mentioned.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

checks post history

....yup. "ree nobody likes my christofascism, I want my own instance because nobody will listen to me"

No offense, but go figure it out yourself because I'm not helping you. If you can't read the lemmy docs and get it going on your own server, that's on you.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

this may be a signal that Russia is reaching the limit of its ability to sustain the war and he's trying to grab a hold of what little land he tenuously holds right now. Putin wants to wrap it up before they start to lose ground again.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Putin might become "enraged"?
Oh no!
Anyway...

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

I'm very interested in experimenting with na-ion this summer. Their specific power/energy densities are still low compared to li-ion but their cells are already available for cheaper than li-ion despite having not reached economies of scale yet. They also seem to be reporting (unverified in data sheets) longer cycle lifespans and larger operational temperature ranges. Could make for a very nice self managing solar powered pi project soon.

If costs drop fast, the lower density won't even matter- it could be the kick in the ass for utility scale battery storage to take off.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

The absolute best bang for your buck new GPU's for decode/encode are Intel ARC GPU's. They use Intel's Quick Sync Video system which is some of the best supported encode/decode libraries out there, and they're cheap.

An ARC A380 is easily had for $110, runs entirely off 75w PCIe slot power requiring no additional PSU wires, and supports H264/H265/AV1 encode. It's a no brainer.

As long as it physically fits the slot, it should not have an issue with the lower PCIe bandwidth. The lower end GPU's really need very little even for video encode.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

No need for an Intel CPU. It is basically platform agnostic like any other.

About its only "requirement" is that your system is new enough to support Resizable BAR on thr PCIe bus, which your zen3 machine absolutely is.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Sure it can. People will pay to not see it.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

This is a bit of a loaded question and very poorly written. Bad troll is bad.

The problem stands that modern "Libertarians" have been corrupted by corporations and conservative bigots to mean "elimination of government and regulation" and not "government to uphold liberty" like it originally did. A correctly Libertarian government would write laws that solely uphold the power of the individual's self determination, which inherently requires restriction of the power of capital.

I consider myself Libertarian, but I feel there now has to be a distinction made between "Capital Libertarians" and "Individual Libertarians". One wants the liberty of capital, the other wants the liberty of the individual. I find myself in the latter. Corporations can go fuck themselves, the individual is paramount.

"Socialist" things like public infrastructure, and yes, public healthcare, would be supported by individual libertarianism. Social support structures like these support individual liberty but restrict capital liberty by requiring taxes to support them, whereas supporting capital liberty by making it "pay as you go" does nothing but remove the individual liberty of the population that finds themselves without any capital through no fault of their own. I absolutely support universal healthcare.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

A capital libertarian government would not fund public roads. You would need to pay a toll to drive on every privately built road, because your capital is free to move. But roads to certain places would cost more than others, thus restricting the individual's liberty to their ability to pay.
A individually libertarian government funds public roads. Individuals then retain the right to self-determination to decide where they want to go without restriction. How they go on those roads might be subject to their capital restrictions- whether they walk, bike, drive, rollerskate, or whatever. But they are at least allowed to use those roads.

Certain things will always be needed in our society for humans to function. If humans are not functioning correctly, they are not free to self-determine their path. Gating such a simple thing as healthcare, which again, humans absolutely need to function, behind the ability to pay is inherently restricting their individual liberty in an immoral way.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

They don't want anything preserved, because if it disappears, it can be "remastered" and resold like a brand new game with zero actual input capital.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

And not even the good wood paneling, it was the grain-printed stained plywood shit that everyone used in the late 70s/early 80s.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That was always going to happen. Russia's industrial base is collapsing and has been for a while, while China drools over the kind of natural energy and mineral resources that Siberia is full of. Plus, as climate change moves on and much of China overheats, those northern latitudes will continue to look more and more attractive. It's beneficial for both sides of the respective imperialistic coin for them to trade for the thing the other doesn't have.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

I think the first thing I ever pirated was Cars. I was like 13, They didn't have a VHS for it at the library and our home internet at the time was too slow to even think about streaming, so I figured out how to torrent and it took like 6 days to get a complete copy of the movie.

I ended up sticking to pirating and pack packratting all the movie files locally specifically because our internet was so bad.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Per the legal US definition, almost every SUV is a "light truck", including my 1999 Subaru Forester...

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

The Forester up until 2008 was quite literally an Impreza/Legacy chassis that shares identical drivetrain components except for the body. It is unibody, Macpherson strut, symmetrical AWD and as far from a truck as you can get.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Correction: They already listen to all of your calls and have been training their models on it

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

You already do that by using any Google product at all.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Here before Nintendo files a cease&desist for daring to make a way better service than their shitty phoned-in subscription emulation service

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

Oooh, tangled. Thanks for reminding me about them. Having all US produced product is a nice plus and if they can keep it that cheap domestically, I'd happily buy it for all my bulk printing that doesn't care about color. $15/kg is about as good as it gets these days.

empireOfLove2 OP , 1 month ago

The bulk 10kg options look good. I might stock up on those and packrat a few colors since they dont' really go bad

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

not even a hot take. the only people who seem to hate ubuntu are the hardcore linux nerds who like custom building kernels and shit- which, honestly, more power to them, but i have the big dumb and want click button make work.

Admittedly I don't really like how they're handling packages these days, it's a bit messy with the whole snap vs flatpak vs apt thing, but whatever.

I currently run ubuntu alongside my windows install just because I needed linux to experiment with AI models, and the only AMD drivers that work for ROCm support are Ubuntu only (packages are permanently dependency-broken on other distros).

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

you are now banned from lemmygrad.ml

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Just exist for a while, if you're a reasonable person in a comment thread, chances are you'll get preemptively banned anyway!

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

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empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

If its just for her, I don't really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age "found christian" movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She's gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.

Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you're not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It's not worth driving a rift in the family over.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

If they used Google maps, Niantic would have to pay Google. That's no Bueno. Why pay for content critical to your apps success when you could just freeload on volunteers work instead?

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Generally speaking yes, with bigger nozzles and higher flow rates you will need slightly higher temps- the conduction rate thru the nozzle to the plastic is constant, but you are heating up more plastic and need more energy (thus, higher temps).
You will then also need more part cooling fan as there is more plastic bulk to be cooling.

230 is much much too low for ASA, that stuff is a bit picky. Try 250.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Yeah. ASA basically acts like ABS when printing for the most part, it does need temps to be a tiny bit higher but mechanically everything else is almost entirely the same.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Even 250 is a bit low for that high of a volume. Are you running a brass nozzle or a hardened/stainless steel nozzle? Steel nozzles will require even more hotend temp due to their low conduction rates. Eg, with the stainless nozzles on a Bambu P1S, I have to run ASA at around 260/262 for higher print speeds.

If stringing is a problem consider increasing the speed of your filament retraction (not distance)
You may also want to turn off z-hop. Sounds wild I know, but it does help- by not lifting the nozzle during a rapid move, it "wipes" the nozzle clean as it moves off the part and reduces stringing. Realistically you shouldn't use z-hop at all unless you have a part with a very small cross section that keeps falling over when the nozzle wipes across it. Which ofc, the big print I see in the photo looks like it will have zero stability problems, lol.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Most annoyingly, it always recommends Fandom’s Wiki above better alternative wiki sites.

use Indie Wiki Buddy extension to get rid of fandom.
https://getindie.wiki/

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

That works too, but indie buddy works better because it gives you a direct link to the proper indie wiki page in search results rather than just blocking Fandom and leaving you with nothing.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

Hmm. Has it updated, and have you allowed it the correct site permissions? Every once in a while it'll ask you to update the site modification permissions.

I've had zero issues with it on Firefox and DDG. May vary on other browsers and search engines though.

empireOfLove2 , 1 month ago

This just in: tool developed by company who makes money from ad spending tries its best to spend as much as possible on ads regardless of effectiveness.... more at 11.