My Mini Factory is primarily where I get mine (if you want a list of users I primarily buy mine)

Cults3D is another place but they’re a lot more hit and miss on quality IMO

The best models are purchased models (in general) though MZ4250 on Printables models are free and also pretty high quality.

Personally I won’t pirate models of people in the 3D printing mini community as I want to support the creators in that space as they’re not giant megacorps.

I’d say that consuming content that only confirms your biases is a form of failing media literacy as you’re failing to see the biases inherent to the content you’re consuming. There’s the flaw of “I think it’s this way” seeking out that content and not seeing that it’s poorly sourced (if at all) and eating it up.

Not to mention the role that content suggestion algorithms play in reinforcing that behavior and providing you with even more content along the lines of the biases you’re reinforcing.

It’s a complicated can of worms for sure.

The funeral industry (in a nutshell) is hella expensive

Cost of the plot, scheduling, cost of a casket, prepping the deceased, if there’s anything special there’s that cost as well, etc

There’s a reason I tell my family that when I die, cremate me and put my remains in a coffee can. If you wanna schedule some kind of event do it completely removed from the funeral parlor.

My fellow Americans, you need to reach out to your representatives to ask them to push for legislation to repeal the Comstock Act.

Remember, if it’s still on the books it’s just waiting to be used.

Don’t let it be used, push for it to get officially repealed.

I’m not sure exactly what model but it’s a 4k 75in hisense running Android from like 5 years ago

Personally I just setup a PC as a NAS‡ and installed VLC on my TV so that I can just browse the NAS and play the files directly

Is it efficient? No.

Is it the best way? Also no.

Does it work? Yes, surprisingly well in fact.

‡ The first time was simply a network shared folder, the second time was using TrueNAS.

Recent events with streaming services has really been the best argument for self hosting your own content

NGL that sounds pretty cool, judges earning a title for Serving their nation as a member of SCOTUS.

And of course coming with a nice retirement package and a lifetime ban from working for companies who cases they over saw as a justice.

The median voter. So yes, the clueless.

Having a supreme court justice for each judicial district seems like a good idea to me, for a total of 13.

And also having term limits would be great.

me to Intel

He technically did get impeached for that, he didn’t get removed from office (which is infuriating) but it was one of his impeachments.

He definitely should have faced more though

Here’s to hoping that it keeps going downhill for him 🥂

The more I learn about him the more I like that man

Knowledge is power and the internet contains an absolutely monstrous amount of knowledge

Everybody wants to rule the world

And here comes Kamala with a steel chair!

Exactly

Everyone can agree on something being an issue but there needs to be consensus on solutions

Personally I think Kamala Harris is a viable plan. She’s already VP, she’s instantly recognizable, and she’s also polling well against trump.

And honestly I’m starting to think the plan might be something along the lines of “Keep Biden in until after the election then scoot Harris in under the 25th amendment”

If social media has taught me anything it’s that it was a mistake

The IT guy quits and it’s no longer their problem to fix

Maybe this will convince him to step aside?

I hope he recovers but god damn this is shitty timing

Edit: President Harris anyone? Definitely better than getting trump in office.

Make sure to use official White House stationary for it, that way it’s official presidential business.

An unsurprising decision but still horribly disappointing.

I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.

So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)

And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of.

About $3.20.

Source

So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.

USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks

They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.

If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it.

Back in the day it was a terrible loss though

If memory serves it costs them something like $10k per year 4 years ago for the Adobe suite.

Link to the vid where they talk about it

Short sighted LTT video?

Checks out

Seriously though transitioning your team to a new software suite will suck at first but it’s worth it in the long run. Long term gains vs short term gains and all that.

I’ve shucked a few drives in the past but when there was a big sale on hard drives awhile back I finished decking my NAS out with 8TB drives that weren’t shucked as they came out to be cheaper than the ones in enclosures at the time.

The main downside is warranty really and some of the drives from enclosures need to have the power blocked on one of the pins to work (can’t remember which sorry) due to the type of drive they are.

Cheap VPNs typically are cheap for a reason, and those reasons typically make them not worth the savings (like logging data and selling it)

Of course if your country doesn’t care then sail away brother and be sure to seed

My country unfortunately cares a lot so a VPN is mandatory for me

Shit where I work the cell service is terrible inside the building but the moment you walk outside the building it’s perfect

Our building has a wavy metal roof and wavy metal siding

Edit: Spleling

“Now announcing UnRAID 2, UnRAID original will no longer receive updates as we focus our resources on UnRAID 2.”

And “UnRAID 2” will only have a subscription model, and people will the OG lifetime license won’t be grandfathered into the new license.

Like Adobe and Photoshop.

I’d say it’ll happen before 2030.

But I may just be cynical at this point.

I am as well but it looks like it’s new accounts every time and they make just a single post, the spam post

At least this time the spam is just an image link to some random discord server and not CSAM

A lot of the data in the video file you take isn’t that visible but it’s there for when you put it in editing software

For example: if you took that lower sized YouTube rip and threw it into editing software to tinker with the brightness (as a simple example) you quickly start getting artifacts whereas the video you took would be able to handle the editing without the artifacts much better as there’s more data to work with

Basically the YouTube video has had all the extra data scrapped off that it doesn’t need because it’s not going to be edited, it’s only going to be viewed

That’s the best part

They redefine “own” and “buy” in their TOS

And so do many many other online retailers that sell digital goods

I’ve found the reason it’s not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways

Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it’s great

I’m honestly a bit surprised

Surprised that it’s only 71% that is

If only there was an ATX or mATX version

Looks hella nice though

My first NAS was an old desktop that I got for $300 running an FX-6300 and a GTX 550, I slapped a couple hard drives in there, installed Ubuntu, and made an SMB share.

I’d recommend installing TrueNAS Scale on a system rather than doing what I did in part due to it being so much better than what I was doing, but you could run it on a potato if you wanted.

Hell my latest NAS upgrade is going from a PowerEdge T610 (tower server from like 2010ish) running TrueNAS Scale to a normal desktop (from 2017) running TrueNAS Scale

If anything using normal desktop hardware makes servicing it easier than using old server hardware

I’ve currently got the Meshify C (not the 2) for my main gaming rig and I’ve dug it the whole time I’ve had it; looking at the drive mounting for the Meshify 2 makes me really want it for sure as that looks really convenient

The more I looked at the Node 804 since I made this post the less I liked it

NGL I wish their North line of cases had more slots for HDDs

Having a sale price adjusted for local currency would likely go a long way, and I don’t mean just a price conversion I mean an adjusted sale price. Some regions 9£ is a lot of money vs their monthly income and others it’s not much at all.

Not so much currently (in the case of Russia) as you likely can’t sell it there due to sanctions, but in general that would help a lot in boosting sales vs piracy.