I never thought about the toe killer potential of floor-flush furniture.

But won’t a 2x4 place it at an awkward height where it’s tall enough to accumulate heaps of dust, but not tall enough to easily clean underneath? I have a sofa like that, and hate cleaning under it

Thanks for sharing the knowledge:)

Also I feel confident Prusa will not try a rug-pull enshitification move in 6 months time after buying their printer, unlike certain other manufacturers (Bamboo)

Yeah that was my assumption. But I hadn’t considered WOL being broadcast, so now I’m not so sure. I would assume it’s broadcast on both IP and Ethernet layer. It’s time to do some wiresharking :)

Not exactly a new book, but All Quiet on the Western Front was a fantastic read. It’s a grotesquely frank depiction of the unfortunate "Have Not"s fighting a meaningless war for the "Have"s in society, set in the german trenches of WW1.

Maybe something else going on then, but ive never gotten WOL to work after a blackout when there’s two switches between sender and receiver. After powering up the receiver once, WOL works again

If you’re already using node-red, the Wake On Lan node works well, and with node-red it’s easy to trigger the magic packet based on whatever trigger condition you want.

The only limitation I know is WOL doesn’t work after a power outage, because the switch and RPI doesn’t know where to find the target machine

Thanks for the tips on reusable enterprise cards btw

I’m surprised they chose MIT licence rather than AGPL or GPL

In math class when learning statistics we learned “the law of large numbers” , how with enough samples the average approaches the probability. Then applied it to two real world examples, gambling (lottery and roulette) and insurance. The math was the same, and the house always wins because the house deals in large numbers.

The takeaway is that gambling is stupid because the house always wins.

But also, statistics do not apply to individuals, so insurance is not stupid. At least not for life-altering expenses, like home, medical and traffic.

Zim Desktop Wiki is absolutely excellent

Default look n feel does feel a couple of decades outdated. But it can easily be customized to look look much more modern and comfortable.

Youtube tutorials on how to get started often begins with customizing the user interface before even starting the modeling tutorial. I recommend Deltahedra and Mangojelly on YouTube

FreeCAD, and I recommend you give it a second try, while watching the excellent tutorials from Deltahedra and Mangojelly on YouTube. Lots of the jank can be avoided if you only know how, so the tutorials are extremely useful.

FreeCAD has gotten exponentially better with each release the last few years, and both active developers and funding/donations from users have increased exponentially. The future is bright. And unlike the “free” commercial programs, FreeCAD is immune to future rug-pulls and enshitification.

You might also want to try https://dune3d.org/ , a relatively new 3D CAD software

Yay, v15 is LTS

I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues

I think it’s quite fun :)

Ah, the computer of Theseus. My 20year old server of Theseus only has the chassis left of original parts. And an unplugged floppy and DVD drive xD

Add to that doing field work with slow and unreliable internet, and it literally takes 30 seconds to open the context menu in explorer. Gotta wait for corporate.exe to time out first. At least opening the start menu doesn’t literally take 30 seconds anymore, after a regedit change to stop it from searching online first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

Flip the classroom: Each student watches the lecture at home at their own pace (with individual pause and rewind). Assignment are done as during interactive classroom sessions, not as homework

I still have a couple DVD drives. They’re both disconnected because the PCs they’re in both got new motherboards at some point in time without an IDE plug 😅

All of them. Not directly, but RAM and SSD price explosions hurt. Also buying electricity for my home heater from the same market as billion dollar data centers hurt too