I own a Prusa, a MK4S. They could stand to get their shit together a bit. I’m currently running two firmware versions behind because the last two years worth has been fucktrash.

Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.

Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.

I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.

But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.

I’d like to see them pair a bluetooth headset to a phone.

Further reason to never do business with anywhere where nationality equals race. Criticize their government, they play the race card.

As much as saying “Hey probably stop genociding Palestinians” is antisemitic.

Honestly? No. Nintendo is entirely too litigant, VW cheated on their emissions, and Samsung appliances are utterly shit.

I’ll trust them when no one alive remembers when they were a single-party state.

Oh give them a minute.

“Oh look at these wonderful Chinese 3D printers, they’re legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper.”

They DDOS the competition, steal intellectual property, violate software licenses, and catch fire.

“Oh look at these wonderful Chinese electric cars, they’re legitimately ahead of the Western competition and so much cheaper.”

the lid of the Apple II popped off toolless. They included fucking schematics.

Either of his parents American citizens when he was born?

They know they don’t get a piece of the pie.

I am a moderator for a community. I haven’t ever had to do any moderating because everyone in there has behaved reasonably.

Fundamentals of Instruction.

That would require a number of teachers that actually understand or care about FoI which we don’t have.

The answer they give you is “If you want it written, YOU write it.” Which…it’s no wonder open source software doesn’t hold up, right? It’s made by idiots who think it’s up to end users to write the manual.

I haven’t used it in awhile, but OnShape I think had the best UI, for being in a browser.

There are some macros out there I’ve found that make FreeCAD a lot better. I kinda wish they had a half-decent reference for macro writing; they’ll point you to their unfinished out of date wiki if you ask.

Look up how to use FreeCAD’s spreadsheet.

No, all CAD software sucks. I use FreeCAD myself and just got used to the jank.

LLMs like Gemini have basically the exact same UI form factor as the Starship Enterprise’s computer. All you need is that little tweedle “I’m listening” prompt and a Text-To-Majel-Barrett library. Thing is, on the Enterprise, it always correctly worked. If you asked it for a statement of fact you’d get a quote out of a database. Gemini will just make shit up that sounds plausible.