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Buelldozer

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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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  • Installing Collabra Office on a Windows PC requires the use of the Microsoft Store. Ick.

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  • IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don't know a single person who calls it anything other than "Office" or "Microsoft Office".

  • Rule 6?

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  • But I am curious to hear why it is specific to US politics.

    You've already gotten the biggest reason but another one to consider is that there are other large countries trying to force the world to become multi-polar. Those countries spend a LOT of time, effort, and money making sure that every possible negative aspect of American politics and culture is brought to light as much as possible.

    The Russian troll farms and China's 50 cent army don't sleep. They're always active and always looking to push negative coverage of the United States. They simply won't allow a focus shift because they are paid to keep that spotlight shining bright at all times.

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  • Shit, I want news to be boring again.

    The news has been full of wars, drugs, and domestic unrest since at least the 60s. In the 70s we added rank political malfeasance and conspiracy theories and here in the 2020s its more of the same. The big difference makers are the 24 hours news cycle and the rise of social media.

    If you limit your social media time and stay off aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit you'll find that it's possible to (mostly) go back to the way it was.

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  • As an American I too am oversaturated with US politics. It's been this way for a decade now and I fear its never going to end.

  • Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production

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  • Maybe the marketing language is technically deficient but the result of the technology speaks for itself; devices keep getting faster AND more power efficient.

    Meanwhile it's so damn hard to do that there's only one company making the machines that can pull it off and only one company that can successfully execute the process.

    This stuff is ultra pimpin no matter what the marketing department calls it.

  • What's a good printer for ASA filament?

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  • Creality K1

    See this is one of the things that confuses me. ASA supposedly requires a bed temperature of 120 but the K1 supposedly only goes to 100. Did you modify yours to get hotter or did it just work?

    Thanks for the warning about the fumes. This machine will go out in the garage and be externally vented.

  • What's a good printer for ASA filament?

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  • The Centauri Carbon is surprisingly inexpensive, almost suspiciously so. I don't need multi-color so that won't be a problem. I'll look into this one more.

    The Snapmaker U1 looks interesting and it's currently on sale for $849 so it's in my budget -but- were back to the "I want a guarantee the thing will print ASA without 100 hours of frustration and faffing about." thing.

    BUT: please, for the love of god,the spaghetti monster and everyone else...

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    I appreciate your warning about ASA and its toxic fumes. The machine will live in my 3 car garage where I can put an externally vented hood over it or enclose it completely.

    And stay away from Bambu,imho.

    That's a bummer to hear as they're one of the few manufacturer names that I actually recognize!

  • What's a good printer for ASA filament?

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  • I know that BL has some controversy regarding lock in but I can't even figure out which of their models would do I want in order to buy it!

  • (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38]

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  • I've been strongly considering adding a whole home humidifier and after watching I'm going to buy an Aprilaire 700 like his and do the same upgrade to it!

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • The term VPN is pure marketing bs. What is called VPN today used to be called Proxy Server.

    Perhaps if you are only talking about the consumer level stuff advertised on TV. Otherwise I can assure you that "Virtual Private Networks" are a real thing that have absolutely nothing to do with Proxy Servers.

    On down the comment chain you mention "...our computers would not see each other and would not be able to connect to each other via that service. " as some kind of test of whether a thing is a VPN or Proxy Service but what you're missing is that this is a completely common and advisable configuration for companies. In fact Zero Trust essentially demands configurations like this. When Bob from Marketing fires up his VPN to the Corporate Office he doesn't need access to every server and desktop there nor does his laptop need to be able to access the laptops of other VPN users. They get access to what they need and nothing more.

    Hell the ability to access the internet via the tunnel, called Split Tunneling, is also controllable.

    It's that ability to control where the tunnel terminates that allows consumer VPNs, like Proton, to be used the way they are.

    So while private individuals absolutely do use VPNs as an ersatz replacement for Proxy Servers they are nowhere near the whole use case for VPNs.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • This is why many of the expensive Dock options from HP / Dell / Lenovo, etc come with a non-detachable USB-C cable. You can't have the "wrong" cable because the one you need isn't removable.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Nah, I don't blame you. The list of crap that I had to allow under "required" to read the article was preposterous.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • But why does the HDMI forum not want a open source 2.1-compliant implementation?

    To my knowledge they've never officially said but you can be sure that it has to do with Content Protection and that means DRM. An Open Source HDMI 2.1+ driver would make pirating much simpler, probably trivial and they don't want that.

    It's possible anyway of course but there are a couple of hardware hoops to jump through and that's enough to keep most people from doing it.

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  • Odd, I have three screens active on my Mint desktop right now. I'll have to try this on my Mint laptop and see what happens.

  • RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

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  • A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

    Most of them in California because that State simply cannot get its shitty power grid sorted out. The damn thing barely works at the best of times due to a combination of corruption, greed, and Government interference.

    As an example the utility company promised Digital Realty and Stack Infrastructure that they'd have the power ready for them by the time their DCs were built but...SURPRISE...they lied. The only fault for DR and SI here is trusting a California Utility to deliver on their promise.