If it’s unprincipled and it makes a ton of money, count of Fuckerberg to be all in on it.

I’ll do one better:

My payment card was just a bit too wide to fit in my cellphone’s cover. The phone’s own NFC antenna is at the top - and I use it all the time - so the card had to be at the bottom of the cover to avoid triggering the phone all the time, in portrait orientation so-to-speak.

So I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna, then carefully reshaped one end of the antenna so it’s a bit less wide (and since I couldn’t modify the length of the wire or the number of turns in any way to avoid de-tuning the antenna too much, I sort of accordioned one side of the rectangle to accommodate the extra length of wire).

Then I set the new shape of the antenna permanently by carefully applying a piece of packing tape over it, flipped it over, taped over the other side to seal everything, then carefully cut around the new, ultra-thin, stubbier contactless payment “card”.

Now it fits really smartly in my cellphone cover!

Melty melty…

caused by additives used by prusa in their filaments

I’ll drop Ultrafuse PLA PRO1 in the jar when this one is gone. It does the same thing

This is Prusament PLA dissolving in acetone in seconds:

I’ll come back to it in 30 minutes and it’ll be a messy soggy half-dissolved thing. And it’ll be fully gone within the hour.

you’re sure as hell not able to dissolve PLA in acetone

Why don’t you try it before saying that?

Have you even tried it instead of talking out of your ass?

I use acetone to assemble PLA parts and polish them all the fucken time.

I used acetone to chemically-polish a PLA part this very afternoon. But if you say so 🙂

Acetone dissolves PLA. You can use it for chemical polishing but also for assembling parts.

That’s great.

Now go after Google, Amazon, Microsoft, CloudFlare…

No. That’s what happens when the United States deliberately chooses to let its monopolies capture markets unchecked.

Google, like Microsoft, Amazon and a slew of egregious, predatory Big Tech monopolies, would have been broken up into harmless pieces years ago - if not decades - in any other country.

It’s not exactly dead, it’s “on hiatus”

Nah… It’s restin’ 🙂

CalyxOS is dead. The project is stopped. Don’t install it.

Totally agreed. But they’ve been working on pointless things for decades at this point, so it’s nothing new. That’s Mozilla for you.

Speaking of Google: has anybody noticed how unbearably slow Google sites are lately?

I almost never use Google search anymore. But I hit it the other day because I couldn’t find some really obscure kernel error message, and the damn thing froze Firefox. And it did so repeatedly and consistently after restarting the browser, until I killed almost all Google scripts in uBO.

The same “experience” can be felt on any Google site, like Map.

Missing caption: “What the hell is the command to turn the water off?” 🙂

Just kidding of course. I’ve been using Linux pretty much since forever and I love it. But there’s a learning curve if you just switched to it.

Plenty of places are disputed because they have natural resources or sit in strategically interesting locations.
But plenty of other place have nothing special to offer and are just disputed for stupid nationalist reasons.

Kashmir is one of the latter. As always, the ones who suffer from the nationalist nonsense are the everyday Kashmiris trying to live a normal life.

I don’t dispute that Starlink satellites are ruining the night’s sky. But the article’s photo is obviously doctored:

And here’s why:

• The article claims it’s a 30-minute long-exposure photo. That’s flatly impossible, because if it was, the stars would describe an arc in the sky - i.e. star trails. Here’s one of mine for example:

  

• Assuming the stars are fixed in the sky because the camera mount was following the Earth’s rotation, then why are the trees at the bottom fixed too? They should be a smear.

• Most of those supposed satellite trails are regularly-spaced dotted lines. But the image was a continuous exposure. How do we know that? because one of the trails at the bottom is a continuous line. Therefore, those trails can only be airliners. And considering the lengths of the trails - since they’re interrupted - at the speed they go through, the exposure can only have been a few minutes (still plenty of time to leave star trails or tree smearing if the shot was real).

This is either manually doctored or AI-generated.

This is why I quit driving: I won’t want a quarter of my house wasted to store a car.

Other than that, nice floor plan!

I didn’t know silicon carbide heated up in the microwave. I learned something from the article.

For me, pretty much all of Bob Dylan’s production. I know he’s supposed to be a Nobel-Prize-winning genius singer and songwriter, and everybody is in total awe of his talent, but… honestly, I’ve seen people sing better and play the guitar better in the metro.

I don’t dislike Bob Dylan, and his lyrics were a powerful product of his time. But he’s always seems very meh to me as a musician. I just don’t get the hype.