TrenchcoatFullOfBats

It is my time to shine! I’ve had 3 3D printers thus far: I started with an Ender 3 Pro that I modified extensively, converting it to direct drive, 3D printed belt tensioners, cable chains, fan ducts, upgraded board with quiet drivers, and a Raspberry Pi running Klipper. All of the modifications led to a decrease in quality over time.

I also had a Qidi for a while, and it was…fine. Not great, but serviceable. Not super repairable or upgradeable, and I had to use their version of the Cura slicer, which they did not do a good job of keeping up to date.

When the Ender 3 Pro started to become unreliable, I switched to the Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro, which is basically the final form of what I was trying to turn the Ender into, plus a bit extra. From the factory, it has direct drive, linear rails, runs klipper, has automatic bed leveling, filament runout detection, etc. It does NOT have wifi, but does have an ethernet port, which I prefer.

Using Fluidd is much better than Octoprint, and I’ve finally switched away from using Cura and am a convert to OrcaSlicer, which is EXCELLENT. It can send prints directly to the printer as well. It’s a great combination that I’m having a lot of fun with.

Full disclosure: I recently discovered that the version of Klipper this printer uses is out of date (2022) and does not fully comply with the klipper license, which I am NOT a fan of, but there is a very well documented way to “upgrade” to a “de-Elegood”, fully operational Klipper.

Apparently the island is a barony of Norway and the penguin, Nils Olav III, is a Major General of the Norwegian Army and colonel-in-chief of the King’s Guard

No, it was definitely him. I was just paying tribute to him as an aficionado of a democratizing system of long range communication.

The GNU thing is a reference to author Terry Pratchett, who wrote about a democratizing system of long range communication similar to the telegraph but with semaphore towers, called the “clacks” (because of the clacking sounds the semaphore flags made when they moved). Each clacks tower was in visual range of another clacks tower, and each one was manned by an operator who would read the incoming message and then send the same message on to the next tower in the line until the message reached the intended destination. This system is one of the main subplots in the book “Going Postal”, which is a critique of unchecked capitalism, corporate greed and privatization of profit over public service and worker safety.

In the book, the clacks system is the victim of a hostile takeover by a rich capitalist named Reacher Gilt, who either directly via one of his agents (similar to the Pinkertons), or indirectly via cost-cutting that leads to safety issues, murders/kills the creator and previous owner of the clacks system, John Dearheart.

After his death, clacks operators up and down the line of towers memorialize him with the message “GNU John Dearheart”, which was inserted into the “overhead” of the messages (also literally over their heads in the towers), which were sent in every single clacks message on all lines as additional information for operators about the message.

“G” meant “send the message on” “N” meant “do not log the message” “U” meant “at the end of the line, turn the message around”

In the book, the reason they did this is because “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”.

When Pratchett himself died, GNU Terry Pratchett became a thing as a way for fans to remember him. Some even created the “X-Clacks-Overhead” code, which can be inserted into the header of websites as a tribute to those who should not be forgotten.

So GNU Terry Pratchett and GNU Garry Shandling.

GNU Garry Shandling

If you run Home Assistant, Sleep as Android can publish events to an MQTT broker so you can create automations based on those events, like “smart_period”, “awake”, “not_awake”, “alarm_alert_smart”, etc.

Proton purchased SimpleLogin in 2022 and the creator/dev has been working there ever since. Also, you can easily create random email aliases in Vaultwarden/Bitwarden via the SimpleLogin API.

Another vote for Runbox. Been using them for almost 5 years now with no issues. They are also an employee owned co-op if that is of interest.

You should not trust Amazon. Multiple Ring privacy failures, including giving video footage to police without consent, Amazon employees watching Ring video footage without consent, then there’s stuff like Sidewalk that uses your home network as part of a mesh network, collection of biometric days via palm readers at Whole Foods for checkout, which they then use for their Amazon One service that they sell to businesses to verify age and identity, the whole “AI powered” Just Walk Out tech in physical Amazon stores that turned out to be not AI at all but a bunch of Indian subcontractors watching video cameras, etc, etc, etc…

Now I’m imagining this universe’s version of the SNW musical episode: Klingon bluegrass boy band?

Truck nuts on the nacelles?

Someone told them that the Angel Moron put more prophecies on some gold-pressed latinum

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in

Love you, AutoTL;DR, but your summary makes it seem as though the “Plan B” for getting aid money to Ukraine is to give Orban more money. This is not the case - the article refers to two different pieces of legislation, the first being getting aid money to Ukraine and the second being starting the process of Ukraine joining the EU, both of which Orban/Hungary opposes.

From the article re: aid to Ukraine:

If Budapest does wield its veto, two EU officials said the bloc had a way to get around it by asking each of the other EU governments to set up their own aid package with Kyiv. All together, the bilateral pacts would come to as much.

“Hungary risks overstretching its luck. We’d prefer to have them on board but there comes a point when people get fed up with Budapest holding everyone hostage. The workaround is tiresome but we have it if need be,” one EU official said.

A second EU official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, agreed. “The issue of money for Ukraine will be solved one way or another, Kyiv will get EU support,” the official said.

Your closet is clearly a portal to another plane. By keeping the door closed, you are increasing poltergeistic pressure, which could lead to a rupture, resulting in, at the very least, extra ghosts in your home, and at the worst, an ectoplasmic explosion.

Nope.

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From our sources (definitely not Kevin), the doctor was quoted as saying “This pig guy is dead, Jim. I’m a HUMAN doctor, not a Whatever-The-Hell-This-Guy-Is doctor!” Logical Updates On Influential Public Figures contacted the pig guy embassy for a reaction to Dr. McCoy’s remarks, but they had not returned our squeal hail by press time.

now everything and everyone is growing on me.

That’s the Stamets spirit!

And most of them translate to some variation of “I want food” and “where is my food” and “Soon, I will require food.”