It would be useful to have an “empty spool database” where people post a photo+weight of their empty spool, plus some fancy way to search by image.

Edit: https://github.com/jtrmal/spoolz looks like a partial solution.

By what metric would you distinguish “tourists” from Gagarin, who didn’t actually control his spacecraft?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1#Automatic_control

Shepard’s first flight was also suborbital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3

zram also works on modern Linux systems.

Mediocre video. I sat through all the crude humor and still don’t know how the roller mechanism works.

Interesting, Cura does successfully avoid running into the part by default:

If I disable “Avoid Printed Parts When Traveling”, the result looks similar to PrusaSlicer.

I’m waiting for the 2025 model (with a rear wiper) to hit the used market, in case my 2019 Kona needs to be replaced at some point. Though I will miss the turning lights.

8.5 GWh / 85 MW = 100 hours, or around 4 days. If they can build it cheap enough, this is the kind of battery we would need to replace nuclear for dealing with the day-to-day variability of renewables.

Will the Mediatek modules also support VESA Adaptive Sync, or will they have fixed frame rate on AMD cards?

STEP is at least marginally better than STL, because it can represent stuff like circles, instead of just a mesh.

It exports as F3D (probably readable by future versions of Fusion) and STEP (standard but with less fidelity) by default.

https://github.com/aconz2/Fusion360Exporter lets you bulk export all of your projects to local storage.

I wonder why the tester claims the cable supports 5V but not 9-20V. What property of the cable could possibly determine that?

There are panel/bracket mounted Type-E to USB-C connectors, so it shouldn’t be hard to attach some to a 3D printed 3.5" panel. The hard part is getting enough internal Type-E ports, ideally with USB-PD.

FYI: These messages were “deleted by creator” so I attempted to clean them up, but that just changed the text to “Removed by mod”. Guess I won’t try that again.

There is some good stuff in this release. Go to Preferences > GUI and check “Show sidebar collapse/expand button” + “Settings in non-modal window”. Now you can put the Preview and Print Settings windows side-by-side, and see the result of every change immediately. This also requires “Background processing”, but that’s been available for ages.

all the features you know and love from things up the tree

Did OrcaSlicer ever bring back the option to slice automatically when changing settings? It’s called “Background processing” in PrusaSlicer.

Beginning with Firefox 127, users will be prompted to grant MV3 host permissions as part of the install flow (similar to MV2 extensions).

Hooray! Previously Firefox MV3 extensions had to include a custom button in the UI to prompt the user for host permissions at runtime. It generally made more sense to stay on MV2 than switch from a 2-click to a 6-click install procedure.

A VPN encrypts traffic between your device and the VPN server, and any packet on that path includes your IP address. So anyone attempting to decrypt your VPN traffic can trivially distinguish your packets from other users of the VPN server.

So your threat model assumes an actor with a quantum computer capable of breaking RSA, but not a regular computer capable of filtering by IP address?

So that’s what a plumbus is for.