Found the “Rib Thread Forming” section interesting. Basically the idea of using “crush ribs” as a simple automatic screw thread.

I’ve been in the habit of just making the holes on the small side and then drilling them out bit by bit when needed, but I like this idea better.

Aren’t most or all of the glock double stacks about the same thickness?

You can browse it easily with a rss feed reader. Change the group url from https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ to https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn.rss … just add the “.rss” to the end.

https://www.howtogeek.com/320264/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-any-subreddit/

Also you can do a similar thing with youtube. Go to a youtuber’s “video” page or a playlist page and “Ctrl-U” for the source. Then do a text search for “rss”. Near it you will find an url that is an rss feed that you can access directly in your own feed reader.

Damn… I missed out on that.

I’ve been an IRC guy since the 90’s and still hang in a chan or two all day. I should have thought to do a web search on “gun irc” a long time ago before it was too late.

The Part List section at this listing specifies the included cable has a RP-SMA socket. If the one at whatever listing you’re looking at has the same port, then you’re probably good. But who knows. You can also ask the seller, but ali sellers are sometimes airheads.

but when it fails it fails hard

That sounds like a good thing. I guess that would make it easier to tell when your result is crap?

or the carrier fuck me over?

If you’re going to get that kind of phone then you gotta pay for it outright and buy the service separately. Most all the good ones are of the prepaid model. Just buy a month at a time starting with the cheapest option and if it doesn’t work well enough to your liking, try another. So I guess my point is that the above isn’t really a serious concern. At any rate, it is completely separate from the phone.

Looking at that map…

Tiny little Bangladesh having half the population of the US in that little space in mind blowing. I don’t quite understand how that happens.

I’d assume a PLA would work well with the PET-CF, but I don’t know about the other two. Would be worth testing with a cheap PLA and/or PETG to see how that works.

Looks pretty good, but to be fair, 100% full supports looks a lot better. Always worth doing when you got an IDEX. I don’t know about those material changing printers though. Looks like a lot of waste in material and time. Would definitely have me thinking twice.

Sounds pretty cool.

I’ve been keeping an eye on these for a while now. I eventually intend on getting a 20" touch screen and connecting an SBC or nuc to the back to make a cool little media playing, web and pdf viewing machine for use inside of my shop. So basically… a “shop computer”. I was eyeing the Orange Pi 5’s but I recall an amazon comment noting that distro support was limited. With that in mind, I am leaning more towards NUC territory.

Looking forward to learning more.

I bought a couple cheap ones this summer. Haven’t messed with them yet. If you got any good links for the noob post them up.

Kinda like a down under opossum… but not ugly.

No.

But it does give more options to work around or not support those entities since they don’t have as much direct authority.

I only buy music in CD form (or vinyl). But just because I don’t trust my ability to not frag a hard drive every now and then. If I’m gonna buy it, then all the better to have a built-in backup.

Government people get jobs by schmoozing and making deals, not by merit or skill.

Pournelle’s Law always seems relevant.

Do you have a large swap? Seems like that should keep it from completely freezing and just result in extreme slowing.

lol at the retro gaming. ;]

Looks good… but I think the real question is what you can run with only 1 gig of ram. Have you tried different web browsers to see if you can get a common modern web site to work? I think you’d have to use adblock heavily in order to keep the usage down. Even if you never use more than one tab. But curious about what your results have been?

While I’ve been soundly on the “AI is a waste of time for anything that needs to be correct” train since day one, I am having a hard time believing this story.

Granted, I am not a professional programmer. So maybe there is a reason that this project database isn’t being backed up? Much less… how did the AI get access?

This sounds like creative fiction.

You can check out sites like aliexpress or similar and see how the options they have at that price are worth it. Checking your local used market (like craigslist) might be an option as well.