It depends a bit on your needs. I’ve upgraded mine mainly due to space concerns - it is quite a bit smaller than the mk4s with enclosure. As a positive side effect I can now print large PC models without warping - something that never worked properly even in an enclosed mk4s, probably due to the larger enclosure volume.
Crazy part is that Mercedes makes pretty good EVs - unlike some of the other German manufacturers which struggled a bit, and even though they seem to have the main platform worked out by now still have shitty software. Mercedes software is usable and rock solid - which I didn’t expect when we were buying one last year.
In the area I’m living in here in Finland EV Mercedes seems to be the most popular choice currently - the number of EVs is rising very fast, with pretty much all brands present, but a clear majority is Mercedes.
Yes, but: Brake dust is significantly more likely to become airborne than tire dust, and is significantly more toxic than tire dust - and might be the most toxic thing your car is spreading.
Like always in 3D printing you need to understand if something is worth printing. There are enough toys that work as 3D print, and enough stuff that either will not survive the load, or not be played with (like those figurines). For those categories (especially the figurines) commercial ones might have the same fate, though, so just printing one to shut the child up may have smaller footprint/costs.
A small list of toys that work very well 3D printed:
This propeller pull toy last longer than the commercial ones with pull string.
This stomp rocket also works great, and if the kids listen to instructions will last ages.
This kind of logic game has similar durability than commercial ones.
This kind of balloon toy also is pretty nice - we used to build those from wood when I was small, but 3D-printing here offers quite a bit more options for experimentation together with the kids. (The author has different models in his profile)
From that there’s pretty much a direct line to 3D printed RC models, where the main problem is that many are in the classic model builder mindset where you have to live with the parts you can buy, and due to that end up with a BOM containing dozens of different screw types. This one is an easy to build example not making that mistake, and there are some others as well.
It’s the legal situation in the US - and the reason why people familiar with the topic have been upset about the EU data sharing exemptions and similar stuff for over a decade now. It’s also really frustrating to keep explaining customers that the way they’re planning to use cloud stuff violates local data protection laws (even before GDPR), only for them to ignore it and do it anyway. We need way better education for people in charge of that kind of projects - and way higher penalties for violations, including the ability to fine organizations before they lose data when they store protected data in a way US government can get access to.
The only way a Microsoft cloud (or any cloud service from a US company) in the EU can work is if that company doesn’t have access to the European systems - both on hardware level and system level.
Microsoft attempted to do just that by having a German cloud managed by T-Systems - but gave up on that already years ago
Not really a new thing - searching for and playing with security cameras has been light entertainment for about two decades now.
For an equally long period it has been clear that if you connect an IP camera or similar device you’re a pretty big moron if you don’t isolate it from both your internal network and the internet, and only provide controlled access - no matter the manufacturer, non-Chinese ones are not really better in how horrible their software is. Unfortunately most large IT systems are run by absolute morons.
Seems pretty much all current AI models are not familiar with the works of Tom of Finland. Took a lot of kicking to get even remotely close to what I wanted.
Just like the UK exemptions most of those were given to early members as rules changed to get them to agree to the rule changes.
New members don’t get that - and UK would be treated like a new member.
Well, one thing is that I have significantly less tabs than I had bookmarks. My bookmarks where somewhere high in the 5-figure range, maybe even 6 figure.
My heaviest used system has less than 10k tabs open.
It’s not ideal, but the tab trees in treestyle tabs mean I usually can just scroll a short bit and click to find what I need.
Ideal would be a fully external bookmark manager - but browsers don’t have APIs for that, so you’d have to end up writing an extension just to talk to your external management solution, and since they gimped the firefox plugin system about a decade ago you don’t really have any useful APIs for doing that. (I’m current maintainer of the emacs keybindings extension for firefox, it’s a hot mess to get a fraction of the functionality that was possible with the old extension system working. No idea why they don’t offer the ability to do custom keybindings)
I haven’t really used bookmarks for probably close to two decades, for various reasons.
Keeping them synchronized always was a pain, and that was before you got into multiple browsers. That part at least is better now.
Then the interfaces to manage them sucked - I did try a bit back then to manage them externally, but the storage formats also were stupid.
And then I seemed to have reached the number of bookmarks the browsers no longer were able to handle (presumably due to the shitty way they were storing them), and adding or editing bookmarks always included several seconds between clicks to wait for the browser to react.
Pretty much everything apart from the first point is still true for the built in bookmark managers.
treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can’t really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven’t tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I’ll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
It’s one of the cases where I actually ended up buying the extra levels back then.
I haven’t been TUI only for roughly two decades now - that’s around the time the server got properly usable.
I typically have a daemon running - on Linux via systemd user session, on MacOS via launchd, on Windows via startup. I then attach GUI frames to that, and - at least on the unix style platforms - typically have a tmux with a TUI frame running.
I have scripts to open files in emacs - that’s easy configurable to either open in the last used frame, or attach a TUI frame in the terminal, and open it there. I also have the EDITOR variable set to those scripts.
When fully using emacs you’d probably end up doing more work in emacs, and only occasionally wanting to do shell call outs.
For example, I edit some project, commit it via magit, trigger a build via compile to pack things up, open dired to move the files to a publish location, then open dired at the publish location and modify the publish package from there, and then finally start a shell in that directory to trigger the publish workflow. Only slight annoyance with that is that out of the box emacs shells are not setup for that kind of multiple shell buffers in specific directiories with easy throwaway - but it’s easy enough to make that work.
China is currently building coal power plants to replace old, less efficient and dirtier plants. Then they use them for base load / network stabilization while they build up ridiculous amounts of energy storage. They’re not running all the time, only to compensate variability in renewables power generation while they build up storage. They’ll probably be taken out of use in a few decades without having much runtime.
For installed capacity the new power plants don’t change much as they take old ones offline - percentage wise coal is falling due to the ridiculous speed of building renewables.
The image link is not broken as such, but I seem to be hitting this bug. I’ll look into updating and/or backporting that tonight.
Yeah, Prusa Mini and (back then) mk3s with PrusaSlicer
Few years ago I had similar issues with silk PLA - until I accidentally sliced it with a prusa PETG profile. Came out absolutely perfect. Since then I just treat silk PLA like prusa PETG.
Note that those are deepseek, not chatgpt. I’ve largely given up on chatgpt a long time ago as it has severe limitations on what you can ask it without fighting its filters. You can make it go on hallucinated rants just as easily - I just nowadays do that on locally hostable models.
And I started thinking that I could use them in the same way I tend to use desktop workspaces: organizational buckets to put groups of windows in.
I use eyebrowse for that - also gives me that functionality without wasting space with useless UI elements
Unfortunately some of the humour got lost in translation. For “been brought down to size” the police used the phrase “zur Schnecke gemacht”, which literally would translate to “made a slug”.