I'm loath to defererate with anyone, but you're making a really good argument for defederating from big tech if they try to step in...
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is exactly how we ended up in our big tech nightmare.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is exactly how we ended up in our big tech nightmare.
These people came from big tech, where they can whine and cry and silence all opposition because there's someone at the top who is trying to become a multi-billionaire.
There are really easy ways to deal with people being mean to you on the Internet, and these morons have cultivated the polar opposite of all effective strategies.
There are really easy ways to deal with people being mean to you on the Internet, and these morons have cultivated the polar opposite of all effective strategies.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/elon-musk-says-make-public-internal-twitter-discussions-decision-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Nursing homes are nightmarish at the best of times.
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
Any time nextcloud comes up, I have to hype it a bit. It was the first self-hosted service I ran, and the beginning of a journey that has led me to spending more time on my own websites than most others combined. It's my personal utility knife. It's my news site. It's my music streaming service. It's my webmail. It's my online notes. It's my office suite. It's my password manager. It's my tool for keeping my home PC and my travel PC synchronised and backed up.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
Naturally their superior Nipponese hard work and cool uniforms won the day over the inferior Germans!
Yeah -- that's how bad the other parties are in Ontario.
He wasn't just elected again, he gained seats.
THAT'S how bad the other parties are in Ontario!
He wasn't just elected again, he gained seats.
THAT'S how bad the other parties are in Ontario!
They're used car salesmen. "You can prevent so much COVID with this shot" slaps roof of covid shot
Holy shit, Elon actually banned someone for something they probably deserved to be banned for.
I need a fainting couch, this isn't the Twitter I know!
I need a fainting couch, this isn't the Twitter I know!
My wife swore up and down she'd never look at the nutrition information on her foods, but eventually she started looking at it. The thing that shocked her is that you could have two identical foods, but one had 5g of sugar, and the one right next to it might have 50g.
tbf to both of you, they probably didn't put refined sugar in literally everything. Your borgar was just borgar, your fries were fries, your Coca cola....ok, that was sugary.
I think the creality cr-10 and ender3 are similar, many parts can be swapped in and out.
I think you might be able to get a decent deal on ebay shipped right from china, think both Companies are chinese. Might be faster than shipping to the us then over to NZ.
I think you might be able to get a decent deal on ebay shipped right from china, think both Companies are chinese. Might be faster than shipping to the us then over to NZ.
There's a lot of good options in the market, the biggest thing that I would say for someone who didn't have a 3D printer is to go with an XYZ printer and don't try to go Fancy with something like a delta. I found that everything has to go so perfect with the delta and there's so many different variables that it was just a lot nicer having a nice simple design.
I went with a tevo tornado which I retrofitted with a duetWiFi board, and it's been bulletproof enough for me that I would probably recommend it to others who wanted to get into 3D printing, but it comes as a completed unit so that might not be up your alley. I believe that there are kits that will come with all the parts that you're going to need and then you can build it yourself, that's what my first printer was, and I had no problem with doing that. It helped me learn a lot about how all the different stuff worked together.
One thing I found is one of the first things that you start printing is upgrades for your printer.
I went with a tevo tornado which I retrofitted with a duetWiFi board, and it's been bulletproof enough for me that I would probably recommend it to others who wanted to get into 3D printing, but it comes as a completed unit so that might not be up your alley. I believe that there are kits that will come with all the parts that you're going to need and then you can build it yourself, that's what my first printer was, and I had no problem with doing that. It helped me learn a lot about how all the different stuff worked together.
One thing I found is one of the first things that you start printing is upgrades for your printer.
About 5 years ago I ended up getting myself 2 big toys for Christmas: the Oculus rift which was fairly expensive at the time, and one of the cheaper 3D printers.
In terms of which one I've gotten the most enjoyment out of, there's no contest. The 3D printer is top shelf, I find that VR tends to sit on the top shelf because I'm not using it.
In terms of which one I've gotten the most enjoyment out of, there's no contest. The 3D printer is top shelf, I find that VR tends to sit on the top shelf because I'm not using it.