I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.

Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.

TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn’t long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn’t record at all.

J’onn J’onzz disapproves.

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

Good on you.

Makes sense, but it still makes me want to grab a coffee and order its murder.

All hail hypnotoad frog

Started at 8 but as the day has gone on, I feel more like an 11.

Printed Solid Jessie filament has become most of my stash, its mid-priced filament that prints like premium. I use PLA for most stuff and PETG if its going to get sun or if PLA would be too brittle. I also use some flexibles (TPU) but each printer is different in how it handles soft filaments, so its hard to recommend.

If you experiment with other types of filaments, be sure your plate can handle it. PETG will stick too well to some plate coatings. Prusa has a good matrix to help.

Split the difference, be a happy little dumpster fire. There are no mistakes, just happy cleansing flame.

There was a pretty mainstream “I hate everyone and everything” mindset amongst a lot of xenials in the early 90s, when these movies came out, too.

Brands don’t like to sponsor songs about flies getting trapped in their products. Unless its a fly trap.

I used to have a rack in a colo in the middle of Portland Oregon. The 3rd floor was the colo and they also had telecom equipment on the roof, but the rest of the building was normal commercial real-estate.

They spent so much reinforcing the floor, sound proofing the floor and ceiling, building a giant door in the wall (so they could crane in equipment), and helping pay for a new local substation that when P.a.a.S. services (AWS, Azure, etc) started they quickly started to struggle to keep the bills paid.

Soundproofing wouldn’t be needed if the whole building were servers, but the rest would be.

I’m waiting for turf wars between Russian Thistle and Kudzu

Tire balancing weights as others have said.

I have also used sand by pausing the print then filling up some of the voids left by infill. But you have to be really careful because you don’t want it in you belts or motors. I usually put the sand in a reusable condiment squeeze bottle from the dollar store and also use a small funnel to make extra sure its going where I want. I don’t fill all the way to the top and make sure all the fans around the printer are off while filling so they don’ blow it around… use tire weights if you can.

As long as I can break door hinges for those 2 hours, I’m good.

If I used my gameboy light in the car I wasn’t allowed to be within the area my dad could see in the rearview mirror

They always show a picture of the clock tower when talking about the bell.

LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.

Alexa is also the linchpin of Amazon Sidewalk which is opt-out and potentially gives a way for devices in your home (like smart appliances) to connect to the internet whether you give them wifi access or not. Pretty handy surveillance tool.

But don’t worry, we’ve only made Jeff Bezo’s powerful enough to rent Venice for his wedding.

Or you get the book from a super serious student and everything relevant is highlighted, so you can just read their cliff-notes.

brilliant