That’s not a cluttered garage.

I’d LOVE a garage with that little clutter…

I have to turn sideways and shuffle to get through the few sections of my garage that aren’t stacked floor to ceiling, and I haven’t seen my workbench in over a year…

(Moved into a new house that was 20% smaller and still haven’t figured out what to do with the excess furniture)

I have a firstname.lastname[at]gmail.com email address.

Every single week I get a different person’s legitimate email because they forget their email is firstname.lastname12345[at]gmail.com or some other number, and sign me up for stuff…

I get bank statements, rent notices, holiday bookings, xbox live accounts, kayak club membership emails, pizza delivery receipts, Amazon.com accounts and purchases…

You name it…

XKCD calls it “Reverse ID Theft” - I call it “Identity Donation”: it’s like people think: “here… Be me for a bit… See how you like it…”

https://xkcd.com/1279/

My only point was:

these restrictions have the capacity to carry real impacts on people that amount to more than mild inconveniences…

I already can’t access many (and growing to MOST) government services without my government’s “my gov” app.

The mygov app won’t install/run on my devices as it is not a stock Android OS.

I’m LITERALLY unable to gain access to many government services without having to run a less secure “stock” device.

This isn’t an “oh my, what an inconvenience” situation over here.

It becomes an actual life limiting event.

Is it like that Superman or Office Space plot to take the fractions of a penny from rounded down transactions and siphon them off?!

Hyundai bought Boston Dynamic.

I feel it’s less about their factories and more about using them as a proving ground, as they will have to make that investment make some kind of revenue.

I hear you. My philosophy changed about 20years ago when Apple switched to Intel:

Mac laptops are expensive, but I regularly get 4-6 years from them without too much drama if I simply max out the ram when I buy them.

My thinking of my eventual move to Linux full time, a Framework or System76 machine costs similar to a Mac, and use the same Max ram philosophy.

I just wish the build quality was just a bit better for the price, but I’m willing to trade a little for user serviceability…

I* want* to buy one. But:

• I’m mid cycle with my last laptop; and
• who the hell can afford to buy RAM for a new system these days?!?!

They are now one and the same…

https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

I never joke about rockets…

(And don’t call me Shirly…)

[Sorry. Shameless Air plane/Flying High quote opportunity. I couldn’t avoid it. ]

But seriously though, it actually does fly straight…

And there are some seriously good paint jobs I’ve seen that people have done both steam punk or Wile.E.Coyote style that were just mind blowing.

So long as you all know: it flies perfectly well…

https://www.fliskits.com/WPRESS/product/acme-spitfire/

I often recommend mailinabox for the same thing…

On android: have you tried Thunderbird with davx5 as the connector?

I have suggested people start with MailInABox and go from there…

https://mailinabox.email/

Before you buy it, I always suggest you rent or borrow one and make sure it works for you.

I was going to choose a Canon based on specs and reviews. I rented one and hated it. All the functions were on the back and I found it quite hard to get in the flow, spending all my time “chimping” the menus.

I borrowed a friends Nikon, and found all the buttons I wanted were where my fingers were, and I just naturally found it gelled. I found I spent more time taking the pictures I wanted, and less time messing around.

My partner on the other hand hates my Nikon, and has a Canon that she loves…

I tried the ellis3d model and while I hadn’t got all my start macros together, first time I ran it I crashed the nozzle into the bed and gouged it.

Later attempts with a 0.6mm nozzle also gave me inconsistent and hard to read outcomes.

Instead, I use this two box method on opposite corners of the front of the bed:

https://forum.vorondesign.com/threads/how-to-confirm-your-pressure-advance-value-is-correct.23/

Since then, coupled with the rest of the ellis3D tuning guide, my printer has been DIALLED…

Check your z offset, first layer squish and extrusion multiplier, then pressure advance.

That looks like too much filament or too close to the bed. Some of the edge artifacts could be pressure advance as well.

I spent a year chasing those problems out of a printer, and had hundreds of FL tests that looked just like that.

If you’re interested, Ellis 3D tuning guide is amazing. (I use a different pressure advance calibration method, but the rest has been bang on for me…)

If you are looking for displacement activities that have large amounts of slow steady methodical development of learning and new skills, with a thrilling and short adrenalised conclusion, I can highly recommend low powered model rocketry.

I’ve progressively levelled up my design, construction and painting skills, and the 10-90second flight at the end is quite a rush when you find out if your all your work passes the ultimate test from the laws of space and time, or if you’re about to instead learn something to take into the next build…

Plus, there’s usually plenty of rocketry clubs scattered around with amazing people to help on the journey…

I dipped my toe in the s76 pool with a fully specced lemp10.

It was by far the best Linux experience I’ve had on a laptop to date, but I still ended up back on an m2 mbp…

2 killer issues were:

1. finding realistic personal replacements for fusion360 and Affinity Designer. (freecad and inkscape just aren’t for me); and
2. The hardware just worked together better on the Mac (BT, audio, screen, WiFi, networking etc…).

I’m planning on taking my m2 mbp to asahi once the fingerprint scanner is working and dual booting for cad and vector graphics apps if I can’t get crossover versions working.

Net:Net I want to like s76, but the LEMP ended up basically the same price as the MBP and the Mac hardware was vastly superior (screen, audio, power management, etc)

I’ll try Linux again on my next laptop purchase again…

I think the “dull” metre is an external one…

I’m into all manner of exciting things that people think are completely dull if I talk about it…

Welcome to the party… (please turn the music down as you come past the stereo and can you bring less spicy dip next time please?..)

Only 395?!?!