Totally agree - there’s something authentic about accepting occasional downtime as part of the self-hosted journey, plus it encourages redudancy planning like those portable LFP power stations you can compare on gearscouts.com which fit perfectly with solarpunk ideals of energy independence.

Those auto generators are lifesavers in rural areas! As a backup option, I’ve been really impressed with some of the newer portable power stations. You can compare options on gearscouts.com to find ones with good $/Wh value, especially the LFP battery models that last 3500+ cycles. They’re silent and can run indoors unlike gas generators.

Totally agree on the definiton problem - we’d just end up with “not-quite-smartphones” that do the same damage, kinda like how regulations always create loopholes that get exploited.

totally agree - these old laptops sip power too (only 10W!) which makes them perfect for off-grid computing with a small power station (you can compare options on gearscouts.com to find one with the best wh/$$ ratio).

Signal’s security model is indeed robust - their E2E protocol is open source, independently audited, and uses perfect forward secrecy which telegram’s secret chats don’t implemnet properly.

Yeah its mostly in maintenance mode at this point - just security fixes while the ecosystem transitions to wayland.

Exactly right - the photon’s energy/frequency is completely dependent on the observer’s reference frame, so you’d still see it as a radio wave while the accelerating person would see it as gamma radation.

Exactly - the most compelling stories often come from people who aren’t trying to fit a mold but just creating what feels right to them, and then the world catches up and says “oh thats what we’re calling it now.”

Just to clarify, VectorChord is actually the company that makes pgvecto.rs (the postgres vector extension), so you’re both talking about the same thing lol.

MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for that old Autonomic - super lightweight, runs on practically anythng, and Symfonium is an amazing Android client that supports it natively.

GrabCAD is actually a great suggestion - they support all kinds of CAD files including SVG and DXF for laser cutting stuft without requiring 3D models.

Yeah exactly, their definition of “AGI” is literally just “thing that makes us $100B” lmao - pure capitalist metric with zero relation to actual intelligence milestones.

Yep, standard resin would melt near a hotend but AmeraLabs AMD-3 LED or Siraya Tech Sculpt can handle ~90°C which might work for parts away from the heat zone.

Agree about the fracturing. I’ve been using Librewolf for months and it’s basially Firefox without the telemetry nonsense. Most sites work fine and it’s not that hard to setup. Just import your bookmarks and your good to go.

Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what’s different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would’ve been buried in the 60s.

Definitley bigger - the aerial shots from his DC event showed more empty space than people, and this MN turnout is impressive considering it was technicaly “cancelled” lol.

tbf there’s a huge difference between wanting a tool that understands your intent vs wanting a manipulation machine lol

Yep, helium is even worse for leaking! It’s actually the smallest noble gas and can escape through tiny pores that even hydrogen can’t fit through. Thats why helium balloons deflate faster than air balloons - the atoms literally seep through the balloon material.

Get a cheap domain (~$10/yr) and setup a catch-all address - then you can use whatever@yourdomain.com without needing to create each alias beforehand, and each service gets a uniqe address that you can block if they leak it or start spamming you.

Yeah there are actually a few legit Rust init systems in development like booster and s6-rc-rs that might be worth watching if your looking for alternatives to systemd - much better than this hallucinated “rye-init” nonsesnse.