Yeah the utilities area is downright scary. Usually run on thin margins, really old specialists that are rapidly retiring, no IT budget to speak of, and most mission critical tech is 20+ years old, off the shelf from companies long dead, and loosely networked by people who’s objective was “make it work”, not security or resilience.

The only way out- electrical companies basically HAVE to become public like all the other utilities, and funding, wages, job training, and modernization for all utilities needs to be prioritized massively.

Of course, there’s lots of political reasons for idiots to fight against all this, so it won’t happen until the worst already has.

Prusa undisputed #1 for their open and honest approach by reputable people who care, followed, in my opinion, by Snapmaker. Snapmaker is running Klipper with (mostly) open source stuff layered on top. They do have a few binary modules that run alongside, but overall an open ecosystem and a company that seems to thrive in it.

Sovol in third for me. They’re very much just following what other companies and the voron project are doing, but they haven’t fucked up too massively yet, basically open source software, and everything in the printer is commodity, off the shelf hardware.

Yeah couldn’t figure out how to add the filters to the URL. But yeah there are some promising ABS/ASA options!

Ah ha! We have a winner.

https://filamentfinder.thinkonezero.com/?c=0055bf

For what it’s worth the “Lego Blue” is 0055BF

Which gives several plausible PLAs and a PETG, but no ABS sadly.

Personally I liked it. It’s a soulslike with a decent story, good characters, and fun map exploration. The art and setting are great if you’re into Star Wars at all.

Completely agreed.

And happy cake day!

As a huge Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim fan, I’ve found the same. KDC in many ways hit many of the same vibes but with superior characters, story, and dialogue. The missing magic is a vibe I still return to mostly Oblivion for these days.

There was a lot more to it than just the fab failures.

Full disclosure, never worked there, have shared many beers with fantastically interesting (and proudly deranged) hardware engineers and architects who did.

Intel had transitioned from an engineering company to a company of managers, spreadsheets, and economic forecasting. They completely stagnated from a technology perspective, not just in the fab but also in the actual design and implementation. A Core 2 Duo was basically their last gasp of real innovation- after that even the business class cpus were basically stuck at the same core counts, same thread architecture, same memory architecture. They were just slowly shaving minuscule IPC, increasing minuscule clock, and adding small amounts of cache… but from a Wall Street perspective they were still posting good profits since the market was cornered and so engineering cuts kept coming, despite staff and principal engineers leaving in droves and yelling that the end was nigh.

The basic fault was that they decided to build their engineering, economics, and strategies around Moore’s Law. The law that famously was a fun observation stupid people started taking seriously. ‘When will get 12nm, Johnson?’ ‘Forecasted for next Q2 boss!’ but, you know, without the fab architects actually having a clue how to get there without a moonshot project.

Ryzen was a rude awakening for a company that had become an MBA zombie, slowly shambling towards the next quarter. Since that moment they’ve decapitated basically their entire management suite. And of course replaced them all with new managers. But they actually have managed (heh) to play decent catch up on the engineering side. But as it goes in the industry, 6 years later is 7 years too late. It’s AMD’s game to lose now.

Yep exactly. ASA for strength and/or outdoor use, PETG for everything else.

I don’t proxy the port, I proxy the routes needed for auth and interface. This isn’t that hard.

EDIT: ah I see what you’re saying, you’re talking about the app surface rather than the raw admin API. The risk is small enough with the remaining attack surface that I’m not particularly worried, though obviously I’d like it to be better.

Just use a reverse proxy. Everything goes over https.

This is a concern if you just port forward through a router. This isn’t a problem if you simply use a reverse proxy, which is standard and normal and expected and not difficult at all.

This is a balanced take. If anyone doubts, you should read up on the scrubbing/cleaning NASA has to do on their rovers before sending them to Mars.

You know how that bottle of alcohol-based sanitizer says it kills ‘99.9%’ of all bacteria? Well 99.9% still leaves billions of the bastards behind. It’s the same for the UV treatment they do. And the ionic plasma jet. And the 8 or 9 other steps they take. And they’re really still not convinced every time they detect an organic on the surface of Mars we didn’t bring it with us by accident, have them make it through the vacuum of space and the hard radiation for the 18 month trip, and just release a handful of still living super resistant bacteria onto the surface.

EDIT: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-microscopic-fungus-survived-nasas-sterilization-protocols-and-is-hardy-enough-to-potentially-contaminate-mars-180988728/

Oh man, all sorts. F1, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades 1 & 2, Planet Crafters, Powerwash Simulator, Stray, etc.

Oh wow weird! No haven’t had any issues with my TT or my ES, and I’ve had the ES for 2 years of heavy use now.

I used ps5 controllers. Both developed stick drift within a year of light use. They’re beautiful and so nice to hold and use, but don’t waste your money.

I recommend Gulikit TT Pro.

Good ergonomics. Repairable (made by the company who got famous selling replacement Hall effect sticks for Nintendo switch controllers). Built like tanks with proper microswitches and Hall effect sticks. Inexpensive too, especially compared to the controllers that have similar features.

Best of all, work out of the box on Linux.

I respect your perspective and personal experience, and I’m not trying to convince you (I’m not even downvoting you, as it’s not a disagreement button). I’m trying to convince whoever might come along and read this that the small extra price is worth it if their computer is going to hold data dear to them and be running 24x7.

ECC is extremely good at covering cosmic ray bitflips, which happen with extreme regularity on software that runs and modifies data on the fly- server software. Yes, even home run stuff. That’s just playing Russian roulette, it probably won’t break anything, but why take the risk at least 10 times every day?

It’s also great at catching failing RAM sticks and preventing them from doing horrible things to every bit of data running through them. This is the failure ECC caught for me at home twice.

I have only 2.5 decades in the enterprise server and software space, I won’t claim to your 4. But I know I wouldn’t take that risk at work, and I value my home data more rather than less.

I’m not a researcher or even a particularly well practiced rhetorician, so here’s probably a much more convincing argument.

Or this perhaps.

I’ll strongly disagree. Anyone who cares about the data they store in their server should care about ECC. There’s a specific reason it’s used so widely by servers, not just financial databases or whatever.

There’s also a ton of misinformation on the Internet about it, so don’t buy into the “ZFS write hole” or whatever. But ECC is very important in my experience. It’s saved my bacon in a material way twice now, and in ways that normal RAM would have just silently continued breaking things. Really that’s not much of a price premium if you’re willing to buy used, so it’s more a question of why not?

There are many computers (especially business line computers including low power SFF) that will take ECC or even ship with it from ebay or whatever. Or you can build rigs with ECC, I’ve done this route twice and had good results.

Agreed though, when they work they’re comfortable, responsive, intuitive. At their best they’re the best controller I’ve used.

But for $80+ these days they should have hall effect sticks and mechanical switches. I’ve started buying https://www.gulikit.com/ controllers, which have both and are much cheaper, but not as comfy or responsive.