In terms of software: Agent NVR is imho currently one of the easiest and most compatible camera software systems available for free. Runs on a pi,even though I would absolutely not recommend one

(Use a proper x64 SBC like the zimaboard. Makes a lot of things easier).

Camera wise Dahua, Hikvison and Foscam are far better than Reolink, imho, but they most definitely need a separate network or a block so they don’t access the internet.

Tbf, I remember the times we reused everything, even tubes.

And it was a mess and there is so much evidence that the whole process of reusing is even worse for the environment.

An orgasm, a break, a euro, a 3D printer.

Yeah,came here to say that. I second that.

Proton doing another shady thing?

Colour me surprised!

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Tuta,which is often recommended, is sadly another vendor lock in while mailbox is using industrial standards.

Well,patients do get asked for consent before these pictures are taken (and usually are again asked for approval again when the whole thing is layouted).

But,tbh, most patient I got to know with similar, rare, cases are often more than happy to help science and help other patients who experience the same right now or in the future.

I personally had a case I worked with peripherally where a breast implant basically exploded after a road traffic accident and the poor, rather young, patient suffered from a catastrophic infection and bodily reaction before that. As in: “She nearly died,was on ecmo, needed her sternum replaced”-catastrophic. (And no, not a cosmetic breast implant, just making sizes equal)

Tbh, despite extensive plastic surgery the final result was…really grim. I have seen third degree burns with a better cosmetic result… Especially for such a young woman. Further correction would need to be done much later, at least 5 years from then. She was nevertheless very keen on appearing in the case report and did willingly take part in photos(and even provided pre incident photos), appeared in front of medical students and interns, etc. It was part of her way of dealing with it,of making sense out of this freak occurrence.

Look at the Centauri Carbon, the artillery M1 Pro and the Qidis.

The Prusa is overpriced and tbh, despite what the fanboys claim, not worth it at the moment in terms of reliability, technology and quality. But…sadly you already ordered it. Well…

Anyway: Have a look at ASA material-wise. Less toxic than ABS and much better material properties than PLA.

I use an SXT, as I got it cheap, but the wap LTE kits, the LTAPs mini or the hap AX lite should do as well - softwarewise they are all the same anyway. (Just watch out for hardware without LTE modem card and be aware of the difference between LTE-M and LTE as in the knot.)

Sometimes you find decent older ones on eBay as well.

Shit. That’s a terrifying case in so many aspects.

My condolences to your spine.

I use a cheap Mikrotik LTE Router as a second route. It has the smallest data plan my provider offers - but it’s enough for maintenance and if I need more due to the main line being faulty it’s the same provider’s fault and they pay the bill anyway.

It mainly goes into the OPNsense as a second gateway,but it also allows me to VPN in and reboot the OPN if needed.

If the OPN would be fucked totally in theory I could run the network directly over it,but that would be nasty.

A friend of mine actually has a pretty nifty solution,but he is an absolute pro at these things. He has a small device (don’t ask me what SBC exactly) ping and check (I think DNS and a http check is included as well) various stages of his network, including his core switch, firewall and DSL modem. If one of them freezes the device sends a data packet via LoraWAN. He can then send a downstream command to reboot the devices.

A Pico 4 (without the Ultra) used from eBay for 125€.

I absolutely do not need one. But it is fun (I know, not many people actually use theirs really and I thought the same for a long time.

Tbh: I hate your printer to the guts. Everything about it.

Why?

After years of tinkering with various more or less self build ones, I finally caved in last autumn and bought a P1S, having enough of tinkering. I needed a machine that works but couldn’t justify the X1C, even though most things I do are more technical than deco/toys.

Shortly after Bambu started that firmware crap. While the customer protection legal threads which I took part in have very likely stopped the worst of it and brought the “developer mode”, it’s still crap and well, it was a stupid idea to buy BL,yes. (Even though my machine does work very well so far…besides the shitty AMS)

Then, when I just managed to get less salty about that, the Centauri Carbon came out. Which would have been the perfect machine for me if only…I had known about it back then (none did). It does what the P1S does not do well, it is basically everything what I would have needed out of a X1C. God damn it.

To get over that I needed to back the Snapmaker U1 as a possible replacement for the P1S. Even though I know it will require extended tinkering to get it to print what I want it to do. Argh! (Or maybe I get a Centauri afterwards and risk divorce over it?)

So I hate your printer and my only solace is that you will spend much more money on filament than you will on your printer. Oh fuck,I did that,too. Damn.

(Seriously, though: Welcome to the club. It’s one of the most marvelous hobbies I ever took up. Especially if you learn how to construct yourself in CAD - which is easier than one would think. And btw: Google Spoolman and MPCNC :D)

Not necessarily. Pollutants spread far more than we often think could also be an explanation

Solidworks doesn’t do Linux. Period. We tried all options. Solidedge does Linux under the very right circumstances.

Fusion does it, but is shit with even more shit after every update.

FreeCAD is sadly also completely unusable for a semiprofessional or professional use and so… Linux and CAD do not mix well at the moment. It’s the only reason I still have a dual boot atm.

Actually they are far better than we Germans think. I work with various active and former military members of various countries and Germany has a far better reputation amongst them than people think. Especially the ones who actively served along them in A’stan, Mali, the Balkans or in the various Marine missions are often fairly happy with them. The German army does have some capabilities currently only a few nations have - and while it has major issues, these are mostly coming from the political leadership and the procuring department.

It’s like this for ages and has increased a lot since 9/11.

After a failed operation (afaik intelligence wise) German KSK specops and US SpecOps(Seals if I remember correctly) almost got into a fist fight.

The reason? The Germans were spotted by a shepherd who was unrelated to the Taliban but could in theory reveal the operation. The Germans were unable to capture him in time due to terrain so they retreated.

The US SpecOps were extremely angry and a brawl almost broke out as they basically told the German they should have simply killed the unarmed shepherd.

Which would have meant a potential murder trial for any German soldier back home.

Proton claiming shit that they don’t actually do or can do?

Consider me shocked!

I have central (water circuit based) heating with individual control per room. Additionally I have a weather station on my roof that tracks the sun and wind,temp, etc. and presence detectors in almost all rooms and electric blinds. The components are all KNX based, the logic part is home assistant based.

Basically what we do: I have a “normal mode” that is supported by two addon modules. Normal mode means:

• On schooldays the system tracks when school starts. If none is present in the kids rooms for more than 30min it assumes the kid is gone and goes into energy saving mode for that room (18 instead of 21). The system then looks when the kid is likely to come back and puts the room temperature up on time.

• Our offices are always in energy saving temp and only get into normal temp once someone has been there for 15min or one of our computers is put on - both the wife and I work home office full time,but travel a fair bit.

• The system tracks if our mobile phones are “pingable” locally. If they aren’t for 30min it assumes we are all gone and puts the whole house into “away” mode,including reducing the temperatures. Then it looks at our outlook calendars (and the school schedule) and puts the temperature back on as required.

• Additonally a room that has a window open is always cut off from heating and the system sends a message when the outside temp is either too hot or too cold after a certain time.

Additionally we have two prediction based module The system looks at three different weather predictions (my area is a bit of a problem for these) and creates a mean expected minimum and maximum day temperature.

If the expected max and min is below a certain point it switches on “winter mode” - this means the system tries to keep the shutters up as much as possible and open them as early as possible (based on the sun position) so the house absorbs as much sun as possible. Doesn’t help that much,but at least a bit. Additionally the time for “open window notifications” is reduced.

If the expected max is above a certain degree the system goes into summer mode. Then it’s basically vice-versa. The system tries to keep the blinds/shutters down as much as possible according to the position of the sun and opens them only after the sun has passed. That works fairly well and reduces the room temperature significantly - in the worst room around 3.8° on average. It also reminds the inhabitants to open windows in the morning when it’s still cold and close them in time.