ExtremeDullard

PETG never sticks well on any bed plate on our Prusa Mk4 for some reason, while it seems to stick very well on the plates coated with the same materials on our Prusa XL.

I tried to change a million parameters, and then I gave up trying to understand, because at some point all I want is to stop wasting filament and time, and get the parts I need.

So I use glue and I spent 2 minutes wiping off the glue in the sink when it’s done. It’s just pragmatic and it lets me get on with the rest of my life.

Use glue.

If the sickos who go into schools with guns switch to gunning down MAGAts instead, I’m all for it.

My personal issue with Brilliant is that I never want to hear about Brilliant, but somehow they regularly force me to.

So you think I’m a Curiosity Stream shill and my comment is an elaborate way to plug their name here do you? 🙂

I dump on NordVPN because I think they’re shite and I praise Curiosity Stream because I think they’re not. It goes both ways: not everything positive is suspicious - although I understand where your cynicism is coming from, in this age of falseness, con artistry, psyops and manufacturing of consent on a grand scale.

Yeah you’re right. I forgot about those. That’s cool.

But there aren’t many Youtubers who do that.

Sponsorblock doesn’t catch sponsored segments, viewers do that.

I’m aware of that. It was just a turn of phrase.

I will say this about regular sponsorship - and if you’re a company bribing Youtubers to shill your shit, take heed:

Whenever a Youtuber interrupts their content to sell me garbage I don’t want (and SponsorBlock doesn’t catch it), I take note of the company and it goes in the very long shit-list of companies I try to avoid patronizing.

The more Youtubers that company bribes, the higher it rises in my shit-list.

The more the Youtuber tries to seamlessly weave the plug into their narrative, to sneakily make me watch it by not realizing they’ve switched to the plug, the higher the company they shill for rises in my shit-list - and this one annoys me no end, so the companies that pay Youtubers to make clever seamless transitions to the plugs go very quickly to the top. If you’re going to waste my time with your fucking shill job, at least be honest about it.

When a company is on my shit-list, I will go the extra mile and then some to never buy anything from it, even if it sells the best and only product I really want. Fortunately, they rarely do: it’s always shit.

Examples of companies at the very top of my shit-list:

NordVPN (or any VPN supplier I hear about on Youtube really)
BetterHelp
Brilliant
…

They can all fuck right off.

I do make an exception for those Youtubers who shill for quality content platforms that are alternatives to Youtube, for documentary and science videos and such, like Curiosity Stream. Not because I like the shilling, but because they advertise a service that competes with Google and that always gets my vote.

I believe that’s what Louis Rossmann does on a regular basis on his channel.

Tankie porn… Eew…

You think that’s weird?

How about Vin Diesel lived in Quebec and made a music video? How weird is that!

Are you somehow implying that somebody in the Trump regime may have a conflict of interest?

Surely not…

Yeah, I realized the computer world was going down the drain when Scott McNealy inadvertently spill the beans on the industry’s true intentions in 1999, and a few years later, I quit programming entirely and changed career.

I still use computers because I have to, and I maintain a few open-source projects of little importance so I can say I’ve done my part. But mostly I’m busy avoiding computers and trying to maintain whatever shred of privacy I have left.

My first computer was an Altair.

It was a machine from a time when personal computers were a hopeful symbol of a better future for the whole of humanity. Tech bro sumbitches monetized that hope away, and now our future is an adversarial billionaire-feeding dystopia, promising more billionaires and more dystopia.

I’m old enough to retire soon, and I constantly feel someone took away the future I was promised as a teen. As a frustrated gen-Xer who generally had it good despite everything, I can’t imagine the kind of despair young people today are going through. At least I can remember the Altair, and that’s something.

I use Grayjay on my MNT Laptop (arm64) in Linux through Waydroid. A native client would be better but the solution with Android emulation works a treat. No issues.

Food pedants aren’t gullible. They know full well water isn’t worth anything like the price it’s sold when it’s bottled. But they’re pedants: it’s their job to look sophisticated. They literally make a living out of talking bullcrap about food.

That’s why I said: if they want to pay silly money for water, they’re welcome to. What I oppose if ordinary people listening to them and getting taken for a ride next time they go out for dinner.

But I think reasonable people won’t fall for that one. It’s just too stupid on its face. And people who are too dumb to know water is just water, well… a fool and his money…

That’s a blatant scam for self-appointed restaurant critics and other food pedants.

Let them be scammed. Why not… I have nothing against taking money from fools, so long as they don’t convince reasonable people to do the same.

If you went through school without learning anything, it means you’re a normal person.

Don’t worry too much. What you need from your school is a degree, not an education. You do your own education. The degree doesn’t mean you know anything: it only tells your employer you were patient and dogged enough to sit through boring classes and terrible teachers all the way through.

That’s the real value for your future boss: they like someone who can withstand and survive the idiocy of the workplace. You getting your degree is reasonable proof that you won’t be a snowflake and leave them hanging when the going gets a little tough.

But make no mistake: you know nothing out of school. Nobody does. All employers know that. The best you can hope to get out of school is the ability to learn all the rest quickly after you’re hired.