Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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I use a sub-40% layout that I love. I wrote all about it here: https://natecox.dev/lets-talk-about-keyboards

The A1 is 256x256x256, which is pretty generous for an out of the box printer.

I personally use a Bambu P1S which has the same volume, and is larger than the Prusa MK3S I upgraded from.

The A1S is definitely smaller but still capable. I started on a Prusa Mini which is similarly sized and it worked great for me for a year or so before I upgraded.

Edit: I honestly would not start with a multi color unit. Wait a year and get some print experience under you first before you add that extra complexity.

The Bambu A1 (mini or full size) may be a good fit for you. Price point is there or below if you opt out of the multi color unit, and they are remarkably beginner friendly.

It was a happier time, I miss my atomic purple floppies.

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I rewrote that several times because I have the mind of a child, but atomic purple 3.5” was even worse so I give up and you get to enjoy both.

Every mp3 player I owned in the 2000’s worked this way. Screen above, controls below, list UI for tracks, usually volume rocker or dial on top.

Sometimes the UI would be more complicated and would include a left/right button for navigating horizontal menus (like my all time favorite Zen Vision:M) but the basic playlist was still a vertical scrolling list UI.

Sounds like grouping these together is unwise given the large disparity of behavior between them.

I have often heard religious people site the “no civic duty” argument against atheism, which appears to be groundless.

Yeah I’m not sure where you’re getting this from. Digital “ownership” has always been a hot mess, because you purchase the right to play the game on the publishers terms.

Ethically Steam should provide a refund, legally I can’t find any evidence that they are compelled to.

My two refund rejections from steam disagree with you.

My refund requests got denied by steam because I have more than 2 hours in the game.

This layout makes sense if you have used an old school mp3 player or similar.

Volume is left and right because it’s an analog of the volume bar on the screen.

Up and down is previous and next because play was controlled by a list UI so you were moving a cursor up and down between songs.

It’s not how I personally would prefer it, but it’s not as outlandish as it seems.

Literally unplayable.

Kagi is hard because it is so very much better than any alternative I have tried. I don’t like the guy’s views but it would substantially impact something I do for work and pleasure dozens of times every day to give it up, so I’m really struggling with that.

It was indeed

There is a fantastic podcast about public executions that I listened to years ago, which detailed how the public loved public executions no matter how violent or gruesome.

People would come from miles around, they would rent balconies above the execution site to get the best view and have parties while they watched someone suffer and die. Part of the reason public executions lasted as long as they did was governments being reluctant to take them away from the public.

I’m not sure that keeping it palatable is super important to the process. The real argument against execution is that we know for a fact that sometimes innocent people get convicted; to be ok with executing criminals you must be ok with the occasional innocent being killed, and I would argue that even a single innocent being killed by the state is too much to accept.

I’m a nix user and I’m disappointed by how apt this comparison is.

Mission workshop bags. I love mine, it looks as good today as when I got it.

You sound like a great reason not to work where you work.

Oh, ok, I remember that now, thanks.

I’ll see about forgetting it again because it irritates me lol.

Everyone knows how to Google today, this isn’t 1992 where the internet was new and we had to teach search engine usage in school.

People ask questions in forums (online and otherwise) because they want answers from people who don’t need to Google it. They’re asking for a real interaction with a real human being who knows what they’re talking about and can be asked follow up questions.

It’s hard to believe, but there are still people out there who just want the human interaction more than a clinical answer.

I, also, ANAL.

Totally agree on RTFM, I almost exclusively see it used by people who really need to put you down to feel adequate. Same thing with the assholes who answer a question with a LMGTFY (let me Google that for you) link, who think they’re clever but have entirely missed the point of asking for input from actual humans.

I don’t know PEBKAC and I’m kind of afraid to look it up.