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  • Nothing better than a match in a high oxygen environment.

  • I can't tell if that is an attempt at an insult or what? The speed at which you charged forward with a logical fallacy is amazing though: Because I called out your account as narrow minded, I would have supported/ignored sexual abuse by priests in the 50's? Lulzwut?

  • Is that whole account dedicated to trashing Wikipedia? Holy fuck some people need a life.

  • Neither am I. However, I have seen one or two people on ca that claim it's an instance "for Canadians", but that isn't the majority view.

    Canadian news is mild compared to other instances and their admins rock. They just did some good hardware updates and the instance is fairly reliable. 10/10, would recommend. The author of my client (Connect) is also on that instance, and I contribute a bit to that community as well.

    I could see some downsides if the occasional post in French would piss you off.

  • 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it. ' - M.C. Escher

  • .ca is a bit more sane and not as authoritarian as .world or .ml. I don't mind .world, but their admins are inconsistent, IMO

  • I am confused now. I was just called a "leftist Nazi" and "liberal right wing nazi". Lulz.

    My point is that I think the terms "leftist" and "liberal" have been redefined again, just as a heads up.

  • Well, I was banned from ml because of a conversation on another instance. It was something about reporting all ml posts as a rule 1 violation... I guess that could be considered inciting unrest against the CCP and Mother Russia.

  • Many (not all) ml users are fairly rabid when it comes to their own flavor of propaganda. If you ever casually chat with them on Lemmy, just understand that they have a completely different world view so don't mention things related to politics, country borders, history, government structure, major battles during WW2, sparrow populations or what color the sky is and you should be fine.

  • That's what you just got shown: Shove the configgy bits into Git.

    You will likely have to find the configs you want to save first.

  • Solar panels are more efficient closer to the equator because of the most direct light from the sun. At higher or lower latitudes, there is more atmosphere for the light to pass through. The actual distance from the sun is basically irrelevant without an atmosphere. There might be a measurable difference based on distance alone but not much.

    Efficiency does not generally equate to optimal power generation. There are probably hundreds of other variables that directly translate to maximum power production.

  • This is my opinion, but yeah. It'll take some time.

    The biggest issue is that money has moved to safer for investments. Those new investments may take time to mature and/or avoid tax penalties.

    Another component is that hedge funds are likely the ones taking money out of the market in a huge way right now. Hedge funds normally specialize in short selling and there is no better time to close or massively reduce those short positions. (They have other strategies, but their main function is in their name.) They can't close their positions rapidly, or it will trigger a faux rebound in stock prices. (Short sales are weird like that. It may be one of the reasons you see short bounces in price as a stock price is cratering.)

    Unfortunately, the tarrifs are shifting investment policy against the US now from other countries. This will take years to recover from.

    What will really suck is that I have always speculated that these tarrifs are just the worst kind of insider trading strategy you will ever see. If the intent was to temporarily dump stock prices for the benefit of a few, I really don't think it's going to work like it did during COVID. COVID didn't force massive global policy changes against the US the same way. Even if orange man decides to reverse course and lift tarrifs tomorrow, the damage has been done and there is no reason to restore previous investments. The risk is too high.

  • Please do! Success is awesome, but failure is important. Enders are pure hobby printers, after all. Half the fun is tearing them apart, rebuilding components and learning what works and what doesn't for your own use cases.

  • Just thought I would add that there is nothing to be embarrassed about having a probe going where you typically wouldn't want one. The doctors should have a very mechanical view of the human body and they shouldn't care about anatomy. I am a huge proponent of getting a colonoscopy when needed. They can save your life. Most of all, you need them at regular intervals. Thankfully, they should be a few years apart.

    I actually woke up during my last colonoscopy, to the weird feeling getting poked at from inside my body. (Get your giggles out of the way, kids.) My recovery time from anesthesia is super-quick usually, and will mention that for my next colonoscopy. I'll be on my feet in about 10mins from when I open my eyes. The experience is always different from person to person. (I also was a serious drunk for a number of years, so operating at 25% was kinda normal, I suppose.)

  • Totally. There is heat from repeated deformation, but I didn't explain how little heat it was, so I clarified in a later comment. All motion creates heat, etc, etc. (TBH, I shouldn't have mentioned it. Oh well. I let that cat out of the bag, so it's too late.)

    But also yes, I have experienced PLA "cold flowing" on some parts as a well so I can confirm that for sure.

  • Keep in mind that any heat created from stress on plastic will still be minimal and it will just take lots of time to create visible deformation. You can mitigate this mostly by printing critical parts at 100% infill.

    I always over-engineer parts that are mechanical. That is just my preference. If you look at the original part, it is likely designed to be strong on only one axis. This saves money and time for bulk manufacturing. (Compensate home prints with better materials or bulkier printing is my own rule of thumb. Everything is a trade-off, is my point.)

  • I would say it was a combination of being too tight and the tensioner being made as cheap as possible. You don't need the belts "rock solid" and I would check the bearings/bushings on the other end for damage too. Any kind of wobble is going to amplify enough to show on your prints, but if that matters is up to you.

    Also yes. It's more than possible to print a replacement and I would check if there are better designs on Printables. Ideally, you want a metal one unless you print one out of PC or another strong, high temperature plastic. Repetitive bending creates heat and heat will eventually deform PLA or PETG. You will get a lot of repetitive motion on a tensioner. However, nothing really needs to be perfect, just temper any longevity expectations based on what you are willing to invest in time and materials.

  • Instances don't have to be federated and instances federate and defederate from each other often enough. The goals of instances may not align, and to keep conflict low(er) it's better if some instances cut ties.

    TBH, this sounds like a technical issue between ml and nl or just a typo in the way you are posting.

    While I thought it was basically an on/off switch for defederation, I suppose there could be a way to block updates from instances without fully defederating.

    I am not going to get into the drama, but ml is defederated at a little higher frequency, but it's not as high as some others. It's because reasons, and is not relevant to this particular thread.