France is a police state in which citizens are all suspects. Cryptography was illegal until 1996 outside of government/military use and it's one of the worst countries for any hobbyist who needs to use radio frequencies, fly stuff around or even mere street photography. This law will make it easier for the government to crackdown on anyone using encrypted messaging as a pretext to arrest them or put them under surveillance.
Note that the current interior minister and his predecessor both are vile fascist scum.
Yup, pretty much every province now has a good choice of local brews. It's sad we have stupid interprovincial trade barriers because I wouldn't mind a case of Boréale or Quidi Vidi once in a while, although we have choice too in Ontario. Beer is proof the universe loves us.
The big US and Canadian brands all taste like ass but there's thousands of small breweries that make very yummy nectar. Personally I prefer German and Belgian brews.
Just like you, I switched to LAN mode and I'm using Orca anyway. Gonna wait for it to blow over, it's still a great printer for the price but next one will most likely be Prusa. I'm still happy with my A1M+AMS, it's a great introduction to the hobby as far as I'm concerned. It's disappointing to see Bambulab behaving that way, I hope they change course.
It's a much vulgar version of the much older "je m'en tamponne le coquillard", the literal translation being "I'm patting my privates with it" meaning "I don't care."
There's a famous song "Les nuits d'une demoiselle" by Colette Renard with lyrics in periphrases all describing sexual self-satisfaction using French language twists and vocabulary. A real gem!
I've been using the OpenVINO plugins for a few weeks and it's genuinely impressive. Noise cancelling is one thing, but the transcription tool is amazing. I can create subtitles from conference recordings in minutes and create transcripts of recorded zoom calls, etc. and it does it for multiple languages.
All the ones I've used so far are able to use the GPU but it has to be enabled in the app settings. I mostly use LM Studio and it flies on my nvidia 3060. Doesn't seem to have options for AMD GPUs though, unless I'm mistaken.
Switzerland is very mountainous and has pretty fast trains too, although not Shinkansen-fast. Swiss trains are expensive and comfortable and the vista is pretty much always great.
Yes, in factories where the tools are programmed to do a job like tightening the bolts for an airplane plug door or your car engine head. The quality assurance gains are enormous (the tool does the job and logs it).
Problems occur when the customer cuts IT security costs or tampers with the tools to increase production rates.
The tools are connected to a central database that logs all operations, it's super useful. All the difference between Boeing that uses old style pneumatic guns and manual torque wrenches vs. Airbus using fully connected/automated wrenches that not only tighten bolts to the right torque every single time but also keeps track of how many bolts have been tightened. Such tools should be airgapped from the internet but obviously someone messed up on that part. Could be cost-cutting.
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