Notes

I decided to go with the @Prusa3D@twitter.com i3 MK3S+.

Assembly took two half-days and it calibrated properly the first try. Now I just need to figure out where to put it...

what open source software means to me:
1. make okay thing that i need
2. make thing available but don't really tell anyone
3. people find my thing
4. uh oh, it doesn't quite do what they want
5. receive diff that adds things i don't want
6. ignore it to avoid saying no
https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1370844042427211779

I wrote some terminal emulation code for an ESP8266 connected to an RA8875 and I had to make it render my favorite ANSI art

big boye

"When linking Chrome, a linker reads 3,430,966,844 bytes of data in total."

https://github.com/rui314/mold

Which 3D printer should I buy? I have no experience with this stuff but I want something that can print fairly large things (a foot tall?) with high quality. I'm not concerned about noise or speed. Maybe under $500?

A recent thread somewhere about small team sizes and its affect on focus made me curious about OpenBSD's commit rate over the years.

Courtesy of
http://oxide.org/cvs, OpenBSD commit history since 1997:

Google: let's offer critical services that people will depend on, and do it for free so we can gain the most users, eliminate competition, and mine our users' data to sell them ads

Also Google: we hAvE Too mAnY uSERs To aCTUaLLy ProViDe REaL SUppoRT tO THem

Or, another example of how OpenBSD makes things simple and well-integrated out of the box that everyone else makes so complicated and hard to configure

https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2021/02/07/audio-stack.html

Hello again, old friend

Do you ever feel bad for making computers do stupid things over and over again

Here's a good visual comparison of the X1 Nano vs the X1 Carbon

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Nano-Laptop-Review-Less-than-1-kg-for-the-Business-Subnotebook-with-LTE.517858.0.html

My wife discovers coil whine:

PSA: The new @geteero@twitter.com Pro 6 APs have terrible coil whine (or "piezoelectric effects in multilayer capacitors" as their engineer on Reddit put it). They are very noisy even from several feet away when they're pushing WiFi traffic.

https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/knre3s/coil_whine_on_pro_6/