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[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

IIRC it would start to break if you made it too big in the previous game (and I'm not talking about the strength reinforcement at depth mechanic; I'm talking about Youtubers like Let's Game It Out building a tube halfway across the map).

I myself had a base that reached from the surface biome down into the jellyshroom cave, and another on the island with a ladder from the beach to the summit.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How old counts as "classic?" I've been using plain ol' "up to 10%" in my '90...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 46 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (16 children)

As much as I LOL'd and agree with the sentiment, this is almost entirely about politics, not infrastructure -- the only tenuous connection is that the political shithead happens to own a car company. As such, please try to resist the temptation to post more stuff like this here.


Edit to address some feedback:

Yes, !fuckcars is political, but that doesn't mean everything political is on-topic. If this had been about Musk interfering with CA high-speed rail, it would be unambiguously on-topic. If this had been about the harmful effects of those trucks on other road users, it would be unambiguously on-topic (although for the record, I dislike threads hating on any one particular type of car because they risk missing the point that all of them contribute to most of the problems).

But it was neither of those things. It was just pointing out the dishonesty of people who bought a particular product with a particular political connotation. The fact that the product happened to be a vehicle was irrelevant to the idea being conveyed. That makes it a good fit for somewhere like !politicalmemes or !enoughmuskspam, maybe, but not here.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And as part of the “open” part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it’s something you have to do quasi-manually since it’s probably in a completely different format.

Considering that collections of facts aren't actually copyrightable in the first place (see Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.), how much does that actually matter?

Like, as a practical matter I can see how the people that run OpenStreetMap might not want you to do it, but I don't think it would actually be copyright infringement if somebody, say, scraped the business directory information from Google Maps and bulk-imported it to OpenStreetMap.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

A lot of the people in my neighborhood are actually pretty friendly, in an idealized-small-town sort of way. But I live in one of those "scary" "inner-city" neighborhoods with The Blacks™ and The Gays™ and whatnot, so it's a little different for me.

Meanwhile, my Boomer parents, who live out in the suburbs, complain that their subdivision has gone completely to Hell. Funny, that.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do you? Or do you remember when they falsely claimed to mind their own goddamn business?

[–] grue@lemmy.world -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you sure sound upset, and you're downvoting both me and the other guy who replied to you, so...

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I buy used/refurbished phones a generation or so out-of-date, and recently upgraded from a Pixel 7 to a Pixel 8. Amazon sells "unlocked" phones, but does not distinguish between carrier-unlocked and OEM (bootloader)-unlocked. Whatever phone you get, you'll want to immediately do the "enabling OEM unlocking" step (enable Developer Options and make sure that "OEM unlocking" exists as an option and isn't grayed out) before the return period expires.

It took me two tries to get an actually-unlockable phone this time around, and I've still got the unsuitable one sitting here on my desk waiting to get packed and shipped back to Amazon.

Also, I've been actually screwed by it a year or so ago, when I got a Pixel 7 for my dad, with the idea of preserving the option to install something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS at a later date. When that later date came (after the return window had closed), we discovered that his "unlocked" phone wasn't actually OEM-unlockable and now he's stuck on the stock ROM.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

My Ender 3 required a little bit of assembly (attaching the Z-axis frame and the control panel, along with associated wires), but my Monoprice one came completely assembled. It was literally just plug it in, check the bed for level (which wasn't automatic, but also required little to no adjustment out of the box), feed in some filament, and then print the lucky cat gcode that came on the SD card.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Things like union busting, failure to enforce anti-trust law, and rent-seeking cause wealth transfers. Climate change leading to higher insurance costs is more like wealth destruction, even if people invested in the insurance industry are seeing gains.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't mind it being a rule, but I do mind it being a secret. It needs to be mentioned in the sidebar (probably as an addendum to rule #2).

[–] grue@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're the one who's upset about it.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

 

Youtube link, in case you don't like PeerTube for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCs5nDEZpoM

 

Blog post, if you'd rather read text than watch video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/42401743

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63873581

 

I'm in the middle of breaking down the packaging of a Roland digital piano for recycling, and I'm impressed by how some of it uses intricately-folded cardboard instead of molded styrofoam to hold stuff in place.

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