I have an intense dislike for gummie bears. So I gave them away. The free full kilo of Galaxy silver filament that came in the box had my full attention though.

Put some respect on the sackcloth and ashes that Slack is. I did my Slack phase 20 years ago also. Soooo many config files…But if you understood those, Slack was near bulletproof.

20 years ago you needed to search the web and download all the drivers AFTER the windows install then install all of those.

Being told “RFTM! noob”, isn’t as common as it was 20 years ago. At least with Fedora where good help can be found. Still, there are a good number of questions that just don’t get answered either.

That is the sad part. When I got my Prusa Mk3s kit way back during covid, it not only came with a users manual, but a hefty large assembly manual. Both books printed on glossy paper and full page color pictures with circles and arrows on them.

I still have both books and I still use that Mk3s.

I think only Prusa still ships a real, honest to god printed manual anymore. Most printers come with just a pamphlet to setup and plug it in.

Paper costs money to print and to ship.

Just like the “right wing nutjobs celebrating attacks on migrants” that YOU enjoy ridiculing in your post, PETA has earned their ridicule also.

They stopped being People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals long ago. They are now just another money grubbing organization.

When it comes to sports a the highest levels, you either win or lose at birth. If you lose that lottery, too bad so sad. If you win that lottery, Congrats! Here’s your gold medal.

For that vast majority of us, playing a sport is a hobby and nothing more. And that’s just fine.

Wait until you see next years model, Touch Screen Only BIOS. And as an added bonus, you will need a 4k monitor to see the selections that are so small you will need tiny rat like fingers to work.

Enjoy eating again!

Anything from soups to salads.

It being winter right now, I tend to make soups and chilis. In fact, my Wife made a big slow cooker full of chili. We ate that for 2 days and froze the leftovers, (chili freezes very well). A few days before that, I made chicken soup. In addition to the onions and celery, (for god’s sake don’t throw out the leaves! They taste more like celery than the stalks). I added a whole bag of frozen mixed vegetables and 2 small potatoes, (peeled and cubed and an awesome source of vitamins and soluble fiber), that needed to go. And for meat, all I needed was 2 chicken thighs cut up into spoon sized pieces. Vegetable curries are awesome. Stir fries are easy, cheap, and fast. (If you don’t own a wok, get you a carbon steel wok. Next to a good cast iron dutch oven, a wok is the most versatile cooking pot you can own). And don’t forget root vegetables, rutabagas, parsnips, turnips, and beets. They not only can be tossed into soups, well maybe not the beets, but all of the are awesome roasted too. You can look up recipes online, but you really don’t need a recipe for chicken soup. Just some basic spices and seasonings.

I will leave you with my recipe for oatmeal bread. And for god’s sake, don’t buy expensive oat flour from the store instead make your own in a blender in a minute or less from dirt cheap rolled oats. You want this quick bread ‘rustic’.

Ingredients for Oatmeal Bread Recipe: 2 eggs. 150 g yogurt/5 oz. half a teaspoon of salt. 2 cups + 0.5 cups/275-280 grams of rolled oats. 9.8 oz. grind in a blender. 1 tbsp baking powder. Add any nuts and seeds to taste-- or not. Dealer’s Choice

Grease you bread pan well. I use silicone bread pans now Bake in a preheated oven at 180C/360F for 25 minutes.

The yogurt can be either plain or a flavored yogurt. I like either yogurt with honey or vanilla myself. This make a stiff dough, so have a sturdy spoon.

Frozen or canned vegetables are cheap and readily available. Cheap beans, either canned or dried. All common items in any restaurants. And in 40 minutes I can have a loaf of oatmeal bread to go with it all. And that includes making the oat flour from scratch with cardboard box of oat meal breakfast cereal.

You want more fiber than that, I will need to fall a dead maple tree I didn’t get dropped this past summer.

Restaurants like to serve vegetables because they are cheap, easy to prepare (mostly), fast to cook, and filling. Far more profitable to sell than a steak. That those same vegetables are high in fiber, is an accident to them.

As a person who needs to take supplemental iron pills every day, constipation is an old friend and I’m always eating as much fibre as possible to combat it.

I got an old Nitro 5 with a rickity old 500gig hard drive. Will a Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD be a good Christmas present for it?

Probably should get something while prices are somewhat more reasonable.

That was more than I got. It’s part of the reason that the state I practiced in required 2 years as an EMT B before you could go to school to become a medic. At least you knew what you were in for before they spent the time on you.

Got news for you, medics and cops ain’t trained for dealing with dead people. The cops I worked around as a medic were some of the most squeamish people at messy scenes.

Nor are you trained to climb up out of a drainage ditch and explain to a Mother that her 13 year old son is dead down there, pinned under a 4-wheeler, and not me or god can fix it. (A tee shirt I got) Or a family about why their son and brother is hanging 30 feet up in the air by a rope. (Another tee shirt I got)

I got a closet with maybe a tiny bit more of my share of tee shirts. But I sure as hell wasn’t trained for any of them.

Yeah Blender might be the better choice here.

To me it looks AI generated and the “designer” never tried to actually print it. I would consider this model to be unprintable as presented. Because to actually print it, it would need to be seriously redesigned with pre built supports.

Does FreeDoom count? It’s as close to the original as I can get anymore.

Shouldn’t be hard for anyone from Europe. The EU already wants to monitor all the social media anyway. Plus age restrictions. The Aussie’s aren’t far behind either. And they have age restrictions now.