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  • They might just try a cold pull or two before changing the nozzle. (Depening on the printer. On my Ender 3 Nozzle swaps were a no brainer - 2 minutes, on my current SV08 they are 15 min of work and 45 min of soaking the old nozzle in Isopropanol to get the thermistor out without ripping the cables)

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    so what's your threshold for calling police on random situations in your area that appear strange and potentially violent?
  • From what I can see from an EU perspective: The training you get to become an officer in the US seems to vary a lot between places. That explains lot of differences.

    Also it's quite short IMO. Here in Germany it takes 2 1/2 years to become a policeman, 6 Months of these as a trainee. And still we have a number of problems.

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    so what's your threshold for calling police on random situations in your area that appear strange and potentially violent?
  • I was once calling the police because there was a guy screaming loudly in front of my apartment building.

    He was not threatening, just really confused, was obviously looking for his home, I had the impression he was autistic or on some kind of spectrum and it was below -5C - cold enough that it's really dangerous to fall asleep outside.

    I called the police because I thought he just needed help and someone to look after him to take him home.

    Yes, I do trust police in my country.

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    ich_iel
  • Meine sind jetzt 17 und 20. Die lieben sich gegenseitig, aber die Konflikte gehören eben auch dazu und waren z. B. gerade in der Pubertät oder davor wohl auch notwendig.

    Ich hab da zu lange genervt reagiert.

    Hätte viel früher sagen machen, "macht das unter euch aus, zieht mich nicht mit rein, und der Zoff hat Pause beim Abendessen"

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    ich😎😎😎iel
  • War auch so weit, dass ich Neo2 produktiv benutzt habe, bin dann wieder zu Qewrtz zurück nachdem Neo2 auf Mac vs Linux/Windows anders funktioniert was Hotkeys angeht. Am Ende glaube ich es war's nicht wert und alternative Layouts sind überbewertet.

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    All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.
  • IPV6 is already rolled out in parts of the world. My provider has a Dual Stack lite architecture, the home connection is over IPV6, IPV4 is normally being tunneled via V6 through a provider grade NAT.

    As I AM a network nerd, I pay for a dedicated IPV4 address every month, so I can reach my stuff from outside from old IPV4 only networks.

    So when I plug in my router, connect a windows machine and just google stuff then all this traffic will be IPV6 without me configuring anything.

    It's so great fun having the attack surface being doubled by dual stack setups.

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    Do people actually like milk drinks?
  • A lot of places overheat the milk until it becomes "construction foam" (Bauschaum). That would explain the bad taste.

    I'm frothing milk at home when I want a cappuccino, so I put it into a metal vessel and hold the vessel with my hand during foaming so I can feel when the milk is nearing 80C (feels uncomfortable)

    But as coffee goes, everyone has their own taste, so if you prefer cold milk - you do you. (I have another friend who likes the milk scalding hot, close to boiling - when she's visiting I'll make her coffee like she prefers, even if my mind goess "THIS IS SO WRONG")

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    USA | Kamala Harris names her vice presidential running mate
  • I'm a German (currently even on vacation in the US). The political world is so crazy the last years, the authoritarian vs liberal segregation infecting huge parts of the world.

    The Harris vs Trump race is one that fills me with hope and fear all the time. (We Germans have some history with right wing failures who get into political offices)

    I hope Walz, the new vice president candidate will be an asset to win the US elections. Those have ramifications around the world.

    In case Trump wins, even if we can still hope it won't come to an authoratorian regime in the US, the orange old man would be an end to multilateralism, putting the world into a state like it was before WW1.

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    ELI5: how do mobile devices know your movements?
  • There's another trick - checking against street maps. When you walk/drive/ride around a corner the phone can use it's inaccurate GPS reading and update it according to where the corner is. Of course it doesn't use ONE corner. to fully update your position, it just nudges the position a bit closer.

    In case you are navigating a lot of street corners, after a time an inaccurate GPS position will be corrected.

    There's even more input to the algorithm (location of known WIFI Hotspots for example etc) and they are all combined with a "Kalman filter".

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

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    Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far
  • I'm keeping a mumber of my first generation Eneloops around. Around 10% of the ones I bought in the 2010s died, the others are still duing duty in my TV remote control etc.

    The ones that died mostly died because of staying in a moving box for around 6 years or so after I divorced and forgot about them.

    So I'm amazed how many of them just keep working.

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    KOSA passes Senate | ACLU: This bill would not keep kids safe, but instead threaten young people’s privacy, limit minors’ access to vital resources, and silence important online conversations for all
  • You don't get cookie check boxes because of GDPR. You're getting them because companies want to track you, and need to ask if they do so.

    If they don't want to steal your private info they don't need cookie check boxes, even under GDPR.

    Additionally, those shitty checkboxes, that take 1000 clicks and 5 minutes if you don't want to get tracked? Illegal under GDPR. Rejected getting tacked needs to be "as easy" as getting tracked by GDPR law.

    Companies hating their tracking data business going away like to shit on GDPR - and if it's repeated frequently enough peopme believe it.

    (Btw Kosa sounds really dangerous in itself, I'm not advocating for that)

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  • I have a couchsurfing guestbook and and some guests left me a few small hrynvia bills in 2018. I just rediscovered them and think about my guests who visited me in Munich and just hope everyone is safe.

    This is not global news, just about remembering everything is always about real people with faces and names who just want to do nothing else but live normal. lifes.

    Slava Ukraini!

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    canva.com: A lamppost made out of brown mud. Night scene, city scape, glistening in the neon light.

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    Sorry, couldn't resist the clickbait title, but yes, THOSE should be checked from time to time, too.

    But the PSA I want to say is: Check your printer for mechanical problems if you have trouble. It might not be obvious in the first place.

    In this case my Ender 3 Pro with sprite was printing a horrible first layer and the z offset was never right - when it looked ok on the left side of the x axis it was off on the right side and vice versa. (Regardless of endless tries of bed tramming and using a bed mesh)

    It turned out I had the eccentric nut on the right side of the gantry tightend too much when mounting the sprite, so the right side of the gantry was not moving freely enough.

    Now I adjusted the eccentric nut, so I can juuuuust turn the wheel with my finger a bit, maybe a bit looser that what was explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsEdU8ZtI6U

    (And people, don't purchase a single Z axis printer if you can avoid it. When I bought my Ender there was a HUGE price difference to dual Z, but nowadays thigs look much better)

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