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New comment by fanatic2pope in "I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:35:30 +0000

Watching cat videos feels a lot like that.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:20:54 +0000

In the case of Bambu you'd want to do this to prevent surprises like your printer from randomly starting to print due to a "cloud error".

https://www.techradar.com/pro/did-your-3d-printer-start-prin...

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:29:13 +0000

I gave up on real time synchronization and I just do manual periodic bulk downloads. In my case using google takeout, but I'm sure Apple lets you do the same thing.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

fanatic2pope — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:24:31 +0000

We are, it's just very unevenly distributed.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

fanatic2pope — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:21:53 +0000

A couple of ballrooms. Maybe half an Iran war or a Venezuelan coup or two?

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:54:21 +0000

Or "Linux Gold Corp".

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LNXGF/

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:05:07 +0000

Very cool. Along the same lines the EPIC::DSCOVR mission has been taking photos of the earth since, I believe, around 2015.

https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

fanatic2pope — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:27:08 +0000

Earth's "radio bubble" is well over 100 light years across now. If there are aliens out there, they are probably already on their way to ask us in person why Ross, the largest Friend, doesn't simply eat the others.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Migrating to the EU"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:15:31 +0000

For just the basics, self-hosting of git can be pretty easy. I use gitolite on a VPS.

https://gitolite.com/gitolite/

New comment by fanatic2pope in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

fanatic2pope — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:45:27 +0000

Funny enough I was eating a Sumo as I came across your comment. They are certainly very tasty, but for the price (which is high at least here in Ohio) I much prefer the tartness of a traditional in-season California satsuma.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'"

fanatic2pope — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:46:51 +0000

Less offensive than a completely meaningless forced "please" and "thank you" coming from an employee who only does it because if they don't they are punished.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:41:04 +0000

FWIW the "rule of law" is a reference to the idea that the law should be applied equally to everyone regardless of their position in society, and has nothing to do with the crime rate.

https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:51:45 +0000

Maybe not by humans, but definitely by the various things living in your compost pile.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

fanatic2pope — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:15:02 +0000

Cool project.

I solved a problem (not really the same problem as this, mind you) for my family using a much older technology. I bought a big pane of glass from the hardware store, built a wooden frame for it with a shelf for an eraser and dry markers.

I hung it up in the kitchen and now when we need to leave "sticky" notes to each other we just write on it. We keep our shopping list on it, we write small poems and draw funny faces. It has become a fun ephemeral space for communicating.

Tons of fun and super cheap to build.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:14:31 +0000

Now do minicom and pppd!

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business"

fanatic2pope — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:44:37 +0000

Every city in Ohio for one.

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-955.01

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

fanatic2pope — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:44:19 +0000

I mean obviously they never were. I think what really surprised people is that it turns out that despite it's supposed "libertarian" roots, the tech community has largely broken hard right authoritarian when the rubber hits the road. Kind of reinforcing the old adage that libertarians are just republicans who want to legally smoke weed.

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:48:24 +0000

The Costco lights list a CRI of 90 in the user manual.

https://enbrightenme.com/cdn/shop/files/85837_QSG_v4.pdf?v=3...

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:24:39 +0000

Thanks, Carter!

https://www.cartercenter.org/programs/guinea-worm/

New comment by fanatic2pope in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

fanatic2pope — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:56:32 +0000

Costco sells a ceiling light that does 24k lumens for just over $100.

https://www.costco.com/p/-/enbrighten-ultrabrite-hex-lights/...