Awesome. Thanks.

I hope I’m wrong but it looks like they disabled the ability to do opt into the program.

I cannot join my X1C to the program currently. It just errors out or leaves me in a CloudFlare “are you human” loop.

Up until this change you could install and root the firmware with Bambu’s permission.

One idea that crossed my mind is that the open(ish) firmware started to edge into future product territory.

Bambu’s pages for third party firmware are still up but seem to no longer work: (I tried today) https://bambulab.com/en-us/third-party-firmware/plan?ref=blog.bambulab.com

Canada too.

Email is notoriously hard to self host. It requires constant care, planning, and interfacing with the big guys when your email can’t get delivered despite jumping through all the hoops (DKIM, DMARC, SPF and more).

I used to run email services for my small business and former start-up. It was a never-ending pain. IP warming, monitoring, deliverability checks…. blah blah blah.

Both Google and Microsoft would regularly blacklist massive IP address blocks because of one bad IP address. Days to weeks for resolution in some cases.

I’m a little salty though ‘cause I just switched to proton away from RackSpace. There are so few good and reliable options that aren’t the big guys and the big guys want it that way.

I don’t know where you are but if you have access to an “in-bulk” store (Bulk Barn here in Canada) they can have a limited selection of loose leaf tea - but at a huge discount over tea shops.

I use it for bulk hibiscus tea (tea in the cold months - Jamaica in the hot ones).

I’ve had good luck with Garuda after nearly two decades on Ubuntu and its derivatives.

So much so that I moved my work os to it, despite the gaming bent.

If I’m not mistaken Gamers Nexus showed this largely to be true. Even nipping at the bud of the 4070 on occasion.

B580 is a great deal. I’m hoping they release a B770 24GB and that Linux support for Battlemage is excellent by then.

120GB is with photos and not video.

President Musk doesn’t care, he’s going to get what he paid for and then some. Pray he doesn’t alter the deal further.

That’s not very nice.

To garbage.

I mean, at least in a pinch you can burn some garbage to stay warm. Its going to suck but not as much as actions.

I agree.

As someone who uses a number of LLMs often as a pair programmer / sounding board - they’re incredibly useful if you have a very clear idea of your goal and also a solid idea of the architectural patterns you’re going after because they’re so often flatly wrong or suggest solutions that are wildly inefficient/inappropriate for larger projects/applications.

The more context you can provide the better it does but it still falls over often - suggesting courses of action or solutions that are completely hallucinated.

The one thing that’s consistently true is that the better I can describe my goals the better the response tends to be.

The best part about using them is that, for the most challenging work, I find that forcing myself to clearly explain my problem and goals in writing often leads me to a solution without ever having to submit a request.

There’s something about trying to clearly explain the problem to someone who “doesn’t know the space” that’s been helpful to finding the solution.

It’s odd that I had to rediscover this in such a visceral way after a previous life as a tech product person.

I believe only on QMK models?

I’m reasonably sure, but not 100% sure, that the light button in non-qmk keyboards isn’t passed on.

Also have white led Keychrons. Both are K2s.

Loved them at first, overtime I’ve grown to strongly dislike the wasted key for the white backlight but they’re still great keyboards - especially for the price.

Two hours later with a changed title and thumbnail:

Fix YouTube clickbait with this one simple trick….

I was so impressed with Garuda that I adopted it for my primary workstation OS even though I’m using the “gaming edition”.

Indeed. I couldn’t get a couple of old 3DO games working on windows 10/11 even though I bought them on Steam.

Work great on Linux w/ Photon (aka wine).

As someone who hasn’t had a drink for 23 years one of the big issues with former addicts and alcoholics is the same “if it’s not good for me it’s not good for you” attitude we see everywhere else.

It’s yet more exceptionalism where we mistake the phenomenon of our perception and experience as a direct stand in for everyone else’s.

Even more problematic that it comes from someone with (and I’m willing to step out on a ledge here) a self-professed disease (alcoholics often refer to “their disease”.) That’s fine, but you don’t see diabetics recommending everyone constantly monitor their blood glucose and take insulin.

Like yes, I understand that when my wife has her first beer it doesn’t set off the trigger I have where I need all the beer (and liquor and whatever drugs you have on you) in the world until I don’t remember who I am.

Depends what you’re doing.

4o is way better at analytical work. Think big datasets and statistics. It’ll provide the Python it used for analysis so you can double check.

Claude is far superior for more challenging development tasks. For example I found ChatGPT pretty useless for a lot of Scala troubleshooting and rubber ducking.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is much better though far from error free. Also not free if I remember correctly.

Both get stuck in weird loops, make stuff up and leave things out when taken at face value.

Ultimately they have their own strengths and either can be a force multiplier.