I do love me some gridfinity! This looks awesome.

While the priors seemed to suggest it could float, the update step showed that was an outlier.

I’ll show myself the door.

Exactly, the same way I handle all my credentials.

I don’t. Discord is trash, forums forever.

Terrible ideas:

• Garden hose
• NEMA 10-50 - each “prong” could be a different connector
• CCS
• USB-A
• Quick-connect air coupler

Because for some reason, the USBIF has been hit over and over again with the stupid stick ever since USB2 came out.

Once upon a time the entire internet was an irrelevant nerd clubhouse. Those were good days.

Honestly, that’s not that bad? If we were to turn off every data center if would barely impact world energy use and electricity is getting cleaner every day. Of course we should push to get better faster, but this doesn’t seem like a big source of low hanging fruit.

Well, it’s big and great relative to what it used to be. But it’s still pretty limited compared to Windows. As an example, about 40% of my Steam library runs in Linux natively or officially supported by Proton. Another 20% runs ok enough through Proton, though not officially supported. That leaves 40% that I’m rebooting to windows to play. And, of course, that game I’m most playing right now is one of those.

60% of my library running in Linux is amazing compared to what it used to be, but still isn’t enough to convince a serious gamer to switch.

Now that I’ve completely filled the drawer with the organizers, I realize I probably didn’t have to. But they were nice to have as I was filling it up and when I only had it partially done.

Yup, all hail the Alex drawer.

I don’t know what you consider medium sized, but lemmy.sdf.org is.

It sounds like you want to print things, not tinker with a 3D printer. In that case, get a Prusa. You can make Enders and other cheap clones work great, but how much time do you want to spend tinkering and hunting down answers? What is your time worth?

Oy definitely, I can see a box that is a combo LiFi/WiFi access point with a single ethernet/fiber optic cable running to it providing the best network available for each device becoming a standard ceiling fixture in offices and tech forward homes.

Here’s the first two scenarios that come to mind, if/when the price becomes reasonable.

1. In a typical cube farm, you could string up a very small number of these in the drop ceiling and have Ethernet level speeds without having to run cables to every single desk. It should be a much easier install.

2. At home, I could run an drop for these through my attic to the one or two rooms where I use a lot of bandwidth, eg my home office and living room. Again, an easier install than running Ethernet through the ceiling, down the walls and to every piece of equipment in those rooms.

For most people I’m not sure if it would be worth it, but I could certainly see it in those niches.

Pretty much. I wouldn’t worry too much about interference from other light sources, as they are likely to be basically steady and not modulating.

Theoretical max for Wi-Fi in the 60GHz spectrum in 7G/s. Theoretical max for Li-Fi is 228G/s. Of course, no one is hitting those maxes now but in general Li-Fi is about 10x faster in the real world, or at least is you have the right prototype equipment.

Physics reason- LiFi uses shorter wavelengths so can switch faster.

I’m running a Prusa Mini at home, and a Markforged Mark Two and Ultimaker S5 at the office. I’ve been considering a MK4 for home, but I don’t really use my Mini enough to justify it.

Oh you’re in for a great story! It mostly comes down to the American railroads, but you can listen to a good podcast on it at https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730727038/episode-918-the-day-of-two-noons