Someone else has mentioned M-Disc and I want to second that. The benefit of using a storage format like this is that the actual storage media is designed to last a long time, and it is separate from the drive mechanism. This is a very important feature - the data is safe from mechanical, electrical and electronic failure because the storage is independent of the drive. If your drive dies, you can replace it with no risk to the data. Every serious form of archival data storage is the same - the storage media is separate from the reading device.

An M-Disc drive is required to write data, but any DVD or BD drive can read the data. It should be possible to acquire a replacement DVD drive to recover the data from secondary markets (eBay) for a very long time if necessary, even after they’re no longer manufactured.

This is probably relevant:

Japan says China airspace incursion ‘serious violation of our sovereignty’

Japan wouldn’t be interested in an increased US military presence if they weren’t feeling threatened by their aggressive neighbor.

Yes, it’s the link in my comment above.

It’s a bad idea to compare Lemmy to Reddit or expect Lemmy to replace Reddit.

Slow growth is not a problem, it’s actually a benefit.

There is no hurry, and no need to push for high user counts.

Rather than trying to attract more people, focus on making your communities an attractive place to be.

i just feel like she’ll hate me upon first sight

Do not trust the self-doubt. The self-doubt lies to you to get your attention. Do not listen to the self-doubt.

and then also what if she ghosts me or stands me up like in the films. what then? add it to the list of failures and try to rebuild my self image?

Then life continues. The "what if"s aren’t worth your time. Making an attempt is never a failure. You might not get the outcome that you hope for, but that is not a failure and it does not make you a failure.

OP you sound a bit like you’re spiraling in anxiety. If you have someone in your life that you can talk to that helps you get calm and centered, please do that.

Don’t go to this date thinking it might be your only chance for romance or whatever. That’s too much pressure on you, and on her.

Go to the date with the mindset of meeting a new friend and getting to know them. Go to meet the other person, as they are, in that moment, and be in the moment with them.

PenDriveLinux or rufus or balena etcher (frequently just referred to as “etcher”) or just dd.

The times doesn’t pay you royalties for your book sales, and it doesn’t cost you anything.

Of course they don’t pay, but getting on the list is fantastic advertising for your book and that pays.

They also detect if someone is messing with the system and display a dagger symbol if you are found to inflate your numbers.

Jack Rhysider’s research on this indicates otherwise.

No, I meant this is how the NotPetya incident occurred.

Again?

This is basically the same way you get on the NYT bestseller list - buy your own books.

Well my comment was a response to the comment above, not to the article, and in the context of “Kamala’s Thoughts” it is relevant.

ravhall’s point is good, that if a Democrat tried to share their ideology this way the response would be overwhelmingly negative. But on the other hand, we have “Truth Social” which might as well be labeled “Trump’s Thoughts” because he uses it as his personal soapbox. Political candidates owning social media companies should be illegal.

And on the other side, Donald Trump owns a social network, and yet no shit storm.

How the fuck did ethics become so asymmetric?

Hmm… Putin has a lot of loyalists, but he’s losing popularity especially with Ukraine gaining territory inside Russia… I wonder, if he were arrested out of the country, would one of the other oligarchs step up and grab power?

Foreigners Who Share ‘Traditional’ Russian Values

You know, Tsarists.

Thanks for pointing this out, I missed it. The book’s listing on CrowdSupply has an update from her from April of this year, so that makes me feel a bit better.

Did you change the nozzle setting in your slicer to 0.8? They usually default to 0.4

It definitely looks under extruded.

Is she OK? I’d like to believe that, but as far as I know nothing’s been heard from her for more than a year.

Do you take any steps to clean the wash before boiling it? Filtering or anything like that?

I’ve had some success using aluminum sulfate to precipitate resin out of the wash based on this guy’s work: Recycle Isopropyl Alcohol FAST! | Recovering IPA From 3D Printer Resin Wash

I haven’t tried distillation… as you say, it’s risky.

What does your waste look like after distillation? And… what would you think about using an alcohol still for this, instead of lab glassware?

Has your living space gotten cooler, or are you opening a window that you weren’t before, or have you started running AC or a fan near your printer? The ambient air temperature and especially drafts will affect the cooling rate of the plastic, which will contribute to shrinking. If you can, block the area around the printer and/or get an enclosure for it.

Are you cleaning your print bed regularly?

Have you run actual temperature tests with this particular filament?

Have you releveled your bed?

I’m sure you’re right.

How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?