For those who don’t know the image source, it’s from Kung Fury, a short comedy (half hour) on youtube. Fully recommend for over the top parody of bad 80s action movies.
For those who don’t know the image source, it’s from Kung Fury, a short comedy (half hour) on youtube. Fully recommend for over the top parody of bad 80s action movies.
It’s the power glove that really gets me. It’s so bad.
I put an optical drive in my PC recently, and I’ve been giggling like an idiot typing “eject” and “eject -t” into the terminal. Terminal commands that do something physical in the world delight me.
It feels magical to run systemctl shutdown now to my laptop through SSH and seeing my laptop turn off without touching it
Or systemctl reboot!
I’ve also been getting a kick out of my new 3D printer and controlling it remotely. Even though if I hit the X+10mm button and that message has to go to Prague and back before the Nextruder nudges to the left.
Prusas don’t run locally?
Prologue: I can’t talk from experience about the Mini, the XL, or that…$12,000 delta printer they’re offering? This is going to concern the conventional “MK” series of bedflingers and the new Core One.
All Prusa printers I’m aware of “run locally.” From the MK3S and back to the Prusa Mendel, they used various 8-bit ATMEGA 2560-based control boards which had no networking capabilities at all. You could add network capabilities with Octoprint, For awhile Prusa even included a way to attach a Raspberry Pi Zero W to the main board via the GPIO header.
Since the MK4, they now use a 32-bit ARM-based control board that has an Ethernet jack, and a removable Wi-Fi module. You can still walk up to the thing, poke the touch screen, and stick a USB stick in the side with G-Code on it, but we now have not one but two ways of controlling the printer remotely:
PrusaConnect is their cloud-based service. Either through a web browser, PrusaSlicer running on a PC or their smart phone app, you can monitor and control the printer across the internet, from anywhere. It integrates with Printables, their own Thingiverse with blackjack and hookers, and they even have a cloud slicing service. You can choose a model from Printables on your phone, their server will slice it and send G-code to your printer to start it printing. But, everything you do to it goes to the internet. So when I press the Preheat PLA button in PrusaConnect, that message crosses the Atlantic twice before the red light on my print bed blinks on.
PrusaLink is their local network control system, which consists of a web server running on the printer itself, through which you can view the current temperatures and upload G-Code (and firmware) files. That is it. You cannot so much as preheat the bed through PrusaLink. You can set it up in PrusaSlicer such that it will give you a button to upload G-Code to a printer directly across the LAN, but…
It feels really strange that I can preheat my printer either from its control panel, or across the internet, but not across my LAN.
Yes, they do. But you can now choose to download via Easy Print from your phone and run the printer if you want. I’ve never even tried the app. My Prusa is still my trusty Mk3s that runs on Klipper now.
Our AVR (audio video receiver, aka home theater amplifier) can be turned on via home assistant.
Felt magical the first time I turned it on by clicking a button.
I have to reconnect mine because I was just shipped a CD with a song on it I can’t find online anywhere…
Which you’re going to rip as .flac and .mp3 and share/upload somewhere for preservation, right?
I haven’t had a computer with a built-in SATA optical drive in years, just the crappy off-brand old recycled laptop drive in a random housing ones you get these days that require a good USB A-MicroB cable, and good luck finding one of those. Having a proper built-in drive is nice enough that I actually want to use it.
So I was playing with some of my old CDs, and noticed that my copy of Slippery When Wet is two-sided. Bwuh?! CDs aren’t two-sided, that’s a DVD thing. Sure enough, the “back” is a DVD that has the four music videos they made for the album, and two more copies of the music, one in “even better than Redbook Audio Somehow” stereo, and one in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound that has been lengthened, mostly just additional studio chatter before and after the tracks but one of the songs, I think it’s Raise Your Hands, has a lengthened bridge or something?
So I learned how to rip FLACs from a DVD!
Weird Al’s Poodle Hat has a .mov file on it.
Had a big ol time partying like it was 2004.
Put it on Soulseek once you rip it please! Others are likely looking as well!
Every so often I have to buy a DVD because it isn’t available online anywhere, and I always try to upload it somewhere as a community service when I do lol.
Saving lost media from getting lost is a very honourable activity and a Service for humanity.
More people have to realise
Pirates save our culture
Lost doctor who episodes are a great example