wonderingwanderer

No, he described socialists 🙄

(Jesus was a socialist)

That’s true too, I guess. I suppose the only way to prevent that would be to disable USB boot, which would also make recovery impossible?

Let’s not forget that it was trump who pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in the first place…

All I know about secure boot is that if I make a custom ISO and try booting from it, I would need to create a signature first, register it in my UEFI, and use it to sign the ISO.

Seems like a pain in the ass, but then again if I want to play with a custom ISO I can do so in a VM, and that seems kind of worth it to prevent someone from booting whateverthefuck if they somehow gain physical access to my computer…

Yeah, that’s something I’m just not capable of. I tried for years but it always left me perplexed. Humans are strange, ambiguous creatures, and I don’t have whatever it is that let’s them decode each other’s hidden meanings. People have always expected me to just magically know without being told.

I don’t get it. I never have. When my imagination is all that’s left to fill in the blanks, it comes up with some pretty grotesque distortions. I no longer place any credence in anything I don’t know for fact. I’m too old to lose my sanity again trying to figure out whatever the fuck “read between the lines” even means…

Everything is about power to them…

Holy shit, I knew it was a crazy scale, but that flabbergasted me…

Wait what’s wrong with UEFI? My computer uses it, although I have an AMD chipset if that makes a difference…

Why not just encrypt the whole drive and then use virtual partitions within the encryption?

You fool, the tax payers will fund it. The billionaire will merely provide the shell companies to channel government funding through, in return for some sizeable dark money political donation kickbacks that will enable whatever crooked politicians who allowed such theft to occur to absolutely flood the airwaves with propaganda at every election cycle.

That’s no moon.

Are you stalking me or something?

Wow, it’s really like you have no idea what I’ve actually been through and experienced over the years of trying to do exactly that and persevering even in the face of rejection, ridicule, derision, and scorn.

Alone might be depressing, but at least it’s peaceful, and I’m getting too old to rock the boat, especially now that I’ve attained a modicum of mental stability.

Right, in a world where everyone seems to be saying “Don’t bother strangers in public, nobody wants to be bothered!” I’m supposed to just go out and… talk to strangers… until I magically make friends?

So all the things people criticized me for in the past (i.e., talking to strangers who apparently didn’t want to be bothered) are now precisely what I’m supposed to do to overcome the symptoms of the social rejection I experienced from being labeled as someone who talks to strangers in public?

Yeah, I’d rather die alone than twist my brain into knots trying to decode that jumbled mess.

TED talks have been absolute garbage for years, just corporate shilling and mindless pandering.

Even back in the days when TED talks were good, I remember learning a lot of cool new ideas that they made seem on the verge of tomorrow, that never materialized.

Fuck TED talks.

That phrase is just something the rich tell the poor to get them to bend over.

And the rotisserie chickens!

Such a combigent, veritable flowchart

I can’t control other people. Other people can choose to not be my friend, to not invite me anywhere, to not talk to me, to leave whenever I show up.

No, having friends is something beyond my control.

Another reason to avoid Bambu is that they use their own proprietary printer code file type (.bgcode instead of .gcode). Blatant attempt at userlocking/walled garden ecosystem.

I have an Anycubic and I never connected it to the internet. It calibrates offline and prints fine from a USB.

I don’t use their official apps, just OrcaSlicer which is open source (and “stealth mode” disables telemetry). The printer works great though.

The only functionality that seems to require internet (besides printing from the app or networking with the slicer) is the camera which is supposed to detect misprints and pause/cancel a project to avoid waste or skip an object so the spaghetti doesn’t ruin the rest.

But I don’t use that feature and it’s fine, just watch your first few prints so you know what tends to fail and what needs extra support, and watch any projects that might be iffy until you get a good idea of what doesn’t adhere well. But keeping your print plate clean goes a long way for good adhesion (avoid touching the center where projects print, and use dish soap to wash it when projects stop sticking).