As one of those more rural Americans-- we've always lived that life of not being able to get those things the rest of you take for granted. Whether it's tofu, cell phone service, or healthcare. So my life will continue with little disruption.

I recommend installing the open light and open dark theme for a better user experience in FreeCAD. Everything seems a bit clear and easier to use, YMMV

Modern medicine, no matter how smart and clever we think we are, still mostly involves doing things that just keep the patient amused while letting nature take it's course.

Meh, the under lying extra noise is what those people are looking for and not the purity of the sound. Which supposedly ties back to the inherent sound of live music which isn't cleaned up digitally.

It's all potatoes no matter which kind of audiophile a person is.

No.

I never like the glue line though.

Now there you go! Bibles can be big enough to hide a small mortar and perfect insurance the no maga-ass would touch for fear of burning at the touch.

No, you ain't going to disassemble that revolver to make it smaller. That frame and barrel ain't coming apart without a proper barrel wrench and heavy vise or cutting torch....

So you either need a small revolver or a much bigger book.

Yes, us old people can become just as addicted to phones as easily as a 14 year old. And with the same stupid shit. On the other hand, it can help keep cognitive abilities working better and helping to keep more interested in the world around you. But it can impair judgement and let people slid into poor mental hygiene. And us old people have a very hard time with those two things anyway.

But, despite my great fear of losing my mental acuity and abilities, I can feel the small cracks beginning to form around the edges of my mind. I work hard to keep learning new things and mastering new skills. From learning how to make my own bacon this past summer to learning how to bake bread this winter. While working out a new model steam engine design that I might build next winter. Plus adding some 3D printing designs to upload for others to possibly enjoy and use. And today I'm driving 300 miles to pick up a new puppy to train to hunt grouse with me in the fall. (I lost my beautiful little baby girl Tara to kidney failure this early spring). This puppy might well out live me when it's all said and done.

The fear of decline is real and I know it's inevitable.

As a house with 3 dogs and 2 cats, it's not a real problem. Sometime a quick wipe is needed, but the critters ain't going to interfere with any printing.

When you slice the keychain, have you painted in the letters with the chosen colors? Does it show the purge tower after slicing? And when you click to send it to the printer, does the popup screen show 2 spool images and colors? If it does, then the text is there and just embedded below the surface. and you need to raise it up to be flush with the surface.

Bambu Studio is ass for embedding text and some others things as well. Orca Slicer and Prusa Slicer a lot better with adding text.

I have owned a round baler and made 1000's of them over the years, mine weighted around 800lbs/365kg for straw and up to 1000lbs/450kg for alfalfa per bale. Cows ain't kicking 1000lbs of alfalfa around nor should they. What a waste of feed and money.

But, one in the truck and towing 9 more on the trailer with a 2015 Dodge Ram Hemi around 30 miles per load......Fooken' amateurs.

Yeah, it could be possible to only ever need the mini and 80% is perhaps conservative. But, I as much as I find my Bambu Mini can cover the majority of my printing needs these days, I still need the print volume my Prusa Mk3s has for a very good number of practical prints I design and print. The real world often demands real world size and hates pieced together part designs lack of strength. And I still often need to resort to my metal working shop with lathe, mill, drill press and welders to make serious parts because plastic just ain't it.

If you are wondering if others are on the road with you, you're doing it wrong.

If it works, it's a superb deal. And the print area will probably cover 80% of everything you might ever print.

Edit: Print quality is more about your ability to tune your printer, no matter the brand, then it is about the printer brand itself.

Turn signals are cool. But let's ignore the fact I live in a very rural area and there is often no one within miles of me when driving. In that case, who am I going to signal to? That suicidal deer in the ditch? That's the last SOB I want to have any clue about where I'm going. But anywhere I meet or see traffic I do use them. And definitely the once a month trip I make to a real town.

I do not, as a rule, place any great amount of faith in turn signals. And that paranoia has saved me more than once. Far too often I have seen a driver with a turn signal blinking merrily blow past me either straight ahead or turn in the opposite direction. Had I believed those signals, I would have been tee-boned.

The only thing I believe in is the direction your steer tires are turned. Turns out your vehicle will go in the direction they are pointing. Any of you new drivers, this is an excellent safe driving tip. Pay attention to the steer tires. Those tires will tell you the truth about the real intentions of another driver.

In any case always remember-- it's just as easy to be dead being dead right as it is being dead wrong. Be safe out there........

You are not alone! I have always been able to do that too. It still doesn't help with the tinnitus I've had since I was 4 or 5 though.

What was a revelation to me was the idea that everyone was only sleeping 3 or 4 hours a night. I thought I was perfectly normal in not sleeping for normal time spans. And despite the drugs and cpap machine I'm prescribed, I still can only sleep 5 or 6 hours now and often less. But I often am able to get to REM sleep now.

After doing a quick search, I don't see enough differences for the Zen kernel to claim it's so special. The main line kernel has to be a "one size fits all" from servers to gaming and anything in between. Zen is just a recompiled mainline kernel with some chosen optimizations for better specific use cases-- mostly desktop/gaming. Which is nothing I can't do if I recompile my bog standard Fedora kernel for those optimizations.

No I haven't bothered to surf that one up yet. But, if it's vastly different, then it's not Linux and not germane to this meme.

It's possible Kilroy predates the Roman Empire. And he will certainly be here after the heat death of the universe.