Keep mine offline for that reason and I dont really need a firmware update (as long as they are not software locking replacement parts in the future, but in that case I am happy to trash the printer and never look back, its already payed itself of 100x)

Yes I do this of course, with maintenance I meant deep cleaning stuff, unscrewing panels, tightening belts, replacing gears etc.

I exclusively print functional engineering stuff so single colour and whatever colour is the cheapest lol

To be fair their printers (P1S and H2D) are reliable workhorses, I cant remember if I ever had a failed print and they are basically in 24/7 operation since a year. Never had to do any maintenance.

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We had a really long discussion going on in our techno whatsapp groups about that and it is all the more shocking as most of us (including the women) felt that techno is mostly a safe space from this kind of thing. Glad the organizers took action.

Kannst auch mal aufschrauben, vielleicht sind nur die Kohlestifte abgenutzt, lässt sich easy reparieren. Ansonsten kannst mal die Widerstände der Spulen testen, die zu wechseln ist zwar aufwendiger aber geht auch. Und evtl. hast du sogar nur einen losen/korrodierten Kontakt durch die Vibrationen, das ist auch in 2 Minuten mit einem Lötkolben wieder gerichtet.

It is better to explode, than to fade away

The largest tram system in the world looks a bit sad, my random german city with 1/10 the population of Melbourne has 30 Mio. more riders annually on its trams.

They really need more interconnections and maybe some ring routes.

I have many russian (+ukrainian/kazakhstan etc.) friends and in fact they have a somewhat different attitude to food and restaurants as compared to europeans.

From my point of view they enjoy preparing food together, everyone brings something with them (salad, pickles, vodka… all of course self made), whereas in european countries I feel its more expected that the host provides the food already on the table or you go to a restaurant.

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I cant smell ants but I can “smell” formic acid. Even diluted formic acid is so much more pungent and terrible then vinegar, so I doubt its that…

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Das ist immer lustig, weil China pro Kopf 2021 nur ca. die Hälfte pro Kopf an CO2 ausgestoßen hat wie der typische Ami.

Die selben Leute haben meistens kein Problem wenn Taylor Swift mit Privatjet von Balkon zu Toilette fliegt, aber wehe der durchschnittliche Chinese kocht mal was mit Gas.

Haben wohl nichts aus dem Migros Skandal gelernt (ein Brazilianer hatte fälschlicherweise angenommen die Papiertüten wären gratis, haben aber 20 Rappen oder so gekostet und er musste dann Strafe zahlen).

Sowas macht doch viel mehr Rufschaden als wenn man zumindest beim 1. Mal nur eine Warnung ausspricht.

Die Kassierer selbst vergessen auch mal ein Croissant oder rechnen statt dem Schoko-Croissant nur ein normales ab…

Disagreed, this makes it sound like 70000 of them are possible combatants. They could have easily cited a source clarifying that 2/3 of them are women and children or so.

Also military service is obligatory in Israel with few exceptions, so you could argue that most of the people killed at an 18+ festival were also likely (unmarked) combatants.

The typical reader will skim the article and read “Hamas killed 1000 civilians, Israel killed 70000 combatants.” and it is intentionally worded that way.

Ironically this movie is prime american imperialist propaganda, the kind thats used to justify invasion of Venezuela or Greenland.

It shows americans as heavily principled against fascism (which they have not been and are not still, obviously), it completely distorts history and never even mentions USSR side of things. Because in reality 80-90% of german soldiers died on the eastern front and the soviets captured Berlin. Leaving that small detail out makes for the logical conclusion that only americans can be trusted with international affairs, thats why they should be able to tell who runs Venezuela and who governs Greenland.

I have lived not between one but two major train lines (they were diverting from a common station), the one on the backside of the house was maybe 10m away, the one from the terrace was a lazy stone throw away. This was in Zürich and the trains there are massive, frequent S-Bahns but also freight trains (all of them electric):

You dont really hear them at all, I sometimes was shocked because there was a fast train coming from behind and I didnt hear it until it was right next to me.

There was 2 days a year, when in the night the rails were grinded, I could hear that and it took maybe 1-2 hours of my sleep, but it was announced weeks in advance.

The rails can emit a screeching sound, but that is usually well blocked by the house.

In contrast I have also lived on the side of a “main street” of a rather small village, maybe 10k inhabitants, that shit was unbearable. You heard everything the motor sound, the tires, the honks, the brakes, the music, trucks hitting a pothole would wake me up every night and so would motorcycles.

It is not a predictable woooOOoooosh like a train every half an hour, but instead an assortment of the worst combination of sounds possible that came and went all through the night. When “rush hour” set in at 6 in the morning you could forget to sleep, even on weekends.

There already was a 30km/h speed limit and a speed camera to curb the noise but it still was batshit. I moved 6 months in because I legitimately developed anger issues fueled by sleep deprivation.

I mean they could build dirty bombs, rendering whole citys uninhabitable even if they are intercepted. Personally I would rather not find out.

Let me guess they chose the most cold white light possible, that makes a xenon lamp appear warm, instead of the comfortable sodium vapour ones…