The problem with this solution is that your device will only charge at legacy 5V low power charging. The data pins are used to negotiate charging rates between devices and without this capability the charger will only deliver the known-safe basic low power charging rate.

Everything.

Yes, that’s correct. If you cherrypick data and extrapolate your preferred assumptions about it you can make it say the thing you want.

I just clicked the first installer script in Lutris and two minutes later was playing.

Yep. Anything that needs to connect to the internet to function is never entering my home.

And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.

The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I’ll never connect mine to the internet. It’s a great printer, but I don’t trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.

My buddy has a Bamboo. It’s pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.

Systems that abuse everyone and claim to be for our protection. The more things change the more they stay the same.

No, it’s the opposite. It’s the USA.

That’s what Mint is for. It just gets out of my fucking way. Most of the time I’m not aware that I have an OS.

That site is cancer.

Joke’s on you, my eyes are the only part of me that isn’t naked right now.

Logarithmically scaled image. I’ll leave the determination of the base of the Log as an exercise for the viewer.

Very true. They’ll be standing on the gallows arguing which part of their precious Constitution makes their own execution that is currently happening illegal.

Yes, there is no path to resolve the problem of the USA that does not go through all-out civil war. Half the country is completely convinced of an entirely fictional reality and are more than willing to die and to kill to defend it. They are well past the point that evidence of any kind can affect them.

The day will come when their god-emperor tells them to kill and die, and they will.

That submarine imploded under the unbearable weight of a billionaire’s hubris. The world got ever so slightly better that day.

Is there a way to convince more billionaires that 3rd-rate carbon fiber is a great building material for compression-loaded pressure vessels?