Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.

Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.

What makes a particular oil so good?

They aren’t using git as a database, they’re using it as revision history. The database is whatever they decide to store in git. For crates.io, for example, they use JSON files in directories.

If you put an sqlite database in git, you are wouldn’t say “git is the database”, and that’s true here too.

That said, yeah, you shouldn’t roll your own database. Take your source code (JSON from crates.io) from git, and compile it into an sqlite file (for example) for download.

Huh, this begs the question: did Voyager acquire enough new crew members to maintain a constant population?

Is Netflix evil these days?

Peel them first, we aren’t trying to get murdered here.

I don’t know who Bill is, but he’s a dick.

I don’t even think they kill you, just death by natural causes.

I haven’t thought about that in aaaages…

You can configure pretty much any DE to launch exes as if they were native binaries. It used to be the default (and may still be).

I’d rather there be a FOSS option for people stuck with super rare hardware that’ll never get enough attention for a Linux driver.

I’m not sure what advantage loss32 has over any normal distro+wine? A familiar user interface?

ReactOS’ claim to fame, IIRC, is that it also has driver level compatibility, and that’s something a Linux kernel couldn’t ever realistically do.

I think a heat gun would probably work, as suggested elsewhere. A hot surface might transfer its texture to the print?

Oh! I wonder if your printbed could get hot enough to do it?

Otherwise, yeah, 220 -> 400 -> 600 -> 1000 -> 2000 -> 4000 -> 8000 -> 10000 grit might do it.

I’ve polished to a practically mirror shine with progressively finer and finer grit sandpaper. Took an eternity. Worked for the purple I was using, but it might not work for all colours.

I’ve also tried heating PETG with a butane lighter out of pure frustration. It does work, but the line between restoring the surface finish and deforming the print is very thin.

Wow, after reading your story, my ragequit is peanuts in comparison. I almost don’t feel like posting it!

Normally I’m a lot more humble than this, but you’re all strangers on the Internet, so you’ll just have to take my word for it, but… I had performed extremely well at my software development job. “Exceeds expectations” kind of performance review. I had led the architecture of several large efforts, and consistently delivered features.

Promotion time comes around, and I get a 3% raise. Eh, whatever. At least it meets inflation.

I find out a bit later that one of my coworkers (quite talented in her own right, don’t get me wrong) got a title increase and a much more meaningful salary bump.

So I talk to my manager about why she was promoted and I wasn’t. We both had similar performance reviews, had led similar projects, and so on. I was prepared to accept it if there was a good reason. There wasn’t. There was only budget room for one promotion, and she had been hired at a more senior position than me, though I had been promoted to match soon after I started. That’s it. No logical reason other than seniority.

I was butthurt, and started looking for a new job right away. Ended up snagging a great gig in a few weeks.

I keep in touch with my old co-workers quite regularly, and I guess some activist investor forced through policy changes and gutted the satellite office I worked at. I guess I dodged a bullet there.

Woah there, that’s way too fancy!

I wish that were true…

When you see plain serif black text on a white background *chef’s kiss*

For sure. I’m only taking issue with the last panel’s broad assertion that any gain of property is the result of violence. The landlord in this comic is an asshat.

Someone smarter than me is probably gonna own me after this comment, and I know this is a comic so it can’t include a ton of nuance, but if I willingly exchange/gift my property to someone else, they didn’t gain it through violence (state or otherwise). Sure, the threat of violence might prevent someone else from breaking the social contract, but it isn’t like the buyer did something unethical to acquire the property.

I make a pretty decent effort to use FOSS even when there is a much more polished closed source alternative (*ahem* FreeCAD) but for some things there really isn’t a choice.

You can’t VRChat without the official client, for example.