https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkdBEuQQ0UM

In Windows 10, you could move it to the top, left, or right of the screen.

In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10. Let’s not sell short the full extent idiocy on display, here.

“Pouring its engineering resources,” my ass.

By “depreciate quickly” we in fact mean “become worthless instantly.” I have various cases from the era where the power supply still went in the top rear corner rather than the bottom, and at this point they’re only of any interest as the foundation of a truly retro PC build for ironic purposes, or as a butt-to-ground adapter. You can’t even give the fuckers away because any computer nerds who would theoretically be interested in them already have a basement full of the damn things themselves.

So I would not lose too much sleep over hacking out a drive cage if it’s never going to be used. OP may even find that it’s riveted into place, in which case a few strategic drillings is all it’ll take to entice it to fall off.

Part of the problem with stainless steel is that it’s not a singular material. It’s an entire galaxy of alloys with a huge range of properties, and some are more corrosion resistant than others. It is certainly possible to concoct some alloy that is for all intents and purposes absolutely rustproof but it’s unlikely to have the other mechanical properties you need for whatever it is you’re doing.

If you’re looking at any object (probably a knife, or maybe a sink or faucet fixture) that simply declares itself “stainless steel” but the manufacturer refuses to admit which alloy even if you press them in a vise, that does indeed usually mean you’re looking at some junk. Low chromium and low nickel stainless alloys are the least corrosion resistant but all other things being equal are also typically the easiest to cut, machine, stamp, or otherwise work into shape.

“Up to” in terms of anything. Up to inherently also contains zero.

In regards to free, I’ve found that a general rule of thumb is that the larger, the bolder, the more differently colored, the more drop shadows added, the shinier, or the more 3D looking the word “free” is, the less free it will actually turn out to be.

It does work after a fashion, but the problem is that it only attracts specific types of dudes. If that’s what you’re into, though, you may be on to something.

Bonus points for including an 8" disk as well, which even most computer nerds have never seen one of in real life.

You had a beagle who was immune to chocolate, too? So did I, when I was a kid. Mine ate an entire gift box of Godiva chocolates, after snatching it right out from under the Christmas tree in the middle of the night. Insofar as I can tell they had no effect on the little bastard whatsoever.

We found the wrappers for each chocolate glued to the floor in the morning, because he’s licked them nearly geometrically flat against the floorboards.

The goal of your offset is not to be zero. Actually, in a perfectly ideal world that would be impossible because it would result in your nozzle touching and dragging along the surface on the first layer. Your actual final Z offset figure will be arbitrary based on the vagarities of your particular machine including the total overall length of the nozzle and thickness of the build plate, etc.

The actual goal is to achieve an accurate first layer which results in a thickness of 0.2mm or whatever your first layer’s height is, with minimal inaccuracy. You have to set the offset of the nozzle from the plate via Z axis adjustment such that there is a (literally) paper-thin gap between the tip of the nozzle and the plate. That doesn’t mean just setting it to zero. If setting it to zero actually worked, there would not actually be any reason to calibrate it…

Wiping the bed with alcohol doesn’t really remove any contamination from its surface, it more or less just moves it around. Wash it thoroughly with dish soap and running water as others have suggested and give it a real good rinse afterwards. The goal is to get oils and other contaminants off of the surface and to wash them down the drain, whence they will trouble you no more.

The vast majority of homeless people are not visible, and they are not the stereotype of the drunken incoherent bum sleeping under a newspaper on a park bench like the guy in Back to the Future.

It’s startlingly easy to become homeless simply by having a minor upset in your income, which can get you evicted quickly if you’re renting and especially so if you live in an area which has weak or nonexistent tenant protections. Lots of homeless people were doing just fine or at least close to okay before something happened. They got injured and thus lost their job. A spouse divorced them and took most of the income with them. Their house burned down but they didn’t have enough insurance to cover it. They had to escape from an abusive domestic partner. Etc.

These are just ordinary people who had their home pulled out from under them for some reason. Now they’re temporarily living on a friend’s couch, or in their car, or in a motel room, or whatever. But the barrier for entry for obtaining housing is so damn high in many places that it’s impossible for them to work up the capital to make it over that hump and either make rent plus a security deposit, or magically cough up the down payment on a mortgage.

Many of these people probably already owned a car before whatever it was happened to them and thus they still do. Even if they’re still paying off the loan on that car, that monthly payment is almost guaranteed to be less than rent or a mortgage.

Yes, but everything you listed is the kind of crap we should be teaching in high school, and aren’t. That’s because America has a fascination with transforming our middle and high schools into tiny little prisons and disciplinary systems rather than places where education happens.

In a theoretical correctly functioning modern society, college absolutely should not be necessary to earn a living except if you wish to enter a specialized field where a significant degree of additional training and accreditation is required in order to, among other things, ensure public safety. If you want to be a doctor or dentist, lawyer, architect, critical infrastructure engineer, etc., then yes. Absolutely, there should be a degree for that.

No one should be attempting to demand with any kind of straight face that it should be “required” to have a nonspecific bullshit degree to get a job in sales, marketing, retail or even retail management, graphic design, programming, etc. In fact, the vast majority of both white collar and blue collar jobs in reality have absolutely nothing to do with getting a degree other than showing employers that you’re Willing To Play The Game.

A beater car is still probably cheaper than an apartment. Also, you can’t drive your slummy apartment away if you don’t like the scene wherever it is, nor can it transport you to work. It’s also some modicum of space wherein you can lock up what stuff you do own.

If I were placed under the terms of some very specific curse where I had to choose explicitly between a car and a house, I’m sorry to say I would be forced to choose my car. Actually, if I had my druthers I would probably pick my truck over my car, because despite its impracticality for daily transportation it’s big enough to live in semi-comfortably as kind of a mini RV and would also allow me to store and transport some tools and stuff. (It’d also be much easier to use my truck to make money than a car, in some manner of hypothetical sudden destitution scenario.)

There is no surer way to ruin a work of literature for someone than to force them to write a book report on it.

Or switch Firefox to reader mode (F9), which usually reveals the content of the article with any extraneous CSS trickery removed.

Authoritarian fuckwits making sweeping ultimatums to change typefaces for spurious, racist, and political reasons?

Believe it or not, this has happened before. Perhaps most famously… yes, guess who!

The Quest was never not Facebook. Meta/Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 and even the OG Rift wasn’t released until 2016. Arguably only the DK1 devkit units were produced not under the Facebook umbrella.

The major difference was that they weren’t playing it up at the time and they didn’t yet require you to have a Facebook account just to use the damn things. That came later.

Same way I didn’t know about the -U update parameter, I’ll bet you. You ask yt-dlp to list its flags and arguments and it spits out a listing into your console that’s about nineteen miles long because apparently it can do anything.

The only command line tool I use regularly that’s comparably capable and even more byzantine is ImageMagick.

Task Manager is launched by the listener in winlogon if you use the Ctrl + Shift + Esc method though, right? I’m pretty sure you can still launch Task Manager, and from there attempt to relauch Explorer, even if Explorer is borked or not running. You’d just have to know how to do that and that you can.

That’s what I always do when Explorer’s ears inexplicably catch fire and I’m either too lazy or too naively hopeful to reboot.

For anyone following along at home, Windows Explorer is also responsible for displaying the start menu/taskbar. In the example in the article there’s something else funky going on inside Explorer, though, because the taskbar and even the desktop icons are all there, it’s just not rendering correctly. (Explorer is also responsible for showing all of your desktop icons.)

I generally upvote stuff to reward engagement and effort. Anything I pass by that looks like a creative work someone is putting forth themselves I’ll upvote. Also pretty much any response to anything I post or comment on. Often times comments I respond to as well.

I only downvote utter bullshit, i.e. people spouting things that are categorically not true, or bad faith arguments, or just people being argumentative in general when there’s no reason to be so.

I don’t give enough of a flying fuck if we hypothetically disagree, only if your position is so odious that it is in fact literally objectively wrong or intentionally misleading.

Or utterly useless bots that no one asked for. I’ll downvote those, too, but I haven’t seen too many of them anymore in the corners that I regularly haunt.