Gronk

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Woah those are some cool properties, I wonder how hard these gears would be to manufacture at home? I'm looking at implementing my own custom gear reductions in servos but I don't think my 3d prints will mesh well enough or withstand long usage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

My common solution to boot issues that lock me out is,

  1. Get a USB Live distro (always good to have a backup lying around)

  2. Boot into live distro

  3. Chroot into the broken distro (Arch wiki has an article on this)

  4. Fix any bugs that I can find and/or reinstall the bootloader

  5. Test, repeat until the problem has been found and fixed

Hope it helps any newcomers!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Eh the tax on cigarettes increases every year I think it's literally $2 a smoke now, it was 1.67 when I quit.

I'm conflicted on this tax though, the money doesn't go anywhere it should. Our healthcare services should be propped up with this money because smokers are actively damaging themselves causing increased stress on the medical system, it could also be put towards harm minimisation in general not just for smoking but all sorts of addictions

But the government doesn't actually care about this issue, if you look at the stance towards vaping it's apparent that they tried this ban to prop up big tobacco considering the only 'legal' vapes on the market are manufactured by the big tobacco corporations

The other issue is this tax is severely damaging for low socioeconomic areas in Australia, who already have a high amount of smokers. Lots of places just sell cheap imported cigarettes for 20 bucks now, so that money is going to some kind of organised crime.

I just think it's a form of prohibition that's gotten out of hand, rather it should've been used to bootstrap and fund better infrastructure and policy around the issue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Shit you've got my vote, I was trying to think of the most influential game in a positive light but this is actually it and it's depressing that it is.

Hopefully it wins its deserved title, it would make a loud statement that we're aware of the scummy business practices that have subverted the gaming industry since corpo-ghouls realised it was profitable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Cool! I'd love to see what custom microcode comes of this. Especially in relation to the speculated backdoors on CPUs

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

While I enjoy speculating over UFO/UAP footage, it can be abused by a lot of media to take the spotlight off of some other very real and most likely concerning news.

Trump is speed running the collapse of a nation, so it makes sense for coverage to deviate to UFO/other news when he's doing dodgies.