I saw your username first.

Then I misread the rest as a Mallard Reaction.

TACO

Trump applies Chinese outsourcing.

But try not to get the Stainless Steel Connect. The App in the App Store is outdated and you can’t connect it to your WIFI anymore.

I’m living in a 15 floor apartment building with a single stairwell. (Germany, the building is from 2015)

There’s two elevators, one of them is equipped for firefighters (manual control possible after inserting the firefighters’ key, windows)

The single escape stairwell is isolated from the rest of the house by double doors (kind of an airlock against smoke). The escape stairwell is isolated against smoke and fire.

Also on every floor there’s a kind of glass cage in front of the elevators with a normally open door, in case of fire this will isolate the elevators against smoke.

In case of a fire alarm all the doors will automatically close (you can still open them. manually), additionally huge fans will be pulling clean air through the stairwell and the elevators.

We have individual fire alarms in every room - and a common system, connected to the fire department, in the shared areas.

So it’s a “put all of your eggs into one basket, but have a damn good basket” concept.

Btw, I’m on 8th floor, so too high to jump and probably already out of reach of the FD’s “extensible ladder” car.

It’s so easy, just post false information, someone will correct it.

In the 30s people didn’t have phones to record and identify you. If there were, I’m sure they’d have worn masks.

I recently visited a friend and noticed her laptop was turning into a spicy pillow. I opened it up, showed her which replacement battery to order and call me when it’s here to install it.

Next week she called me, she had successfully installed the replacement battery herself. “Ah I saw where it went, I just tried”

Typically it’s not hard, you just need to know where to look and not be afraid “ooh it’s tech”.

Watching the initial Falcon launches, it gave me so much joy when it flew successfully and I was sad when it exploded.

Watching the Starrship launches it gives me so much joy when it explodes, and I’ll be so sad if it makes it to space one day.

Just like the SA once was, over here.

Wait, Italians also meme about the Pissplatte?

GROAAAAAAN.

https://youtu.be/yx5xhlwUxxA

There were A LOT of songs about nuclear war in 80s music. German youth in the 80s was very aware that in nuclear war Germany (being a huge part of the east west border) would just be ground zero to be vaporized in WW3.

Thinking about Germany people associate the Autobahn, what some don’t know - there were pre-built detonation chambers so key sections and bridges could be mined with atomic demolition munitions in order to stop the east bloc tank armies from advancing.

ChatGpt translation of the song lyrics:

When in the Canale Grande submarines drop anchor
And on St. Peter’s Square in Rome missile launch pads stand
When a carpet of bombs floats over the bazaar of Ankara
And from the hills of Olympus a Pershing II rises

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands

In front of the old Cologne Cathedral a mushroom cloud rises into the air
And the sky is filled with the scent of neutron waffles
When in Paris the Eiffel Tower bows westward in a final salute
And near Big Ben a gentle Alpine glow appears

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands

When haute cuisine turns into a witch’s cauldron
Where the cook from overseas flambés his old world
There’s laughter and applause, even the waiter gets a kick
What’s left to us but culture — we wish you bon appétit

Then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands
Yes, then everything is long too late
Then, when nothing works anymore
Visit Europe
As long as it still stands
As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands
As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands

“Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.

So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.

I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.

Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.

I can stand carbonated water and hate plain water. When I was a kid, my family wouldn’t drink water but other beverages.

My kids (17 and 20 now) grew up with drinking water at home. Water was the thing to drink if you are thirsty, everything else was allowed but “something special” like a sweet. Going to a restaurant also was special, they could choose what they like.

While I still struggle with water - I manage, but I still drink sugar free soda as well, my adult kids can’t understand how I like that sweet stuff all the time.

So I firmly believe your preference is what you grew up with. You can change it, but it takes effort.

Look on github for Rappetor’s SV08 mainline repository. You’ll need a new mmc or sd card (both are ok) and a “five bucks” STLink programmer, but then it is quite easy to put mainline klipper on your sv08. The mainboard is a cb1 clone with the “main” ST microcontroller for driving the steppers on the same board (for cost reduction, probably)

That’s the prerequisite for using a probe. like a btt eddy on a SV08, for example.

Other than the SV08 has a few issues like super noisy board fan which can be very easily be taken care of. (Funnily software control of the fan is possible, but just not done in the default firmware)

My mods are mainline klipper, btt eddy, new (printed) extruder shroud with better airflow, a microswiss hotend and a second camera (USB webcam for second viewing angle and better resolution).

Out of the box the SV08 has a bit of problems keeping a consistent Z offset due to missing temperature calibration for the probe. More reliable solutions (ported from voron) like klicky are available. I chose eddy - but haven’t perfectly tuned it in, either. I’ll try the eddy-ng firmware (github) next week.

Here in Germany Pickel-Rick is quite common.

Wait, has something changed in the speed an atomic war would take place in the last 40 years? When I was a teenager in the 80s I could be vaporized from one moment to the next.

We had fucking autobahns and bridges mined with tactical nukes so they could be blown up in order to stop a conventional army.

Maybe fatalism is what you get being a teenager in the 80s living right next to the Iron Curtain.

Yes, I agree, so as Vlad learned even if you leave them on the ground and put tires on them so they don’t fly off, something might come along and successfully migrate around 40 of them to the cloud.

For the F35 unfortunately a lot of its capabilities seems to be cloud based. (At least for maintenence, I don’t know of on the air).

That’s why I’m angry my stupid government still has wants to buy the stupid things instead of sitting this generation out and going to an own 6gen aircraft.

Fun fact, some LED candles just use such a cheap chip connected to a LED instead of a speaker, so they’ll flicker… they’ll flicker the song all along.