Most of the other bits about “shredded Aryan Germans” and all that isn’t though, and is the main topic of the “joke”.

I don’t find this very funny. This is barely about programming, and it isn’t very humorous to position autistic, trans, etc. people as the opposite to shredded “Aryan” Germans.

You shouldn’t bring up racism and bigotry in goddamn programming humour, even if it is in jest

The association of “Aryan” Germans with being shredded and people who are trans, autistic, etc. being positioned as the opposite. Eugenics is the idea that some people are genetically “superior” to others, making “Aryan” babies was a big part of it, but that’s the main idea being referenced.

As somebody who is autistic myself, it doesn’t feel right as a “joke”. Yes, it paints people who believe in that sort of thing like idiots, because they are, but this is programmer humour, jokes should be about programming things! Off-topic and generally unfunny in my opinion.

Nobody finds this to be very funny. Next time, maybe don’t bring up eugenics in programmer humour?

ABS/ASA should work with the Elegoo CC, it has an enclosure + bed temperatures should reach high enough for good prints from what I can tell online. As the other person said, start off with PLA prints since those are the easiest. Some people like PETG too (higher temp resistance, but moisture is a bigger problem. I’m from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 so humidity is a big problem for me)

In the past, the things that Apple has done well has generally been good build quality and long support. There are exceptions, yes, but they’re usually better than their competitors in that field. Performance was always similar (or worse) for the price until Apple Silicon came around.

In modern times, all manufacturers produce laptops with excellent build quality (even smaller ones like Framework, Tuxedo, System76, etc.), all devices are generally supported for a while (+ can be extended with things like Linux), and performance is nowadays a race between the Mac and PC. You can do all the things on PC on Mac and vice versa.

What has always been the case and never gone away is Apple’s locked down ecosystem. They don’t support standard protocols, USB file transfer with iPhones is a nightmare on non-Macs (though it works fine for me on Linux right now, I imagine it depends on your distro and kernel, and it didn’t work for me a few years ago), all the iServices being closed and not interoperable with non-iDevices, poor repairability, setting the standard / trend for the worse, etc.

In terms of the operating system, it’s pretty different. For Windows, 2000 and XP were the golden age and it’s (mostly) been downhill from there, Windows 10 / 11 being the most egregious requiring an online account. CoPilot and broken updates certainly don’t help. MacOS is very closed and everything needs to be done the “Apple way”, and you need Apple hardware to run it (for the most part, see Hackintoshes).

Linux has always been an awesome alternative, though it doesn’t ship on many devices, it had excellent support on lots of hardware (unlike MacOS) and didn’t require any online crap (unlike Windows), app development is much more open than MacOS while being as convenient as the App Store (unlike Windows), and FOSS software are the GOATs. There are so many options for distros, desktop environments, depending on your hardware or preferences, and you can have full control over your system, or it can “just work” for grandma. It’s awesome! There’s recently been lots of development with Valve on the gaming side and there has been a drive towards Linux due to Microsoft breaking Win11 constantly and pushing CoPilot spyware (more users, more developers, more apps, more drivers, etc.!)

The Linux desktop has never been better, and there is no reason not to switch! You can even get Linux on a Mac if you wanted too, thanks to the team at Asahi Linux!

I’m running EndeavourOS (the easy mode Arch-based distro before CachyOS) with Niri (scrolling tiling WMs are neat!), but if you want to get started with Linux, I would not recommend either if you aren’t interested in config files and making something exactly how you want it to. Mint is awesome if you like Cinnamon, and Fedora is also good (though owned by Red Hat/IBM). The -buntus are also fine, but snaps, aside from using a proprietary and centralised repo, are often broken and not very user-friendly to fix. Debian is excellent if you have an older device and want stability, it’s been there since the beginning. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is fun if you want to try rolling release, and of course Arch-based distros like CachyOS (or standard Arch with archinstall) are also good if you are fine with the “scary” black text box (that’s all it is really).

If you want to experiment with an ARM device (laptop, tablet, or even phone), Nura is awesome! It’s not fully there on everything, but it’s fun to mess around in and try out apps that those devices were never intended to run!

I think, especially if you’re not using any fancy filaments, the Elegoo CC/CC2 is probably a better value option. If you only want to do PLA, PETG, etc., it’ll be fine!

Also of note, there’s the OpenCentauri project that aims to support full Klipper firmware on the original CC, it seems pretty nest!

Chewie, Bjornarna, Kino, Die Toten Hosen, and Starshooter!

Fair enough, this is just my interpretation. I just really don’t like how they phrased it, where they want voices that do not sound “foreign-born”. I’ve heard the same sort of stuff directed at my family in the past for our “foreign” accents, despite my parents having proper Australian citizenship and everything.

And based on how their response is just “asshole” and “obtuse”, it doesn’t seem like they’re the open-minded type. They have also claimed that Native Americans being “born and bred Americans” is not honest (which isn’t a good look)

Again, not a good way to back up your statements

Listening to podcasts! It’s the best of all worlds in terms of media consumption

As it turns out, calling somebody an asshole is not a very good way to explain your points. If your position is correct, then you should back it up with relevant statements.

I did not say that, don’t put words in my mouth. I said, in the context of the question where he wants to find voices that sound like “born and bred Americans”, it isn’t a helpful descriptor due to the wide range of accents across all those who were born and raised in the United States.

I did not accuse anybody of being racist, I mentioned that even if one was racist, the question still doesn’t make much sense due to the variety of accents among descendants of European migrants.

I do not support the segregation of races, I myself am from a migrant family. I am equally Australian as those from other backgrounds.

I reiterated my point that Native Americans, under any definition, falls under “born and bred Americans”, as OP believed that it was not honest, i.e. a lie

All who were born and raised in the United States are equally American, they eat the same food and participate in the same festivals.

Born: anybody who was born in the land that is now the United States of America. This can include the Native Americans, descendents of European migrants, and descendents of non-European migrants. That’s a whole slew of different accents and cultures.

Bred: anybody who was raised in the United States of America since birth. Again, this can include Native Americans, (second generation or more) descendents of European migrants, and (second generation or more) descendents of non-European migrants.

Something is telling me that’s not what you define as “born and bred” American. Even if you are a big racist who believes only white people can be “born and bred Americans”, there are lots of different accents among white people (a Texan, New Yorker, and Californian have vastly different accents, not to mention those descended from Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Greek, etc. migrants)

There is objectively no definition of “born and bred” Americans that does not include Native Americans, since they were the first to be born and raised there, and broader definitions are unhelpful in that it lumps in lots of different groups. The racist definition, again, isn’t helpful due to the wide variety of accents among the descendents of the European migrants.

Define “born and bred”, what the hell does that mean. The closest definition would be Native Americans I feel, who have lived on those lands for ages, but there’s so many different tribes and accents. My intuition is telling me this isn’t your definition of a “born and bred” American.

Cat, yay!

At first it looked a bit like one of those carnivorous plants, so I was a bit confused why you labelled it “king parrot”. Sneaky bird was semi-camouflaged to look like the plants!

Anyways, this is a very good parrot :D

*piggy 🍏🐖

In Hong Kong, Macau (both speak majorly Cantonese), and Taiwan (mostly speaking their own flavour of Mandarin, Hokkien, and a few other ones too depending on where you are), they use traditional Chinese characters while the mainland PRC (huge pot of all sorts of dialects and other bits, but Mandarin is the standard language) is simplified, and somebody who knows one is not always able to read the other.

Oops yeah that is a good point! Amended the comment.