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Ich bin absolut kein Freund von docker - aber es hat uns immerhin Tooling gebracht dass man heutzutage ohne Schmerzen praktisch alles hinter ein paar wenigen reverse proxies verstecken kann. Moderne Infrastruktur hat irgendeine Form von Virtualisierung um Hardware in verwaltbare Stuecke runterzubrechen (bei AWS koennen das dann auch direkt kleine EC2-Instanzen sein) - und nix davon muss heutzutage ans oeffentliche Internet, das geht auch schon komplett mit privaten v4-Adressen. Ich seh nur staendig Umgebungen wo die Leute zu bloed sind ein Managementnetz zu konfigurieren, und daher fuer jede Instanz noch eine oeffentliche IP konfigurieren damit SSH tut.

I got a kyocera colour laser over 10 years ago as it was very reasonably priced, and the price of original toner also was (well, still is) very reasonable. It still is working nicely, only required replacing some rollers last year as paper started slipping - for which it was trivial to obtain the parts and do it myself.

Ratenzahlung erst ansprechen wenn der Mietvertrag unterschrieben ist. Wird es dann abgelehnt kannst du trotzdem in Raten zahlen (es gibt ein paar Sonderfaelle wo Ratenzahlung ausgeschlossen ist, das beachten)

Preordering made sense when games came in nice boxes, and you wanted to be sure to play it on the day of release instead of waiting for restocking. With digital downloads now which are not limited in quantity it is just stupid.

What kind of monster stores bananas in the fridge?

Das ist der uralte Datenknoten

I've been trying that for a while until I ran out of searches, and was trying to pay - after getting unsolvable captchas thrown at me several times by their payment processor I eventually gave up. Having a captcha at that point also doesn't make any sense at all - as I'm in the EU my card will have to go through strong verification before adding it. For a US audience the experience might be different - I guess that's also their main initial target.

They also just did a bare minimum job of supporting non-javascript - while it nowadays is pretty much impossible to handle payment without allowing some javascript they also have their own account logic unusable without javascript, and they don't have a way to easily open that in a private session when you get stuck. That'd be trivially solvable by just giving you a URL with an account key attached you can paste into a private instance to do your payment.

metager does that way better - they're usable without javascript, and don't force you to create an account with them. You can create a key with tokens tied to it to unlock search features. You can just use that to enable it in other browsers - and you easily jump into a private instance from the key workflow to just add money to the key.

I might revisit kagi later to see if they fixed some of those problems - but for now metager seems to be the best option. I'm a bit amazed they still exist - it was my main search engine back in the 90s before google came around.

With lower voltage DC you can only set the house on fire. With high voltage AC you can set the house on fire and electrocute people. In a safety oriented company you'd try to limit the parts of the device carrying 230V (or, more generally: if your device has dangerous bits, you try to keep those bits in as few places as possible, as that limits teh amount of places you need to keep safe). Now obviously this has limits - like the mentioned bed size - but I don't think we're yet at a point where this should overrule safe design principles.

I haven't seen a bambu printer myself yet - but given that the cable is undersized and not protected against side effects from bed movement I'd bet they also skimped on on making everything carrying 230V safe - in which case this is a cheaper design. I'm reasonably confident that a safe 230V heating design for a printer that size would not give you noticeably cost savings over a DC design, if at all.

Not a bambu owner (and unlikely to ever be one), but read up on that out of curiousity.

I guess they're offering self replacement as cost cutting measure, but wouldn't be surprised they'll stop doing that once their legal team fully understands the impact.

This problem is a fire hazard which is unlikely to be solved by replacing it with a same spec cable, so even if you can replace it yourself I probably wouldn't, just to make sure there's no arguing over liability if this thing catches fire. I'd assume they'll do a longer term fix with a more stable cable, possibly with added strain relief - though I also find doing a 230V heatbed a questionable design choice.

Apple has low memory behaviour way better optimized than Windows, so running at 8GB will not be as painful as it is with windows - but in the background the OS will constantly shuffle stuff around to avoid running out of memory, which costs performance.

16GB is the bare minimum for computer nowadays - and that applies to macs as well. I'm currently using a 16GB air m1 for some things, and I also regularly run into performance issues due to memory limits without doing heavy stuff.

You nowadays even need to pay attention on Android as you might get an "software related to what you're currently trying to install" with an install button on top of the install button you want - in the location where the install button used to be in googles playstore. Whoever came up with that stupid idea needs their computer privileges revoked for the rest of their life.