Sure, BUT, don’t just connect it to the cold water supply - they need proper isolation - I’ve heard of cases where households have gotten really sick and they found that bacteria from the bum gun had made it back to the drinking water.

I think I’ve figured it out somewhat.

Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.

I started trying to do this a while back and hit a bit of a brick wall… Key takeaways:

• You can just rip the video as-is, retaining quality, but at the expense of file size - BluRay uses quite light compression so you’re looking at potentially 40GB per 1080p film.
• So then you think “okay, I’ll re-encode it using a modern algorithm, maybe x265 or AV1”… Massive rabit hole! To get a good quality re-encode you need to have a lot of time on your hands. You can do it quickly (e.g. an hour) using a GPU but the results will be terrible. Good results take not just many hours to encode on a high end consumer CPU, but also often several iterations of this to get right. Some things (animation, new digital films) are manageable with some default settings, but anything that was originally filmed on real film and has noise is extremely difficult to get right.

In the end I reverted to finding a copy someone else had encoded if possible, or for rarer stuff I now just have a fat wallet full of the original disks.

WTF is this slop… “Just minutes ago […] Former U.S. President […]” ???

Nice - thanks for this

Not my experience. I’ve had my X1C for a year now and have not had to ‘dial in’ a single thing.

Most of my prints are functional items in PETG of various colous. Some PLA for cosmetic parts. And I did some things in TPU earlier in the year. Probably been through like 10kg of filament on it.

Can’t think of a single serios print failure that wasn’t human error - e.g. forgot to clean the bed, didn’t support it properly.

My one gripe is that when changing PETG reels, it doesn’t always manage to wipe the nozzle very well leaving a few rogue stringy bits that usually just pull off.

And obviously I don’t love the closed-wall software situation, but their software is pretty good.

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/133lcyl/can_someone_explain_what_happened_with_the/

Or there’s this… https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion

Edit: Actually this is probably the most comprehensive summary: https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rails-gets-made/#the-basecamp-incident

I get that, and it was almost certainly Booking.com who leaked it as I have had shady messages through even their own messaging platform before…

I think what baffles me is that this gets so close to convincing (if you’re not internet savvy), and then they throw in something so bizarre like having a username of “Rus Education” 🙄

Unfortunately, I just don’t have the social capital to move people off of Meta messaging services… A good 50% of my friends have ditched FB, but somehow saw WhatsApp as the solution 🤦

I assumed because the category was “things that aren’t actually real chips / potato fries” - by being real pieces of fried potato these are disqualified 😅

I’ve got a relatively new Fedora install and I think I’ve seen this too - not had time to fully investigate, but have found on occasion if I leave it for a day the monitor brightness has wound down.