

Normal people don’t fix computer issues. They also don’t install operating systems, so this is all a bit academic.


Normal people don’t fix computer issues. They also don’t install operating systems, so this is all a bit academic.


They tend to be so frothing-at-the-mouth emphatically leftist that they’re indistinguishable from a CIA program to discredit the left. To be clear, I don’t think lemmy.ml is a CIA program, but I can’t imagine what they’d do differently if it were.


Seriously though, this is what break glass accounts are for. Create an account that can access your backups (preferably only the backup system) with a really long password and keep it offline in a safe place. Like a safe. Set up alerting if the break glass account ever gets used.


There are good reasons to dislike Bambu, but that’s just not true. Looking at a Wireshark trace, Bambu Studio connects to three domains: e.bambulab.com (version check), api.bambulab.com (download updated slicer settings and translated error messages), and mqtt.bambulab.com. The last one I can’t tell exactly what it’s doing, since only the HTTP stuff got decrypted in the proxy.
Maybe the employee downloaded the installer from a sketchy russian hosting site?
Mklinux. It was the only thing you could run on one of those jank-ass PowerPC/nubus Macs.


A1 has a direct drive extruder. It does function as kind of a hybrid thing with the AMS though. Use of the AMS with TPU isn’t recommended, but there are a couple of harder TPU filaments that supposedly work.
I can’t type ctrl-z without reflexively typing bg after, so no joy there.