The best season is the short window in spring where it’s warm out but the bugs aren’t out yet.
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Yeah, I use Linux now.
No opinion on macOS. My only complaint is that its not linux.
Peak MacOS was 10.4. Before they started compromising on desktop UX to make it more familiar to mobile users. You could put a folder in the dock, right click it and navigate the file hierarchy right there in the context menus. Same for dragging files into a subfolder there.
In general, not interfering is the default position, there needs to be a reason it should enjoy protection.
Need to look at the goals the legislators were pursuing when they wrote the law. If protecting typefaces hinders the production of new books, that goes against the intent of the law. It might not make a difference on that front NOW, but back when typesetting was done by hand, and you needed a whole set of physical type for each typeface, it was a bigger deal.
The point of copyright is to encourage creativity, and there are reasons you might not care about encouraging creativity in typefaces. It’s a bit like trying to copyright how you pronounce a word, getting TOO creative here makes it more difficult to convey meaning, and people will do it anyway without the protection of copyright, it’s just a natural consequence of how language develops.
Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the US, but by some stupid interpretation, fonts are software, which is protected. Really annoying how tech-illiterate judges can screw up something this obvious. Even if the technical implementation of a font was something that should be protected IP, it should be under patent law, not copyright.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?
4·11 months agoI mean, I have, but I saw this long before he started trying to smelt Iron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What task would you excel in if you lived in the Stone Age?
231·11 months agoWith or without my current knowledge?
Because I’m pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be “ending the stone age”.
Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Is a Prusa Mini+ for $100 a good deal?English
3·11 months agoAs someone that has one, I’d say more than 80%. That might be accurate if you only print other peoples’ designs, but for functional parts I’ve designed, 80% are a total non-issue, 10% need to be rotated 45 degrees on the build plate, 5% need minor redesign to fit, and the rest I was able to break into multiple prints without issue.
Even if you eventually need a bigger printer, I’d still buy this one. I’ve definitely run into situations where I need to print multiples more often than I’ve wanted to print something big.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
18·11 months agoEh, Pluto isn’t really something proven false, just that we found more objects like Pluto that made more sense in their own category. It’s classification, like there weren’t always separate categories for feature films and short films, there wasn’t a separate category for dwarf planets when it was just Pluto.
Oxford comma is useful. I think what’s getting popular is just complete disregard for spelling and grammar.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
116·11 months agoPretty easy to prove you didn’t commit a crime that hasn’t happened, no?
But then you’re buying the phone from google, which is not great if you’re trying to boycott google.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?
2·11 months agoI’ve had measuring cups where all the markings come off.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?
4·11 months agoI bought a harbor freight heat gun. All I’ll use it for is lighting charcoal. Very uneven heat, and will melt itself if you don’t turn it nozzle up when you turn it off.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?
4·11 months agoI think all headsets fall in this category, never had one last a year without repairs. I’ve replaced so much of my current headphones that it doesn’t even look like the same model anymore.
I don’t think it has much practicality, just get some known straight/square object and attach your test indicator to the toolhead. Measure your motion error directly.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?English
31·11 months agoOpen source is a major boon for process automation in a print farm. I also wouldn’t trust ANY cloud platform with anything remotely sensitive, like product development prototypes.
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3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowingEnglish
2·11 months agoLooks like that arm would be a floppy noodle, it wouldn’t surprise me if it needs re-calibrating halfway through a print just from temperature changes.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
61·1 year agoThe problem is that the user usually can’t tell if the AI output is infringing someone’s copyright or not unless they’ve seen all the training data.
None of my devices have one that’s lacking a physical switch to disable it.


Looks like the glue failed and so heat was building up instead of transferring.