Oh my gosh, former Oklahomie for a while here! Can. Confirm.

I once lived in the Northeast by Tahlequah, and the options were dial-up, satellite (with that awful data cap and terrible pings), or a couple guys running an ISP that involved pointing a receiver at a radio tower but download speeds were restricted to like 40kbps.

For games I already had, SOME multiplayer was possible, and web browsing was mostly fine.

Example of DL speeds though: Metro 2033 said it would take like 3 or 4 solid days so my long distance GF (now wife!) literally just sent game files to me on a USB drive through the mail. LOL

Sadly they closed up shop, though.

But somehow, when I lived with my grandma who lived in a place called “Hennepin”, they got blessed with DSL. Made zero sense but I didn’t complain! Even though I had to put a second router in bridge/repeater mode so it’d reach me at the trailer I lived in like 20 yards away from the house! (Trailer didn’t even have plumbing. Winter was “fun.” LOL)

Absolutely wild how cut-off a lot of the country is.

The big stinky desert city I’m in now has its problems, and Cox charges out the nose, but at least we get unlimited fiber out of it.

Starlink might have been great for those folks if it wasn’t headed by such stupid evil…

Hey that’s really helpful, thank you for taking the time to share! I really appreciate it. :) I really should take another crack at it.

Why is modern webdev such a clusterfuck?

Not a webdev.

Have tried multiple times to “finally figure out how this web stuff works because I’d like a nice website that isn’t a huge chonky slowpoke WordPress install with ad-infested plugins.”

I can’t do it. Gamedev is hard, but makes 1000x more sense than whatever cargo-cult bubblegum-and-hope the modern web runs on.

I probably should learn JS, but I’m very hesitant to even bother with it because it feels like an insane time commitment. Like getting a doctorate from scratch in something you’re not SUPER jazzed about or starting OnePiece from Ep 1.

“Oh cool, you learned that thing everyone complains about! But you know nothing until you get good at ~30 out of 400 different highly opinionated frameworks.”

The input to result ratio just doesn’t seem like it’s there. O.o Maybe I’m just a noob but this is my experience lol.

And don’t even get me started on RAM-munchy Electron apps.

“Why yes, I WOULD love a separate instance of Chrome running for every messenger app I use! And I love when Discord is the only support resource! :D”

–Nob’dy Ev’r, 2025 A.D

They wouldn’t want you to know it all depends on a Frankensteined chunk of spaghetti’d COBOL that hasn’t been updated since a guy they forgot about set it up before he retired in like 1996. And they’re just betting that, if they don’t look at it too hard, it won’t oopsie a cascade of critical failures.

I’m a chemical (aka process) engineer.

Well now I’ve got this song stuck in my head again, which probably accurately describes life with particularly bad peoject management.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4

Exactly, with things like music or pictures, there’s always that bit of doubt that makes it scary to actually delete anything…

“This one is just like the most popular one, but entirely rewritten in Rust!”

Hey I wanted my RGB sticks okay?! Jk hahaha.

You’re right! I think…I don’t have a swap partition on this machine. I think I was gonna set up a swap file but that was a bit more involved post-install than I wanted to delve into at the time…

…but I did get ZRAM working, and that’s pretty amazing! It feels like getting more RAM for free haha.

It wasn’t the most absolutely necessary upgrade in the world, but I feel like it gives me more room to get away with dumb things and course correct in things like Blender, and might come in handy down the line since I don’t see myself upgrading much for a while.

I just now upgraded to 64GB of DDR4 from eBay. But that’s because my Blender projects were getting really big and I’d crashed a few times. Linux is awesome but is really scary how it just hard-freezed or mercilessly thrashes when low on memory. 😬

…That and I finally get glorious RGB RAM lighting up my case. :D weee!

For gaming? I haven’t seen that much RAM be usedul yet. And in Blender… likely because I have a crazy amount of undo levels enabled and have Firefox open…a few tabs…maybe more than a few tabs…maybe a lot of tabs…

I’ve noticed this and seeing it all laid out is hilarious. (So, so many JS frameworks omg)

Is this basically so they can forever say: “Well don’t expect it to be feature complete, it’s not even 1.0 yet!” ??

This humor indeed is.

Is humor indeed this.

Probably just transcribes everything and maybe summarizes it, I would imagine.

Their target demographic seems to be the level of office worker that is forced to be present at these things but doesn’t get a speaking role, except for barking out like one sentence at the right time to prove they are listening.

Apple was targeting the same people.

It’s like they’re self aware that corporate culture is completely nonsense and they’re leaning into it hard whilst perpetuating it. Playing both sides as they always do!

“'EY, WHAT’S EVERYTHING BETWEEN THE CHAIR AND THIS TERMINAL? AN IDIOT SANDWICH! >=[”

[Y] I’ll do better / [N] Sorry chef…

Hey sorry for the delayed reply! That’s a VERY good question, since things got a little different since they moved away from Portainer I remember a bit of friction switching over, but geeze it was a while ago…

I did find this link though:

https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7%3Adocker_in_omv

That might be similar (and possibly better organized!) than the guides I was working with when that OMV subsystem was still a bit new. I hope that might help! 🙂

That’s so cool! Nice work! I feel a certain kinship with anyone who also got tons of 3D printing XP by building, rebuilding, researching, modding, head-scratching, laughing, crying, screaming at an A8 lol.

This here is mostly fire prevention: Basically an updated stock motherboard, better PSU, an aftermarket MOSFET board for safety, thicker gauge wires with ferrule crimps for all the power cables, the bed is now attached directly to the thicker wires by way of crimp connectors.

The printing surface is upgraded to carefully cut and polished picture frame float glass. 😂

Added that sweet fan duct mod, a little Noctua 15mm (because it softened and jammed otherwise LOL), and printed that purple bracket at the library because the plastic decided to literally crumble away.

Also the adjustable Z-stop was nice but the PLA softened so it’s a bit unpredictable, and the right motor will gently slip until it’s engaged so the gantry needs to be leveled every time…I also can’t guarantee that the Z rods are straight anymore because it requires such a Goldilocks level of tension I probably overdid it lol.

Oh yeah, I had to replace the main power cable because the one provided just…had a break in it.

It still works for small jobs though! And it printed all those parts for itself, so that’s kinda the RepRap dream right there right??

Lol I feel like an amazing machine is in here somewhere if I bothered to research custom boards and stuff. The stock bearings are also terrible. But if I can bother someday I’ll stick Klipper on it maybe.

It was a crazy, stressful journey…but I learned a ton of electronics stuff, and how to use a multimeter, and engineering stuff! XD

My Ender3V2’s felt like such a crazy luxury by comparison. 😂

This is a really cool shot! It has such a haunting vibe the film really lends itself to.

Man I get paranoid about synchronization programs for this very reason. There’s usually some turnkey easy-mode enabled as soon as you first launch that’s like:

“Hey you wanna back up your entire NAS to your phone?! That’ll be fun, right?!”

And you’re like “…No.”

And then it wants to obliterate everything so it’s all “synchronized”, often it’s not easy to find a “No, stop, don’t do anything at all until I configure this.” Option.

iTunes was SO BAD about this.

Syncthing is the least-bad sync software I’ve ever run. It’s got some footguns but it’s still brilliant.

I would imagine there’s still ways to back up version controlled software right?

Man this picture is such a vibe lol. Love it. :D

That’s so weird at first look on this picture I was like: “What’s O…P…D? 🤔” LOL

Simple, elegant, rock solid. Very nice. :) Love your decals too!