nimmo

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[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 9 points 4 months ago

Only if you actually receive your pack which reports suggest hasn't been as reliable this time around.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 4 months ago

I gave up on funk whale about 6 months ago and was loving navidrome, but hadn't realised the lack of library separation. Thankfully that doesn't bother me too much. I'll give this another go and see how I get on though if I can find some time over the weekend

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And also remember to look up the list of accepted photo ids and get yourself set up with at least one that you can take with you to the polling station. https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not quite true, water charges are part of your council tax. You get a discount if you have a septic tank because then dealing with the waste water is your responsibility.

But you pay a flat rate based on your property's estimated value in 1991.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And Northern Ireland, but let's be honest, Scotland has it's own issues with nationalised bodies cough ferries cough so we Scots can't sit here with too smug a grin on our faces. I'm sure Northern Ireland has it's own issues in this field as well, but I don't live there so I pay less attention to that.

I broadly agree with nationalising critical infrastructure like water, electricity and gas, some other key infrastructure like railways, the post office and probably a few others I can't think of at this moment in time but it's far from perfect and isn't going to make everything perfect overnight.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I know it doesn't help you at the moment, but at some point between June last year and last week they've updated the kickstand to include an extra little crossbar up at the top of the metal u shaped piece of metal that makes up the stand so that you need to lose both pins for it to fall off now. (I ordered one last year and ordered a replacement kit for a 2nd steam deck that I've gifted to my wife) And I'm liking the look of the new design.

I'll see if I can take a photo later on and share it to explain as I suspect my words aren't doing a great job.

Edit: here's a quick photo I've taken to try to show the new crossbar thing in action.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 5 points 7 months ago (8 children)

The original was EA, this re-release is Aspyr, so as bad as EA are I'm not convinced that they're to blame here.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Oh, I'm fine with my setup, I have a couple of external servers that can monitor all my web accessible stuff with kuma and then I've got another local one to monitor my non-web accessible stuff.

Thanks for those tips though, definitely useful to consider other options

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

On the uptime monitoring I've been quite happy with uptime kuma, but... If you put it on the same host that's down... Well, that's not going to work :p (I nearly made that mistake)

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I vaguely remembered a quote about him saying he was impressed with Saddam Hussein's indefatigably.

After going to look it up just there to confirm it was him that said it I saw more of the context around it:

Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are with you, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-nasr, hatta al-Quds until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem. (https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Galloway)

So whilst I agree that he's out for himself and not someone that I particularly care for, he does seem to have had an interest in that part of the world for the last 30 years or so. This isn't quite the out of the blue political opportunism that some people seem to be suggesting it is.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha, that's fair. I was being sincere.

I'd initially scrolled past thinking "I played this whilst I was still at Uni, why is anyone talking about it now?"

Now that I know this person's focus is intentionally looking at older games I'm willing to go and give it a watch.

[–] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for that additional insight into this channel. This completely changes the way that I will now look at this content.

 

I've been using Cura as a slicer for my Anycubic Kobra since I got it a few months ago. After a few weeks I discovered octoprint which was amazing as it let me start and monitor print jobs whilst out and about.

Cura has been great for me but I'm growing tired of needing to copy my print profiles from machine to machine on different OSes to slice my STL files. Is anyone aware of any self hosted web based slicers I could use to sidestep this problem?

I would be willing to live without an octoprint plugin and manually download and upload the gcode files to my printer if needed, I just want to be able to slice from wherever I am and kick off the print from wherever I am.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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