Daily Archives: 2025-01-17

A Goofy 3D Printer Setup

Posted on 2025-01-17 by pappp

TL;DR: I converted my Anycubic Linear Kossel to Klipper.
Using a hacked Chromebook as the host, which is great and I recommend hacking surplus education market Chromebooks for many of hobby projects usually done with an SBC.
Running in containers as a docker-compose project, which works but is dumb and wasteful.
Next I’m going to try to do some systematic performance experiments to it, but that’s for a later post.
Details below.

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NYT Opinion: How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms

Posted on 2025-01-17 by Published articles

Source: Published articles

Article note: That's a lot of words for "The Democrats started exerting social and regulatory pressure on the silicon valley investor class' scam-adjacent cash cows, so we turned on them." I'm never sure how many valleybros _actually believe_ there is real value in the Crypto and AI energy-wasting scam projects, and how much they just know it's a path to lucre and pretend for show. This whole interview is Andreessen acting like ramping up AI is the most pressing moral/technological/societal imperative, and that is grounds to justify going along with _anything_ else, and ... I can't tell if he believes it, or it's just an excuse to do whatever will give him and those like him the most money and power in the near term (and fuck everyone else).

Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.

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