Where I live, it is a law that a gas station has to be within 10 cents of all the other gas stations in the area. So prices move up or down in lockstep with the surrounding prices. They get like 2 days to comply.

Is it useful? It does even prices out. And most gas stations do not make much profit off of the fuels they sell. Only a nickel a gallon at most around here. The gas just gets you to stop and walk into their convenience store. It’s the soda pop, pizza, sandwiches, chips and other crap they sell that is the real profit makers.

No thanks. I’ll stick to my Gin and Tonics for malaria prevention.

I love me some atomic spins…

It often does because even commercial wild rice is expensive and cutting it with regular white rice makes for a much cheaper dish. And the bland white rice offers no extra flavor to the dish.

But there are those of us who have access to real wild rice that has been hand harvested and hand parched over an open wood fire. That’s God tier wild rice. And I would never disrespect that wild rice in such a fashion.

Isn’t amazing what slicers can do? There ain’t no guard rails where we’re going!

Ha! Years ago, I once spent nearly 2 whole days trying to unknowingly splice PLA and PETG together. All because I was an idiot and didn’t read the spool labels. I just assumed, with the obvious results and damage to my ego…

Every generation has its words and phrases they use. Mostly to just annoy their parents-- Who had their own words and phrases.

So if you’re Hep to the Scene and a Real Gone Cat, Be cool and chill, light up a J because it’s 420 somewhere. And enjoy 67. And the not to distant future, we are all going to laugh at Gen Alpha about it. And they are going to be confused about the Gen Beta’s annoying slang.

Personally I hope Plasma goes with 6.7 AND 6.9. The memes will just write themselves. And it will be glorious!

420 goes farther back than millennials. It was just more counter/sub culture and those who knew, knew. It just became common lexicon with the millennials.

Always, always buy Gates belts. And belt tension is a real issue with CoreXY printers. And I consider the belts to be consumables that need to be replaced on a schedule. If you’ve been running those belts for 2 years, replacing them will make you happy again.

ME was weird, I never had an issue with ME, and I was dual booting with Ubuntu at the time. Boxes running ME were going up in flames all around me. And yet, I never had problems with it. A surreal time for ME, (pun intended).

You handle it because your boss says so…

Is that with or without the malware?

./jk

It’s a couple commands and laid out cookbook style. Fedora has a very good document page on installing nVidia drivers. And the installation is generally very smooth.

The biggest hang up for first time users is understanding that you need to wait for everything to build before doing sudo systemctl reboot. How long do you need to wait? No one really knows. There is no progress bar or any other notification that the building is done successfully. You just wait and then take a leap of faith into that dark abyss and hope for the best.

Typically, it’s recommended to wait “at least 5 minutes”. Maybe more. I always waited around 10 minutes, (or one cup of tea) to be sure. But some users reported needing to wait was much as 20 minutes for everything to build. YMMV

The most frictionless distro to install nvidia drivers is Aurora. As you get ready to download the ISO, it will provide a couple of drop down menus to select your gpu. Intel/AMD is one and the other lists nvidia gpu’s by card to add the correct driver to the ISO. You should be able to install the ISO and boot into your shiny new Plasma desktop with your nvidia gpu working just fine.

And you get the atomic goodness of Fedora Kinonite.

Obviously fuel taxes do not cover the whole cost of road maintenance, and they haven’t for decades. Where are those EVs paying road use taxes beyond registration and license fees? The more you drive an ICE car, the more fuel tax you will pay. And that’s fair. Shouldn’t EVs pay for the mileage they drive on the roads too? Is it OK that an EV that doesn’t drive many miles a year should pay the same flat tax/fee that another EV that gets driven 3x as many miles?

I’m all for EV use, I’d own one if I could afford one for sure. But the prices are a bar to ownership. In any case, states ARE looking into chiseling into the lost revenue that EVs are currently ducking. They want the revenue stream.

The thing about fuel taxes is you pay based on how much you drive. More drive, more fuel, more taxes. And I’m sure you don’t drive all that many miles every year. But, what about someone that drives their EV 2x what you do. Which causes 2x the road wear and tear that you do. Is a flat tax fair to you?

A serious question. Are you paying a road tax to drive on the roads with your EV yet? In the US, some states are now starting to look into how to charge EV owners a road use tax. ICE cars pay that tax at the pump and the more you drive, the more tax you pay. EV owners that charge at home, (and who wouldn’t do that), currently pay no road taxes because they buy no or very little “fuel”.

I’m interested to know what the states think is a fair tax amount. Particularly since EV owners tend to be wealthier than most people. And what EV owners think of paying such a tax.

Games are mostly just applied maths with pretty colors.

Let me know when they can block my paper road atlas.

As an old toolmaker, Welcome to the world of understanding your process! And knowing the limits of that process.

I wonder what he actually expects for a tolerance day to day. A +/-.1mm IS doable if you’re careful. But there is enough randomness in the FDM process, even outside the slicer, that I wouldn’t bet the farm on any 1 random piece hitting that tolerance. Let alone repeating that level of tolerance every time over say, 100 parts.