I generally don’t do GUIs for C. But I’m also an embedded C person.

When I have I’ll generate DLLs for the C portion then just pull them into a python based interface or something with easier to deal with gui implementations.

Programming languages are tools. Would you use a wrench to drive a nail? You could. But it would be painful, you’re gonna miss and whack your hand at least once.

If it’s a learning exercise, go for the C implementation, why not? I’ve written an XML parser in LabVIEW. (I never stopped to ask whether I should…) Is that the right tool for the job? Fuck no.

If this is an exercise in software engineering be an engineer and use the 99% already built and verified system to do the job it’s meant to.

Or you can write an entire theme park simulator in assembly because you like pain or something.

I’d rather let a junior engineer loose in my codebase. At least I know their intent and where they live.

Off lease corporate thin clients with fresh ssds. You can get something that runs off a laptop power supply, will handle more than you’re going to throw at it, and they’re insanely cheap.

I moved to one from a pi when I got serious about home assistant.

I also run a stack of networking utilities on my OPNSense router.

Jellyfin has been a bit more difficult to transition, I’m still running it on my wife’s gaming computer. I’ve pre transcoded most of our collection, but not all of it. I need to find something very cheap but also capable of handling the odd 4k transcode.

The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn’t notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

So yeah, it’s been useful. It’s not needed 99% of the time.

Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.

Home Depot ad earlier literally said “Earn your Sunday”

It seems to me at least that it comes through in general executive (dys-)function.

I often can’t pay attention to what I want to, even if it is incredibly important, and I care a ton about it. Decision making is awful, except under very specific circumstances: everything on fire at work and you need a solution yesterday? Done. I’ve got the solution and handed out roles, fires out. I need to eat something and there’s a fridge full of food? I will stand there with the door open till it spoils.

I have a very important thing at work that needs to be done and should only take an hour or two? This documentation I’ve been thinking about writing for three years that noone else asked for has finally found its time in the sun!

Gotta make a phone call for literally anything? Huh, my battery’s completely drained because I watched 736 YouTube shorts in a row that I couldn’t enjoy because of the pit in my stomach about a friendly 30 second call to the pharmacy.

I did print myself a herome mount and everything awhile back. Added dual fans and whatnot, I was having a terrible time with petg surface quality, the dual fans helped a lot. I also had to reassemble my hotend to reprint something I messed up lol.

I’m at the point now where I’ve replaced so much on my ender that it doesn’t really look like the machine I bought, except that it’s still i3.

I’ll check out the orbiter, thanks!

The lack of banding and wobble is excellent, especially compared to where you came from. You’ve got me thinking about a new extruder. I’ve got some no name aluminum extruder setup right now, but I’ve put enough abrasive filament through that it’s made all my filament paths oblong.

Nice work!

That seems like far too little rain to do much farming without totally draining local aquifers.

Rewild it with native flora, do yurts and whatever to attract people to live in a sustainable way with community gardening. Activities can initially revolve around returning the land to a more natural state. As things mature people will invest in the community themselves, creating their own activities etc.

Yeah… The spectrum of options arrayed before us appear to be heavily weighted towards enforcing arbitrary hierarchies which is… Not ideal.

I think whether we like it or not economic systems have forced their way into our political systems.

And anyone with any existing power is strongly incentivized to kill any “new ideas” in the womb. As they would most likely represent a departure from the current system that they benefit from.

Any dramatic restructuring is going to be a very “significant” event. We may currently be on the precipice of one such event in the United States, this remains to be seen. The existing power structures have been significantly destabilized and pre-existing norms and rules are being outright ignored.

Power will shift, it remains to be seen how much and to where.

In any case, we may have the opportunity for you to see some new interesting governmental concepts, or perhaps a return to some classics, or a mix of the two (a little overtly capitalist fuedalism perhaps?).

We sure do live in interesting times.

One important thing for people to think about right now is “what happens when other countries don’t accept deportees?”

They start to stack up. Housing, feeding, and guarding “dangerous undesirables” is expensive.

Surely, it would be patriotic to save your country money…

It might be too late. It might not, who’s to say. Videos from this weekend have a very familiar ring to them though.

Alternatively: capitalism is working exactly as intended.

“Tech writers learn about steganography, more at eleven.”

Is your upright the one with all the little compartments? That one looked to me like the most efficient upright design I’ve ever seen.

For the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

They’re pissy cause it being open source and more efficient means that it’s gonna be more cost effective for people to use. Which is real bad if your company overcommitted to the slop and needs to recover losses.

I’m a Minnesotan, currently at my kids hockey tournament. This is an acceptable scenario.