Surplus clothes.

In highschool I liked having a lot of storage. So I liked things with pockets. Cargo pants were my jam! Turns out, military surplus BDU pants are somewhat cheap and VERY durable for around $30-$45 a pair. They can survive a tumble or two, can be repaired, wash easy, and breathe well depending on the blend.

Outdated or impractical camo is a fun aesthetic (can be punk as heck) and olive drab is a lovely color. (Thankfully I was never cringey enough to strut around in actively deployed uniform patterns unless it was on an airsoft field haha.)

Oh yeah, I have one of those funny tall-lanky bodies that you can’t department shop for pants for. Tac-pants come in a huge variety of fits.

I also hated shoe shopping. So a sturdy pair of combat boots lasted me ages without falling apart, were all-terrain, and supported the ankles! These boots were made for wear, so I never had to be upset over scuffs.

The BEST part? No (visible) brand names.

I still have some of those pants I wear since I graduated in the early 00’s. The ones with more cotton are a little threadbare now though. I just need some basic colors and my everday casual wardrobe is filled out. Acquiring replacements doesn’t break the bank either.

Form and function. Durability and mobility. Picking up some groceries or hiking the mountains. Incredibly versatile.

I don’t understand how the fashion industry continues to con people into expensive sweatshopped single-ply polyester that turns the wearer into a walking douchey billboard.

This was “fun” when I had no choice but small-shop retail, because I’d get assigned a task that required some thinking and doing, and then get nagged because I didn’t just insta-drop everything in the middle of a thought to hop down from the ladder to go all genius-bar-Willy-Wonka at some shop-zombie that just shuffled in and probably didn’t even know why they entered, much less “What I could help them find.”

Bonus points if it’s contained in a pressurized aluminum can.

Expect: “What the heck was that boom?!”

I hope it was seltzer instead of soda.

I absolutely agree, although I wonder if it’s sorta like “hypervigilance”. Vigilance and keen observation are fantastic!

But there’s also a point where it interferes with your life because it’s freaking exhausting and you just can’t…stop…noticing…every…little…thing…

Maybe that’s what they mean, assuming in good faith they’re not being all 1984 about it…

Although it does feel like the mental health “industry” trend of pushing the onus on the individual who, may simply be reacting normally to a completely chaotic, absurd, often bleak environment.

Never heard of Qidi, thanks for sharing that! Bambu concerns me, frankly, from the “too good to be true in capitalism-land” standpoint.

They’re obviously pretty quality built and do a great job off the shelf, but the closed source software is iffy to me too. I think some are suspicious they just don’t want to reveal they’re basically running tweaked Klipper lol. I’m lured by that temptation of not having to tweak and fiddle for weekends prospect too, but if I can’t touch it at all or know how it works, my Ender3v2 still seems more appealing!

I’m concerned if other companies don’t seriously step up their game, Bambu will reach market saturation and then go for the" enshittification rug pulling to impress investors" special.

Anyway don’t want to be too negative, clearly people are enjoying those machines. But the maker community definitely needs to be ready to raise a riot if Bambu starts taking notes from HP / Apple / John Deere. :)

Yeah, it’s not bad! If it’s got a good clean view it can tell you when things start to look a little sus before disaster strikes haha.

It’s even self-hostable, and a modest dedicated graphics card can be used to run the LLM completely locally. I haven’t been able to get that running on my server yet though. (Nvidia drivers. Agh)

Otherwise they’re pretty “freemium”, which is understandable.

I’ve been out of the game lately though. :)

It used to be Spaghetti Detective, but they wanted to be trendy so it’s “Obico” I think now lol

They say it’s a Gates’way to things, most unnatural…

“Everything’s shiny, Cap’n, not to fret!”

“You told me these packages were supported for another 6 weeks!”

“Your last Pacman -Syu was 6 months ago, Cap’n!”

“My OS don’t crash. If it crashes, you crashed it!”

That’s really neat but also seems like it could be quite dangerous in a lot of use-cases!

“Expedited next day (war)shipping!”

You with Trump with invading Canada then? A 1812 rematch?

Oh no, please don’t give that bloated orange Slurm mascot any more ideas.

What do you think they would do to stop it?

How does

“Naval assets filling the sky with a stupidly impossible number of militarized drone swarms using highly classified AI-augmented coordination and cyber warfare which will dump a ton of really nasty crap into an already struggling ocean”

sound?

Because that’s the plan, apparently. =\

https://www.wired.com/story/china-taiwan-pentagon-drone-hellscape

If you are selling 400 dollar and even 800 dollar laptops, a 100 dollar license is a huge chunk of the cost.

Gonna note that, on those rare occasions I have the funds to madly research the most optimal PC build I can every like…7+ years…the “Oh man, forgot the OS is another $100+!” Always felt like such an insult!

Whelp, now with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed I’ll never have to worry about that again. :)

Dude, 2020 wasn’t that long ago!

My local library has it on an app called Libby. You might be able to check it out that way to see if you’re into it. :)

Yeah the U.K is currently an Exhibit A for “See why this was a terrible idea?!”

It’s amazing how these people repeatedly bark for their billionaire masters thinking one day they’ll be worthy of scraps.

You’re all correct for sure!

It might not even be that our society rewards sociopathy directly even, but they have an advantage in a competitive arena, because they’re constantly scheming ways to exploit their fellows. Healthy people simply aren’t constantly dreaming of how to rob and ruin their neighbors.

It’s just like when various anarchist societies would rise up and be off to a good start, but ultimately get steamrolled by their jerk neighbors because they had higher minded priorities than conquest and violence.

The good and decent seem to inherently be at a disadvantage, as we must struggle to maintain our humanity while defending against those who see it as an exploitable design flaw.

St. Basil raged about this in the 300’s.

I’ll have to look into that! My first thought was Jesus Himself also warning against it.

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?” Mark 8:36

They serve their greed, it becomes their god, and when the billions aren’t enough, it becomes about power and influence in world events. It never stops. They basically become the paperclip apocalypse machine for shareholder profits.

Like someone else here who mentioned Tolkien: absolutely “dragon sickness.” We watched Thorin Oakenshield forsake his brethren and become a total bastard just to sit on a mountain of coins and stare at a pretty rock.

These guys are the very same, just with their stonks.

Somehow along the way, our societies evolved to serve the dragons, to elevate their madness and sociopathy to virtue. Like the wealth-hoarding, worker-eating monsters of old, they must be brought down.

Username checks out 10,000% here ROFL.