They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors… Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!

Wow, never occurred to me before, but this is such an elegant, and simple solution.

Apps Only mode is a decent workaround… for now. https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10070784?hl=en

Really cuts down on the amount of clutter and suggestions on the main screen.

If you have a CCwGTV, you should be using Apps Only mode. Sucks that Google hides this, because I’ve found that this is the best streaming device for my needs, but they just keep pushing ads like this. Makes me want to do a homebrew chromecast device.

But switching to Apps Only mode is a decent workaround… for now. https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10070784?hl=en

So, the biggest tech of 2023 is a bunch of promises of things coming soon?

Pretty neat idea, hopefully the equipment needed keeps getting smaller and cheaper.

Right now it doesn’t make a lot of sense except for larger, or shared maker type spaces.

Also, the link to your store is broken.

https://16bitstore.com/

I opened this expecting to be disappointed, but this looks like a finished, real product.

I’m extremely impressed at the dedication and the quality of the work! AND you’re providing all your hard work in easy to access, and easy to update files.

You are good people.

The original article mentioned “softcore” porn, like old school cinemax movies where it’s porn, but thinly veiled into an actual movie.

Not like hardcore 10 minute porn movies, just semi-skeevy smut that you’d rather not have other people know you’re watching. (50 shades?)

A backup is an emergency protection, not a primary plan. This attitude is dangerously close to making the backup a critical part of their uptime.

Well, with multiple users you’d need to decide what the use case is for the whole NAS and then work down from there.

Are you sharing everything in the NAS with everyone? In that case your NAS setup is fine, just a little permissive, because with RW to everything, the end users can break everything.

If it were me setting this up, I’d have different mount points for different users. 1 mount for each user that only they can read/write (not even you should be able to see it), and 1 mount that everyone can read/write, maybe if you want to go a little bonkers, 1 mount that everyone can read, but only you can write to.

Then you’d mount those three to separate mounts in your /media, and you can link them from your home directory for specific use cases.

Obviously this is completely overkill, but you can take the parts that sound appealing to you and ignore the rest.

How many users are there?

Is there a chance that the computer will boot without access to the NAS (aside from failure conditions).

Are you doing anything with ownership to prevent reading, or changing, sensitive files?

You could theoretically split some of that power from multiple sources though. Run one USB-C line to power the hot end, one to run the bed, and one for the electronics and motors.

Would get pretty complicated pretty quick, but it might work with a LOT of effort.

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Posting anything by James Bruton here is just cheating. :)

Seriously though, his channel is really interesting, he doesn’t go into much about the actual 3d printing aspect of it, in terms of design or printing, but he does a lot of in general discussions about using 3d printing in the wider context of design and engineering.

I think his two biggest takeaways are:

1. printing the big bulky parts separately from the smaller, tolerance critical parts, so you can adjust fitment without having to print the big thing again.
2. where you can use 3d prints, and where you need to use other material. Like combining extruded aluminum, or wood/plywood to make parts strong, and specific.

Great write-up! This was a lot of fun to read and you clearly put in a lot of effort.

Steelseries 7x does that, but they’re over the ear and need a dongle on Windows. Works fine for me

0:36 Gaming.
4:38 Microsoft Office.
5:31 Photoshop.
7:15 Ecosystem of Linux.
9:39 Hardware compatibility.

Even if they shut down today, the parts are out there. You can swap in from a donor laptop in ways that would be impossible for most others. Not to mention the fact that the critical parts are upgradable with standard parts from 3rd parties.

They supported the same hardware upgrade cycle for three full generations.

Even if they don’t keep going forever, they still succeeded in a huge way.

Cloud gaming is bad for history. If the game was only released for the cloud, and that game is shut down, or the cloud service shuts down, that game is gone forever.

They want to push it, because it gives them control over every aspect of the experience. They know everything you do in the game, you can’t mod it, you can’t pirate, you can’t play offline, you can’t do anything unless they say you can.