Sad to see that even the local drug dealers have started to use "AI" slop. How can you trust someone with your brain chemistry, if they obviously don't possess a single grain of moral integrity?

/sarcasm, but only half...

Looks like the #ICCBerlin was also designed by Deep Thought...

<TroyMcClure> DOCTOR, ARE YOU SURE IT'S ON? I CAN'T HEAR A THING! </TroyMcClure>

So, the new toy arrived today. First impression of the Sovol Zero: it's built like a tank, works almost straight out of the box and the pre-sliced 8 minute Benchy looks surprisingly good, even when printed with some random PLA.

Now if only I could find a place to download the OrcaSlicer profiles instead of having to plug the USB Thumb Drive of Questionable Origin™ into one of my computers...

Me:
FSCK YEAH! 2025 will be the year I finally got my shit together! Never again will I have to rifle through boxes of unsorted papers to find a document, as if I was some primitive animal from the last century.

Narrator in 2055:
He did not, in fact, get his shit together. The document management system turned into just one more unfinished project and he had to keep rifling through countless boxes of unsorted papers for the rest of his miserable life.

Tschüss #38C3, bis zum nächsten Jahr!

So, fertig zum engeln. #38C3

Traveling light to #38C3...

So, damit ist die krampige Spule Meta-PLA doch noch zu etwas sinnvollem verwendet worden. Bald auch auf einem Stickertisch in Ihrer Nähe, wenn Sie auf den #38C3 kommen.

Don't you just hate it when you invite friends over for a movie night and the facehugger keeps hogging the snack pile?

Winter must be coming, my bathroom felt a tad bit chilly today.

Tschüss #GPN22, bis nächstes Jahr.

Rollin', rollin', rollin'... #GPN22

4:30 Uhr, Abmarsch zur #GPN22.

I had a moment of sheer panic yesterday, when the first version of a PCB seemed to Just Work™. The first time I did anything with integrated battery charging, first time I used a solder paste stencil and hot plate reflowing. All the components just snapped into place, no shorts, uC came up and could be flashed, I/O worked as expected... Surely this had to be a sign of the imminent apocalypse, right?

Fortunately I made a mistake dimensioning the charging bypass diode, so crisis averted 😮‍💨

It's finally time to install the last ones of the essential components.

Almost there...