Man, I must be weirdly lucky or gentle with phones. Note 3, Note 9, and finally whatever the S25 Note equivalent is actually called, and the only reason I updated from the Note 9 is because it was outdated enough that apps started going “dude, you need something more modern.” Everything hardware wise still worked fine on it.

Either I’ve had weirdly good luck with Samsung, or I’m exceptionally gentle on phones. I expect 6 years minimum out of my Notes, and so far that’s held up.

Wait, you cant create macros in calc? I haven’t had a reason to try yet, but what?

Hell, Windows 11 is broken enough on my work laptop that it sometimes struggles with fucking explorer.exe, and this damn thing will run multithousand part CAD models without too much hassle while Windows isnt fucking up.

There’s a reason I’m not looking at Windows for anything other than my main desktop anymore. My family used to run 4 or 5 Windows computers. Will likely be two moving forward, and would be zero if my wife and I didnt have programs that just do not have a Linux equivalent.

My favorite is the completely easy to remember and useful LShift + LCtrl + LAlt + LWin + Y combo.

The true hack to get noticed by recruiters is to just not update your profile for years at a time. Not sure why they keep contacting me, there hasn’t been anything new on my profile for years. Hell, Im not sure I’m old enough to drink in the profile picture.

I run front and rear lights on my bike, might be enough to get mistaken for a motorcycle.

I wonder if those LED’s work on Flock cameras? They are getting to be dense enough that I’ve been tempted to do something to make it harder to read my plate for cameras, but there’s also one camera that needs to be able to read my plate for me to get though a gate.

Also kinda tempted to throw an old license plate on my bicycle and take wacky ass routes around that cars can’t follow to put at least one bullshit data point in their data.

Like, at least 7GB bigger.

Stuff.

weird-looking Ps.

Yup, everything I see this in the wild it takes two reads to figure it out, especially since in my font the upper tail is barely there. I’m about ready to see if there’s an extension for Firefox thst will convert them back to th at this point.

In the cycling world it’s kinda funny how people try to make a low climbing century (100 mile route) as a first go, and where I am I have a glut of choices for centuries with well under 1,000 meters of climbing. I just cleared out a bunch of my routes, and still have two century routes with under 600m of climbing.

Add fuel until it stops going, add engines until it starts exploding, then add struts until it stops exploding. Repeat to orbit.

Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.

Astronomer as a company is worth around a billion.

Just a note on how nozzles are made, they are machined brass usually. They can wear pretty significantly over their lifespan too, especially if you run harsh materials (glow in the dark is harsh enough that a brass nozzle might not last a single print).

There are hardened steel nozzles, but even those are a wear item, they just wear slowly. As I said somewhere else, it’s like trying to chase down a ransom note by analyzing the shape of the lead of a pencil that may have been used to write it. Just using it changes the properties.

Both the ones for adjustment, and the operator.

You’d also have to use the same slicer settings, similar room conditions, make sure that you have the same filament roll (assuming it’s an FDM printer), make sure that nothing hardware wise was tweaked (eg. fixing belt tension), make sure nothing software wise was tweaked (it’s nuts how much difference temp can make), make sure nothing firmware wise was tweaked, and the nozzle cant have had too many prints between the suspicious one and now (or like half of a glow in the dark or carbon fiber filled print).

Edit: and same print orientation, just turning the part direction in the slicer causes different artifacts, in extreme cases I’ve seen a part facing one way fail, but a quarter turn right or left prints flawlessly.

I can change what an individual print line looks like to the naked eye just by something as simple as tweaking temperature or print speed. Good luck getting anything remotely consistent intentionally by clever nozzle machining.

Also, nozzles are dead simple to make, it’s literally just a large drill bit (1.75mm diameter or so) with a smaller (.05mm to 1mm) drill poking the last bit through. Tip is slightly flattened off and away it goes.

Also, as someone else said, nozzles are a wear item, it’s like trying to track a car down by the brake pads, or a pencil down by the shape of the lead at the tip, using it changes the characteristics of it.