CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ahnlak @revk @jlc3dp I think my 3D printer has done 99.9% pull-copters for the kids, and 0.01% random little widgets for some purpose or another. It deserves better! (doesn't help that it's so small)

@revk @jlc3dp oooh, I hadn't realised we were contemporaries in the selling-things-that-blink space (I'm not all there at the best of times). Though I had seen some of your other projects. It's a small world!

@revk @jlc3dp it's quite a lot more advanced than anything I'd hoped to find! Which probably counts me out of finding the patience to build one.

@revk @jlc3dp apparently the answer is yes https://thestargateproject.com/making-the-stargate/

@revk @jlc3dp uh oh, bow you’ve got me wondering if a 3D printed chappa’ai could be made to rotate using the same technique as hubless clocks.

@whitequark by far my worst cable experience was the slow creeping dread going from "oh I didn't know this cable had an blinking LED in it?" to "oh wait, it doesn't..."

@jacqueline

@bloor ouch. I went for cheap VPS hosting for my microblog instance (@gadgetoid@mastodon.gadgetoid.com ) and self hosting has been its own adventure. Mastodon is complicated and unwieldy and trying to regenerate static assets will knock out my server so I have a local staging copy just for that. And then there’s the hassle of backups. I’m sure there are solutions involving money and time but I don’t want a second job running a mastodon server. £25/month to avoid that is…. tempting.

@ukscone this is a very very first world problem.

@ukscone we used to sponge off the neighbour’s EE Hotspot using a GL.iNet router, which was probably the best we had. I think logging in to the free mobile hotspot account fifty times a day probably got the account banned though

Why is OpenReach broadband so damn expensive?

Upfront pricing seems tenable but then it has yearly price hikes, it can’t really be cheaper to just use 4G!?