3D printers

Hello community, I've now got myself a 3D printer, I assembled everything today, so I'm excited to see what I'll do with it :-)
https://www.creality3dofficial.eu/produc...3d-printer

so I read about this recently and found the video for it.  basically some geniuses over at a university in Minneapolis Minnesota have found a way to 3D print an OLED display at room temperature on consumer grade hardware.

it's pretty crazy but here's the downside, the printer had to be heavily modified, to the point that it'd coast around as much as a Tesla Model S!

but hey, it's a start, and the technology will get cheaper so here's hoping soon anyone will be able to make screens at home rather than having to order them from china.
bonus points that it's flexible too so you may be able to print a folding smartphone in a decade or so

What's up with Lain, I haven't seen it online for a long time

Teenage Hacker Gains Remote Control of 25 Teslas in 13 Countries

A teenage hacker by the name of David Colombo claims to have gained remote control of more than 25 Tesla vehicles located in 13 different countries.

As Ars Technica reports, the 19-year-old Colombo posted a Twitter thread explaining how he can trigger a range of actions remotely, but there's a twist to this story. He didn't manage to hack Tesla's security to take control, in fact, there is no security vulnerability in play here. Colombo states "it's the owners faults" he has managed to gain access to their cars.

Because there is no vulnerability, Colombo decided to try and tell the owners directly, but he has no way of finding them. He's also not willing to publicly disclose how vehicle control was achieved for understandable reasons. The functionality he managed to unlock includes "disabling Sentry Mode, opening the doors/windows and even starting Keyless Driving." The hack doesn't allow Colombo to control the steering, acceleration, or breaking, but the "list is pretty long" of what's possible.

Happy new Year 2022


All the best in the new year. Health, satisfaction,

Min Yoongi aka Suga from BTS has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from US. He found out when he went to have a Covid test which is mandatory in Korea after coming back from the rest of the world. Yoongi along with the rest of the members are fully vaccinated so he isn't showing any symptoms of Covid. He is now in safe-isolating with his family until sometime in new year. Yoongi's quarantine time was supposed to be up on December 5th but it will have be long now that he has Covid. 

Kim Namjoon aka RM and Kim Seokjin aka Jin have also tested positive for Covid-19 now the day after Suga tested positive. RM like Suga isn't expecting symptoms of Covid but Jin on the other had has flu like symptoms and a high fever. Suga and RM have posted updates on Weverse telling fans not worry about them because they are okay. 

So I've tried many desktop environments over the years, Gnome, KDE (which btw switched their inspirations with gnome going from more windows like to more mac like and kde doing the reverse), Openbox (still a long time favorite of mine), openstep (next step inspired GUI for linux), XFCE, etc.

but of all the Desktops I've tried, Enlightenment is kind of a personal favorite.  it's got all the flexibility of openbox with a bit more polish like kde or gnome, and as of 12/16/21, version 0.25 was released bringing a whole host of improvements.

changes in V0.25

 

• Lots of minor bug fixes (see git log)
  
• Flat look to match new flat theme
  
• New much higher quality default wallpaper set
  
• Optimized XKB keymap change handling
  
• Init splash is now always on (theme can remove it if desired)
  
• Added screen setup menu entry in quick settings menu
  
• Redid a lot of screen dimming/blanking/timeout code to fix cruft
  
• IBox iconify gadget has window preview son mouse-over now
  
• New gesture recognition bindings for touchpads (using Elput)
  
• On loss or re-plug in of screen now restore windows sensibly
  
• Tasks has window preview on mouse-over now
  
• FPS debug (ctl+alt+shift+f to toggle) has a lot more data now
  
• BT devices in the Bluez gadget will show battery level if supported
  
• Battery now has mouse-over popup with detailed battery information
  
• Config saving moved to threads to minimize I/O stutter to core
  
• Shot allows copy of screenshot to copy and paste selection too now
  
• Temperature monitor now uses hwmon devices and multiple instances
  
• New Procstats module can show mem/CPU usage in titlebar
  
• Offline/presentation mode removed - use bindings + actions instead
  
• Remove custom desklock command - built in is more reliable
  
• Winlist (alt+tab) has large mode with window previews now
  
• Pluggable device monitoring and applying of input config on plug
  
• Added workaround broken Spotify cover art URLs
  
• Scale settings will now modify xsettings DPI to make non-efl apps scale
  
• Fonts now made to be consistent with EFL and other apps
  
• Added binding action to switch profiles
  
• EFM - sync more often when doing I/O ops like copy etc.
  
• XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is now set too
  
• EFM image preview will show EFIX dates for when image taken
  
• Power plug/unplug now emit signals which theme can make sounds for
  
• Mixer - have simple device to icon database text file to look nicer
  
• Mixer - add VU meters for output and input audio
  
• Mixer - Show icons for apps currently playing sounds and recording
  
• Set _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN when windows are hidden to avoid rendering
  
• Reduce power usage when screen is blanked by setting wins to iconic
  
• Added “grow window in direction” actions you can bind
  
• Added palette editor and selector tool to set up custom colors
  
• Fingerprint (libFprint) support in desklock and new tool for settings
  
• EFM - add recent files menu to access recently opened files
  
• Force stdout/error log now to ~/.e-log.log
  
• Added settings for animation multiplier to speed up/down transitions
  
• No more edge bindings by default
  

In many countries Omikron is already the dominant variant, in other countries it is on the advance. 
Where is the virus currently raging?



https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/...t-100.html

Merry Christmas from Austria, we will celebrate Christ's BIRTH on December 24th

AMERICA.
As is well known, Christmas is not celebrated in America until December 25th. The day before, Christmas Eve, some families attend the Christmas service and then eat together and spend time together. Now everyone is excited to see what Santa will bring the next morning

Just a hey how are you thread, because with covid looking to be around for another few years it doesn't hurt to check in from time to time.

me?  I'm doing alright, still doing karaoke on occasion, still geocaching, and I still have the same job, but it's a bit isolating working from home.