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Well yes, they're called "private". Often either illegal, it offends some powerful people or the creator doesn't give a shit and may just post a link on a forum as a thanks.

Respect to those who put it out in the open! A DMCA is nothing, but people have died and even went to prison for a cool gray area program.

Yeah, I'm making stainless/steel high pressure containers/barrels/pipes. I'll tell you working with 15mm+ stainless is nothing like ~2mm PC case grade steel or aluminum :D

Very hard but also very forgiving, which is what allowed me to get in - I've learned TIG welding, too, may even get certified just for job safety. Welds get x-rayed and warranty is in the double digits so you can't half ass the important parts.

Plenty of work from big and small companies alike. Some US middleman has contracted most firms around this city to build ion exchange components to be used in lithium battery production. A lot of orders for big ion exchange containers from DE and CZ, afaik also for lithium battery plants (Production? Recycling?).

I'm also Berry Alien, the fastest replacer of ion exchange material alive in September 2022 in bf middle of nowhere, Germany :D

Next step, building robots at some company. Always wanted to try that. I seem to fall ass first into opportunities I always just abandon, but this time I have medicine and crypto on my side.

Thanks Chris for the unique (for me) opportunity.

IME, if it worked fine for a year and has less than 100TB written, it's good for another 3-4.

They usually fail early or very late. Assuming good cooling.

That's fantastic, congrats, you have realized how pointless your opinion is online.

The only thing that matters and that can't be replicated is doing and showing. Got a prototype/product? Show it (before ProGPT can copy it lol).

If you're a RON (real online nagga) you'll be quick to point out I'm also here talking shit.

Yes, I am, because it's that hard to quit. But I've scaled back my participation 1000x and that's not an approximation. I feel much better because of that.

F social media.

It can be a case of a factory running things like that. Pretty common in the US (with immigrants) and EU (again, immigrants).

Except Chinese factories are huge and aplenty, so they would "win" by numbers.

Doing well at the expense of some of the population, name a more draconian duo heh.

It comes in any profession. Switch to soemjting that you would like doing, pretty much.

And I don't mean another language. You may need something completely different. Metalworking, chemistry, robotics, whatever you can find that you would like to do and learn.

Oh but that's super hard and income will drop? Do it on the side or keep your current job.

Basically don't be a middleman.

I bought a cover set for my Legion 5 Pro, and the best one was made in China, available only in the US. Fortunately the price is low enough to avoid extra duties so Amazon will ship it for $10 overseas within a week. No buying from EU here lol.

Same with a trackball mouse - shipped from UK because there was no stock in EU.

I stopped with the "durr China quality bad" a long time ago because it just isn't. Everything is made in China and you can get cheap/shit or expensive/great.

The Framework laptop for example, can't buy that from China. Sold out in EU. Have to go through forwarding bs to import from US. eBay sellers don't even want to ship overseas. AliExpress sellers will ship it to the middle of the Pacific.

If you want to compete you need to do better, not just give up imo.

Hoover (vacuum), Xerox (copy), Flex (angle grinder), the bright yellow post it note (3m trademark), pretty funny stuff

Why not invest in both?

Besides, the cost of designs pales in comparison to the cost of producing locally.

Oh please. Plenty of jobs that are worse. Plenty of immigrants, too, with plenty of loopholes to fuck them over.

What do you call the infatuation with ducking over small businesses and startups?

It's tied into the culture, tbh, but you know, at least make it easier for someone to start, fail and start again.

Even forming a company is a major struggle compared to US, UK. Nevermind the insanity after a bankruptcy.

Sole proprietorship is still very common, and of course when you are in trouble with that, you are in trouble.

Everyone just pretends there wasn't a time when people were spending years of their life in an MMO.

That was ruined by games trying to appeal to more mainstream people (with less hardcore Features like losing all your possessions upon death) and the micromonetization strategies that everyone hates.

I wonder if VR will even have games like early Everquest, WoW, EVE, etc but in VR.

Where does the math work out? In much of Europe, charging instead of fueling is around 2x more expensive per KW of useful energy and that's with diesel/petrol being 2 Euros/Liter.

And we're not even getting into the reduced range, availability of (fast) charging stations, availability of electric work vans, the cost of EVs, cost of repair/batteries, etc.

Right now for the vast majority of people, EVs are frankly, ridiculously unaffordable.

I was an early adopter of "the Internet" in the 00s. Nowadays I'm "too old to know/use X/Y/Z". Damn kids, I helped build this sheet! :D

I wanted to say you need to create new habits and a schedule. With medication you can (finally) do it, but you simply don't know how. You can self-help, but external help would work much better.

This is what I would've thought not even a year ago.

Having tried pretty much all the stimulants (oh DNMs how I love you) and currently taking one, I almost can't believe I have to say medication alone is not enough.

As long as it's set on a collision course with the Sun. Although I'm not sure the latter would survive.

Slavery, fucking L. There are villages without proper taxation or any public services. Paying in labour works as an alternative.

What stops anyone from using a kitchen knife to stab someone to death?

If you look at it that way, you'll get nothing done.

No, we know why: the people. The governments, the culture/desires.

And I don't mean only Africa or Asia, (before someone calls me racist). Any country has had this problem.

The simplest solution is to instate mandatory community service, preferably in lieu of military service, but it could be a sort of "Subotnik" as seen in the USSR, which would be used for... You guessed it, doing community/public service work. Then you have all the manpower and just need food (some compensation/thanks is good) tools and organization/training (can double as job training).

Not much to ask imo, but of course many people will cry about it. Mostly people from countries with a lot of homeless and unpaid internships, but it's not like most people want to do unpaid work much, either. On the bright side, most people won't raise much of a fuss about it, either.

So that's not happening. Government officials stealing foreign aid is happening. Local production is not happening. Wars are happening. Toilets are not. Etc.

I mean, yeah, they're great, but come on. Most of the important stuff runs on stuff that's decades old.

Committing to SERPs is challenging. Unless your domain itself has your full name, a Medium article with your name in there will rank higher than your personal blog...

Although I remember there being some option to verify a website for name searches on Google.

That plus having a Twatter/Fecebook/HN/etc account to confirm the official site should be enough to reasonably avoid impersonators.

Now do one for Deutsche Bahn :D

There was some news a few weeks ago where DB was saying train delays/cancellations were due to sabotage. Probably by Russian agents. Sure thing DB.

A Train is asshoe

Law firm being cheap? Or Indians being dangerous, I guess...

They also care about the effects of drug abuse. Why can't we go back to forcing young people to submit and doing lines of coke

Good, means I'm getting one when it's released :D

I'm in Europe, pre-ordered on Amazon, was thinking of waiting for reviews but the 256GB version went temporarily out of stock so I just pre-ordered. Let's see if I get fucked heh.

Funny enough, there was a scarcity of Quest 2s which drove prices up to dumb levels, while the US had Q2s aplenty :/

But really, I want one to watch stuff and play PC games and maybe use it as a monitor - the pancake lens apparently make it much more palatable.

I have just bought an American Quest 2 and found out the Pico 4 (with new pancake lenses) launches next week for the same price.

Am so kicking myself. I'll sell the Q2 at a loss and buy the Pico.

Lol fork off, it highly depends on your schedule and type of work.

I have a very unusual eating schedule right now and have lost nearly all the fat I gained when I was working from home and eating early.

In Europe, PayPal is PayPal circa 2010. Everyone knows it and it's too convenient - make account, add card and bank, pay wherever.

Seller accounts seem to get shafted on the regular but they still keep using it.