ExtremeDullard

If you type anything like me, the CapsLock key gets very little use on your keyboard. Add the following lines to your i3 config file to remap it to be the Compose key, and use double-Shift as an alternate CapsLock for the infrequent occasions when it's needed:

# Remap CapsLock to Compose                                                      
exec setxkbmap -option compose:caps                                              
                                                                                 
# Both shift keys enable CapsLock and one shift key cancels it                   
exec setxkbmap -option shift:both_capslock_cancel    

This should work in most Linux distro. To find out if it will work in yours, type:

$ grep compose:caps /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
$ grep shift:both_capslock_cancel /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst

If the combos are listed in base.lst, they will work.

There are other ways to remap CapsLock to Compose, but this one keeps everything nice and tidy in one config file.

And you thought you paid through the nose for your health... Cheeto is about to make Luigi totally irrelevant.

I wonder how many will die because of this. I guess we'll know in a few months when the death rate statistics come in.

As always, Steve Reich is informative and interesting to listen to.

The video is a rather blatant Bambu Lab shilling job, but Matt doesn't try to hide it at all, and ultimately I find his use case for the printer interesting in its own right.

Our printer at work isn't connected to the network and there's no way to know if the print is done remotely. Also, I wanted to be able to check on the print remotely to know whether it had gone bad and stop the print.

Since one of our servers is sitting in the same room, I installed a USB webcam inside the printer's enclosuse, and a 20x USB spotter camera on the opposite wall looking at the printer's LCD screen, and setup Motion on the server to stream both cameras.

This is what is looks like when I point my browser to the server. I love it!

Before you downvote this post, the title is in fact the title of the Youtube video verbatim.

The man has an interesting theory for why Trump is creating this much chaos and disruption. It even kind of makes sense.

TL;DR: Trump - or rather, his Heritage Foundation handlers, Trump is much too dumb to come up with this on his own - wants to blow up the neoliberal view of the world and come back to a sort of Bretton-Woods world without the gold standard.

If that's the long-term plan, I might almost understand it, were it not for one critical factor: all this assumes that the ultimate bargaining power for the US is access to the US market - which currently is the largest in the world. But this assumes the cretinous tariffs don't kill it completely by creating another great depression - and that's a big assumption.

Anyhow, worth a watch.

I'm trying to print this part out of Filament-PM TPE32 on a Prusa Mk4 with a textured sheet and I'm not having much luck.

The part is a bellows with a 100%-infill plate at the top and at the bottom. Despite leaving a giant brim inside and out, the whole thing has minimal adhesion to the bed and invariably comes off when the print reaches the top-heavy section of the part.

It's maybe the 10th print I'm attempting, slowly trying to dial in the parameters. I had to crank up the bed temperature to 47 degrees for the first layer to achieve any kind of adhesion, which is odd. I have other TPU/TPE filaments that stick better (but they're too hard for my purpose).

I could achieve slightly better adhesion by cranking up the nozzle temperature above 235C, but then it start stringing so bad it leaves raised obstacles almost immediately on the first layer while building the brim, and then the head slams into the obstacles and dislodges the brim at the second layer. The only way to get a good brim (and a good part) is to lower the nozzle temperature to 223C.

Clearly the problem is that the Prusa Mk4 is a bed slinger: it shakes the part loose. We have a Prusa XL on the way that should take care of the problem, but it's coming in 3 weeks and I need the part now.

Before I slather the bed sheet generously with glue, any advise to make this print succeed on the little Mk4 without making a gooey mess with the glue?

Here's the PrusaSlicer project file if you're interested.