What’s “rapo”?

Wel I’ll be!

WikiDiff says it’s simply misspelled, and quotes very old examples of “farewell”.

https://wikidiff.com/farewel/farewell

Fucking kittens don’t know shit.

It’s Candy Mountain, Charlie.

They can hire me for $1M to write some basic code that gives stock answers when someone says “Thank you”, instead of running it through the LLM. Think of the savings!

I’m worth the $1M because I’m clearly the only person to have ever thought of this. /s.

KeePassDX. I don’t see a reason to change.

On Android? I think that one’s PC only.

Fusion 360 is fantastic. It’s free for non-commercisl use. I’ve been using it for years and have zero complaints. It’s polished and powerful.

People complaining about it for ideological reasons have a point, but I disagree that it’s in some sort of “enshitification spiral”. It’s exactly as usable as it was 5 years ago. There are very few features locked behind a paywall, and they aren’t important to the average maker.

You can even use Fusion to run a CNC router. For free! With all the polish of commercial software.

Everyone I know at my local makerspace uses Fusion. I don’t know a single person who uses FreeCAD. A couple people use TinkerCAD. There’s a very large community of Fusion users and getting help is easy.

I am 100% in favor of FOSS. Give FreeCAD a try. I used it years ago because it had a plugin to make convolute gears with a couple of clicks. But don’t shy away from Fusion just because of all of the haters on here. Give it a try yourself. I think you’ll be impressed by what you get for free.

Fun fact: People abbreviate it “heli” or “copter”, when in fact the two parts of the word are “helico” and “pter”. (Think: helical or pterodactyl)

Try pronouncing it helico-pter, and pronounce the P and make it rhyme with “tare” as in pterodactyl. You’ll sound like you have a French accent, or something.

I buy e-bikes with money. How is that going to change?

Turns out that’s not even the title of the article.

I Rode the New Specialized Levo 4 and Here’s Why I Think It’s Gonna Change the Way We Think About E-Bikes Forever

Yeah, it looks like you’re right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:

Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.

So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from “ancient”.

Any Prusa

I have Play Protect turned on, and I have no problem installing apps from Droid-ify or Obtanium.

Yes, it’s egg-fried rice.

Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.

This is a dumb one, but I’ve watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like “Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah” Yeah… It was made up in the 50’s 1910s by some dude.

I’m all for FOSS. Thanks for letting me know about TetherFi. However, what do you mean about an EasyTether “plan”? Do they no longer charge a flat $10 for the app?

Rationing? In today’s day and age? I have unlimited mobile data with Visible for $25/mo. It even has unlimited (slow, 5 Mbps) tethering.

If you use a cheap VPN (I use Mullvad), your video bitrate doesn’t get throttled. But the tethered device also needs to be signed in on the VPN because WiFi tethering on the phone doesn’t use the phone’s VPN, at least on Android.

If you use Android, and you’re clever, you can USB tether to a properly-configured Raspberry Pi using EasyTether, and have that give WiFi to all your devices at full speed. I have a 4k Apple TV, and I get 4k video on my $25/mo plan.

For a single device like one PC, all you need is EasyTether on that PC, and then you can USB tether your phone to get unthrottled tethering. EasyTether costs a one-time $10 payment for the phone app. The PC app is free. You need both.

Looks like they have a new $35 plan that doubles the WiFi tethering speed (to a whopping 10 Mbps) and allows 1080p video without needing a VPN. That sorta seems like a sweet spot for price vs. hassle.

It appears to be a wallpaper. TinEye found a bunch of results on various wallpaper websites.

This bastardized version is… something.

That’s a hoverfly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly