bluGill

streaming what? Streaming one mp3s. Streaming a dozen different video re-encoded to something else probably can’t be done any affordable machine.

Maybe. How much does it use when you use it? For lightly used servers idle power matters. However a modern CPU often uses much less power to get the same amount of work done and so if the server is doing something idle consumption isn’t important.

That is most of them saddly

You could do that too. I’m not old enough to punch cards but that doesn’t need to stop you.

Why did you stop? I still manually crank most of my engines. (between lawn mowers and collectables I have a lot of engines without electric start) . I spend a lot of time filing points as we… Even when I have electric start, I find getting moving and popping the clutch works just fine.

Generally you are allowed to drive whatever you could at home. Since US licenses allow you to drive a manual you can drive a manual even if you never had. By contrast if you are from a country that makes the distinction you can’t drive a manual even if you have been practicing (how?) and just need to do the final test to drive a manual. (I’m not sure how someone without a manual endorsement would go about getting it in such countries, but whatever that process is)

Write your gcode by hand and you can do curves thus ensuring lines won’t meet. I last wrote gcode by hand in the 1990s, and I’m pretty sure industry stopped hand gcode around 2000 (before 3d printing), but the language isn’t difficult and so you can do it.

Use something other than FDM 3d printing - SLA (resin) printers have higher resolutions and will not have those issues. Or you could put a solid sheet of plastic on a mill and use subtractive machining to make your parts. There are a few other options.

All options have pros and cons, and your best answer might be just live with it (see other replies for ways to mitigate the issues). However don’t get locked into 3d printing just because it is the “in” thing.

The older I get the less sense this makes. I cannot dodge a car, and the roads I’m on have a narrow shoulder such that I cannot move off. As such seeing the car doesn’t’ help me at all. Worse if there is an on comming car someone has to stop because there is not room, at least if I’m going the same way as cars they can slow down to a walking speed (granted they probably won’t, but…)

The best gifts are the ones where I get something great that I didn’t even know I wanted. Or something you make yourself because that knowledge you made it is part of the gift.

For a kid a great gift is something they know they want but cannot afford. For adults though if we want it either we buy it, or it is outside your budget as well. (if you are filthy rich and your target is poor you can perhaps afford something they could never afford, but this is rare - but even then be careful not to show off your wealth)

Sunk costs are sunk and don’t count. It doesn’t pay to build a coal power plant but is already there so you only pay for fuel to run it. This the ammortized costs and current costs are different and so it pays to run the old plants.

Good point, put a hat on the ground in front of you can you can make a buck or two… (this isn’t legal in every city, but it should be)

I have noticed that too, which is really odd because they well know I’m the center of the universe not them. \s

There are many options. the money you send braodcomm would make the option source options really good in not long. But that means a vision and investment for the future.

A lot is all I need to know. Since others have allready pointed out we have ways that work that use much less energy I don’t feel a need to estimate deeper.

At standard pressure. high pressures can make it liquid. I can’t find charts that go high enough with a simple search but it looks like you need to get to 4000-5000psi. industry does go that high for some operations. It needs special design to toeit safely though.

The ambulance crew is part of first aid. As is the box on the wall. As is the non-medical person who uses something from that box on the wall to help. For all of them their primary purpose is to triage, and and then render get people to the correct needed care. Sometimes (often) the situation is minor and they can handle it, however their primary purpose is to get someone in trouble to better care fast. The ambulance crew has a few more tools to get you to the hospital fast, and some tools to solve emergency situations that most of us do not, but their primary job is still getting someone to a hospital.

I would call the ambulence crew first aid. The hospital emergency room has a lot more equibment and staff. Sure the ambulence has more than you but their goal is still the same, get you to real help fast.

Self hosting will always remain a hobby thing. Most people won’t give the time need to properly admin their own system and an improperly admined system is a risk that you don’t want to take with your precious data. I can’t blame people for not doing this - there are ball games to watch, saw dust to make, kids to raise, and millions of other things to do with your free time such that you cannot do everything you might want to. Sure most people could learn to do this, but it isn’t a good use of their time.

What the world needs is someone trustworthy and cheap enough to handle data for people who have better things to do. Which is why I have fastmail handle my email. I self host a lot of other things though because I don’t know of anyone I can trust to do a good job for a reasonable price.

Ubuntu has gone downhill a lot in the last decade. I no longer can recommend it. Yes there is a large community, but they make too many questionable decisions and so doing anything “different” will be hard.