If you’re going to do that, at least ask for something useful. Y’know, like “Destroy all advertising firms.”

bash: sudo: command not found

After all, we don’t know that he has it installed, especially if he’s running a really old distro.

I’m aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I’m not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I’m doing here, probably. 😅

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

That’s kind of an insult to the parrot, isn’t it?

Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.

Eh, I’m sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

And Perl.

Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

There are still some places with some leftover LitterRobot 3s in stock at lower prices ( here ), but they’ve always been expensive. We have a 2, and it cost $700 CAD at the time.

A clearly-labeled plastic box smaller than the actual metal meter is not likely to cause this law to be invoked, since there is no way in hell that a reasonable person could mistake it for the real thing. It would be like mistaking a Tonka toy for actual construction equipment.

This model on Thingiverse looks like it might be fairly close.

That space may be there for safety reasons. Aging or mishandled lithium-cobalt batteries tend to swell. Giving them space to swell into reduces the chance of a fire or an explosion.

If you’re going to cram a larger battery into that space, be very careful of what kind you use, or you may find your phone literally burning a hole in your pocket.

I actually own a D-cell-capable charger (also takes other sizes down to AAA). I guarantee you that it cost a lot more than this—$50 Canadian before the pandemic. So I can understand the attraction of hacking one of the cheaper chargers.

Microsoft has prepackaged VMs that you can use for a short duration without (in my experience) triggering an update cycle. Of course, they’re Windows 11 and need VirtualBox, which may not be ideal.

The auto-bed leveling on your 3D printer is nice, but it’s not a replacement for manually leveling the bed. Manually level the bed before every print, since taking off your last print from the bed has the tendency to make your bed not level. Then, after manual leveling, do an auto-bed leveling to remove the remaining tiny variations in the bed level

Depends on your printer, I think. Mine is quite happy being leveled only after nozzle changes, and the autolevel is Good Enough.

Odd. Do you get anything from lemmy.world at all? Maybe your ISP is blocking the server?

That’s weird. For me it has a full set of posts, most recent a day ago. Maybe it’s blocked for you for some reason?

(Looks at own screen, which is in fact set up for Times New Roman everywhere. Coughs.)