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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years

    Micro plastics can be released as soon as a water bottle is first filled. This isn’t the structural integrity of the plastic failing, it’s your endocrine system and who knows what else being affected by tiny pieces of plastic that start shedding immediately.

    Look, I’m not saying this isn’t a cash grab because the serial inventor who made the aero press sold a controlling stake in his company and the new firm is squeezing as much money out as they can before the patent expires, BUT some of us do care about micro plastics. Not that I give my daughter coffee, but now that I have a toddler we’ve eliminated as much food related plastic as we can.

    Stuff is genuinely damaging and yet we keep using it because it’s convenient. And people wonder why the Romans used lead containers.










  • Yeah, coming in with no prior CAD experience I actually think freecad’s interface makes sense, especially since I’ve used it for both 3d printing (one workbench) and mocking up building plans (a different lumber one I was able to download as an add-on - very cool).

    I did run into the topological naming problem once though, and I’m far from a power user, so I’ve been meaning to check out the real thunder fork.





  • That’s how it originally was in the US. I had it for years and it was absolutely useless, I used to complain about what’s the point of even having it if the only benefit was ONE return without a receipt per calendar year. You’re telling me you want to track all my purchases, but you can’t actually track all my purchases? Give me a break.

    Then a few years ago they added free coffee, so it became worth it again. The 5% off thing is new enough I remember being surprised when I learned it.




  • Oh man I totally forgot about this, thanks for the ping.

    He said:

    "Reasoning? Sigs are only as good as their aperture. McAfee is on a lot of a boxes, catching stuff and creating new sigs. They also have a large staff of very talented people out there finding stuff and creating sigs.

    The app does annoyingly keep trying to upsell you. Do they say why it sucks or is it just contempt for the company?"

    Which is a valid question. I didn’t actually see anyone say why it sucks here. Literally everyone just said he’s dumb and outdated, when his original advice to me was:

    “McAfee is an industry leader. Not bloatware anymore. Can buy for all your devices including phone (one purchase). Defender is excellent. No one solution is better than layered defense. I run defender, McAfee, and fireeye. Malwarebytes is good [this was in response to my earlier question], but you get what you pay for. Kaspersky is sus enough that it’s not permitted on usg or contractor machines. John is insane and may have killed someone. He’ll be found dead with a hooker and enough coke to take down an elephant.”

    Then months later when I bitched about paying for it and asked if I really needed it, he said I had to get it because the signatures come out weekly.

    So actually curious what other people think. I’ll link this comment to other people who pooh-poohed it and ask why.