Sounds like you’re doing fine to me. The stakes are indeed higher, but that is because what you’re doing is important.

As the Bene Gesserit teaches: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

Make your best effort at security and backups, use your fears to inform a sober assessment of the risks and pitfalls, and ask for help when you need to, but don’t let it stop you from accomplishing what you want to. The self-hosting must flow.

Hey don’t make fun of him too much, he might have to buy another yacht to make himself feel better.

It was, and still is. It hasn’t moved to the US, it just also opened a nonprofit there, so the US donations they receive from US people are tax deductible in the US. If I remember correctly they have also opened a non-profit in Belgium which is I think where they are intending to actually move their assets and do most of their work going forward as I think they’ve had various issues with the German organization also.

It’s definitely not burn-in, it’s likely some kind of defect in the backlighting system. For most LCDs the “backlight” is essentially a big thin white/mirrored panel reflecting or diffusing light in a very carefully consistent way from a very bright light source, typically either a fluorescent tube at the bottom or more commonly nowadays evenly spaced strips of LEDs. Some higher end models use more elaborate designs but they’re the minority. Defects in the backlight panel, the back of the LCD panel, or stuff like dust or even insects getting inside that reflective/diffuser chamber will affect the consistency of the backlight as it both blocks a bit of the light from reaching some places and reflects it to other places it shouldn’t be. That’s what it looks like is happening here. It could be some kind of delamination of some of the surfaces inside the TV, or it could be some puff of dust that somehow got inside, or even something like a spider decided that was a great place for a cobweb. Without opening the panel it’s hard to say what’s going on exactly, it might just need a very delicate cleaning or it might need replacement parts.

If you’re afraid of spiders, I’m sorry, you just have to burn the house down now, it’s the only way to be sure.

Me too. At least with Temu and Wish I know the majority of my money is going directly to some crook in China and not to Bezos. Cut out the extra middleman. Same low quality of goods, direct from the drop-shipper lying about them or perhaps even the factory counterfeiting them. It’s a substantial improvement in supply chain honesty and legitimacy, you’re left with no illusions about the products and all the reviews are fake, so it’s deeply refreshing to not have to try to figure any of it out. It’s always 100% consistent. You know exactly what to expect, with no worry you’re accidentally going to overpay for something you think is genuine and receive a box full of rocks that’s obviously been opened, stolen and returned, nah not on these sites. You’ll get exactly what’s pictured (not to scale necessarily, though). Way more reliable than Amazon.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I want to emphasize that whether you mean it that way or not, it’s true. Each person helping and participating makes the work a little easier and success a little closer. A movement requires leaders and builders, certainly, and those people are often doing a lot of heavy lifting. But it also simply requires members, and numbers, and people just showing up. Your support, simply just being here, means more than you might know.

The AI designed this test plan and gave a bullet pointed list of reasons it’s completely safe. What could possibly go wrong?

Your idea certainly has some interesting potential, but I think the biggest problem you might find is that it might clog up quickly or dull and lose its abrasiveness and thus be even more quickly disposable (and thus cost-inefficient) than sandpaper already is. That might not be a deal-breaker, if it enables some particular method that you can come up with, like what you mentioned with the chess piece, but I doubt it’s going to be useful as, or cheaper than, a direct replacement for sandpaper or sanding blocks on a larger scale. Yes, a continuous stream of fiber-infused filament is certainly great at sanding away at a nozzle, but that is mostly all fresh filament right off the roll, inch after inch and layer after layer of it, the nozzle is the piece that’s there continuously enduring the relentless abuse, but it rarely sees the same bit of plastic touch it more than a handful of times.

If you try to use the same bit of plastic that’s already sanded its way through a nozzle it may have lost some of its abrasiveness already, but even if it hasn’t I would still be concerned that it might lose its abrasiveness quickly under actual use as an abrasive, it might be difficult to clear out removed material, it might have a lot of friction and heat up, potentially even to the point of localized softening of the surface, allowing any fibers to be flattened or pushed back into the plastic and smoothing the surface. Lots of things are great abrasives in theory, but don’t have any practical use. Sandpapers and polishes are specifically selected to be as cheap and durable as they can be for the job they’re trying to do.

However it is certainly an interesting idea, and worth trying. I’m curious to find out how it performs. Let us know how it goes! Worst-case scenario, using a printed design to make obscure, form-fitting shapes for other abrasives to be applied to seems like an under-utilized application for 3d printing.

It is a perfectly valid approach, and there are also many other perfectly valid approaches. “Better” requires a definition of what you want to be better. If there’s something that’s making you uncomfortable about the process, let us know what concern or issue you’re seeing with it and maybe we can guide you to a better way for you. But there’s nothing wrong with the way they’re doing it. Others may have different preferences (including you, YOU might have different preferences!) but they’re just preferences. It’s not right or wrong, even if some people argue that it is, they’re always going to have some preferences embedded in that judgement. There’s always more than one way to do it. That’s the joy of it, really, and sometimes you’ll have to experiment yourself to find out what ways YOU like the best, that make sense to you, that are comfortable for you, or that do things the way you want to do them.

It’s your own self-hosting setup, you get to make the choices. Sometimes the number of choices can be intimidating and lead to analysis paralysis but the only way out of that is to realize that there really is no way of finding the “best” until you’ve tried many different ways and figured out the “best” yourself. That’s why the only real advice I can give you is to just go through the tutorial you’ve found and do it the way they do it for now. You can change later, as you learn more, when not if you decide you want to do something differently. Because you will. We all do. It’s part of the process.

I agree that the open source package dependency situation in many popular languages and ecosystems has gotten way out of hand. Well, at least my addiction to reinventing almost every wheel myself and self-hosting my own cobbled together infrastructure which has permanently afflicted me with chronic not-invented-here syndrome aren’t feeling like such a crippling disability anymore. Maybe it’s not always such a bad thing in every situation.

When the antichrists leading the formerly-free-world attempt to crucify Gaming Jesus we’ll know the end times have truly arrived.

For one thing, OP misspelled “crypto pump and dump scam” in such a confusing way that it appears to be 5 different words completely.

Some are genuine and trustworthy, but finding them is a needle in a haystack and Youtube will rarely lead you directly to them (because of course, it’s not in their interest to do so). Others are at least transparent when they’re being marketing tools. The ones that try to hide it and pretend to be “organic” when they’re shilling trash are the worst.