And next you are telling me that you don’t become a sailor by going on a cruise! Ridiculous! /s

You got it the wrong way round. 100 years ago, people were having kids precisely because they were broke.

100 years ago, if you had kids you had to feed them for 5-7 years and then they’d be adding to the family income. They’d be working the fields or the mines or in factories or any other job like that.

And when you got old, the only thing standing between you and dieing from being worked to death in the poor house was having kids that would take you in and support you.

Today the math is flipped on its head: You have to support your kids until at least 18, more likely 25 or 30 until they make it through education. Then they don’t contribute to your household income at all because they have their own household. And when you are old you get retirement benefits and live off the work of everyone else’s children too.

So 100 years ago, if you didn’t care about children and were broke, math told you to have kids.

Today, if you don’t care about children (no matter if you are broke), math tells you to not have kids.

Simple as that.

And since these changes happened gradually and society adapts its standards slowly, it’s been a gradual shift.

Not only that, but there’s a difference between copyright and trademark. A name alone isn’t really copyrightable, especially not if its then used in a wildly different context.

That’s why all important names of creative IP generally is trademarked too.

If you build a car you can’t name it Mickey Mouse (not using any of the art, typography or anything else from Disney), not because of copyright, but because Disney holds a trademark for that name.

In trademark law, prior usage by someone else doesn’t work like in patent law. In patent law it makes the patent invalid. In trademark law it only means that the other user that’s been using the trademark before the trademark was established is allowed to continue using it, but the trademark is not invalidated.

So the Tolkien Estate can continue to use the name Anduil, and Anduil the company cannot go after them, but the Tolkien Estate can also not stop Anduil the company to use that name.

Nein, es ist das Recht des Schwächeren. Der Stärkere ist nämlich Frontex bzw. das Zielland, welches, wenn tatsächlich das Recht des Stärkeren zählen würde, jeden Ankömmling jederzeit ohne Angabe von Gründen überall hin abschieben könnte.

Asyl kriegen Leute, die in ihrem Herkunftsland nicht sicher sind. Länder, an die man nicht abschieben kann, sind Länder, die nicht sicher sind. Da schließt sich der Kreis: Leute, die aus einem Land kommen, in das man nicht abschieben kann, haben damit quasi automatisch den Beweis dass sie asylberechtigt sind.

Das eigentliche Problem ist, dass man Asyl nur im Zielland beantragen kann. Man wird de facto gezwungen, illegal in ein Land einzureisen um Asyl beantragen zu können. Besser wäre es, wenn man remote Asyl beantragen könnte. Dann wäre es nämlich einerseits nicht nötig jemanden mit einem negativen Bescheid abzuschieben (er wär ja nicht da) und andererseits würde es auch Schutzbedürftigen ohne die finanziellen und gesundheitlichen Voraussetzungen für eine illegale Einreise ermöglichen, Asyl zu bekommen.

Das wollen die Rechten aber nicht, weil dann noch mehr nicht-erwerbstaugliche Asylanten rein kommen würden.

Doesn’t change the fact that they are in charge of dictating the choice of OS.

Good way to put it!

Until you accidentally delete the taskbar panel.

Yeah, that’s rather obscure hardware. I can imagine that you need some drivers for that.

Btw, while this dialog asked for a floppy, it actually used the regular file system, so a CD or even an USB drive worked as well.

Try Reddit or Stackoverflow for a contrasting experience.

I don’t miss that time. Especially on laptops that weren’t supported by the manufacturer and you had to hunt for individual drivers.

Today that only happens if you run Linux and have an Nvidia card. Especially one that’s not supported by the newest driver version anymore.

On the one hand, yes, prints do age, on the other hand, the mechanical requirements for filament during printing are much more intense than on a finished part. So usually, unless they have to constantly resist mechanical load, UV or flowing water, printed parts usually last much longer.

The issue with filament is that it’s a rather thin strand of plastic that’s pulled with a lot of force, that’s being bent out of shape (by being unrolled) and then heated to 200+°C.

The kind of bending and pulling that filament has to survive by unrolling it from the spool is rare for finished prints, and melting in a way that it still sticks to a new layer afterward isn’t easy on the material either.

Some filaments (e.g. PETG, TPU/TPE, Nylon) are hygroscopic, so they draw water from the air. In a finished print that’s usually not a problem, but during printing it is, because when the water in the filament hits the hotend it’s instantly (and rather violently) turned into steam, which leaves small air bubbles in the extruded plastic like miniature swiss cheese. That causes stringing, bad layer adhesion and brittle and ugly prints.

You can still print old filament. You can dry hygroscopic filaments to get them better. But old filament will lead to weak and often ugly prints. The other day I printed with 4yo Silk PLA. It did complete the print, but there were multiple areas where the layers didn’t adhere and you could just pull the layers apart with very little force.

Some old filaments (especially PLA) become brittle like spaghetti. You try to unroll them and they just snap. Sometimes it’s only the outer layer, so you crack away a few rounds of spool until you end up on a deeper layer and find filament that still works.

So the 1-2 years isn’t a hard limit but a good guideline. No need to toss old filament that still works. You can still use old and bad filament for test prints or other garbage prints that don’t need quality.

But you should in general plan to consume your filaments within 1-2 years and not overbuy so that you are left with a ton of aging filament.

And to answer the original question: I have printed parts that are 8 years old and are still in good condition.

I skipped 2000, but I installed XP a lot of times and I never had to insert a floppy. IDE and SATA drivers were preloaded, maybe you had some really weird storage system?

Not exactly. The GUI variant of the updater that you tried also didn’t work well.

CLI mostly works ok (unless a bug causes your DE to be uninstalled if you try to install steam), but GUI is very hit-and-miss.

Just the other day I had a bug in XFCE where I want to scale up the contents of the screen. So I use the GUI display config tool, set the scale to 0.5 (because for some reason they scale the wrong way round, <1 enlarges, >2 makes things smaller). It does work, the display gets scaled up.

After I’m done I want to scale back down and the GUI display config tool just locks up on startup and only shows a blank window with a few blank dropdowns.

A bit of googleing later I found the config file where I can change it back and once I changed the scaling to 1 again, the GUI tool worked again.

I’ve been using Linux exclusively for many years now, but without google I couldn’t have fixed that.

May I remind you that 20 years ago was actually 2005? What you are referring to was more like 30 years ago.

Asking for Linux help online is still just as toxic and useless as 20 years ago.

Ah, gotcha :)

Time to pick up a stack of GPUs to scalp them once supply drops.

Hey, if the wife supports the 3D printing hobby, I think that’s worth printing a bit of garbage.

Remember when people made fun of China for the social credit thing that turned out to be fake news?

I stopped printing toys. They kids loved to watch them being printed, but they are usually not fun to play. Single-color, low detail, low durability, really not what you want for kids toys.

They usually play with a print for a few minutes and then toss it into their box of toys, never to be played with again. It’s a waste of plastic. It’s literally printing junk.