But they are locking down on their ecosystem. After blocking third-party hardware (like Panda Touch displays) and third-party software (like OrcaSlicer if you don’t have the LAN only “Developer Mode” hidden deep in the settings), what is stopping them from going further? What if they go do an HP and make it so that non-Bambu filaments don’t work oj Bambu printers with just a firmware update?? They already have the RFID tags in place so it’s quite literally just a software switch they could do. Or what if they blocked third-party replacement parts, like how Apple did once they became a market leader?

I am speaking as a person who owns a Bambu A1 myself. It prints okay, but I do not like the locking down of the ecosystem and have currently set my printer to LAN only mode on the v4.0.0.0 firmware to continue using OrcaSlicer. I personally wouldn’t recommend a Bambu anymore (see Sovol’s SV line, Prusa’s high-quality offerings, Qidi Q1 Pro, Creality’s lineup that even has their own version of AMS, and now even Elegoo with their Centauri Carbon), but if it’s what you got, I would recommend setting it to LAN only mode to be able to continue using third-party slicers (like OrcaSlicer) and to stop additional Bambu firmware updates from possibly blocking even more functionality for profits.

I would go with OnlyOffice, I’ve used it before and it seems to handle MS Office files a bit nicer than LibreOffice. I personally use LibreOffice, but it does sometimes burn me when an formatting issue pops up (worst example was a presentation where I set a partially transparent background image which MS somehow interpreted as making all the images transparent, ruining the legibility of the images!)

Someone has already suggested MS Office for web, but that a) requires a stable online connection and b) the web apps by Microsoft are, in a few words, complete ass. Everything loads ridiculously slowly, and formatting is inconsistent in my experience (think stuff like line spacing, font sizes). I really dislike editing on Word on Web, and in my old school, we used Microsoft Teams which just chugs and takes a good while to load anything. Why Microsoft can’t figure out how to make a decently performing web app I have no idea.

Other people have already mentioned Home Assistant, but I personally haven’t used that. If you do have smart homey things though, it sounds really good!

I also have notes using Joplin, but I’m using Nextcloud to sync rather than Joplin Server!

Personally, I am running Nextcloud (file backup mostly. There’s a bunch of other options too if you don’t want the "all-in-one"ness of Nextcloud, but I find that it has good integration with lots of apps), Immich (the best photo backup there is), Radicale (my first one, Nextcloud already has similar functionality I think. I use DAVx⁵ on my phone for this, Thunderbird for desktop), Vikunja (to-do list app, partly compatible with CalDAV. I pair this with the Android app Tasks[dot]org and it works quite well), and Forgejo (local git backup, I still use codeberg for cloud backup though). I can strongly recommend all of them, they all work fantastic! Tailscale is also neat to set up if you want to access your local network remotely.

One fun thing you can do is set up a little Minecraft server for you, any siblings/cousins/other family you have or your roommate if you have one of those. I host one using PaperMC, it’s just a survival server for just me and my sibling, it’s quite nice!

That does sound super interesting, making a giant quiz full of questions relating to morality, economics, and policy.

I wonder if it’s possible to create like the 16 personality thingy (like INTJ or ENTP, I forgot the name of that) but for your beliefs (note that the 16 personality test thing isn’t very accurate at all and isn’t a good way to generalise people’s personalities…)

Any particular tracks from either that you would recommend?

Nice

Nice, I’ll add that to the playlist

I need to save this for later, damn

Neat, will add some of those to the playlist!

All those are great, thanks person!

Dreadnoughts will be added to the playlist, thanks!

Interesting

That third one doesn’t seem very representative. Maybe Green Lantern (not Marvel) or Captain Marvel (too Marvel)? Spider-Man for his agility (you could’ve gone with Silver Surfer), Venom seems okay (but acid != poison != venom), Ragnarok is very hot (right? It’s like the Norse version of hell, right?) while Mars is pretty chilly. Maybe Mars could be Deadpool, or some other red character? Thanos and Thor make sense for the two biggest planets (though where’s Hulk?), especially Thanos since it has a fine collection of asteroids (the stones! Over 60, maybe 70 of them, but still), I wonder why Black Panther for Uranus, Groot for Neptune is really weird, and I guess Pluto is quite strange indeed.

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Bob is our true god of war

Fun!

Neat. Insects are pretty cool.

p.s. if the ancient planets were named by monotheists (that’s the word, right? Like how atheist means believing in no god, monotheist means believing in just one god) and were named after their god (singular), they would all probably be simply called “God” (maybe something like “God’s hand” and “God’s head” if they wanted to be smart about it?)