Nope! That’s part of the fun sadly. At least if you’re technical you’ll know that not all type-c cables are the same.

Display port over USB-C is totally a thing. With things like USB-PD USB seem to be getting dangerously close to becoming the standard for everything. The cables are a wreck though and are way too hard for a layperson to tell apart.

Glad to hear it!

If you want to try to counterbalance the desk you’re going to want to add the weight as high as you can. Extending the legs out further in front of the desk with a stringer on the floor will likely help more.

Think leaning forward over your toes. You’ll tip over when your center of mass passes your toes. If you could somehow grow longer toes you could lean forward even further. On the other hand, extending your heels isn’t going to help much.

You can add a horizontal span where the legs meet the floor to help make it a bit more stable thanks to a wider base. Think something similar to the upside down Ts on some standing desks, but instead of one vertical riser you would have two.

It could be as easy as screwing some scrap wood at the base of your existing legs that produces out the front 5-6". Depending on where the desk is and if they would be a hazard you could go even longer.

Not on a steam deck, but I did buy another PC based handheld.

As a Dad with a somewhat demanding job, I don’t get a lot of time on my gaming PC anymore. Having something that’s not squirreled away in a corner that turns on/off quickly has made it a lot easier game somewhat more casually.

I’m generally happy with the performance of my handled, but there is some tension between most of the steam games I’m trying to play on it and the realities of a hand held.

For example, many games on steam are designed for larger screens. Sure, they’ll render fine on a small screen, but things that were very obvious on a large screen can become harder to spot because the game designers could assume more real estate.

I also find myself gravitating toward games that were either built for a console or PC games that don’t require a lot of keyboard actions. For example, I’m presently playing through the original Borderlands after having last played it on PC quite a while ago. I don’t think I would attempt StarCraft II on my handheld though.

I’ve had two printers: a monoprice branded wanhao i3 plus and a Voron 2.4. The wanhao was pretty heavily modified. I guess any Voron winds up being somewhat modified, but the mods I’ve installed on it have all been quality of life related.

3D printing tends to involve some level of tinkering, but it was nice to shift from the wanhao to the Voron. The Voron is a start it and forget it printer. Even if I wasn’t replacing parts or modifying the wanhao it took a lot more fiddling for things like bed leveling.

Thanks for the links!

Colorfabb lists products for sale and claims compostability in any environment. I am tempted to buy a spool and give it a go, including composting in my compost pile.

PHA 3DESIGN’s website says their products are not home compostable :(

100% bio-based, blended from PHA and other bio-based materials, industrially compostable.

EcoGenesis’s website spends a lot of time saying “PLA isn’t compostable outside of very specific conditions”, but doesn’t appear to say that their product is more widely compostable. I also didn’t see an obvious place to buy their filament or even really a listing of filaments.

Where do you source your PHA? I looked around a year or so ago, but the options were fairly sparse.

OnePlus still offers this one on some of their phones.

Great read, with some amusing asides.

Shots fired!

I am a die hard laptop/desktop person but the majority of my outside of work ‘computer’ time is on my phone these days :(

The vast majority of paper cups are plastic lined. Before that, we used to use wax coated paper but that’s less common these days.

Making a community is easy. Keeping it fed with content takes a certain level of critical mass :(

Adam Sandler. He made a cameo at the 2025 Oscars that Conan O’Brien was hosting. The two of them go way back and you could tell both were trying to not break out laughing during the exchange.

I suggest something where you get to work with a wide range of the populus. Opportunities are basically all service industry jobs: waiting tables in a restaurant, working retail, working in a hotel, etc. Learning how to interact with wide swaths of humans is an invaluable skill that will serve you well in your future professional career. I would focus on building social and emotional intelligence.

To build on top of this excellent reply, put some fiberglass on top of the wood if you to the two part epoxy route. It should be transparent when done and you’ll get a more ridgid and ding proof surface. That’s why many wooden water vehicles have a layer of fiberglass embedded into their epoxy.

Ha, I mentally skipped the second yes. Agree, add that to the list.

It’s all in the wording, but I think it’s also the contradiction between the first and second/third sentences.

Yes yes, intelligent woman be intimidating to some people.

Acknowledges that intelligent women are intimidating to some. It also uses present tense, which implies the author knows this is still the case.

But how old is this, is it still that bad? The “computer girl” could be around 2000.

Ah “it”. Which it? That some people are intimidated by intelligent women or that the author encountered a ton of sexism?

I think it’s ok to ask how prevalent sexism still is these days, especially if you personally experience it / don’t participate in a field dominated by the opposite gender.

Something like “I thought society would have finally realized this behavior wasn’t appropriate after me too, is that not the case?” sounds less tone deaf.

We’ve been living at the same house for about a decade. We have a tiny tiny creek in our back yard with some unmowed area around it. Our yard is chemical free and we have tons of pollinators. We saw single digit numbers of lightning bugs for nearly the time we lived here. Never more than two a night and most nights none showed up.

The past few years we’ve seen an uptick. Not loads, but they seem to be making a small comeback. At least in our yard.