OK. Wow.

2-3 years is way way better then I ever expected.

Be fantastic if it happens.

Only if those device makers are willing to use it. And that has always been the tightrope linux has walked.

Its very history as a x86 platform means it has needed to develop drivers where hardware providers did not care. So that code needed to run on closed hardware.

It was bloody rare in the early days that any manufacturer cared to help. And still today its a case of rare hardware that needs no non free firmware.

Free hardware is something I’ll support. But it is stallman et als fight not the linux kernel developers. They started out having to deal with patented hardware before any one cared.

proprietary

Well related to the owner is the very definition of proprietary. So as far as upstream vs not available for upstream is concerned. That is what the term is used for in linux.

So yep by its very definition while a manufacture is using a licence that other distributions cannot embed with their code. Marking it proprietary is how the linux kernal tree was designed to handle it.

EDIT: The confusion sorta comes from the whole history of IBM and the PC.

Huge amounts of PC hardware (and honestly all modern electronics) are protected by hardware patients. Its inbuilt into the very history of IBMs bios being reverse engineered in the 1980s.

So as Linux for all its huge hardware support base today. It was originally designed as a x86(IBM PC) compatible version of Unix.

As such when Stallman created GPL 3 in part as a way of trying to end hardware patients. Linux was forced to remain on GPL 2 simply because it is unable to exist under GPL 3 freedom orientated restrictions.

The proprietary title is not seen as an insult. But simply an indication that it is not in the control of the developers labelling it.

GPL3 has extra restrictions banning patients etc. So yeah a lot of GPL 2 code written by companies that open software but not hardware. Would have legal questions about running with GPL 3

GPL 3 was created to be more restrictive to non-open hardware.

Unfortunately, I can’t claim credit.

Its the name of a rock formation in the Tennessee caves.

I think I even used Windows XP wallpapers on Linux for some time.

Well now I suddenly care.

Why the hell do you want to watch the world burn?

;)

No bodies business but the user what wallpaper they like.

I use images from the UK canal inferstructure where I spend much of my time.

If you’re willing to tell me to do otherwise. My response is going to be short and rude.

his taking credit in the house of Lords.

After having the engineer fired.

Disgusting. I’m planning to write my MP. As worthless as that seems.

But given his history.

• Chair of network rail

• Becomes transport sec.

• Abuses position to have someone fired for questioning safty of network rail.

• Then Raises that very safty issue in lords as an emergency.

This is definatly a history that needs to be public knowledge and protested loudly. He is a corrupt vindictive arsehole.

Lord north side of a south facing donkey.

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/lord-hendy-forced-systra-to-sack-engineer-for-raising-concerns-about-crowd-crush-at-euston-station-29-08-2024/

The same lord Hendy who had an engineer fired several weeks back.

For saying exactly this.

cool. I agree with the self made.

Myself, my vision is now at the point glasses no longer help.

but UK experts say they could pose unique fire safety challenges.

Depends on implementation. We already have Lion cars with batteries that can be genuinely dangerous.

Trains are large enough that moving to LifePo4 is very practical.

These do not have the self ignite and supporting risk of other li tech. They are much safer than lead acid bats.

But even with lion. I feel safer with regulated train companies staff, then personal car owners maintaining them.

Yeah, the cost of electricity is a clear issue. But then so is diesel and LPG for the same reasons exactly.

We can and are making our own electricity, This is just an argument to invest more and pull digits out.

If we updated the grid and started running buses the same way (charging motorways and a road with batteries), we could be a large step towards reducing fossil fuel.

There was an article some time recently about an EU nation building a charging motorway.

Chinese companies online will sell you real cheap glasses. With RX lenses. Like 10-15 a pair.

The frames are cheap crap. But the lenses normally adequate for anything not to specialised.

This needs a comparison to the diesel bill.

While, electricity is going up in general. The UK rail lines are running diesel-electric trains that can run from electric lines when available. Over the last 10 years, a huge move to increase the electric lines within the UK has happened. Much of it completed recently.

Also add to this, the new government is planning to move those diesel-electric over to battery trains that can charge plus run on the electrified lines. Then use battery on the non-electrified sections.

So a significant % of the cost increase will be intentional and the result of reduced diesel use.

I find knoowingbthe basics helps.

I use blender. Its not perfect for 3d modeling. But I knew it a little to start. Also easy to set up on linux.

But honeatly learning its scale odds. (Defaults 1m to mm) boolean modifiers and 3d print tools. (Allow testing for real world models and extra faces.)

Really is all i need to modify stls and make my own sruff.

These are the desiccant containers I am printing now, in PETG. Less pretty, but I think they are more functional.

https://www.printables.com/model/50375-desiccant-silica-hygrometer-spool-container-modula

Ok So I now have the 3d printer up and working. ( yeah, slow for obvious reasons )

Pics below.

Basically, I’m printing stuff for the printer to gain skills. PVA to start, I printed a Bowden tube adapter. Mainly so I can run filament directly from the dryer when using hygroscopic stuff. https://www.printables.com/model/983043-elegoo-neptune-4-pro-bowden-tube-spool-holder-moun

Also, printer a few of these desiccant holders. But in PLA they seem to shatter easy when tightening the lid. So I’m printing another design in PETG ATM

I need to add a vent to the tent pefore trying to play with Nylon. So thats my next task. Just need to workout something.

Darktable

Desiccant is used a lot in boats. ( in the uk at least where damp is an issue )

But is a different way to 3d printers. It’s more about directing condensation.

My thought is to build desiccant holders to mount near the boat windows. (not sure your location if you dont know narrowboat, So ill describe the issue)

My boat was built in the 1970s so is currently single glazed. We plan to do a complete rebuild of the inside and the glazing. But poor again so time.

This design tends to mean condensation builds up hugely on the windows. As the whole design of a steel boat leads to temp differences and the UK has high humidity. More so at water level of course.

The issue is the condensation then runs down from the windows along the wooden panels inside the boat. Doing huge damage over the years. One of the big reason owning a boat is costly. There is constant maintainance and replacement work. Im good at the electrics. But my younger brother dose most of the woodwork.

A common solution is to have a desiccant container with a water catcher below it positioned near the windows. This effectively absorbs some of the humidity before in condensates on the windows. Then, as the Desiccant overloads, releases it into the catcher.

You then need to empty the catcher and replace/dry the desiccant often. And honestly, it still just reduces the issue.

You can buy holders to do his. Sold for boats and caravans etc. But honestly they tend to be a bit universal, so not actually very usable.

Part of me thinks I can design a 3 part system that can be mounted. Have a drip pipe leading directly to the bilge rather than running down the walls. Then have slot in desiccant units that can be carried home and back and microwaved as we swap over.