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Looks like you’re 355 out of 365 this year, so 10 days plus a few because sometimes it’s slow…

Hit the menu button then ā€œmoreā€ then ā€œusersā€

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If it was like I was you may be stuck at 363 for a while until you hit that day that you may have missed.

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Awesome! Thanks!

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Well fug

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Honestly what the hell are they doing spinning magnets for this? Seems so stupid when you could just use electromagnetic coils with precise control and operate totally silently…

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The Borg Cube PC finally arrived! Need to adjust my workspace a bit so I don’t feel cramped.

The build quality on this is pretty good. I bought it fully built because I just didn’t want to build a fourth PC this year already. Had to connect a few wires for the fiberoptic lighting inside and attach the feet so it wasn’t too bad to setup. Came in a really friggin cool wooden crate:

My only concern is the exterior of the case. All of the aesthetic panels are 3D printed and they’re only 1/8" thick so it feels fragile. But I figure if I ever break something I could probably scan it and replace it myself.

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Those tutorials are the very first thing I did.

:robot_windows:

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This looks great. I recently started playing Star Trek fleet command and this was actually the first ship I purchased

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How’s the game? I’ve played a bit of STO but not that one.

It’s 1,000% p2w. But you can play casually. Most of the ships are available by grinding but paying 100$ here and there will shave years off your play time of grinding.

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Software:

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How is your healing going?

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I’m out of the back brace and going back to work on Monday!
I got the CD with my xrays, but I realized none of my laptops have a CD player lol

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I’m surprised that CDs are still a thing. And I also feel sad that nothing replaced them… Cheap disposable media was a great thing.

Do you want to get some pictures professionally printed and framed? Burn a CD, and don’t worry about malware because CDs are cheap enough to discard. You don’t have to worry about giving a USB drive and receiving a rubber ducky in it’s place…

Oh, well, I’m a paranoid hacker and I miss CDs.

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Well imagine the age of these machines… chances are they were purchased in the early 2000s and the accompanying software and PC workstation hardware are going to all be geared for kicking out a CD. The only way a hospital is getting a new x-ray machine is if the hospital is new. I swear there are still Windows 3.1 workstations attached to industrial machines getting constantly repaired with old parts from the local recycler.

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The NT 4 dinosaur: But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…

We all know a place with one of those…

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In my early machining career I ran a cnc with a Cincinnati ā€œBig Blueā€ control. It was freaking masive, and when it (rarely) went down, we’d have to scrounge ebay for vacuum tubes.

The Wichita airport radar is mid WWII era.

XP is the real industrial survivor. It was around forever during a time when it first became acceptable to build atop a pre-existing system. And as long as it works, ain’t nobody gonna touch it.

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You can get new vacuum tubes. Some audiofool and guitar amplifiers still use them. And I’m probably obsolete…

:sweat_smile:

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Here’s the xrays!
I’m glad to finally get confirmation that my first implant I installed is actually in my hand, and didn’t fall out! I can’t read it though, never been able to. Couldn’t feel it either, the flash light trick didn’t work, but the xray shows it’s in there! XD
So the intersecting implants in the webbing looks dangerous, but there is a good amount of meaty substance between the two.

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You should cross post those to the X-ray thread :slight_smile:

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