Not my experience. I’ve had my X1C for a year now and have not had to ‘dial in’ a single thing.

Most of my prints are functional items in PETG of various colous. Some PLA for cosmetic parts. And I did some things in TPU earlier in the year. Probably been through like 10kg of filament on it.

Can’t think of a single serios print failure that wasn’t human error - e.g. forgot to clean the bed, didn’t support it properly.

My one gripe is that when changing PETG reels, it doesn’t always manage to wipe the nozzle very well leaving a few rogue stringy bits that usually just pull off.

And obviously I don’t love the closed-wall software situation, but their software is pretty good.

• In 2015, UK consumers spent approximately £1.5 billion on physical entertainment media, including DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs.

• By 2025, that figure has plummeted to under £400 million, with DVDs and Blu-rays now representing less than 10% of total video spend.

• In 2015, streaming was growing but still secondary. Netflix had around 5 million UK subscribers, and Spotify Premium was under 2 million.

• By 2025, streaming dominates:

  • Over 90% of UK households subscribe to at least one video streaming service
  • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ collectively exceed 40 million UK subscriptions
  • Music streaming accounts for over 85% of music revenue, with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music leading

2015: Physical Media ~£1.5 billion, Streaming ~£500 million 2025: Physical Media <£400 million, Streaming >£2.5 billion https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/multi-sector/media-nations/2025/media-nations-2025-uk-report.pdf
https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/Industries/tmt/research/digital-consumer-trends.html

But… America is literally Europe 2.0… so, you’re saying Europe is Europe 3.0?

Sorry, I oversimplified, I can’t use my router with Sky. 😞

Even having switched it over to open-source FW and having dug around inside it over SSH, I couldn’t find a way to get my Nighthawk R7800 to do the Option 61 thing.

It’s not a particular great router, but it otherwise does everything I need it to do and is all setup, so still I figured I’d put up with the white box for a year and then switch again… That was probably nearly two years ago now 😅

We were with Virgin for over a decade. The quality of the fibre service was very good. Probably had about 3-4 brief outages in that entire time. Left because I got fed up with the mid-contract price increases that the government specifically tried to outlaw and then they found a way around it again (it’s not a change of contract if we say in the contract we’re going to change the contract…).

So I rage quit and went with Sky Fibre a year ago, which is BT Fibre and is also very good. Sky were about the only BT Fibre provider when I looked that at least waited until the end of the contract before cranking the price up.

Downside with BT is they force you to use their massive white router, which shouldn’t be necessary.

I don’t think I’ve ever had particularly good customer service from either, but if you get something that is Virgin or BT Fibre to Premises then it should be good quality and hopefully you won’t need customer service too much.

I feel like a separate breakdown per lead source would be interesting - was one source complete junk?

Caveat: I don’t know you or your manager, so your experience may be very different.

But as someone who has ended up in management in three previous roles (not currently) your post brought two thoughts to my mind:

1. For me, I’d far rather people in my team came to me and were open about things. Don’t bottle it up and hope that they’ll somehow guess - they won’t. They’re not psychic and they’ve probably got 101 other things to worry about. Think of it like this: Could you do your job if nobody was ever honest with you about you previous days performance.

2. If you’re tempted to default to thinking of line manager’s as the enemy, consider that in most cases they are just trying to do their best while shouldering 10x the shit from their manager than is making it through to you.

Not saying there aren’t bad and/or narcissistic managers about, but I suspect most of the time they only appear that way due to the screws in their back from above.

For me in the UK:

• BBC News is okay, but it can sometimes tie itself in knots trying to be it’s definition of “unbiased” and gets slated by both the left and right for it. There was a specific controversy recently where they were accused of bowing to the government.

• I like The Guardian. It’s left-leaning in it’s opinions, but not to the extent of overly spinning the truth.

• In the last few days I’ve actually been trying out Al Jazeera. Early days, but I’ve been very impressed by how ‘dry’ their articles are - very matter-of-fact without spin, unlike the usual Western style.

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/133lcyl/can_someone_explain_what_happened_with_the/

Or there’s this… https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion

Edit: Actually this is probably the most comprehensive summary: https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rails-gets-made/#the-basecamp-incident

The “carrot in a box” games he played with Jon Richardson on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown are some of my favourite TV ever…

#1 https://youtu.be/0UGuPvrsG3E

#2 https://youtu.be/Bp04HZDCELw

I feel compelled to quote the late great Sean Lock:

“I’m incredibly organised. Like for example, if I make tea, I don’t make one cup of tea - I’ll make a big batch of tea and then I’ll have a cup of tea and then I’ll freeze the rest of it. And then when I want to have a cup of tea, I’ll just break off a bit of frozen tea. Put it in a pan. 25 minutes later I’ve got a lovely cup of tea without all the all the hassle.”

Second paragraph is wrong - UK law mandates 20 paid days off, plus there are 8 paid public holiday days

I get that, and it was almost certainly Booking.com who leaked it as I have had shady messages through even their own messaging platform before…

I think what baffles me is that this gets so close to convincing (if you’re not internet savvy), and then they throw in something so bizarre like having a username of “Rus Education” 🙄

Unfortunately, I just don’t have the social capital to move people off of Meta messaging services… A good 50% of my friends have ditched FB, but somehow saw WhatsApp as the solution 🤦

I assumed because the category was “things that aren’t actually real chips / potato fries” - by being real pieces of fried potato these are disqualified 😅

Embrace the analogue radio.

Do take rest stops - you won’t realise you’re tired until it’s too late.

I’ve got a relatively new Fedora install and I think I’ve seen this too - not had time to fully investigate, but have found on occasion if I leave it for a day the monitor brightness has wound down.

There’s some great YouTube content out there: https://youtube.com/@noboilerplate https://youtube.com/@letsgetrusty

Check out this elite human, somehow certain it’s not drug or alcohol related.

That’s cool, nothing bad ever happens when Germany’s economy tanks…