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I'm pretty sure the connector on a sodastream bottle is not proprietary. It's very similar, if not the same, as the ones on the paintball canisters I used to fill (at least the threaded one).

Maybe if I used my selfie camera more often than never.

Honestly, if you want "quick unprofessional photos" stick with a smartphone.

Standalone cameras don't have nearly the processing or automated modes of modern phones. So while bigger sensors and better glass can get you a better image it comes along with needing to know how to use the camera and processing the photos afterwards.

That said if you still want something at a decent price I'd be looking at a used Fuji x100 or Sony rx100.

What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?

If your use case benefited from Quicksync then Intel was a clear choice.

I've been to China a number of times and it is a very interesting place with many amazing people. A government doesn't necessarily represent the people that live there.

That said, it is up to you and your moral system whether to visit a country with a government you disagree with.

The problem is that Parametric CAD kernels are complicated and expensive. There are some recent open source efforts but they are slow going. Just look at how bad Freecad is after all these years to see how difficult they are.

I'm quite experienced with SolidWorks and have used both Creo and NX as well. I can't stand the likes of Freecad or Fusion because of that. Luckily I have access to the professional ones for my day to day modelling.

One option to look at is Solid Edge, they have a maker version that is free and it's a proper professional package many companies use.

Prusa also needs to fix their x-y build volume even if it breaks upgradeability. The standard has changed and it is hard to go smaller once you are used to the larger size.

This is all political grandstanding, and I'm tired of hearing about it. No Canadian shipyard even bid. The choice was either no ferries at all (on a system that already doesn't have capacity or reliability many weekends), or they get built outside of Canada.

That kerning issue is so distinctive that I knew where the document was from from the preview snapshot which didn't show the ISTA header. It is actually funny how horrible their Pdfs on their website are and how nobody cares to fix it.

The real issue here is that the systems that car manufacturers use for their vehicles are insecure and outdated. The Flipper Zero is just exposing their bad design decisions.

Other's here have covered the why's of how China became a manufacturing powerhouse, but it is also interesting about how they continue to build things even though China is no longer the cheapest place to make things and hasn't been for awhile.

One of the most amazing things about manufacturing in China is how extensive their supply chain infrastructure is. This allowes your suppliers to react quickly and do things in days or hours that would take weeks elsewhere in the world. I've got suppliers in China that I know will get it right the first time, and will build a brand new product in 6-8 weeks rather than 12 weeks anywhere else in the world. The way the supply chain worldwide revolves around China is both amazing and scary. There are many items today that are nearly impossible to get outside of China at any price.

The other thing is people. Due to the years of experience China is the place where the best tooling and manufacturing engineers are. There are so many people concentrated in the manufacturing centers that if you need to hire 1000 people in a couple days to assemble widgets then you could feasibly do that.

That said, there is definitely a push to diversify manufacturing outside of China and I wouldn't be surprised if they lose some of these advantages in the coming years. This started with the original US tariffs against China, continued due to how China locked down during the pandemic, as well as the current round of US tariffs.