I can’t know for sure if they kicked the bucket or not, but they aren’t around here anymore.

They seemed like a genuinely cool person and it makes me sad that they might be gone.

They’ve mentioned accepting and not fearing death, but also wanting to remain anonymous.
I won’t doxx them, alive or not, but know that it seems someone has since been taking care of what they considered to be their life’s work (their words).

May they remind y’all to cherish whatever time you do have.

lol fuck that noise, literally.
Unsolder the piezo.

Pro tip: Since it obviously has wifi or something, it has an FCC id printed somewhere (probably next to the model/serial number).
Search the fccid.io website for that number and there’ll be photos of its insides which can help you figure out how to open it, know where the piezo is likely to be, and neuter that loud fucker.
I’ve done a kettle that would beep 80ish dBA everytime it started, it was done, or when you put it back in the base.

Alnyway, an air fryer is big enough that it’s probably not as complicated to disassemble as smaller tighter devices.
Specifically about this, the fccid might be only the wireless module inside and not the whole thing, so maybe not as helpful.

Obviously, unplug it from mains before opening. Insert all applicable disclaimers about not burning down your house or maiming yourself.

A single misconfigured thing can suck real bad as you’ve seen.
Selfhosting involves lots of things that can be misconfigured or go bad.

That’s not to scare you out of it out anything, merely to congratulate you in seeking knowledge first.

Disclaimer: I’m biased towards networks because I’m a network engineer, opinions may differ.

I would say… having at least a vague grasp of layers 1-4 of the traditional network model is a decent start.
You don’t need to understand everything, but knowing a minimum will help a lot imho.

It’s hard to point you in the right direction without knowing what you already know or not.

What are you gonna do, call Feline Ressources?

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.

It generates 42.8% bullshit.

Aside from adhesion itself, maybe that specific filament is (also) underextruding?
I have has a batch of 1.75mm filament that was actually something like 1.6ish. I tried to have it stick, but nothing worked because it simply wasn’t extruding enough.
I eventually measured it with calipers, set that in the slicer and then it started worked fine.
Similarly, maybe your .2mm nozzle has a partial clog?

Sadly, the CAD software I have the most experience with is SolidWorks. It has its quirks, but I like it and I know my way around.
Which is too bad, because it’s completely absolutely fucking stupidly expensive for any home use.

Not to mention I’ve heard stories of people getting caugth through exported models’ metadata and getting sued for publishing models made with pirated or student versions or whatnot.
I’m not even a business and whilr I have no moral qualms pirating software, I don’t exactly wanna deal with an actively hostile company either.

I’ve switched to onshape for now, but I know enshittification will eventually butcher it too.
There’s a few others I’ve tried that I either can’t get good at, or that simply lack functionality.

I’ve been meaning to try Alibre CAD, but last I checked, their trial thing required back and forth with a rep and I just never bothered.

I don’t even mind paying, yet not $5k yearly or some shit.
If you ever find something, ping me.

The reddit part is pretty representative though.

Macaroni and cheese and cheese

No apologies needed. Although, ordering one before they reban it again may or may not be something to consider.

Pretty sure that ban was walked back?

You might not yet always know what you’re doing to your Linux install…
But you can never really what the fuck Microsoft is gonna do to your windows install.

That’s without even getting into whether or not Microsoft knows what they’re doing themselves.

With the heat from the sun hitting the dumpster too, hmm. That might actually be how they make theirs down the road.

Critical Dependency As A Service

For when you need to outsource the potential crippling of your business to potentially hostile third parties.

I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it

Now’s a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.

IDK, maybe it was shat pants?

One this that’s really hard to replace is DDoS protection.

Seems to work on Nightly, but not on the main build.
Still, that’s a lot more progress on this than the last years.

Might be a niche use case, but I sometimes need WebUSB, WebSerial or WebXR, none of which are supported in Firefox.
Just gotta protect them like with other permissions.

Also, Firefox mobile still doesn’t support mutual TLS, and so I need another browser just for that.

Firefox is my main browser but there’s a few specific things that only work in chromium.
People will use whatever works for them.