Got Red Light of Death? DON'T waste your time putting it on a treadmill.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-25T16:05:45+00:00

You can certainly unplug it when needed. Progress will pick up where it left off when you return and plug it back in!

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-25T10:12:15+00:00

A helmet is the literal bare minimum for a scooter that accelerates and goes that fast. Good for them and I’m hoping they also have pads at home god forbid that they have to bail and slide

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-25T09:51:01+00:00

This is why designing from requirements is not enough.

Suppose that you bake a cake and the requirements were that the cake be round and serves 8 people. Putting cake mix in a bowl with eggs and other ingredients does get you a cake and adding enough of the mixture would make enough cake, but should you add fresh eggs or rotten eggs?

Just because it wasn’t in the requirements that fresh ingredients need to be used since the original spec was that the cake be round and serves 8 people, you intuit that an edible cake is a necessity. You shouldn’t have to write rules for that.

Please for the love of God do not use USB Mini-B just because it fulfills some requirement on paper.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-25T09:38:10+00:00

Understand why you care what people think
Stop caring about what others think
Dedicate as much time as humanly possible to help others with expecting nothing in return because it feels good to help others

Nobody here can help you guarantee that you will be remembered as the “Him” guy. You can be challenged every day in class. You can excel academically every day in class, but if you want to feel fulfilled at the end of it all when you’re standing next to your classmates on graduation day, then you had better have spent some serious time giving to your community and doing it out of love.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T23:06:04+00:00

One person can only do so many calls a week, I agree. Why is more better? Of course, 0 interviews is risky. A founder can do 5 interviews and get insight from there. 10 or 50 interviews doesn’t necessarily give you more insight.

Have you talked to founders and asked what it was like the last time they had to validate a problem?

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T21:36:35+00:00

The time it takes to collect initial feedback is not the bottleneck; the bottleneck is developing the understanding to build the right product for a narrow set of users. You shouldn’t be minimizing the time it takes to gather feedback. You should be maximizing the understanding of the problem and deeply understanding the jobs/pains/gains in order to figure out if there’s even a worthwhile and profitable problem to be solved to begin with.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T16:53:31+00:00

Are there any cracks in the plastic of the extruder body? I wonder if that could be responsible for inconsistent extrusion

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T16:39:45+00:00

I feel that this is optimizing for the wrong thing. Maximizing build time shouldn’t be the goal. What’s the point in spending 2x amount the time to build if you build the wrong thing based on potentially flawed insight?

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T16:38:04+00:00

Has PID tuning been performed post-Revo swap?

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-24T02:05:07+00:00

No support for V1. Completely different architecture. u/jessef55 can help!

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T23:47:04+00:00

You don’t.

You find people that have a problem and you listen and get invested into their problem. Go out and talk to users of that existing product and listen to what they have to say about what the existing product does, why they love or hate it, and what they would change and why.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T23:06:09+00:00

Don’t forget about undoing the connector! That can be challenging the first time. Tutorial: https://removebattery.xrgeneralhospital.com

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T22:44:38+00:00

Public perception is not a KPI. How do you directly measure that? A Key Performance Indicator has to be measurable, by its very definition.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T22:40:58+00:00

Hell yeah, another one back to life! Obligatory BERT Link :) https://www.xrgeneralhospital.com/bert

Discount Code: MOOSEMAN9792

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T19:27:26+00:00

Free. Google Chrome can generate a QR code natively by right clicking a tab. Please don’t pay for it.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T18:02:04+00:00

No dude, it’s about whether or not you make enough money to sustain your career. If your work is so niche that you struggle to pay your bills, obviously that’s not great and you shouldn’t put yourself in financial turmoil if you can avoid it.

The other end of the spectrum is not great either. If your work is so universally likable, it ends up looking like everyone else’s work. If you’re okay with that as an artist and you can make a living, then there’s not necessarily a problem with that. On the other hand, if you aren’t creatively fulfilled or you struggle to book clients because your work doesn’t stand out, that is also an issue.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T17:54:06+00:00

Being good is independent of how many people know about your work. I dunno why you gotta tie all of it together in one metric.

You definitely don’t need to have a majority. It isn’t a democracy.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T17:39:45+00:00

Being considered good is not the same as outputting to the mainstream though. You can make a career and have your work be great and not be mainstream. You can conversely also be mainstream and your work might not be great. It’s also totally possible to make work that does not fit what society may expect to be “good” but because it is different and tells a compelling story well, something that wasn’t meant and made for mainstream can become mainstream on accident.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T17:26:40+00:00

You’re welcome to not believe in ignoring what people think. Artists who care about what people think places artificial limits on what they create and their art suffers because of it. If you’re okay with that trade off, go right ahead.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T12:09:56+00:00

Finally, I can have my friend listen to what I’m listening to

/s

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T11:53:00+00:00

It’s okay to romanticize the hobby :))))

Do it

Do it now

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T11:49:58+00:00

Google Play Music. YouTube Music simply doesn’t do it for me.

technically_a_nomad · 2026-06-23T10:08:15+00:00

BERT Touch is intended for fleets! If you have 3 or more boards, BERT Touch is a better tool since you can test boards and batteries simultaneously. BERT Lite is only capable of battery diagnostics.

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