Ace_Archer

I think there's really a modern disconnect for a lot of people (myself included, a lot of the time) between needing/wanting "a thing" and the idea that you don't always need to buy that thing as a product from someone else. That creating, modifying, or even repairing something yourself to serve whatever purpose is really not that far out of an idea. My partner and I have been infected by the same desire and have been starting to acquire various tools and machines over the years, and even now I find myself still defaulting to searching for something on amazon when I run into a problem/"a thing" that I want without even considering if I could DIY it myself. Obviously its not always better or even cheaper to DIY something, especially considering tool and material accessibility and cost, but I think at large a lot of folks don't even consider it an option. It is one of those things that when you first realize you don't _have_ to buy the thing off of amazon, it feels incredibly obvious and that you should've known that from the start, but I really thing it is a somewhat uncommon idea nowadays. (There's probably a conversation you could have about the millions of reasons why that's the case re: modern consumerism, less emphasis on "blue collar" skills and the general perspective that they're "lesser" skills/pathways than their "white collar" counterparts, etc. But that's a whole nother topic :) )

I do think there's some resurgence here with a lot of the modern "maker" movement, which is awesome! But at least in the content bubble I live in, it seems there's still _a bit_ of a disconnect between the newer, more digital "3D Printing, Code, Electronics etc." spaces and the more analog "Wood, Metal, Paint, Clay, etc." spaces. (I think this gap is slowly closing, though!)

Re: Injection molding, you might be interested in a few videos from Evan Monsma's youtube channel [1] where he makes an incredibly cheap injection molding machine out of a drill press[2], and explores super inexpensive mold making materials like steel epoxy putty[3] (also highly recommend checking his channel out in general, it's recently been becoming one of my favorite smaller channels!) [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/EvanMonsma [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovD-FPOVlo [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwbxNOAg3Pc

Happy Making!

I... dont think I like this positioning itself as a replacement for a traditional, consumer bank account. It's mentioned that your money is _not_ FDIC Insured, and is not subject to FDIC/SPIC protections [1][2]. Looking at /marketing it being an alternative investment avenue is one thing, but imo positioning as a consumer bank replacement that has no standard bank protections, and hardly mentions the fact that your money is being converted into crypto/investments on it's homepage [3] is sketchy at best.

1. https://www.pebble.us/service/terms CTRL+F `FDIC`

2. https://www.pebble.us/learn-articles/looking-at-fdic-insuran...

3. https://www.pebble.us/ The _only_ mention of the fact that this is investing money is a brief point towards the bottom of the page, saying "Supercharge your paycheck with full or fractional direct deposits, and reach your financial goals faster." Which still only hints (in the perspective of an average consumer) that their money is being invested and backed in crypto.

That probably depends on the scope of what you're looking to archive. If you're looking to make up local backup of your bookmarks folder (as one of the intentions seems to be), probably not an unreasonable amount of storage. Maybe a few GB at most(if you have a moderate to large bookmarks folder), depending on how many sites/heavy the sites are?

Here's a tweet explaining a bit more context: https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1172545886968324098

Transcript for those who can't access twitter for some reason:

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain

A tildeverse-builder named Mike Buchholz ([email protected]) offered to take over http://tilde.club AND the backlog of 10,000+ people who asked for accounts. I said, that would be a blessing!

If you had an account, it still works. If you asked, they'll be in touch. 9:21 AM - 13 Sep 2019

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I've had the strange experience, since Mike asked to take on this responsibility, of learning that http://tilde.club kicked off a scene called the tildeverse, with many sites, servers, and its own github. https://tildeverse.org

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I wasn't aware that it had self-organized to this degree. Mostly I've felt guilty about http://tilde.club , which grew so fast and with so much interest that it needed a lot of time and love that I could not provide. It's great to see it was a spark for so many new things.

Michael Buchholz ‏ @MichaelBuchho13 Sep 13 Replying to @ftrain

Hopefully have backlog taken care of this week and other new sign ups available within the next week or so.

Paul Ford ‏ @ftrain Sep 13

I mean some have waited four years another week is no big deal.

This is already closer than you think, Amazon actually has a physical store exactly like this: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011

I think he was referring to Plex being non-free

It wasn't highlighted on the github readme, but I think that the satellite photo to map and map to satellite photo (!!!) is incredible as well: https://taesung89.github.io/cyclegan/2017/03/25/maps-compari...