I have melted and cast ingots from thousands of dirty aluminum cans. Rinsing first is ideal of course, but all the crap floats to the top of the molten metal as slag and you can scoop it off to discard.

The video portrays a fun chemistry experiment making wood into a more dense, stronger material. It says nothing at all about an "issue" or solutions to "American problems."

484588 is the dimensions of the battery. So 4.8mm thick, 45mm wide, 88mm long. Any lipo that fits in there will do the trick, but obviously similar size is best. You should be able to find something similar on AliExpress; it would help to round the dimensions to a more standard number. For example, search "504090 3.7v" assuming a 5x40x90mm battery would fit in the cavity.

You don't even have to round, it's been a full decade.

mAh/Wh is just the capacity of the battery, and it's often exaggerated or just plain incorrect on these cheap mass produced batteries. So battery life may be slightly different than intended for the product but it won't cause any issues. As long as voltage is similar(all lipo batteries are 3.7-4.2v, some manufacturers label with 3.7, some with 3.8, etc. But all cells of the same battery chemistry are the same voltage range) it'll operate and charge just fine.

That's absolutely disgusting how those officers treated those people. I can't imagine having so little empathy.

You would need some more close up pictures to get any sort of identification, there are thousands of species that grow on trees. Also if you know the species of the tree that would help.

Edit: From your photo it almost looks like it could be chicken of the woods, which is edible and quite tasty. But you would definitely need more close up photos of them to confirm.

What does fiber optic mean in this context? Like a fiber optic cable attached to the drone for communicating with it?

I work in Walmarts, and all of my stores have recently(over the last few months) rolled out the e-ink electronic price tags. I wouldn't be surprised if the tariff drama is the reason they decided to pull the trigger to save a bunch of price-change labor.

I have a Qidi Q1 Pro and I'm pretty happy with it. Very fast precise prints and pretty reliable. There's definitely some strange design decisions and weird quirks to it and Bambu machines feel way more polished. Overall I'd definitely recommend the Qidi machines but they are not quite as simple for people with no 3d printing experience. They are very feature rich and amazing printers for the price.

I just wanna say I love your comment and the KOTH references.

I believe it says that the shortest building is less than 50m. It's not implying that a 50m+ building needs to be there.

Weirdness: The default g-code for the machine does silly things like park the nozzle over the build plate letting it ooze, instead of over the nozzle wiper/waste container.

The filament change routine is strange, requiring you to remove the bowden tube to cut the filament every time. This is easily fixed by printing a filament cutter and using that to cut the filament.

The bowden tube rubs against the top plexiglass lid for the machine, requiring you to print a riser for the lid to avoid it getting all scratched up.

The door for the machine is an odd shape design with no handle making it a little annoying to get a grip to open it.

The filament holder they include is a very bad design, flexes heavily with a full roll of filament and I have had spools fall off several times while printing.

The touch screen menu isn't very intuitive and it can be very laggy at times.

Good features for the price point: Fully enclosed with built in chamber heater.

Pretty decent auto leveling system.

Timelapse camera.

Runs klipper/mainsail and input shaping is pretty cool.

I have around 500 hours on mine and I haven't had any prints fail that were the fault of the machine so I'm pretty impressed by that. And I find the features and capabilities to be pretty great for the price point. They just could use to do some polishing of the design

Is he not allowed to have the same opinion?

I'm on my second real day. Craving suck and all that but just for today I will not be drinking with you guys. Thanks for being here.

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 9th 2025) in less than 14 minutes

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If you zoom in to 1m resolution and then slowly zoom out, you'll see the name change back and forth several times. Very odd.

Does Sweden actually look like an IKEA waiting area? This image sure makes me think so.

Without paywall: https://archive.is/QW9WL

This game looks so cool and visually stunning. I'm tempted to pick it up and try and borrow my kid's quest 3 to play it through VR. Thanks for sharing!