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@ReaderJohn Yep, I thought Hillbilly Elegy was a thoughtful book, I’ve lived in southern OH, and for a while I imagined he’d be a voice for a neglected constituency. So there was some special pain in watching his complete moral collapse. It makes you ask, was I fooled? Was he nothing but ambition fr…

I feel the exact same way. I’ve not lived in Ohio, nor anywhere else in the US, so I have no personal experience to compare Hillbilly Elegy to, but I really liked it and thought that Vance was an interesting person. When I wrote about the book in 2019, I praised him for being ”the old school type of conservative or republican, the kind that was more prevalent before the party was hijacked by a buffoon and those power-hungry enough to sell out every single principle they have as long as they feel like they can use the buffoon in question for their own personal gain. The kind that I respect.”

Vance certainly made a fool of me for thinking that.

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@MrHenko I never got Webmentions working properly with micro.blog. I can receive Webmentions from micro.blog but I have never ever successfully sent a Webmention back to micro.blog. It never worked. I have tested Webmentions with other website and they work find in both directions.
main micro.blog p…

@khurtwilliams This is a reply on my website, hopefully sent as a web mention.

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Yes, there are many reasons why a comment section might not be available. But with the exception of disabling comments due to harassment, most of them are not good reasons.

Allow me to be somewhat of a contrarian here. One perfectly good and valid reason would be that the author isn’t interested in receiving comments/feedback, and that is totally fine. People are free to express their opinions on their websites online, whether they want others to respond to those opinions or not.

Though to be clear I welcome replies to my posts via webmentions, but I don’t see it as a given that everyone should.

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Replied to https://aaronparecki.com/2021/04/04/12/ by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)

Agreed! I’ve been having a lot of fun designing and printing things!

You’re a lot further ahead than me in the 3D printing department Aaron, since you’ve actually made a proper product. Unfortunately my printer is just 15x15x15 cm (just under 6″) otherwise I’d probably be printing the PK1 Pro stand now.

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@MrHenko I miss living in a country with Clas Ohlson ⚙️

Yeah, it’s a nice store to have nearby. :)

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@MrHenko Is it done? I’d like to have a 3D printer some day, wonder which one you’ve got, and if you’re satisfied with it.

@odd I got the FlashForge Adventurer 3. That photo was from the very first print I did with it so thus far I don’t know if I can recommend it or not.

Generally speaking I haven’t done much 3D printing but when I started trying it out for the πFi Music Player I also started thinking about whether to get one for myself or not and when I started looking around I found this one on sale. The machine I’d used previously to that is the printer that we have at work and that one is a different FlashForge model so I figured getting a similar but smaller model for myself would be a good decision.

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Replied to https://aaronparecki.com/2021/01/08/12/ by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)

Thanks! I definitely will. Can’t decide if it should be part of my whole studio tour video or if I should do a special video about just this contraption.

As I’ve (hopefully) said before, I’m a big fan of your YouTube work, but based on my own watching habits I tend to shy away from the longer videos (which I guess is mostly recorded live streams) but I watch the shorter ones as soon as I can, so I’d say make multiple shorter ones about the various pieces. That way you could go in-depth without making any one part too long.

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I did it, I painted all the rackmount gear white! This is more or less the finished result of my new streaming desk all wired up and functional! I even replaced the fans in the VideoHub so that it’s much much quieter.

Thanks to the VideoHub, I can electronically rewire the desk, routing any video s…

That looks really good, Aaron. Nice work!

Will you do a full video tour of it on YouTube?

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@MrHenko I liked that one! And I was pleasantly surprised by the movie adaptation: Arrival

(Sorry for the late reply to this.) I really liked Arrival as well. Really, really liked it. It’s the reason I bought ”Stories of Your Life and Others”. And I gotta say, this is a case where the movie is actually better than the source material, in my opinion. So far I’ve really loved the first story in the collection (the one about the Tower of Babel) and ”Seventy-Two Letters” that I’m currently reading.

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Replied to https://cheri.micro.blog/2020/08/16/hey-ted-chiang.html by Cheri Cheri (cheri.micro.blog)

Hey, Ted Chiang has a short story up on Medium this week. 📖 He always blows my socks right off.

[Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom](https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freedom-b5ab45cae2a5)

Thanks for pointing us to this one. I’m currently reading Chiang’s ”Stories of Your Life and Others” and really liking it. Will add this one to my reading list and read it as soon as I’ve finished ”Seventy-Two Letters”.

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