If you’re going to do that, at least ask for something useful. Y’know, like “Destroy all advertising firms.”

bash: sudo: command not found

After all, we don’t know that he has it installed, especially if he’s running a really old distro.

I’m aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I’m not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I’m doing here, probably. 😅

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

That’s kind of an insult to the parrot, isn’t it?

Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.

Eh, I’m sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

And Perl.

Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

A clearly-labeled plastic box smaller than the actual metal meter is not likely to cause this law to be invoked, since there is no way in hell that a reasonable person could mistake it for the real thing. It would be like mistaking a Tonka toy for actual construction equipment.

This model on Thingiverse looks like it might be fairly close.

That space may be there for safety reasons. Aging or mishandled lithium-cobalt batteries tend to swell. Giving them space to swell into reduces the chance of a fire or an explosion.

If you’re going to cram a larger battery into that space, be very careful of what kind you use, or you may find your phone literally burning a hole in your pocket.

I actually own a D-cell-capable charger (also takes other sizes down to AAA). I guarantee you that it cost a lot more than this—$50 Canadian before the pandemic. So I can understand the attraction of hacking one of the cheaper chargers.

Microsoft has prepackaged VMs that you can use for a short duration without (in my experience) triggering an update cycle. Of course, they’re Windows 11 and need VirtualBox, which may not be ideal.

The auto-bed leveling on your 3D printer is nice, but it’s not a replacement for manually leveling the bed. Manually level the bed before every print, since taking off your last print from the bed has the tendency to make your bed not level. Then, after manual leveling, do an auto-bed leveling to remove the remaining tiny variations in the bed level

Depends on your printer, I think. Mine is quite happy being leveled only after nozzle changes, and the autolevel is Good Enough.

There are a few directions you could go in to have the print flex: print from flexible material (although I’m not sure that even the softest grade of Ninjaflex would be flexible enough), or, as someone has already suggested, create a mold for silicone casting. Or, in the worst case, modify one of those sectioned print-in-place flexible snake models, although the result won’t be as realistic.

I was hesitating to suggest this, but do you think you could usefully modify a realistic dildo model? Cults3D probably has a few—I think they’re the only major repository with a sex toy section.

Urological models don’t seem to be common (you can get bones, hearts, and a few other organs from the US NIH, though). However, one of the things I did turn up in a quick web search was several mentions of software that can be used to turn medical imaging data (MRI, possibly others) into models for printing. It’s usually used for setting up individualized treatment plans. Maybe what you need is a former patient who’s had the appropriate regions scanned and might be willing to release the data to you for such a purpose.

Worst case, GTK3 themes are just CSS. It’s possible, although frustrating and time-consuming, to roll your own. In which case you can style *:hover any way you want.

(GTK4, I got nothin’. Last I checked, the development team was going out of its way to break theming. Which is one of the reasons I’ve been avoiding GTK4 applications.)

My cats don’t even pay attention. Maybe it’s the enclosure.