Well yes, they're called "private". Often either illegal, it offends some powerful people or the creator doesn't give a shit and may just post a link on a forum as a thanks.

Respect to those who put it out in the open! A DMCA is nothing, but people have died and even went to prison for a cool gray area program.

One of the reasons why the original vanced was taken down was because it was advertised way too frequently and publicly. These projects should always be disseminated by word of mouth (hn/reddit does not count)

Yeah, I'm making stainless/steel high pressure containers/barrels/pipes. I'll tell you working with 15mm+ stainless is nothing like ~2mm PC case grade steel or aluminum :D

Very hard but also very forgiving, which is what allowed me to get in - I've learned TIG welding, too, may even get certified just for job safety. Welds get x-rayed and warranty is in the double digits so you can't half ass the important parts.

Plenty of work from big and small companies alike. Some US middleman has contracted most firms around this city to build ion exchange components to be used in lithium battery production. A lot of orders for big ion exchange containers from DE and CZ, afaik also for lithium battery plants (Production? Recycling?).

I'm also Berry Alien, the fastest replacer of ion exchange material alive in September 2022 in bf middle of nowhere, Germany :D

Next step, building robots at some company. Always wanted to try that. I seem to fall ass first into opportunities I always just abandon, but this time I have medicine and crypto on my side.

Thanks Chris for the unique (for me) opportunity.

IME, if it worked fine for a year and has less than 100TB written, it's good for another 3-4.

They usually fail early or very late. Assuming good cooling.

That's fantastic, congrats, you have realized how pointless your opinion is online.

The only thing that matters and that can't be replicated is doing and showing. Got a prototype/product? Show it (before ProGPT can copy it lol).

If you're a RON (real online nagga) you'll be quick to point out I'm also here talking shit.

Yes, I am, because it's that hard to quit. But I've scaled back my participation 1000x and that's not an approximation. I feel much better because of that.

F social media.

It can be a case of a factory running things like that. Pretty common in the US (with immigrants) and EU (again, immigrants).

Except Chinese factories are huge and aplenty, so they would "win" by numbers.

Doing well at the expense of some of the population, name a more draconian duo heh.

It comes in any profession. Switch to soemjting that you would like doing, pretty much.

And I don't mean another language. You may need something completely different. Metalworking, chemistry, robotics, whatever you can find that you would like to do and learn.

Oh but that's super hard and income will drop? Do it on the side or keep your current job.

Basically don't be a middleman.

I bought a cover set for my Legion 5 Pro, and the best one was made in China, available only in the US. Fortunately the price is low enough to avoid extra duties so Amazon will ship it for $10 overseas within a week. No buying from EU here lol.

Same with a trackball mouse - shipped from UK because there was no stock in EU.

I stopped with the "durr China quality bad" a long time ago because it just isn't. Everything is made in China and you can get cheap/shit or expensive/great.

The Framework laptop for example, can't buy that from China. Sold out in EU. Have to go through forwarding bs to import from US. eBay sellers don't even want to ship overseas. AliExpress sellers will ship it to the middle of the Pacific.

If you want to compete you need to do better, not just give up imo.

Hoover (vacuum), Xerox (copy), Flex (angle grinder), the bright yellow post it note (3m trademark), pretty funny stuff

Why not invest in both?

Besides, the cost of designs pales in comparison to the cost of producing locally.