Yeah, that is a pattern I've seen. I grew up having to troubleshoot stuff offline just to get a modem on PC to work on dialup to get to a BBS or CompuServe or editing mods for computer games, whereas my Mac friends were mostly playing with artistic programs on Mac. I also used artistic software on PC but that too required more skill. I don't recall seeing them deal with a command line interface whereas most of my earliest games ran in DOS.
Weird. I was thinking the post was saying Mac kids were less digitally literate because of the whole "it just works" culture. When I ran a help desk, the Mac users were definitely less adept. The pattern seems to continue with iPhone and Android users I encounter today.
Humboldt is the neighborhood, but I rarely hear anyone use the term. It's just a part of north Portland or NoPo when we talk about it.
They tend to be up in tall trees around my neighborhood, so the nests are hard to spot. But you can guess where they are because I've seen crows get territorial with each other when one flies up to the part of the tree where the other is.
I started out getting their attention by making noises. Once I knew they were aware of me, I tossed the food into a flat area where they could easily collect it all. Once they realize you're good for food, it won't take much effort to get their attention. They start looking for you and will fly up when you come outside. I've had them swoop very close to me to get my attention if I hadn't noticed them yet when I'm outside. They'll also caw to let each other know that you're there, so more will fly up. Sometimes there's one that will stay in a tree overhead as a watch if there are cats or other possible dangers in the area.
They hang out around the outside of your house, wait for you to come out, squawk to get your attention, follow you around the neighborhood. If you don't remember to have treats on you, you feel guilty.
If you enjoy it, it can feel like you're a druid communing with animals, but if you decide you don't like it, it could feel like you're in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Crows have good memories and they tell their offspring about people they like and don't like. They may just stalk you and wonder why you stopped feeding them.
It could also become a burden depending on your income level and how often you feed them and how big the local murder is. It's not expensive, but I'd just recommend anyone who wants to get into it be prepared for the cost.
The best way to befriend them is to feed them. It does become a thing though, so be sure you're ready for a new hobby.
Some people recommend feeding them at the same time of day so they know when to expect you. I have crows around my neighborhood and at work, so I feed them whenever I'm leaving in the morning, at work, or come back home, or also going on walks at home or work..
Crows like peanuts in the shell. They'll also eat cat food and treats. You just want to make sure not to feed them anything salty, so no salted peanuts. They will eat other bird meat. I feed cats on my porch and I've had crows come up on the porch and snatch some wet chicken bits from the dish.
You can also put out a bird bath for them, depending on whether you're in an area with standing water issues like mosquitos.
I was looking through some old vinyl in a store yesterday and found an album from the 50s or 60s called Songs Everybody Knows and I didn't recognize a single song on the list.
Knowing the localization and the interaction of everything with each other would have helped me a lot and certainly saved time.
I guess this is the disconnect. I've assembled one, but I don't feel like assembling one necessarily conveys this. The instructions just tell you which part to attach to which other part. It doesn't explain why much of it is important or how it functions.
The other difference is that I haven't upgraded any. I have some MK3S+ printers that I are likely to remain that way since the upgrades are so expensive and the process so laborious.
For personal use, I'm waiting on the CORE One from Printed Solid but it's only available for education, government, etc at the moment.
I'd actually recommend the opposite. Unless you're a DIY hobbyist who loves taking everything apart and you don't want to print immediately upon receiving it, it's worth it to buy the prebuilt Prusa. There are so many many steps in assembling a MK4S that there are that many steps to get something wrong. Better pay a few hundred extra to get one that has been assembled by a more experienced person. And I say that as a makerspace coordinator who works with a lot of 3D printers.
Assembly teaches you how incredibly complicated the assembly is. I've adjusted pre-assembled printers with minor inconvenience. But the first one you put together can take more than the estimated 6-8 hours.
I recently read In the Company of Crows and Ravens and it suggested that crow language may be very specific to crow families and neighbors, kind of like a regional dialect but for many very small regions, so it might difficult to interpret a universal language that understands the more specific aspects of every individual crow cant. We might only get the most basic and common calls.