There are also these pole things. Instead of three legs it’s just one.

Monopods. Definitely recommend. I’ve got one I use for “handheld” shooting with a heavier lens as well.

My 2013 MBP is still at 8GB. With memory compression, I rarely run into issues unless I’m doing VMs/Docker or something really heavy.

The kind of people that fall for this probably has a good overlap with those sick of the “upgrade!!!” Windows Popups.

Grok will end up with the contract. Even with their back and forth relationship, there’s no way Elon doesn’t love this outcome and capitalize on it.

You forgot Pedo and Felon… not that anyone cares. Honestly at this point he could sign his emails with that list and people would still vote him in and back him.

That first part is likely a large selling point.

More importantly, its on GOG, all DRM free.

Oh man, when they get native mobile apps, I’m looking to switch my Mattermost server to Fluxer. I’ve had good luck with Mattermost, but its not truly OSS and its been moving features over to paid enterprise accounts so the time is soon.

“People’s Republic of China”

Reminds me of my favorite command line utility.

Not to excuse that POS, but more on how we got here: You have a product that only makes money when people actively use it. How do you increase your ROI? Make people want to use it and want to use it longer. Do that by making it more interesting, more relevant, more stimulating and appear bottomless so people can use it as long as possible.

Addiction for EVERYONE is the only way FB continues to increase revenue. We just single out Children because they are most easily influenced and impacted.

FWIW: I read this title as “they are just refunding everyone that bought it across the board with no action required from purchasers” which is far more shocking than the article.

The article: A few people said they didn’t like it, thought the quality was worse, asked for a refund and got it. So, if you own it and agree, give that a shot.

What would be the benefit of designing them so the nozzle isn’t replaceable? There are some filaments (i.e. carbon fibre) that are super rough on nozzles and require regular maintenance/replacement.

At the moment, most of that “money” is just stock in the other company. And the type of RAM and “GPU”'s being manufactured are not ones that normal consumers will use. They’re very specialized for AI en masse.

Another thing around that is that the major manufacturers being leveraged for that gear have stated that they are not increasing production in the near future because of this. It seems they’re mostly in a “wait and see, it might just be a bubble” mode as scale up takes a lot of time and only pays off with continued demand over a long period of time.

I’d love if it was going to be flooding the market with cheaper tech, but thats not been shown to be the case. And it’s really not worth the environmental impact in either case.

In the mean time they’re soaking up all the RAM, SSD and silicon processing which makes basically everything with any of those cost a lot more (like the RAM I bought for $99, 4 yrs ago thats now $560). Not to mention the power requirements and costs being passed on to the consumers that don’t want it anyway.

They’re also screwing up the environment in ways it won’t recover from.

I feel like hearing more kids dying with ass cancer stories and heart disease deaths and people dying from preventable diseases stories would probably shift people away from focusing just on guns and homicide and maybe actually cause people to care about science and solving those other things.

Not that those are good to not focus on, just that there’s already an ongoing anti vs pro gun conversation going and at least if we talk about something else that’s proportional causing deaths… well, I doubt there are many “pro-cancer” people out there (but I know it’s non-zero).

I guess I just want some positive momentum on something at this point.

That wave looks like a tsunami…

Guessing it’s a vase with a flare top.

This is sad to hear. I have an Ender 3 Pro that has been nothing short of a workhouse for 6.5 years now. I’ve upgraded a few parts here and there as thats kinda the fun. Dual Z motors 2 yrs after, upgraded the hot end to a direct extrusion one a year or so after that so I could print TPU. Just Got the silent motherboard about a year ago. Solid as a rock. A friend got the CR-10 shortly after, same luck.

With all the issues and sketchy closed source madness Prusa and Bamboo are having, i was tempted to upgrade to a much larger Creality unit, but I guess I’ll rethink or wait on that now.

The interest rate on a mortgage when I was 3 was literally 16%. Glad thats over… course the price of the house just went up to make up the difference.