I read thay Youtube is doing that with watch history so teens are watching videos about taxes, back pain, retirement benefits and such to appear old.

Knowing Better on Youtube did a big episode on it.

I was a member of a fairly large makerspace, and we thought doing communal recycling would make the equipment worth it. We never made it work.

I’m one or two hours away from the Devil’s Tramping Grounds.

So he’s voted in elections…as an alien?

330 gallons fits precisely in 6 55 gallon drums.

It is in fact illegal to walk along or across an interstate highway, for safety’s sake. In Germany, would you just casually stroll across the autobahn?

I’ve thought about that, actually. Could you use waste heat from a datacenter to, say, heat water for a laundromat or something?

Mint is eternal but going and getting enough of it to make the world’s supply of Crest is still a big job.

Or if the curve is really significant, glue it into a kind of pixellated version and then smooth the corners. Same concept but it can save you some wood.

Not entirely seamless, but if you do a good job jointing the pieces and select boards that look very similar in color and grain, you can get close enough that most people won’t notice them.

This tabletop is made of three different boards. No fancy joinery, they’re just butt jointed with PVA glue.

Prusa was all in on open source for over a decade. All their machines up through the MK3S+ are GPL hardware, firmware and software. What did that get them as a company? A lot of people selling near identical copies of their hardware for lower prices. Prusa’s leaning away from open source hardware because it pretty much meant doing their competitors’ R&D for them. Hell, Bambu Labs relies on code developed at Prusa Research. So their ecosystem is closing up somewhat.

You are right, a big strength of Prusa’s is their mod ecosystem, their community. They are well aware of this, which is why they’ve come out with their OCL license. The Core One isn’t GPL, it’s OCL, source-available. It’s illegal for anyone to start making blatant copies, but the CAD files are there for reference when making mods and accessories.

Prusa’s MMU3 is in several ways superior to Bambu’s AMS: you get 5 spools, not 4. Retract-based tool changes are faster than purge-based ones. Retract-based tool changes are less wasteful than purge-based ones; Prusas don’t poop. And yet, Bambu finished the AMS, Prusa merely got the MMU3 working. Installing an MMU3 requires a fairly invasive modification to the Nextruder and a desk full of tubes and nonsense. I think Prusa’s going to catch up there with the INDX system with the MMU3 as basically a legacy product.

The market for “kinda polished, easy DIY 3d printing” is small and shrinking. I know because I’m in it, and us kit builders are small potatoes to them. Prusa is trying to position themselves in the professional and industrial sector; they’re releasing a “Pro” line of turnkey print farm and industrial solutions, they sell tungsten fill radiation shield filament and certified encrypted USB drives. I believe they are working on a self-hostable version of PrusaConnect, likely aimed at their higher end customers who are more likely to balk at using anyone’s cloud service. To that market, “We’re not Chinese” is Prusa’s biggest selling point.

Over-the-horizon radar is a thing.

Long-necked Joe.

Yeah I bought a Prusa, and it’s clear they got blindsided by Bambu and they’re still scrambling to catch up. What Prusa used to do well, they still do well, what they used to do badly they now do even worse and what they used to didn’t do they’ve started a token effort at making it look like they do now.

We are talking about the removal of a silent W which is probably there because someone who wore breeches wanted to make literacy harder for the poor.

Remind me what continent Germany was on in the 1940’s? Don’t let me catch any of you Europeans saying “it can’t happen here.”

No need for supernatural evil when his character and behavior can be explained by perfectly ordinary money and fame.

“Fuck I missed the apple.”

You might have meant wretched. “retched” is a single-syllable word meaning dry heaved. I mean, I will believe you if you told me he makes you gag.