The network effect. It’s big enough that small forums get enough posts to stay active which keeps more people using it.

For example Lemmy has a 3d printer forum that has a few posts a week. Reddit has forums not just for 3d printing but for every specific model of printer and each gets a much activity as Lemmy’s generic forum.

If I’m searching for something, Google will show Reddit content but not Lemmy because there isn’t an answer on Lemmy.

I’m that person for the science series The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke.

He’s using the wrong words. No printer has an accelerometer.

Automatic bed leveling requires a printer support it. Klipper can’t do it if the hardware isn’t there. Same with flow rate calibration. Manual in Klipper requires test prints and then editing the config files. Flow rate on modern printers is calibrated automatically using the camera.

Klipper can’t do a bed mesh if the printer doesn’t have a probe.

Manual bed leveling means using a sheet of paper and adjusting bed screws to get it at the right height.

People totally got killed by doing their own maintenance

People have totally gotten killed from maintenance done by a “professional” (new kid on the job at the shop.)

I watch YouTuber CarCareNut and he’s shown many stupid mistakes made by dealerships.

I assure you I take greater care doing repairs than a tech who will get yelled at if they don’t finish the job fast.

The argument that apes have never asked a question “is a classic example of overstatement,” said Heidi Lyn, a professor at the University of South Alabama’s Comparative Cognition and Communication Lab at the Department of Psychology and Marine Science.

“There is plenty of evidence of apes asking questions, although the structure may not look exactly like humans asking questions,” Lyn explained.

https://www.snopes.com/articles/467842/apes-questions-communicate/

Modern wine growers use astrology to plant?

I would think that’s a tiny subset of the producers.

Quest is cheap hardware you can use however you want. You didn’t know what you were talking about.

Cassandrafatigue doesn’t know anything about what they are talking about.

I bought them for my kids. I didn’t buy it until you could use it without a Facebook account.

I recognized the quote. But as I explained it doesn’t apply because the dumb fucks are those that can’t see buying a loss leader hardware product and then not using it the way they planned hurts Facebook.

It’s hardware that can be used with SteamVR or load opensource VR apps directly onto it like DoomVR.

This is almost like someone complaining, “Facebook messenger is asking for my birthdate on the 120hz 1440p monitor that Facebook sold me for half price.” and you reply, “People who bought a PC monitor are dumb fucks.”

It is cheap 3d goggles that display what your PC sends it. Just like your monitor. You don’t have to use Meta’s software. You definitely don’t need to use Meta’s VR Chat app (That’s Horizon that the OP references.)_

Meta is selling VR at a loss like a console where they make up the loss with software game sales. But unlike a Switch/PS5, you don’t have to buy their games. So the real idiot is anyone who wants VR and doesn’t buy a Meta product. Buying a Quest and then using SteamVR causes Meta to lose money.

Funny how what is a black market underground economy in Russia because of the danger is “market research data” legally sold in the US.

I Dream of Jeannie / Barbara Eden was married to Klingon Kang /Michael Ansara.

I was intrigued by their open hardware claim but then saw the pi/Mali/rk3588 options all of which are more closed source (require binary blobs) than the x86 they eschew for being closed.

This other post of yours was on the front page today:

https://reddthat.com/post/56830819

All dads I know including myself are the opposite. They do all the shopping and wrapping.

As soon as corporate contracts dry up they’ll go back to consumers but at a higher price point just like GPUs.

Or are you not going to buy ram ever again?

I used Geyser / Floodgate on my Java Minecraft so my daughter could play with her friend who had Bedrock Minecraft on her Nintendo Switch.

Bedrock Minecraft has always been the micro transaction version of Minecraft.

If you’re playing Bedrock and are now worried about Microtransactions, that’s on you.

Garak O’Brien