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.

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

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

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.

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.

A lot has happened in 5 years; I was working as a maintenance tech for a print farm maintaining Prusa MK3s, that job died of covid, my attention turned elsewhere, I’ve been occasionally 3D printing stuff I need for my shop on my old reprap until I replaced it about a month ago and I’ve had a lot of shit to catch up on.

Prusaslicer can add raised or embossed text on objects now as part of the plating process, I’m sure all of its forks can as well.

ARM platforms have whatever the developer of that system that day came up with, same as literally everything except x86.

The screwdriver on the Style series, the PS, CS and tiny little Style all have it, is unique among multitools. It’s long and thin so it can reach down into recessed screw pockets and it comes to a tip sharp enough to turn eyeglass screws. It was perfect, so of course they got rid of it.

You remember when Youtube neutered their downvote button? It’s still there but effectively useless? Now we can’t warn other users of AI slop, scams, or the other terribleness the web is full of.

But sure let’s do that to Lemmy.

Actually I think we have IBM and their laziness to thank for it.

The original 5150 PC was pretty much an afterthought by Big Blue’s standards, they slapped it together from off the shelf parts and bought the OS from some pissant upstart company called Microsoft on a non-exclusive license. The only IP that IBM actually had in the machine was the BIOS. Compaq developing a non-infringing yet compatible BIOS made the x86 PC a multi-vendor platform, which made it more attractive to adopt than the likes of Commodore who made a series of incompatible computers even within their own ecosystem. Note how the only thing Microsoft has ever consistently done that was worth a damn was backwards compatibility…it’s the only thing keeping them in business.

The window is also broken.

I’d like a refund.

Silica is a common ingredient in most toothpastes.

It’s not necessarily the instruction set, it’s the platform architecture, the fact there’s such a thing as a standard BIOS. You can run Windows, Linux, Haiku etc on practically any PC. There’s Linux for ARM, why can’t I run Raspberry Pi OS on my Galaxy S10e? It’s because, though the instruction set is similar, the platforms very intentionally have nothing to do with each other.

My thing is they discontinued a lot of the tools I like. I carry a Skeletool and a Style CS, that pair works out great, but they don’t make any of the Styles anymore. I also really like my Squirt ES, another they discontinued.

Yeah, the Bill Cosby As Himself set got quoted a lot in my household growing up.

Well, I’m a pilot and flight instructor. My handedness didn’t really impact transitioning to flying from the right seat.

AI is essentially a useless term because it has been used to describe everything from an LLM to a single if statement in the code of a video game.

Likewise. Don’t expect it from China though.