Bambu lab a while ago came out with printers and an ecosystem that was very easy to use compared to other printers for the price. However, there were a few red flags like proprietary parts, software which required the cloud, and DRM chips in filament. Bambu lab promised they weren’t gonna exploit any of that and that they will keep their printers and ecosystem open and all the red flags were just used to aid in user experience like automatic print settings for DRM chipped filament, easy to swap parts, and cloud monitoring and notifications. Despite the promise, they’re still a corporation and thus went against their word and closed off 3rd party slicers and firmwares so you must use their cloud and their software.

You do not own the printers, Bambu does. So now you cannot install third party firmware on your Bambu 3d printer or use a different slicer. Everything you do on your Bambu printer goes through their cloud unless you take countermeasures and use old versions of software and firmware before the lockdown happened and you completely block internet access to the printers.

People saw these big red flags early on and called them out on it saying they’re gonna lock down their ecosystem later on but people kept buying into Bambulab since they were so easy to use and got amazing prints out of them.

Tl;Dr, Bambulab released printers and software that were so easy to use for the price but came with many red flags. Bambulab ended up closing down their entire ecosystem so they have full control of the printers and you are at their mercy if you wanna keep using it.

Nintendoes if you’re brave enough

They might care if it’s 69420 since the max port number is 2^16 = 65536

:5

MSFT? Microsoft?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

An absolute emotional rollercoaster start to end.

33/33 would recommend

Game: Press this button to trigger this game mechanic

Me: Starts ugly crying

Maybe it could’ve been “Yeah the booze. Purge the snacks. Keep that’s handy”

The energy:

Still surprised it’s worth $200. I thought it’d be worth a few cents or maybe a few dollars at most

Heavily modded Kerbal Space Program. It’s so relaxing building rockets and going on complex interplanetary missions for science

It’s all the microplastics

Extra bonus points if both the correct and misspelt ones are both used but in similar but different ways

With the power of horniness, everything can look like a buttplug

It’s a “conical seed bottle” containing denatonium benzoate. I have no idea why but it’s apparently pretty common to display chemicals in them.

It’s similar to a pear shaped flask that’s used in labs.

Another weird UHT enjoyer here. If it weren’t so expensive where I’m at then I’d be having it more often

“And have the courts garnish half of any future income to pay off this operation plus interest.”

I did a bit of searching and found a reddit threat that looks like this one but posted 6 months ago.

The only answer that looked somewhat correct was “Because they always have a spare in their trunks.” posted by u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777

Reddit thread for those interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1e1qbg9/a_joke_with_no_answer/

There is a much cheaper way that doesn’t use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you’ll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

Since the tapes don’t use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it’s much harder to access the data as it’s not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.

Let’s assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

We’re using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

You’ll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

Let’s assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that’ll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it’ll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you’ll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.