Now what happens if someone takes all the parts you replaced, and uses them to construct a 3D printer?

Do they own the A8? Or do you?

I’d definitely keep the HDD as a data graveyard of course, since for your in-use drives you’re using solid state drives nowadays but those while large now are still small-ish and games are huge.

Other than that, depends on what you want to do. For 1080p at 60 FPS, that sounds fine, so I’d keep the geforce at first. Replace MoBo+RAM+CPU, then later replace the graphics card and the monitor.

Yep. It’s impressive, tbh.

It’s a company that was one of the first to get into “smart xyz” at all, scored big, and since then has shown that they have absolutely not a single clue how to do smart home appliances.

That’s the worst part, back when they were new, at least Sonos had a cool USP. Nowadays others do remote access and smart speakers too, and Sonos is still overpriced, still mediocre hardware, and now doesn’t even have a nicely integrated all-in-one-app any more.

Same. For me the final straw was when it started desynchronising from actual progress when playing podcasts, which means every time I pause and resume I’m somewhere else I the episode.

Hey, nobody is stopping your country from enforcing things like the EU.

Hrm, I had similar issues on my Artillery X2 before.

Here’s what I went through:

• Replaced the nozzle
• Replaced the thermistor
• Replaced the heating block
• Replaced the main PCB
• Replaced the heatbreak

Finally, I gave up, and took out the thermistor again thinking maybe I broke it. There’s a small PCB connected to it, that sits on the side of the hot end assembly. I contacted Artillery about a potentially faulty hot end PCB, they sent me a replacement. It did not help. Desperate, I also replaced the thermistor with the replacement one that was part of their repair kit. And that worked. I think the faulty PCB broke the first replacement thermistor or something…

For bonus points take their code and completely go wild with utterly random indentation and line breaks, just to drive the point home. 😈

Yeah but it could be improved by not using arbitrary country-decided timezones and instead simply listing “diurnal time”, basically. And then clocks could get normalized as always showing UTC nearby, too. For communication.

I mean if this was on Tagesschau, then it’s probably a bought stock photo or video, right? They needed as background for something they were talking about?

I mean in a way I get it, psychologically.

When you embrace Linux, you - sadly - also have to embrace the fiddling. Still, even in 2024. It’s gotten worlds better, but it still exists. But as it is a choice to swap to Linux - usually from Windows - you do not perceive this fiddling as a shared plight you can bond and laugh over, instead you see it as the “cost” of embracing Linux.

As a result, whatever setup you end up with has to be mentally justified to your own brain. A bit like a post-purchase rationalization. So you mentally consider your specific end result to be vastly superior to all other possible ones, after all, this is why you did it! You put in the work to create this, it must be superior.

That’s brilliant. Do you have .stls available for that?

Aaah, sorry, misunderstood that. 😅

Hold on, shouldn’t doors open in a crash? Isn’t them not opening a major problem when you’re trying to escape?

Yeah the only reason I keep looking at their Tesla is so I am prepared to dodge it when it goes Kill All Humans mode.

I’ll be honest, this is less than 20 minutes of just ERROR log lines (nevermind warnings) in the application I’m working on.

Is that bad? Sure. But a large portion is also because it’s over a hundred individual software components and logging has been implemented badly with software that grew over time. Just saying that there’s a log message means ~nothing.

In fact I would argue that if done well, this is the way it should work:

• Display to the user if there’s an immediate problem. Something needs fixing or urgent investigation.
• Persist it to a warning-log if it’s something that’s not bad, stuff all works or redundancy is still holding easily (meaning it’s still redundant, say 1 out of 4 redundant units failed or a component stopped sending diagnostics but is still working), and the next time it’s in for something else, a mechanic/technician can also quickly check whether there’s a real problem.

Yep, seems to be strictly inferior prints in return for a fancy texture. So if you have uncomplicated prints but want a holographic texture on them, maybe that’s something to get.

My big two gripes with Bambu are their software (just let me use Cura, I got experience with that and I can use it across printers) and their proprietary shit. Swapping pieces costs a lot, and they also seem to break extremely easy which makes me costly replacements extra annoying.

Still lasted longer than what I 3D-print, so eh.

As if a Linux user wouldn’t insist on make-ing their own windows, from scratch…

The skirt wipes and me the nozzle and also purges a fairly large amount of filament. Together that ensures when the print starts, it starts “clean”.

No, have a Safety Control Rod Axe Man. The dropping rod hits the breakers and smashes it, cutting power!

I went the easy maximum-compatiblity route:

• 3 monitors
• Middle is 1440p, sides are 1080p
• All 16:9
• Bought specifically so the real per-pixel size is ~identical to minimize perceived object size changes across monitors.

I end up using it with the game on the middle monitor, the right is the browser, the left is chats.

Oh, we’re supposed to read the manuals before handling chemicals now?!

Also leads with “It’s not clickbait”, then it is clickbait. Really the peak of modern Youtube scum.

Eh, sadly can’t help too much with that. Used to have an Ender 5, but got an Artillery X2 gifted (aye…), and since then have been using that due to the combination of direct and the larger print bed (even though I conceptually don’t like bedslingers due to the large footprint they have). And I had the Ender 5 too briefly to dial it in much.

That’s interesting tbh, especially given the one line in the middle. I usually use Cura, so I’m unfamiliar with the Prusa Slicer, what setting causes that variable speed?

But it’s fascinating, I can even see the bulge in the layer of the single line in your photo, now that I know what to look for. That’d also tell me that maybe you’re running it a bit hotter than it needs for this specific filament, maybe go down 5°C or 10°C. It seems when it slows down, more can ooze than it intends to.

That’s weird. Is there anything set in the slicer at that height? Some fade settings, speed changes, anything?

I guess from the perspective of lawmakers, it’s no different requiring browsers to not display certain sites than requiring book stores to not sell certain books.

I can even see the “logic” in that to a degree, especially if the people talking about it are rather tech averse.

In the end it comes down to this I think:

While it brings us sadness to part ways with such a remarkable product, we recognise the importance of focusing on our core expertise in FDM extrusion systems. This strategic realignment will enable us to better serve you with our primary product offerings and ensure continued excellence in those areas.

It was bleeding them money, or at least not making enough of a profit to warrant keeping around.

Luckily, as they say, it all remains open and tons of people are already making tools for it anyways so there’s a very good chance the whole ecosystem will be perfectly fine and healthy. Still sad to see this go.

Gordon Ramsey on his worst tirade is basically Linus just wishing you a good morning in a cheery tone.

Should note that it’s not Amazon that doesn’t want to carry the book, it’s the author hot having them carry it. The headline makes it sound way more antagonistic than the reality is, it’s just one author choosing not to publish on Amazon. As they are free to do.

I was just trying to make a stupid who-watches-the-watchmen joke. Apologies. 😅

How do you dry the shelf though? 🤔

I bet most people reading your comment will think it’s a joke. 😩 And thanks for bringing back up those nightmares.

Yeah and it’s not like you wouldn’t understand that Reddit would 2-tier its API so that paying Reddit users can get served ad-less experiences while non-paying need to see ads for your app to use the API. That’s not even that uncommon from what I interact with at work.