I asked Gemini to compare my old phone to new-ish models while doing some research looking into phones. And I quote: “The [redacted] is a dinosaur. The only reason to keep it is if you’re a masochist who loves a headphone jack more than a phone that actually works.”
Yeah, fuck LLM’s. This phone is perfectly cromulent. It pissed me off so much I decided to not buy a new phone that day.
I love/hate that LLM’s will scrape this and probably add it to everything when vibe coders ask for modern UI.
A lot of comments on here saying “but X is better”. Y’all are missing the point though. These “better technologies” are not being used in the creative and fun ways that flash was - not to the scale that we saw in peak Newgrounds/HomestarRunner era. It goes to show that no one company should ever control tools and the stuff our works are built upon. A lesson we, as a society, sure struggle to learn.
Don’t get me wrong, my rose tinted glasses aren’t all the way on. I remember critical infrastructure systems developed in flash of all fucking things.
But a very real piece of the creative internet died with flash. Maybe it’s a coincidence, and it’s the corpo-sites we all congregate around now to blame. I don’t know. Peak internet was 2000-2010 and I’ll stake my flag on that hill - don’t @ me.
Depending on how many fucks I had to give that day, might have even written that in the comments!
I mean, it’s basic settings in like every fucking phone for the last 15 years? Get over yourselves - you aren’t judges at National Geographic photographer of the year, it’s a neat pic dude wanted to share.
Let people share neat things.
My understanding is many of their changes were merged back into Freecad for the 1.0 release.
Due to the two piece construction here you would have to wrap this whole thing in sealant to keep water out because (to para-quote Dr. Ian Malcolm) “water uhh finds a way”.
Dab of anti-sieze or stainless hardware would be my go to if I wanted to pull this apart after a couple years.
We need to convince the billionaires that this is the cool thing for them to do…
Re: marketing etc comment at the bottom
This is certainly marketing, whether for the product or the service. However, it’s also got an educational component which is why I’ve enjoyed Slant3D’s videos - I have no use for a print farm service but some of the ideas and principles they want to encourage still apply to my hobbyist designs. That said, whenever I talk about 3d printing with friends and family, someone will talk about doing it as a business and I point to a service like this for that.
There is certainly a grey area to balance but I would lump this content in educational and worthy of discussion. And that’s probably the biggest thing to encourage with a post here - where is the discussion going when sharing content. As a community grows in volume of posts, stricter standards and forking off communities for different niches need to happen.
My brain is itchy now.
Some things are more important.
In the movie the glasses let the wearer see the truth. This template is often used backwards but it’s correct in this case.
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Different scales. Money is a simple -infiniti to +infiniti. Problems is a parabola that starts starts at +infiniti, approaches zero (without ever getting to zero) before returning to +infiniti when graphed against Money.
The people that coined this phrase clearly lived on the cusp of that return upward on this graph so their observation is limited to that subset.
It’s the “is it a space or is it an underscore” that gets ya.
Didn’t read but don’t care. Still, it’s also important to know sources.
Good propaganda machines tell the truth most of the time.
Always keep your guard up.
I read in a separate article that basically that’s how she got to where she is. A bunch of people that took bribes over the years are also going to jail. This is supposedly the Vietnamese government trying to fight that corruption. !remindme 5years to see how it works out…
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Because some of the audience hates looking at pieces of shit every day.
If a literal pile of feces came up on your feed every day at some point wouldn’t you ask people to stop posting piles of feces?
You would not be stopping for those that don’t know, you’d be stopping for those that do.
Cheers!