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That’s how I solved my adhesion issues as well (with ASA and a .3 nozzle, but should be the same in principle).

It’s the kind of enshittification Bambu is moving towards. I kind of expect them to do something like this in the near future, only allowing the “correct” filament and hiding the full potential of “your” machine behind subscriptions nust like car manufacturers.

…I mean, I really hated my time in the hospital but that was the single thing that was genuinely nice when waking up in the middle of the night. Not having to go anywhere.

Not saying it’s for free once set up, that would be silly. I just like fair comparisons. 🙂 I don’t concur though that it’s more expensive though.

Heavily depends where you live of course, but in Western Europe and many other “western” nations wood / lumber has become awfully expensive with no indication of it changing, so newer homes are most likely more financially efficient to use a heatpump (especially if you’re able to also afford a few solar panels). We don’t have to fear week-long outages either (even the extremely unlikely case of a national outage like in Spain is fully resolved within 3 days), so even if you don’t have some solar panels and a small battery to power the pump the likelihood of you ever needing a fire to warm up in a new building (which are well insulated) is absurdly tiny. And those pumps really don’t need a lot of power.

Given costs for lumber and regular professional cleaning and maintenance (again, depending on where you live) I’d assume a fireplace with chimney to be at least equally expensive if not more, at least in countries with no easy access to lumber and proper regulations in place (so most of the “developed” countries, assumably). If you have proper quality studies to prove me otherwise please go ahead, it’s all just opinion so far. The only ones I know are comparisons between either heatpumps and classical heating solutions, or comparisons of CO² emitions.

Makes sense if you happen to find a building with pre-existing fireplace of course (even though upkeep is still pricey depending on its construction). Face-to-face less though, adding a proper chimney during construction is also pricey and the additional income / cost-savings of PV over its lifetime will very quickly make it way superior in a direct comparison.

Comparing the initial costs of one with the upkeep costs of the other surely is a way to make a bad argument sound more sensible.

How about not living somewhere where this is even a possibility in the first place. 🥲 2 Weeks, wtf…

I’d also argue for solar panels / a small consumer wind turbine and a battery backup (which can power the heatpump) instead of architecture from the last millenia.

Depends on the usecase though. If it’s something you could reasonably lose in nature (like markers you put in the ground, small signs and such) I’d rather use pure PHA. It will degrade of course, but that’s a good thing after all. I’d rather reprint some small utilities occasionally than damaging the very nature I’m trying to foster after all.

Mmh, perhaps I lucked out or missed something. Everything looked good when I tested it.

archive.is is your friend.

Doesn’t ChatGPT also use google?

I tested this whole concept with Mistral AI. It searches the web, aggregates its findings and provides an answer highlighting potential perspectives / different answers with each one providing a link to the source URL. As much as I hate AI, it does work great that way (since the LLM doesn’t have to pull stuff out of its butt).

There is at least some merit to the technology for this use-case too though (doesn’t even remotely justify the energy costs though, of course). It’s one of the few things LLMs are genuinely good at since it merely requires text ingestion and to regurgitate what was ingested on some way. As long as it’s paired with proper sources (no clue how ChatGPT does it) for all claimed findings it really can be better. Obviously it’s also “better” since it circumvents all the utterly ridiculous trash we usually have to deal with (pop-ups, ads, dark patterns, registration walls, bad search algorithms etc.) which shouldn’t be used as argument.

Paired with the “Thinking” or “Reflection” feature that simulates some basic thinking process (it even enables these things to count the corrrect amount of ‘b’ in ‘blueberry’, wow!) the results are genuinely good (Disclaimer, I only ever tested that with the free tier of Mistral AI - if you really want to use this stuff at least go to them, they’re bound to EU law). I really get why it becomes so popular, and I’d lie if I said I’d never use it myself. Would still prefer if we weren’t going down this cyberpunk timeline though…

Edit: I’m strictly speaking about using it as a search engine when it does look up websites FOR you and reads through them, not when it makes shit up itself. Only then the stuff I said applies!

Looks hardly better though…

Are there any technical / mechanical capabilities (outside of its flexibility to produce sturdy springs and such) of PP that only it can provide over other, less environmentally damaging materials?

I’m always trying to stick with materials that are either compostable (PHA) or truly recyclable (PLA, PETG) unless there are properties I absolutely need (like ASA for UV resistance & strength or TPU for flexible & protective parts). I wonder what PP does over TPU or other more common filaments and how it compares in terms of sustainability.

Not sure about the availability in your region, however I have good experiences with AVM Fritz!Box routers. They are proprietary but extremely easy and reliable without sacrifycing security or features. They’re from a german company and basically the go-to router vendor here by both ISPs and in retail.

Also big box stores are usually not too far away by design I’d wager. I’ve heard zoning laws caused most of the US to be a complete desert for shopping unless you have a car since everything is so centralized. Depending on the state a “secluded heaven” might very well be dozens of kilometers away from the market, right?

I can’t even imagine this… no matter where I lived so far in Germany, let it be countryside, city or at the city border, there always were small shops, kiosks and/or bakeries nearby (<1km). I can’t fathom having to drive even if I’m just craving some candy while living in what’s supposed to be a proper neighborhood.

I once had a distant relative react to a worried conversation about the extreme reduction of insects in nature with “but that’s great! Way less moscitos, and a clean windshield!”.

I swear to all higher beings, I never wanted to punch a stupid person more than in that moment.

It’s hard to detangle lawns from middle class America without stopping middle class kids play sports in their gardens.

They still play on the lawn? Thought by now they’re kept mostly indoors (or in cars) for helicopter-parent-reasons, safety or sth. At least that’s what I heard. A german news moderator for the US also mentioned it once, some Karens in the neighborhood thought of child neglect because the kids were playing in the front yard or going to the playground alone (gasp!).

Not really getting the point though. Most lawns are huge, there’s enough space for playtime and some nice flowers or vegetables. Most houses even have a front and back lawn…

HOAs are indeed common in the “land of the free”.

If you have to agree to it to buy something as basic as a home then it isn’t truly consensual. Hell, it isn’t even truly consensual for less necessary stuff like cars (you “agree” to surveillance - arguably a necessity in less developed places), digital goods (same - also more or less necessity), games (you agree to not own dogshit) and other things. Hell, you keep “agreeing” to workplace rules supposedly “freely”, but we all know it isn’t.

There are certain basic rules everyone has to agree to (laws) to uphold society, but other than that any agreement like HOAs have to be truly optional if your argument is supposed to work. And no, just “going elsewhere” isn’t a fucking option in the current disastruous market. Especially since that nonsense appears to be so common in the US.