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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • Just out of curiosity, what was the issue that made you throw in the towel? Was it a really specific setup you’re trying to build for a specific use case or something? I don’t have a lot of knowledge, but I can’t think of anything that would come up during a simple home server setup that would require you to completely change your approach unless you were doing some advanced custom stuff as a first go



  • I have Amazon prime, so I get access to Prime Video.

    My family phone plan comes with a Free™ Netflix account per line.

    As a student, my Spotify account gives me access to Hulu.

    I can use all of these services at zero additional cost to myself and I still steal acquire it through different legal avenues. It takes an extra 2 minutes to make sure that I have it forever and that it’ll be easily accessible.


  • Does the meme not imply that people are smart enough to know how to use LLMs, but not smart enough to know how to use apps like signal?

    I’m saying that people are smart enough to know how to use them. But when you don’t know anybody else who uses them, it doesn’t matter if you know how to use it, or even if you really want to, you can’t because nobody else does. (Which makes the “with no downsides” part of your meme a bit untrue - I’d definitely consider not being able to talk to a majority of people a downside)

    It’d be like if you made the bottom panel, “users when asked to order directly from the manufacturer instead of supporting Amazon.” People know how to do it, but… nobody cares.


  • It isn’t really a question of ability to install the app. Anybody can do that. The difficult part is convincing anyone you want to talk to to also use it as well.

    I just started work for a small company with a bunch of service techs flying around the country sending proprietary company information back and forth all day. Perfect application for something like Signal, but the owner is an Apple fanatic, so everyone carries iPhones and uses iMessage.




  • If Bambu were out there suing people for stuff they didn’t make, I’d be more in line with calling them thieves. But the work they have used is still freely available to anyone who wants to use it. Similar to how Sovol sells what is essentially a preassembled Voron; I’m an engineer, I wouldn’t buy one because I’d rather do it myself. But to the hundreds of thousands of people who wouldn’t want to spend a week building a printer, but love the design and concept of the Voron, they now have the option. Everyone with their Voron can continue using it, and everyone who wants to just buy one can.

    I mean, look at the computer industry/ hobby. Started off with a bunch of enthusiats building crap in their garage. Computers became important, businesses started taking note, and now when the average person thinks of a home computer, they think “Dell, HP, Apple”. But all the other stuff didn’t just go away. There’s still a huge, thriving community of people who slapped their stuff together and run the jankiest, least proprietary OS possible on them. Nothing’s stopping them from doing what they want to do, but now everyone else can do it, too.


  • Bambu changed everything for the worst and forced everyone to lower expectations and business practices.

    I’m sorry, Bambu forced people to LOWER their expectations…? What expectations are you talking about?

    Bambu made everyone want a printer that prints insanely fast, with incredible quality and zero hassle. I have a friend who is the least tech savvy person I’ve ever met, he genuinely barely knows how to use a computer, but his Bambu prints circles around my heavily modified and upgraded Neptune 3.

    If your “expectations” are literally just, “it’s open source and I can do whatever I want” then yeah a Bambu won’t meet those expectations. But that’s a far cry from “everyone’s” expectations, and I definitely wouldn’t say that they “forced” other businesses to follow suite.

    Bambu is making printing accessible to non-enthusiasts. Their products aren’t always going to align with what old-heads are looking for, but the benefit of knowing what you’re doing is that you can decide for yourself not to go that route. Nothing on God’s green Earth can stop you from sourcing parts and building a Voron that does exactly what you want, no matter what Bambu does, but now that 3D printing is entering the mainstream, the mainstream needs a way to print, and Bambu is there to fill that gap in the market.




  • Just because the benchy was designed to be used as a calibration tool doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want with it. If a print a benchy with The Rock’s face on it I’m not gonna go to their website and be like “omg it looks different why???” Also the model is a solid 3d model, it isn’t presliced, so the only thing a manufacturer could do to make a benchy “look better” on their printer would be to make it visibly different than the original, which… See above.

    Like I get what you’re saying, standardization is important for tools like this, but if someone wants to calibrate their printer it’s not like it’s difficult to get the original benchy and run your test. If they were just removing models that are nearly identical but with small tweaks I’d be more likely to agree, but they’re removing artwork and gag models that could never be mistaken or passed off as the original.

    It’d be like banning children’s toys that look like tools because someone might try to build a house with a plastic ruler.