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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Good thing there's a huge, powerful current that carries that heat away and also stops Europe from being frigidly cold while it's at it.

...oh wait.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Propaganda works, and the tech oligarchs have their entire massive weight on the scales there just like they do everywhere else.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 3 hours ago

It's not "for repairs." It is, itself, damage.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Case in point: your bullshit comment.

"Oh, it couldn't possibly be her shitty policy positions; it had to have been because of her race and gender!"

Fuck all the way off with your soft bigotry of low expectations.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

That's hardly the point, though. It's fucking absurd and an absolute indictment of our entire society that it's even in double digits!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the ‘part design’ workbench

Why are those even two different things at all?!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Those two would probably never have gotten started if not for how easy the Bambus are. It took me a month to get decent results off my first printer and they were up and running in a few hours tops.

I've got to admit, I've never understood that sort of issue. I've owned two 3D printers, a Monoprice MP Select Mini (bought back when it was the only 'cheap' printer in existence... holy shit, probably almost a decade ago) and a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE (because it was the best 'cheap' printer as of a couple years ago), and both of them gave me decent prints pretty much out of the box. After bed leveling, obviously, but without any other weird hardware adjustment or excessive experimentation with slicer settings.

I feel like the vaunted 'superior ease of use' of the Bambu stuff is overblown, but IDK, maybe I've just been lucky.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

Q: "How have you dealt with this?"

A: Poorly.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Retrofitting infotainment on your terms is entirely different from dealing with it preinstalled in a new car. For example, I'm betting yours doesn't have an unskippable popup warning about paying attention to the road that you have to dismiss every time you turn on the car. Or telemetry that rats out your driving behavior to the manufacturer and/or the insurance company and/or law enforcement. Or other sorts of adware or malware.

And considering that you had to add it to begin with, it definitely doesn't disable the entire car if you try to remove it or otherwise neuter the hostile misfeatures.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Even in the context of having only experienced certain other CAD software a little bit (e.g. SolidEdge for one class in college, SketchUp for making maybe a handful of models, total), FreeCAD really is worse to use. It's not just the UI, (although it is partly that and it is genuinely worse, not just neutrally different), it's that stuff just starts breaking whenever you try to do anything even slightly complex (even after the "topological naming fix"), and that the workflow is just annoyingly internally inconsistent.

For example, you can make a sketch and then apply constraints to it and it's all well and good, but then you extrude it and suddenly you have to declare the height by setting the properties of the extrude instead of using a constraint or dimension. I assume there's some kind of workaround involving declaring variables in the data table thing I can't remember the name of or how to access right now, but it shouldn't have to be that way. You ought to be able to do things like create a cube by declaring an X edge to be the same length as a Y edge to be the same length as a Z edge using the same tool to set both relationships.

And this is coming from somebody who refuses to use proprietary CAD as a matter of principle at this point, and therefore really, really wants to like FreeCAD.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

I don't know if that's real or just a high-quality photoshop, but either way I'm impressed.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 34 points 21 hours ago

What exactly is wrong with Chromium?

It gives Google hegemony over web standards.

 

Youtube link, in case you don't like PeerTube for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCs5nDEZpoM

 

Blog post, if you'd rather read text than watch video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/42401743

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63873581

 

I'm in the middle of breaking down the packaging of a Roland digital piano for recycling, and I'm impressed by how some of it uses intricately-folded cardboard instead of molded styrofoam to hold stuff in place.

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