Shit post aside, I had a friend with a background in the restaurant industry (did a bunch of time in various restaurants, went through cooking school, that kind of thing), who put on a work sponsored barbeque. When someone asked why the folks helping him got promoted to Chef, my friend explained it as "everyone in the kitchen is addressed as Chef, it doesn't matter if they're calling the shots, cooking food, or doing dishes. It's a show of respect." Grain of salt and all since cultures vary between restaurants, but it's stuck with me because it was such a genuine moment of "this dude loves to cook and got a chance to share something he's super passionate about".
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I imagine it more along the lines of breaking a promise. Law is more or less a social contract, so it's less that the law no longer functions and more that the person in question is breaking the agreement.
But also yes, one who repeatedly breaks the contract with no consequences, definitely calls into question the value and validity of the contact, and that's when things really start to, erm... Break.
I wouldn't let multicolor be a barrier for entry for you. It's something that can technically be added later, but it is much more difficult to convert a printer to be able to work with engineering materials. Personally speaking, I also wouldn't mix multicolor and engineering materials ABS is pretty cheap but anything that would need a hardened nozzle (like glass or carbon fiber reinforced filaments) is almost too expensive to waste purging. Plus, if I'm remembering correctly, color swapped prints aren't quite as strong structurally as monofilament prints.
technically speaking as long as your printer can run Klipper, there are community projects like Box Turtle or Enraged Rabbit that are meant for more general use (if you're okay tinkering with things) if Elegoo never gets around to releasing their multicolor unit.
Heads up, PEI sheets are great because you can take them off and flex them a bit to pop parts off, but it is worth noting that PETG (and TPU) can also bond too well to PEI. It depends a bit on the kind and quality of the PEI, but you may still want to use a release layer (I'm partial to washable glue sticks, but everyone has their own personal preferences) just to keep your plate safe.
A solid majority of Bastille's discography comes to mind, though not as outright depressing as Pumped Up Kicks or Youth of a Nation, most of their tracks tend to be very instrumentally upbeat and lively, with gorgeous vocals, but thematically darker lyrics / topics. Happier comes to mind as immediately fitting the prompt (and having enough radio play to be recognizable), but The Draw, Haunt, and Skulls also fit well (I'd also included their cover of City High's What Would You Do, also long as being a cover isn't a immediate disqualifier).
I feel like they're kind of slept on since they don't get a whole lot of radio play outside of a handful of songs, but all their other work is just so good. Personal top favorite artist, hands down.
I've got a Unifi switch and a gateway instead of a dream machine, but that's not far from the setup I'm working on (just need the weather to cool down so that I can coexist with the sun in the attic so that I can do the run to the doorbell).
Ethernet's not nearly as scary as mains power, I wired up our house with 10 runs though the attic and it's super doable as a DIY project. Consult your local codes/ laws and all, but I was able to run my cable though j-hooks instead of having to put conduit up everywhere, the biggest gotcha was more in the trying to keep my lines away from existing AC power and finding the wall framing under the insulation in the attic. The company TrueCable has a YouTube channel with a bunch of helpful resources on pretty much everything Ethernet/ networking, I'd highly recommend it even if you aren't buying cable from them (I ended up doing so because they were cheaper than everywhere else and I could get all my jacks, wall plates, and tools in the same order - this was also a year ago though, so prices may have shifted since).
I was content to let the other comments address the history since I'm not particularly well versed there (and there's already enough confidently incorrect bullshit in the world). I mostly just wanted to interject on why there aren't more chip companies beyond just hand waving it away as "market consolidation", which is true, but doesn't take into account that barrier for entry in the space is less on the scale of opening up a sandwich restaurant or boutique clothing store and more on the order of waking up tomorrow and deciding to compete with your local power/ water utility provider.
The answer also gets kind of fuzzy outside the conventional computer space and where single board/ System On a Chip designs are common, stuff like Raspberry Pi's or smart phones, since they technically have graphics modules designed be companies like Snapdragon or MediaTek. It's also worth noting that computers have gotten orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the era of starting a tech company in your garage.
If it helps answer your question, according to Wikipedia, most of the other GPU companies have either been acquired, gone bankrupt, or aren't competing in the Desktop PC market segment.
The short concise answer is mostly cost. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all spending multiple billions of dollars per year in R&D alone. It's just not a space where someone can invent something in their garage and disrupt the whole industry (like, even if someone were to come out of left field with a revolutionary chip design, they'd need to convince investors that they'd be a better bet than literal trillion dollar companies).
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I've been rocking a Framework 16 for about a year now and would happily recommend it. It's a bit more upfront, but I love knowing that I can fix or replace just about anything on it (pretty affordably too). It's just so refreshing to not have to worry about dumb shit like an obscure power adapter or port forcing my laptop into an early retirement.
It's not the lightest laptop I've ever had, but realistically not all that much different from my last gaming laptop. Now that I'm not a full time student anymore I could probably get away with one of the smaller models, but the form factor is pretty nice.
Overall, no major complaints!
At the risk of stirring up the "just use Linux" woodwork: because the mantra always seems to fall apart once the use case exceeds web browsing and light gaming.
Loosely quoting one of my own comments from a few months ago:
I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year, I made it about a month before I gave up and went back to windows. I had an absolute nightmare with my type-c KVM (frequently, but irregularly causing the machine to freeze and require a reboot). Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card (oh sure, Steam will pass the arg, but only if Steam itself doesn't crash loop due to the "use video acceleration" setting being bugged)). Add in whatever random auth/config issues I got trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD and graphic design work).
My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I'm not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.
Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!
Yes Windows really sucks, especially as of late, but I don't have to worry about my machine freezing when I connect an external display, and for the most part I can rein in the ad delivery and AI nonsense though group policy. Plus I have machines in my domain that are primarily used for CAD software (that isn't exactly known for playing nicely with Linux, thanks AutoDesk).
That said, I'm not opposed to trying a different distro at some point in the future, but I'm of the option that some time in the oven is still needed...
Not to nitpick, but it's only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word "said", is all the dialogue this bad?
Agreed. Not to burst OPs bubble, but I highly doubt they're hitting a flow rate that high.
If I had to guess, Orca is capping their extrusion move speeds at whatever speed the
filament_max_volumetric_speedof their filament profile is set to. In other words, if the profile is set to12(default for Creality Generic PLA) the actual speed is probably something like150mm/s(flow / (nozzle diameter * layer height), so 12 / (0.4 * 0.2)), regardless of what the speed value is set to.The blue/ silver is very striking, I'm excited!
Looks like the artist has a Patreon that they post strips to: https://www.patreon.com/Dudolf
- RimWorld - I don't think I've ever seen a game care so much about making the player feel like part of the story; just all around amazing. Damn near everything is configurable and for anything that isn't the modding community probably has a fix for (and then some).
- Terraria - Certainly has its quirks and annoyances, but I like that it has sandbox elements to be creative and do whatever, but also always feels like the game has an objective to work towards. I've probably played though at least half a dozen times between solo runs and multiplayer games with friends/ family and I just keep coming back to it.
- Stardew valley - it's just cozy with a slight hit of nostalgia. I have childhood memories of staying up entirely too late monopolizing the TV/ GameCube playing Harvest Moon and this scratches the same itch. Beyond that you can feel the love and attention to detail that the dev has poured into the game. Plus the skill ceiling is pretty low, so even my non-gamer friends/ family can play and have a good time.
Honorable mentions:
- Factorio
- Slay the Spire
- FTL
Absolutely and more! We also have psychic powers, murder robots, friendly murder robots, vampires, genetic engineering, organized religion, semi-sentient plants, space ships, cannibals, space drugs, drugs in space, rabid woodland critters, eldritch horrors beyond comprehension, giant bugs, orbital bombardments, and also the looming threat of starvation as you watch all that you built burn. That's all before we talk about things that the modding community has brought to the game.
To be clear, the RimWorld doesn't force you into any one play style, and most of the things listed above can be disabled or avoided if that's not your jam. At its core the game is trying to tell a story, it's up to the player to help shape that story. It's absolutely fantastic; quite literally the best $30 I've ever spent on a game (if we're talking hours played, I'm just about to turn the corner on 2,000 hours (in the spirit of disclosure, a chunk of that is also spent making mods for the game)).
Depends on the music for me. Anything slow or super lyrical tends to break my focus, while more upbeat stuff I've heard dozens of times can help me hit a flow state (or at the very least drown out the goings on around me enough to focus on something). I've had good luck with video game soundtracks, like Bastion or FTL because they tend to be lively without demanding attention.
That or a
wall wipe distancemaybe? It's been ages since I've used cura though...
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