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Captain Aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

  • Myminifactory buys thingiverse

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  • Printables added incentives. They've gamified it, there's badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.

    It's also full of slop. They ran a "Valentine's Day" contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • yeah they backtracked. They had something TO backtrack.

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • Most of the Chinese brands are doing that; I've seen 3D printing youtubers talk about Bambu, Creality and Elegoo leaning on them for good reviews as if they're employed on their marketing team rather than independent journalists.

    I've heard a lot of stuff about their platform hosting stolen models.

    Bambu tipped their hand a little over a year ago, they have every intention to lock down their platform, requiring their filament, their software and likely their cloud platform to run.

    And I'll pit my Prusa MK4S against your Bambu A1 in print quality any time.

  • A Fistful of Bitches

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  • Elementary, My Dear Bitches

    The Measure Of A Bitch

    Who Watches The Bitches?

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • They are no longer as open source as can be. The Buddy Board, Nextruder, their nozzles, all closed source.

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • That's been around for a long time now. Remember Dollar Shave Club?

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • Look for a used Prusa.

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'

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  • the boomeriest shit I've heard today. note; it's still early.

  • New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

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  • New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there's ever been a news article for, isn't real and will never enter production.

  • i unapologetically love male pits

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  • The "not male, but outwardly pro male" angle tells me it's fake.

  • Coffee wood & cherry dead-blow mallet

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  • Wait, it's a deadblow mallet? There's shot in it?

  • iran war has been constipated

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  • The poop deck wasn't used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.

  • What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?

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  • Look, I gave a single example out of brevity. I did ten semesters of college, every essay I've turned in was graded on formatting, punctuation, grammar, spelling and not factual accuracy, validity of research or strength of conclusions. Because doing that stuff is hard.

    Multiple choice or short answer tests are easy to cram for and easy to grade. Basing curricula around them encourages cram-and-dump study methods that don't encourage actual long-term learning. You end up with students who can do high level calculus or discuss the lasting ramifications of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo for a week or two. If AI makes it impossible to pretend we're teaching students this way anymore, so much the better.

  • What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?

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  • My first semester of college was in the fall of 2005. One of the courses I took that semester was titled Western Civilization. Basically a repeat of high school World History, "white people evolved and did everything, and some other people were around I guess" kind of stuff. We get a couple weeks into the semester when the teacher just...stops showing up. We walk in to find "Read Chapters 1-3 in your textbook" written on the board. He's gone for over a month, occasionally there's a substitute who has no fucking idea what's going on, I think they got someone from Financial Aid or the Registrar's office to walk in and tell us to read chapters of the book in person. Practically no attempt to teach this class was made. Turns out, the professor was on some kind of emergency response team that got deployed to the gulf coast in aid of Katrina/Rita.

    He gets back for the second half of the semester, and the way he reviewed for tests was "One: A. Two: C. Three: C. Four: B."

    This is what you're afraid of automating away.

    You know the really sick thing? I had to earn a flight instructor certificate before I realized what a piss poor state our schools are in.

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • Cat ears are more sensitive and more directional than ours; their little dorito ears have more gain, and they can swivel them around. If you ever see a cat staring at apparently nothing, she's probably not looking, she's probably listening, and depending on how her ears are configured maybe not in the direction her face is pointed.

    A cat is staring at a wall outlet? The wires might be loose and arcing, causing a ticking sound that pushes the "rodent detected" button in kitty's head.

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • I thought that was an established fact.

  • Shocking

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  • You know...

    A phrase I often hear associated with communism, especially the kind of people who aren't communists but want to be, particularly the "revolutionaries" who do all the work of turning a state communist before being killed and replaced by a psychotic despot, is "the workers shall own the means of production."

    Of course, most or all of the people are the "workers" so it's "the people shall own the means of production."

    Of course, collectively, the people are the "public" so it's "the public shall own the means of production."

    Of course, anything pubic is controlled by the "government", so it's "the government shall own the means of production."

    Of course, the government is made up of the "elites", so it's "the elites shall own the means of production."

    It strikes me that an artist privately owning his tools and materials independently of any others is closer to "the workers owning the means of production" than anything anyone calling themselves communist have ever accomplished.

    I think the existence of the elites and their psychopathy is the actual problem, and that between the two systems, capitalism or the free market economy or whatever you want to call it hands literally all of society to the elites slower than "communism" does.

  • Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst

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  • When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.

  • What 3D Printer should I buy as my first?

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  • Ibwoukd recommend grabbing a used Prusa MK3S or newer. Used they can often be had for half your budget, and they're damn good machines.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    So what holiday projects are we all working on?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Brick Pattern End Grain Cutting Board

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Brick Pattern End Grain Cutting Board

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your personal little conspiracy theory?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Planter Box Contest Entry

  • I Made This (MOVED TO LEMMY.ZIP) @lemm.ee
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    I built a table for my porch

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    A shaker table for the front porch

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Oak plant stand w/ intermediate shelf

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The only feeling worse than "Why didn't I think of that?" is "I thought of that, but didn't do anything about it!"

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    I tabled again

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Using a shop tablet that definitely exists

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Looking for a shop computer/tablet that probably doesn't exist

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    End tables are finally finished.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    As far as I can tell, pine can't be finished.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Which do you prefer: Handheld router, or router table?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Recommend finishing products to me that aren't Minwax

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Journal keepers of Lemmy: Do you go back and re-read old entries?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Maple, Cherry and Walnut cutting board