And it’s not only a person-thing alone, but also a thing-thing. For example, I love modifying my printer or my phone (I designed and built a keyboard attachment for my phone). But I want my 2D printer to just work. And my car as well, same as my dishwasher, my laundry machine and my stove.

Infill doesn’t really improve strenght that much, perimeters work far better.

But any 3D printed object that has that much space for more infil/perimeters is already clunky.

Compare a benchy to an average toy figurine. The benchy is super clunky compared to most non-toddler toys my kids have.

Mine is a Yihua 959D-II. It works really well for my needs, but it’s not like a professional endorsement. I’m just a tinkerer who bought the best-rated cheap thing from Amazon.

That is not wrong. But interpreting “dark” as “evil” is just wrong in this context.

I have read the article, and I got your point before, and I still think that it’s totally moot and besides the point.

If they had been two total randos, say Max the car repair man cheating with Mandy the receptionist, then nobody would have even tried to recognize them. Not with social media, not with facial recognition not with anything else.

And even if Peter, the coworker of Max and Mandy would have recognized them, he’d maybe have told their partners, or he might have made fun of them at work, but that’s it. Because these people don’t matter.

To get back to your example: Somebody took a picture of you. Ok. Now what? Did that picture go viral on social media? Did that picture make it into international news? No. Because you don’t matter.

And you said it yourself:

Shit, my workplace couldn’t even identify the people who walked in the front door and stole stuff and walked out. The police could see their faces clearly in the security footage, but they weren’t from around here and no one knew who they were.

We should bring back paying to read a newspaper, magazine, (pc-magazine :P)

You are probably not wrong, and we should be paying for a lot more things, but the genie is out of the bottle for many things here and it’s difficult to roll that back.

For example, newspaper reading habits have changed a lot. Before the internet, you’d usually stick with one newspaper and that’s it. Maybe two if you have too much money. You buy your newspaper and you read it front to back, probably even the topics you don’t particularly care about.

Now it’s often the other way round. Most people read news from quite a few sources (or often just follow links on social media and don’t really even care for the publisher), but they don’t read their news from virtual cover to virtual cover. Instead, they stick to the topics they care for, or maybe even read about the same thing in multiple publications, comparing what they have to say about it.

For this kind of newspaper reading, current forms of monetarisation don’t really work. Most newspapers only offer subscriptions to the whole newspaper, often in the range of €5-15 per month. So if I were to pay for the ~20 newspapers that I read news from at least semi-frequently, that’s €200-600 per month. No way I can or want to afford that.

Some allow you to pay per article, but that is usually pretty expensive too (€1-3 per article) and also I need to register to every single newspaper. That’s not great either.

What I’d really like to see would be a industry-wide subscription. For example, I pay €10 per month and that allows me to read 100 articles per month across all newspapers. That would be really nice.

“dark” as in “not visible”. Adblock users can’t be tracked (or at least not as easily), hence they are not visible to the ad companies. “Dark”, in this instance, is not a derogatory term.

“Brutal” is, though. So I totally agree with you there. Ads are the brutal thing nowadays.

See it, sure. But as a society we used to have an expectation of anonymity, for better or worse.

That’s the case if you are some unimportant rando, yes.

But these two people we are talking about are very public figures due to their jobs, and they are compensated very well for this. As a public figure you can’t have the expectation of anonymity. That just comes with the territory.

Every time JK Rowling lets out an anti-trans fart, the whole internet is up in arms. When my transphobe uncle does the same, nobody cares. Because one of them is a public figure and the other one is not.

The main problem I see here is that people still don’t seem to understand what “public” means.

That applies to doing shit in public, but also posting shit publically.

If you do something in the open, expect that people will see it.

This.

3D printers are now not more expensive or harder to use than 2D printers, and they are becoming quite common.

Same as you wouldn’t just start up a copy shop just because you own an HP inkjet printer, just owning a random 3D printer doesn’t really qualify you for running a 3D print shop.

Especially considering that warranty is usually region-locked. You usually can’t claim warranty from outside of the country where you bought it.

So if your friend in France has to claim warranty, they’d have to first ship it to Canada so that someone else (e.g. you) can do the warranty claim for them.

Also, warranty is usually region-locked, even if the device is not.

Buying a steam deck in Canada usually gives you warranty in Canada. So of you then use the device in France and it breaks, then you have to first ship it to some friend in Canada, so they can do a warranty claim.

That’s a totally valid viewpoint, and I myself am also running an Ender 5, modified to death. The only original components are the frame, the motors and the bed, and I even have a toolchanger setup for multi-material prints.

But it’s not the right device if your goal is just to print. For that, the proprietary ones aren’t a bad choice.

There’s even worse stuff: Planting trees is sold as carbon offset. But where do you plant trees? Certainly not on valuable farmland. Instead they drain bogs to plant trees instead.

The issue is that bogs can store about 10x as much CO² as a forest can, and by draining the bog, that CO² is released.

And bog land isn’t exactly well-suited for growing trees, and also the carbon offset only pays for planting the trees, not for keeping them alive. So the trees die almost instantly, thus releasing their stored CO². But the upside to it is that on the now re-deforested land, more trees can be planted.

It’s complete greenwashing with at best no effect and at worst terrible effects.

The main issue with planting trees to remove CO² is that a forest doesn’t consume CO² but instead just stores it. Once a forest is fully-grown, no more CO² is sunk in there. A hectare of forest stores ~400t CO2. Germany creates about 650 million tons CO² per year. So to offset that, Germany would need to plant 1.6 million hectars of forest a year, which is about 4.5% of the surface area of Germany. 32% of Germany is already forest, so that leaves a theoretical maximum of 14.5 years of CO² emissions that Germany could offset by planting trees.

But Germany has been creating CO² for much longer.

Not to forget: It contains a ton of medicine as well. If you want to have antibiotics in your salad, use human waste as fertilizers.

Sadly we had that problem before AI too… “Some dude I know told me this is super easy to do”

Better solution than water and soap: Clean it using isopropyl alcohol on a clean rag (no paper tissues). Works much, much better.

It’s a good printer if you just want to print and don’t care for hardware modding. If you fit into that profile, yes, get it.

I get the same from friends. Just last week someone asked me to print a bunch of low-poly-pokemon as a gift for some kid. And I know the kid’s gonna look at them for 5 minutes and then toss it in a corner to rot.

Total agreement.

Btw: If you want to smooth your prints, get a hot-air soldering station. Set it to 300°C and carefully melt the surface. Then use a flat piece of metal and carefully push it to the molten surface. You have to be careful to only melt the outer perimeter without melting the inner structure, so that the shape stays intact. It smooths much better than sanding while at the same time annealing the plastic and creating a much stronger layer bond.

And it’s much faster than sanding.

In general, these hot-air soldering stations are perfect for reworking plastics, not only 3D prints.

The sauce shelf in my fridge cracked apart due to too many sauces being jammed into it. I used the hot-air soldering station to weld the broken pieces together.

I paid around €50 for mine, which is a very nice temperature-controlled one that goes up to 480°C. Can only recommend.